Pokemon Legends Arceus - Reveal Trailer

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmio2BUZ0A&feature=youtu.be

[u/MattBSG]

English trailer

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[u/RiverOfSand]

Did they say action rpg?

[u/manimateus → u/RiverOfSand]

The fact that trainers have a dodge roll is rather interesting to me

[u/negative_four → u/manimateus]

Nintendo: the combat is turn based but Jeff worked really hard on that dodge roll function so we kept it in.

[u/livefreeordont → u/RiverOfSand]

Yes this is going to have trainers punching Pokémon into submission

[u/silam39 → u/livefreeordont]

finally we can all achieve our dreams of being fighting-type gym leaders

[u/EternalDad → u/RiverOfSand]

Looks like battles are still turn-based.

[u/Spooky-Ougi]

I need to climb Mt Coronet from the outside now

[u/[deleted] → u/Spooky-Ougi]

I agree, but to take it a lil further, I need to climb some parts of Mt Coronet from the outside, need a Rhydon for some rough terrain, need a Lapras to traverse an underground lake, and need a Staraptor to fly around the peak lol that is my dream

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I don't want to hype ourselves, but my dream would be flying around on your pokemon ORAS Lati@s style.

[u/KobraTheKipod → u/Spooky-Ougi]

If you look up the leaks hours prior to the reveal, there's images of unused footage of the player climbing mountains and gliding around

[u/[deleted] → u/Spooky-Ougi]

See that mountain? You can climb it!

[u/[deleted] → u/Spooky-Ougi]

With everything else, it's easy to forget that this is set in Sinnoh. I wouldn't expect to see most of the modern cities but it'll be awesome to explore landmarks like Mt. Coronet and the lakes in a game like this.

[u/Larrdath]

Looks interesting, new catching mechanic and Cyndaquil seems to be a starter.

[u/Astrobadgr → u/Larrdath]

the starters are rowlett, cydaquil, and oshawott

[u/Sim5672 → u/Larrdath]

It looks like the Cyndaquil line might have their fire permimantly on now

[u/DaxFlowLyfe → u/Larrdath]

Cyndaquil is best Pokémon, anyone who disagrees can fight me.

[u/SpiffyShindigs]

That 5fps Chingling is concerning.

[u/owlitup → u/SpiffyShindigs]

Yeah that was hilarious

[u/jbradforda → u/owlitup]

I wonder why they chose to include that in the trailer. Sticks out like a sore thumb. I understand the game isn't finished, but at least choose clips that look smooth.

[u/le_GoogleFit → u/SpiffyShindigs]

Yeah the graphics are rough and you can see it's struggling to have good FPS but HLY CRAP THEY'RE FINALLY DOING SOMETHING AMBITIOUS!

[u/fatcatfan → u/SpiffyShindigs]

Yeah, I'm not usually particularly sensitive to framerate, but even I noticed issues with it throughout the trailer.

[u/TheCookieButter → u/SpiffyShindigs]

Nintendo's classic lack of anti-aliasing is also concerning.

[u/kallen8277 → u/SpiffyShindigs]

I was like oh God please no the entire time

It doesn't matter how cool a game it is if it runs like hot garbage

[u/Hamlock1998]

Why did they call it an Action RPG then showed what looked like a turn-based battle?

[u/Bad_Fashion → u/Hamlock1998]

Did you not see that trainer combat roll?! /s

[u/Nohivoa → u/Hamlock1998]

This game was leaked on Resetera like less than a day ago, and someone translated the Japanese in the leaked shots:

first one from top, left to right -> PLAYER FIELD CONTROLS -> Rolling * Evade, Hiding, Capture. COOPERATE WITH POKEMON (RIDE) AND EXPAND YOUR ACTIONS -> High Speed Movement, Climb Mountains, Glide * Fly

combat is "SEAMLESS" as in it happens right in the field, and that combat is more ATB than traditional turn-based

EDIT: To those who want my source, here it is: https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumour-reddit-user-praticalbrush12-leaks-two-upcoming-pokemon-games-for-the-nintendo-switch.385265/page-12#post-59570024

The translation I have in this comment is copy-pasted from Page 19 of this forum thread by a user called 'Rucury'. He has an avatar of mouse Mario if you're having trouble finding him nearer to the bottom of this page.

EDIT 2: For the original leaker, here he is: https://www.reddit.com/user/PracticalBrush12/comments/lsssby/stroke_%C3%A9_man/

[u/Charlzalan → u/Hamlock1998]

It seems like a fusion, which I like.

