Maybe already discussed, but I noticed on the Pokedex there's options for left/right "change Pokemon" but then there's up/down to "change form". Mega evolutions? Alolan forms?
The issue people have with the game working only with one joycon or the pokeball frankly makes no sense to me. Pokemon has always been simple in its controls, even in SM. L=A has been a control option for one handed gameplay since Gen 3, its nothing new. Its why I also think when they say a more traditional handheld experience for Gen 8, they mean its going to be a lot more menu heavy then Lets Go, and possibly offer more option in terms of controls.
The only thing is that Masuda has said the games have been in development for about 2 years, so production would have just started in 2016 (source).
Pokemon Go didn't pan out??! Everyone was playing Pokemon Go in 2016!!!! Well except you.
Could this game have started as Pokemon Stars?
Go didn't pan out....? wut
Oh the bolded part is interesting. Do you have inside knowledge? Was EG wrong at the time?
I believe Eurogamer were simply mistaken, not necessarily wrong. Were Game Freak experimenting with their engine on Switch? Of course. Were they actually bringing over Sun/Moon as a Switch game? Unlikely. The timing doesn't line up with USUM at all.
IThe game featuring a grid like map is pretty disappointing after Gen 7 imo. And about the added areas... the stuff seingeems like a 1:1 translation of Kanto is pretty disappointing, If that was the case, I am pretty sure after the first initial awe of the game, it will start to feel like a quite a small world (and not many interesting locales as even the Mount Moon area shown in the trailer looked like a generic cave).
Yeah, It is kind of annoying of Eurogamer trying to point towards this game being what stars ended up like. It is not even the same style of world building (natural looking vs grid)! Just accept that you got incorrect information or that someone saw a demo benchmark using SM content.
The main issue is the backgrounds.
By 2018 we need living backgrounds with a sense of scale and real verticality. The ones seen in the trailer are quite poor to be blunt
exactly. even touched on it more in my post right after you lol
Tom from EG said:
we saw like 6 battle BGs though....
well if they put the resources all of them could.
He states it was before the Switch release. That could be in December of 2016, or January.
And this is another thing. If the game was being developed after SM was in its final stages, why is it still using the pseudo grid from Gen 6? And don't tell me nostalgia, if this was fully developed using SM's engine, going back tk the pseudo grid of Gen 6 would require redundant amounts of work to downgrade the engine again. As for the map, yeah I can see them expanding it a bit. I am pretty sure from the QA Masuda said its not entirely the same map.
When you look at it that way sure. But it's just a spin-off game. They did mention their focus on this one is for home console experience, rather than the usual handheld experience which is the 2019 game.
Nope. Nugget Bridge, SS Anne, and I am prett sure the Pokemon Tower all look like they have a bigger scale in battle then what the overworld has. Its still a big difference.
An engine should be capable of creating grid or non grid design. An engine is just a tool to create a game (and creating a grid like map in a complex engine is still quite possible and easy). Pokemon SM having the pokemon walking animations clearly points that this game was developed after / at the same time of it, and it was decided it was not possible in 3ds (probably due to framerate and being hard to display big pokemon in a correct scale in that screen).
