I know that there's a lot of people out there super excited about Sword and Shield, but as someone who plays other RPGs on the Switch and someone who has played a shit ton of Pokemon in the past, I can't help but feel that these games look like Sun and Moon, upscaled and nothing more.
I was execting a leap in graphical fidelity and detail, but instead we get this as the huge "reveal":
The idea of a large open area with a 3-d camera the player can rotate around and you can see Pokemon in the wild.
Ok I get it. This is a big moment for people used to 3DS games. But listen, this shit isn't impressive ok. Flat ground with poor texturing over a large, mostly empty space isn't exactly impressive. This would have been impressive on the 3DS I suppose, but this very generation we've seen open RPGs done BETTER on the switch already.
WAY better.
I know that they are also massively cutting back the number of Pokemon in the game due to adding extra animations etc. to each monster.
Um......EXCUSE ME??
Forgive my French, but the Pokemon models look hardly any different than the 3DS games. Again, just upscaled.
Overall I can't help but think that GameFreak is overwhelmed by new hardware and REALLY REALLY wish they could stick to 480 output display and lowered expectations. Because I'm not seeing any risk taking. I'm not seeing any jumps in narrative or presentation.
I'm seeing a game that you could have released 6 years ago and I would have thought it looked a lot like Pokemon X and Y.
I'm sure I'll buy one of these games eventually, but forgive me for not jumping out of my seat about it.
I was execting a leap in graphical fidelity and detail, but instead we get this as the huge "reveal":
The idea of a large open area with a 3-d camera the player can rotate around and you can see Pokemon in the wild.
Ok I get it. This is a big moment for people used to 3DS games. But listen, this shit isn't impressive ok. Flat ground with poor texturing over a large, mostly empty space isn't exactly impressive. This would have been impressive on the 3DS I suppose, but this very generation we've seen open RPGs done BETTER on the switch already.
WAY better.
I know that they are also massively cutting back the number of Pokemon in the game due to adding extra animations etc. to each monster.
Um......EXCUSE ME??
Forgive my French, but the Pokemon models look hardly any different than the 3DS games. Again, just upscaled.
Overall I can't help but think that GameFreak is overwhelmed by new hardware and REALLY REALLY wish they could stick to 480 output display and lowered expectations. Because I'm not seeing any risk taking. I'm not seeing any jumps in narrative or presentation.
I'm seeing a game that you could have released 6 years ago and I would have thought it looked a lot like Pokemon X and Y.
I'm sure I'll buy one of these games eventually, but forgive me for not jumping out of my seat about it.
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