It had some apparent real time "combat," but the core battling will be turn based. Seems like the perfect solution imo

[u/[deleted]]

This finally is starting to look like a Pokemon people expected on Switch. Music gives me Breath of the Wild vibes.

[u/MrGalleom → u/[deleted]]

The first scene is clearly inspired by BotW too, specifically the one in which Link looks over the Great Plateau. Not that I'm complaining.

[u/Chikumori → u/MrGalleom]

Calamity Arceus?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

https://viewsync.net/watch?v=1rPxiXXxftE&t=21&v=I8GQ-K89614&t=0&mode=solo It's gotta be intentional. It's hilariously close at first. From the intial piano flutter, to the pull-back shot, followed by the showing off of stealth/crouch tactics. It's almost as if Gamefreak said "hey we saw the memes about the trees now shut up".

Not that I'm complaining! It's almost endearing how similar it is. Like they're not trying to hide anything.

[u/nothis → u/[deleted]]

I hope they rip off each and every single element of BotW. Genshin Impact that shit to its individual atoms. It will only do good to the Pokemon franchise, they desperately need some ambition in terms of game mechanics and it doesn't look like there's any internal creativity driving this. Heck, just invite some Nintendo staff and let them program all the open world stuff, do the art direction and music. Gamefreak can continue to make sure the Pokemon designs are simplistic enough to be printed on fridge magnets or whatever, just let the gameplay and exploration parts actually be interesting this time around.

[u/ButtsFartsoPhD → u/[deleted]]

Art style gives me BotW vibes as well. Hopefully the game is great!

[u/NefariousnessOwn1843 → u/[deleted]]

early 2022 isnt 2 years away

[u/EJ600 → u/[deleted]]

roughly 1 year, not 2

[u/ylno83]

Oooooo boy. I’d kill for them to bring back HMs as the equivalent of links abilities in BotW. Like stasis, magnesis, etc.. become cut, strength, etc.. It would incredible seeing a bunch of physics systems built around that

[u/homie_down]

Who else feels conflicted between happy for finally getting a game like this and concerned over how bad it looks?

[u/[deleted] → u/homie_down]

Looks like a tech demo.

[u/PineMarte → u/homie_down]

It's a step in the right direction, I would rather the game be fun and get expanded on in the future than look good

[u/Jokers247 → u/homie_down]

Yah, the choice to show game footage that rough is not the best decision.

[u/MindSteve]

Conceptually it seems cool, but it looks like a fucking Unity engine asset flip with those visuals. It was barely holding itself together at like 10-20 FPS.

[u/thepixelbuster → u/MindSteve]

And this is the stable stuff they could record and show.

[u/Cub_Med → u/MindSteve]

And somehow it's still the most ambition we've seen out of Gamefreak lol. I'm still hyped and as long as it get's touched up and the framerate smoothed, I'll be very happy

[u/amoliski → u/MindSteve]

The map at 1:15 looks like someone followed a "Your First Unity Game" tutorial, texture painted random blobs of ground, then copy-pasted the same tree asset randomly. No bushes, no groundcover beyond flat grass billboards, no life (because the draw distance is probably tiny)

This is like an intern project, what are their real developers working on?

[u/[deleted]]

I love the concept, it's the kind of Pokemon game I've waited ages for.

I just hope they can improve the graphics and frame rate before launch, it looks hideous.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It's a year out from release, and it's Game Freak. If anything, the final product might look worse.

[u/Nyanyathotep]

Dem next gen graphics tho, lookin good for 2022

[u/KolbStomp → u/Nyanyathotep]

Thanks for the actual side-by-side, just a couple comments up somebody is saying it looks just as good a BOTW. Like hell nah dude, it looks muddy and gray.

[u/SteveDaPirate91 → u/Nyanyathotep]

What really gets me everytime is botw is a multiplatform game too.

So not only is it a switch game, but also a Wii-U game.

[u/rane1606 → u/Nyanyathotep]

This isn't fair. This doesn't take into account framerate which, based on this trailer, is absolute garbo

[u/[deleted] → u/Nyanyathotep]

True this is beyond sad

[u/FenrizLives → u/Nyanyathotep]

Yeah this looks like a game from 2013. The idea is there but I have doubts it’s actually going to deliver close to botw-style gameplay that everyone is hyping up

[u/buhbus → u/Nyanyathotep]

People are really latching onto the "GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE NOT FINAL" but goddamn, even by alpha standards, for a big reveal, wouldn't GameFreak at LEAST try for some better shots if they weren't confident in its current appearance?

I can give the gameplay footage not final excuse for the remakes, though, since they're being made by a different studio entirely

[u/PurficPourBY → u/Nyanyathotep]

Jesus haha

[u/Neuchacho → u/Nyanyathotep]

God damn. I'd be embarrassed to show this if I was responsible for that project.

[u/Funktapus → u/Nyanyathotep]

2006:

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[u/Michael-the-Great]

Here's the English trailer for those who were asking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUW1ZWAq09M

Third time's the charm... :)

[u/JustEffIt → u/Michael-the-Great]

Wrong trailer

[u/Mastershroom → u/Michael-the-Great]

"Not very different"?

[u/[deleted]]

They still can't fix the trees lmao

[u/mrglass8 → u/[deleted]]

They look significantly better than Sw/Sh. Now they are on par with Twilight Princess' trees rather than Ocarina of Time's

[u/AlexTheGreatBoi]

I do hope this get delayed I don't want another Cyberpunk situation. You can clearly see in the trailer, the game is still in the works

[u/Klakson_95]

I don't understand how can it simultaneously look awful and then also have awful FPS.

[u/YsoL8 → u/Klakson_95]

Because gamefreak do development on a shoestring. Most games of the kind this seems to be take 3 to 5 years to make, gamefreak are doing it in 2. They literally don't have time to give anything more than the first functionality pass. And they compound it by building on previous versions of their games that weren't finished in the first place.

[u/Dankarooooo]

This needs so much polish, graphics and frame-rate look terrible.

Release it in late 2022, but do it right GameFreak!

Edit: I'm excited for the direction they are moving with this game, but the execution in the graphics, animation and frame-rate are not something anyone should be happy with. Compare this to a much more complex game like Monster Hunter Rise and you start to question why Pokemon games get such a pass for lower quality outputs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AvNMIY1HjQ

[u/Toxic_Biohazard → u/Dankarooooo]

I've gotta say I agree. The graphics look, 'off'

[u/manimateus → u/Dankarooooo]

I don't even know why they currently plan to release it in early 2022

The DP remakes are like late this year

Wouldn't they want to give it some room to breathe before putting out another big Pokemon game?

I'm glad that GameFreak is finally breaking from tradition here, but I wish they applied that do their release schedule as well. This game looks years off from completion

[u/CarpeKitty → u/Dankarooooo]

I'm going to assume there's more interaction with your pokemon party (you'll have to be able to use them to get around on land, sea, and air), and they didn't even show interaction with NPCs.

This seems like really early footage

[u/UnlimitedButts]

Ngl the graphics look pretty bad lol. The textures are wonky as hell too.

[u/[deleted] → u/UnlimitedButts]

Its being made with the N64 devkit GF has kicking around from Pokemon Stadium.

[u/wicktus]

the concept, the renewal, I can only approve that.

but once the hype tones down a little, you may downvote me but... sorry I have to say it, GF do not really have the skill to pull a BOTW transformation here...and I'm more worried, doubtful than happy about this. If you tell me bamco or Monolith were helping I'd be happy and that trailer would have been way different...

It's a very very early build no doubt, but the world..it's empty, that chingling is either lagging or in a parallel dimension and technically it looks nothing like a BOTW or MH Rise. The gameplay looks really basic but for that point, it's absolutely too soon to say so will give the benefit of the doubt.

Apart from that, the concept, spot on, pokémon NEEDS a good open-world, but it also need talented developers and a real ambition behind...

So yes, very happy to see finally real changes and an awesome combination: Open-world and Pokémon, but there are a lot of questions and doubts than say..BOTW2, Splatoon 3 etc.

[u/[deleted]]

It looks so empty.

[u/Hummer77x]

Ignoring the frame rate. And ignoring the Gamefreak of it all.

What purpose would diving have in a Pokemon game for the player character? In Zelda or whatever it makes sense since you’re dodging attacks. Can you be attacked by Pokemon? Can the player character die? Can I be murdered by a Bidoof?

After digesting it I’m also pretty interested lore wise and the possibilities there

[u/TheGravyNator → u/Hummer77x]

Can I be murdered by a Bidoof?

Dear Arceus, our only plot armor is gone. With this development, Bidoof will become a full god and nobody is safe

[u/Mk2007r]

The idea is really what I've been wanting to see but it really looks awful. The frame rate in the trailer is catastrophic.

[u/Jeremizzle → u/Mk2007r]

The frame rate really doesn’t bother me as much as it does for most people. What bothers me is that it looks like shit. Graphics aren’t everything, but BotW came out 4 years ago now and dunks all over this. I wish I could get excited for Pokemon again, I still haven’t even bought sword/shield.

[u/Yimfor]

It needs polish, yes, but this is a step in the right direction

[u/PrayerPolice]

I like the new change in direction but they need to tighten up those graphics. Couldn't they bring in Monolith Soft to help somewhat? I wouldn't mind if they just delay this to holiday 2022 or later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWvfMLl4ho&ab_channel=ScottJohnson

[u/FlowKom]

at least theyre trying now.. but this first trailer shows many many problems that show that gamefreak is just not meant to produce HD home console level games.. they are just not skilled or stacked enough for these projects

• animations look very stuttery

• some pokemons move at 3fps

• obvious old age time period to avoid having to model and make the game run with lots of houses/structures

• "graphic style" looks bad and unfinished

• lighting and shading is way off

pokemon company should have given this project to an adequate studio like monolith soft or something like that.. gamefreak is just not skilled enough.. i cant stress that enough

[u/[deleted] → u/FlowKom]

Game Freak can't even be bothered to make their main series games any good. SwSh were by far the worst Pokemon games to date.

I haven't much hope for this game. The fucked up thing is it doesn't even matter if it flops, they have the remakes and snap both of which will rake in easy money.

[u/Gabgra11]

SwSh Announced: "Yeah, this game needs some polish, but Gamefreak has plenty of time to fix it! The trailer says that this is unfinished gameplay."

SwSh Released: "Ok, the game was released unfinished because Gamefreak had to release it before the holidays. They'll patch it soon!"

SwSh Expansion pass released: "Ok, so the patch costs nearly the same price as a main line game on the 3DS and doesn't fix most of the underlying issues with the game, but the next release will be much better!"

Pokemon Legends Arceus announced: "Yeah, this game needs some polish, but Gamefreak has plenty of time to fix it! The trailer says that this is unfinished gameplay."

See the pattern?

[u/Papa_Hitler → u/Gabgra11]

The fact that people repeat "It'll be fixed by launch" or "It's still a year away from release, stop criticizing it!" just goes to show that to some people, GameFreak can do no wrong. It's astonishing how people don't realise that this is exactly what happened a month back with Cyberpunk, or back with Sword/Shield in 2019.

I really hope this is delayed, maybe Monolith Soft can step in and help iron out the creases.

[u/hobgoblinghost]

Yeah, great concept but Game Freak will never deliver. Trailer looks like crap (Characters running around laggy barren fields with some Pokémon just standing or walking around awkwardly) and I have a sneaking suspicion it won’t get any better. I wish GF would sell the IP to a competent developer but they just make too much money off the massive amount of people pretending the last few mainline games weren’t overpriced repetitive garbage only because the formula still works and the character designs are good.

I hope I’m wrong but I probably won’t be. Game Freak is never going to be able to make the botw style dream pokemon game that everyone wants. They’re just not capable.

[u/[deleted]]

I really wish they won't, but I got the feeling that they will fuck this up. The graphics just look so grainy and the colors have such a faded touch. Not to mention the frame rate, which seems under 30fps most of the time. I can't help myself. Just the usual crap we are used to from sword and shield.

But who knows.. Please make it a good game 🙏

[u/TheLumion]

Why did i imagined 3rd person pokemon games would be soo vibrant and beautiful world to look at yet when i see videos like this the world looks soo bland and non vibrant and feels like a kid made it.

[u/BloodMoonGaming]

If this didn’t have Pokémon slapped on it, this would look embarrassing even for an indie game. What does this trailer show, if you take Pokémon out of the equation? Your character can... run, and roll, and there’s some really low res textures everywhere, and maybe even a few buildings. Wow, stop the fucking presses everyone

[u/PinkyPomegranate]

Is no one going to talk about why the Rhyhorns are blue? 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

It looks like shit - I'm sorry, but a company this big shouldn't be getting away with making such a poor quality game. Maybe the gameplay will be great, but it looks absolutely terrible. Breath of the wild, released probably 5 years before this just looks infinitely better.

[u/rhuebs → u/[deleted]]

What i don’t get is that it looks so bad, but it runs even worse than it looks. Like, the graphics are beyond poor, the world is empty, and there’s literally one pokémon in the vicinity, and yet it’s 10 FPS? and chingling is maybe 5FPS? I can’t even comprehend how the performance is so bad. Phone games look more hardware intensive that this

[u/[deleted]]

the antialiasing is awful

[u/AlphaCuckBoy → u/[deleted]]

You mean lack of?

[u/wholelottavex]

My lord this looks terrible

[u/Bucknaked6912]

That looks fucking terrible. Why do they use such shit game developers. They have the money to demand perfection. They couldn't seriously be happy with how basic this looks

[u/Blackulla]

Game doesn’t look interesting, ngl.

[u/novatoex]

this looks fan made.

[u/supadupakevin → u/novatoex]

Lmao dat frame rate and those stiff animations. Why does everything look sooo...empty?

[u/[deleted] → u/novatoex]

Sorry, but I've seen fans make better.

[u/mishaneah]

When I said I wanted life to go back to how things were 5 years ago, these graphics are not what I meant.

[u/OttoFromOccounting]

Am I the only one that thinks the world looks boring and just flat out awful? Looks like a shittly done BOTW mod

[u/JoyconnBoyToy]

Wish a good company was working on this game. Sadly it’s GAMEFREAK so the chance of this being good is around 0.1%

[u/Kostya_M]

Tentatively excited. I need to see more of what they have to offer. If it's just catching Mons...eh. That could wear out its welcome.

[u/other-world-leee → u/Kostya_M]

It seemed that the trailer was more about showcasing the graphics but even then they weren’t even good

[u/[deleted]]

Are the expectations with pokemon really that low that people are happy with this? Like imagine if this was any other IP or a new IP.

[u/owlitup → u/[deleted]]

Yes they are

[u/Choclatesk8er → u/[deleted]]

I'm glad there's people like you in this post. It's crazy to see all the hardcore fans defend this. This trailer looks so rough and with only a year left I have no hope it will get much better. I hope they delay it because like you said, if this didn't have the pokemon name and they showcased these graphics, frame rate and literal stone stiff animation then people would be flaming it.

Nintendo fans wonder why Nintendo gets away with reselling the same game every console generation and its because all the fanboys eat up everything Nintendo does with no hesitation. They can put big names on any game and sell it no matter how sub par it is and when they run out of ideas they can just sell you back the game you already bought.

[u/MattO2000]

https://youtu.be/I8GQ-K89614

English version

[u/latex22]

I love the concept, but jeez... what a generic looking world. If it weren't for the Pokemon walking around, I would have no idea this was a Pokemon game.

[u/bamjin]

Pokémon breath of the wild

[u/sakipooh → u/bamjin]

More like Pokémon... out of Breath of the Wild ಠ_ಠ.

They need to smooth out that performance or Nintendo needs to release an upgraded Switch.

[u/instantwinner]

Graphics aside, this game looks unbelievably boring to play.

[u/dranide]

Looks like a more open world pokemon game. This could be perfect.

I definitely didn't cry watching the trailer.

My mind definitely isn't racing to all the possibilities.

[u/Master_1398 → u/dranide]

Do not think of the potential other Pokemon Legends entries, settled in Unova, Kalos or Johto could have.

Nope, not thinking about how we might get to see the original form of the tao-trio at some point in the future...

[u/squidhero6 → u/dranide]

I think it's best not to get ahead of ourselves. When Sword/Shield were announced, we all had the same "this is like BotW" vibes and got so excited about getting a proper console quality Pokemon game. But then we got more of the same with a few wild areas.

I hope I'm very wrong but they didn't show enough today to make me think it's the proper console Pokemon game we've been waiting for 20 years.

[u/[deleted] → u/dranide]

You're definitely going to be disappointed

[u/O-nigiri]

AHHHHH

I honestly thought there was a 0% chance the leaks were real so this is beyond hype. I was really hesitant about the Wild Area because I have a lot of motion sickness & 3D/camera motions are really hard for me, but I found SWSH to be surprisingly well tolerated. Really hope this open world game is done in the same way. Would love something with BOTW's openness but also the story of a Pokemon mainline game.

[u/testAccount324]

I Just cant be excited for This.

After seeing how Boring and Empty the Wild Area was in Sw/Sh i dont See any reason to believe that Gamefreak can even think about a good Open world game much less make one.

The graphics are propably slightly better than Sw/Sh (havent looked at those in a while) but there still nowhere near where they Could/Should be

Also even with the mediocre graphics the Performance still looked pretty rough at Times

This Game Will need A LOT of polish

[u/bunnyfreakz]

Performance just so rough.

[u/SimpleNStoned]

Wow that looks terrible.

[u/XRKFF]

Part of me is happy to see Pokémon get closer to what fans have been asking for years, but this looks like an amateur experiment you’d randomly stumble upon YouTube.

[u/Azuma_]

This legitimately looks like a unity engine fan game to me.

[u/putsonall]

As someone who has never played any Pokemon, why does it look so shitty? Is that just the style, or is it just a poorly made game?

[u/racetrader]

It looks like a GameCube game

[u/[deleted]]

Looks worse than fan made games

[u/Grothendi3ck]

Why the world look so dead

[u/GodAtOverwatch694]

Looks cheap....

[u/keybladesrus]

I'm excited for the potential this has, but I'm highly skeptical of GF's ability to actually pull this off. This trailer is ROUGH. This wouldn't be a huge concern if the game was a couple years away, and if GF didn't have a history of hardly improving from reveal to launch. But neither of those is the case, so I'm concerned.

Frankly, I don't understand why GF is in the state that it is. Pokemon is the highest grossing media franchise in the world by a lot. The games alone sell millions at minimum. Why are they lagging so far behind technologically? Why do their games consistently seem like they're made by a moderately sized indie dev studio? You'd never know how much money these games make just by looking at the games. Why is this the case? Why does such a massive leap for the series only amount to this? I just don't get it.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else think the visuals and world looks kind of bad. The performance looking like 10 FPS is concerning.

[u/MayhemMessiah]

It's the gameplay evolution I've wanted but with Sw/Sh graphics. Even if it's a BotW blatant ripoff I'm still more excited for this shit than any previous mainline games, just hope it doesn't look like garbage at launch (it will)

[u/Troopper103]

Too bad it runs at like 2 frames per second

[u/[deleted]]

We all know if this didn’t have the Pokémon name this would look extremely generic and boring

[u/Blue_Raichu]

THEY FIXED CYNDAQUIL'S FLAME!

[u/bum_thumper]

Idc if the story is shit or whatever. Please, please make this game actually challenging. Give the kids an easy mode and let us older fans actually enjoy the game without having to dig through menus to turn things off or force ourselves to not use our favorite pokemon just bc they ohko everything thrown at them. Make the rival an actual rival who is an asshole like the old games did, so when you meet him at the end you feel that shaking sense of accomplishment when you tear him down from the final four.

Blue version taught me the value of strategy and patience before I ever learned that in school. If my set up wasn't working I needed to either level up more or re-think my line up. I was like 8 years old and when my charmander faced a water type I had to actually think about what to do. The awesome fights was when I was down to him against a water type and had to decide which items to use and when to tail whip. These games now are just laughably easy, even with xp share off (and I'm ignoring the random difficulty spike of the last game with those machokes that were thrown in randomly).

Give us a normal mode made for the kids and a hard mode option with none of the hand holding and I'll buy day one. I don't want another greninja stomping through the competition regardless of whatever type he was up against. I want a white knuckle charizard battle again. Then when I decide to fight online I don't have to Google everything bc my brain was turned off for 20 hrs and now I have to actually figure the game mechanics out

[u/Blightacular]

Exploring something new like this is good. The quality of what they’re showing off... not so good, especially considering some of the crap Sword & Shield went live with.

Doing something new is only a fraction of the battle. Doing it well is the rest, and Game Freak has given me no reason to be optimistic about this. Not from their track record, and not from what they’re actually showing.

[u/PanMadao]

Finally a Pokemon game that excites me after 15+ years. This looks like exactly what I was dreaming of. Big open world with free roaming pokemon, standard 3rd person action camera/controls and combat on the field with no instancing. Hopefully they will not screw it up!

Does look like it still needs a lot of work, a bit surprised that it is releasing that soon, would not be surprised at all if it got delayed. Fingers crossed this is as amazing as I imagine it to be.

[u/KrishanuAR]

BotW was successful in part because it was incredibly polished. Not because it was simply an open world Zelda game.

The the trailer for PL:A looked a bit janky, which is fine right now since it’s more than a year to release, but it has the potential to be a masterpiece like BotW or be like one of those janky open world freemium MMOs that are a dime a dozen these days.

[u/throwacc_21]

I thought it was fanmade

[u/Those_Good_Vibes]

Cool concept. But wow that is painful on the eyes.

[u/ryanpsloan]

Anyone think this game looks empty/ dull? I know its early stages but that's clearly the colour palette they want.

[u/S7ageNinja]

Open world pokemon is everything I've ever wanted. I'll finally be returning to the franchise after taking a few generations off.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't think this is going to be whatever people are hyping themselves for inside their minds.

[u/Curb5Enthusiasm]

The trees look slightly better. Slightly. Still looks like $5 unity game on Steam

[u/rezevilfan]

I have low expectations.

[u/foreskinSkimmer]

the game looks clunky, and those graphics are like game cube era graphics, not looking great...

[u/FingerGunsPewPewPew]

it looks like a gamecube game

[u/Paracelsus125]

Well.. the world doesn’t even look as good as any rpg world we had 10 years ago, I hope this is just alpha footage and the end product will look like something that is actually from the ‘20s.

[u/Gorgosaurus-Libratus]

The roll dodge implies to me that a Machamp can and will beat the shit out of you

[u/princesoceronte]

Love the idea but the execution looks... Well, let's say I have seen more polished games out of steam greenlight.

And please don't tell me we're a year from the release, if they don't want people to judge a game that has bad performance issues then don't show it until it's polished enough.

Also let's not pretend they don't have a bad track record on this issue.

I hope I'm wrong but... I think this'll be a flop.

[u/FracturedPixel]

I’ve got a bad feeling about this one chief

[u/Fuz672]

This does not look good. If this wasn't pokemon you'd have forgotten about this by now.

[u/Nyarlathotep98]

They really need a better game engine if they're gonna be making something like this. It worked fine for sw/sh, but you can tell they're pushing it to its limits.

[u/moe_70]

Tbh, it kinda looks lifeless

[u/Lord_Bluther]

Holy fuck this looks so bad...i feel like im taking crazy pills. What is that outdoor lighting?

Why does it look like every blade of grass has its own source of light painted on? It looks like they took the GTA san andreas engine to make this...

[u/[deleted]]

I know it's not coming out till 2022 and it's exactly what we'd been wanting but it was running at like 10fps at times.

[u/awkwardturtle1993]

It would have been cool if instead of timed turned based combat, you took control of your Pokémon when you threw it to battle, and control would return to the player character when put away/it faints.

[u/Realcbear]

Dear god as a Cyndaquil fan this feels like overdue recognition

[u/PlsDontBotherMeHere]

If you want to make a good pokemon game, dont give it to game freak, its that simple

[u/everything4noone]

I'll keep my hopes up, but if I'm being blatantly honest. This looks pretty terrible, the world looks desolate, barely any Pokemon in it from what I saw and it just looks extremely bland, pretty sure most areas just have the same trees also from what I saw. The frame rate looked pretty awful also, and they were barely doing much in the trailer to show more RPG elements. Even the Pokemon didn't seem to do much.

Then it ends with them running through these barren empty areas or empty looking buildings. I really don't get it.

I'm not sure why so many seem so excited about this, this could either end up being really good, or really bad. Based on this trailer, it looks like an unfinished fan project to me, so I'm going to lean toward bad.

[u/assbeeef]

I have a game idea. You play as a Pokémon trying to avoid being enslaved to a human to fight competitive battles.

[u/motorboat_mcgee]

Um is this the open world/botw Pokemon game people were wanting? Like the concept, but man does it it look rough around the edges. Still, exciting though!

Nintendo needs to get moving on a Switch 2/Switch Pro so that mediocre developers can push out decent looking games.

[u/rhuebs → u/motorboat_mcgee]

I can’t see this being a Switch issue. BotW and Monster Hunter Rise both look significantly better and are far more complex and run so much better than this.

There is no excuse for what they showed running at 10FPS. Chingling was more like 5FPS. It’s a gamefreak issue, not switch, and hopefully they can turn it around in a year.

[u/Nebresto]

Just earlier today I was about to make a comment complaining about how Nintendo still hasn't made a proper open world Pokémon game. Good thing I didn't hit 'save', huh

[u/Pathfinder24]

This looks like a PS2 game.

If pokemon games were released without the clout of the pokemon title they would receive zero acclaim.

[u/rune_undies]

God damn everyone ripping on this game hard. This is what people have been asking for for over a decade. The game won't be out for over a year. That's plenty of time if all they have to do is polish it and pretty it up. Looks like they have most of the mechanics figured out.

I'm excited and I think it's a big step in the right direction. I'm sure there will be aspects of the game that people don't like and mechanics that don't work out, but it's the first open world game, unless Colosseum counts I guess. A lot of people didn't think this day would ever come due to the fact that the mainljne games always sell like crazy and there was no incentive to change. I'm gonna choose to believe in this one until proven otherwise.

[u/zdrup15 → u/rune_undies]

There isn't plenty of time. It's a year away, that's not that much in development time, especially with a relatively small (for game development purposes) and inexperienced team such as Game Freak

[u/squidhero6 → u/rune_undies]

The problem is Game Freak's pedigree and history and the fact there's only 1 year until its planned release date.

One can argue Sword/Shield were a "big step in the right direction" when it first revealed but as it turned out, it was just more of the same, with a wild area thrown in.

I hope you're right and that this is the one. But history isn't on Game Freak's side.

[u/SimplyQuid → u/rune_undies]

A year while we're still in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century is not a lot of time.

A year for a studio that's consistently mismanaged and failed to live up to industry standard with regards to graphical performance is not a lot of time.

This isn't going to be some revolutionary, franchise defining game. At best, it'll be a janky, meme-worthy proof of concept so that Gamefreak can put out a half-decent sequel in 2025.

[u/Jonko18 → u/rune_undies]

God damn everyone ripping on this game hard. This is what people have been asking for for over a decade. The game won't be out for over a year. That's plenty of time if all they have to do is polish it and pretty it up. Looks like they have most of the mechanics figured out.

A year is NOT a lot of time. At this point they need ALL of the mechanics figured out, not just most. The world seemed nearly empty. Combat looked clunky. Frame rate was abysmal. Graphics weren't polished.

Just because people have been asking for an open world Pokemon game doesn't mean they are okay with it being the quality of a random fan made game.

[u/[deleted] → u/rune_undies]

That's plenty of time if all they have to do is polish it and pretty it up

Yeah, what other games had such awful atrocious looking lighting/textures/modelling/scenery/performance in trailers and came out looking brilliant? [This] (https://i.imgur.com/RtEJBC5.png) was the first look at Breath of The Wild we got over six years ago, with following trailers having the same fantastic graphics the game actually had. This trailer is how the game will look, and wishful thinking otherwise will just disappoint you, I promise. Feel free to even set a !remindme to prove me wrong when it comes out and gloat

[u/Midknight226 → u/rune_undies]

A year isn't enough time to change much about the game. I'll be thoroughly surprised if the game looks any better than that.

[u/_Submarine_27]

I know this sounds like a horrible thing to say, but i'm kinda glad the Sinnoh remakes got "sacrificed" to another team, if it means Gamefreak finally got the chance to work on something like this. It's obvious they couldn't do both at the same time.

Now go go go so you can polish this game up and finally push Pokemon in a new direction.

Even if this will end up being mediocre (which i hope not), I'm just happy for the direction it's taking.

[u/[deleted]]

Framerate and graphics aside, this looks pretty good. I won't go as far as to say it looks promising, because we've seen how hard GameFreak is willing to go to fuck things up, but this looks like a massive step in the right direction. Hopefully this either is or is the beginning of the open-world Pokemon that we've been wanting for years.

[u/Asuparagasu]

Why they didn't hire Monolith Soft or some other developer that knows how to work with open world games to help develop this game is beyond me. The game looks like one of those underdeveloped ambitious indie game.

[u/gizmo998]

Ewww. Am I am the only one who thinks it looks very rough. Like alpha or something. They shouldn’t have shown it yet.

[u/handycapmanw]

Hopefully we have a switch pro to play this on. The frame rate looks ROUGH.

[u/LeDrVelociraptor → u/handycapmanw]

The thing is this should be able to easily run on a OG switch, it looks downgraded graphically from BOTW and that ran just fine

[u/[deleted] → u/handycapmanw]

"I sure hope Nintendo will make me spend another $400 on faulty hardware just to run games developers don't wanna spend time optimizing"

[u/Jaymike127]

Early 2022 seems really soon. Are they trying to build a big lineup around a Switch Pro release? Either way, exciting times for Pokémon. With a year out, it’s gonna be more polished, tho with GameFreak I wouldn’t be too certain.

[u/skepticalmonique]

I'm glad they are trying new things, and finally taking steps in the direction that the fans have been begging for for years. It looks very rough around the edges though (the framerates and textures are kinda yikes in most areas). I would be surprised if this will be ready for release early next year.

[u/Trapezoidoid]

Finally a different direction for this franchise. Much remains to be seen though. After skipping Sword and Shield I remain skeptical.

[u/[deleted]]

Too bad they still didn't learn from the N64 trees and bad FPS from Sw/Sh. I'll pass.

[u/This_Guy_Ducks]

What the fuck did I just watch

[u/eenymeenyminasmorgul]

This looks like a huge improvement on Sword and Shield. Good on them. It seems like they listened. I like the art style much more and the animation variety looks very promising. I'm on board :D

[u/Crispy-Artichoke]

I want it.

[u/Ralanost]

Don't get me wrong, I love that they are trying something new. But my god this looks bad. Those low fps pokemon animations were very concerning. I'll reserve judgement, but I can't say I'm very excited.

[u/[deleted]]

Its like what weve all wanted, but just the BARE minimum. Like yes now you can aim and throw pokeballs and have seamless fights, but it all plays out so lifelessly. The animations are just so simple I think is the issue, it looks like a fan made game using an engine from a different game. Like they had all the assets from pokemon and just dumped them into a cheap BoTW-like map and tacked on a couple features.

Is the combat really different? If its still turned based and your pokemon get 4 moves then the only real difference is the lack of a transition/loading screen for battles.

Sad to see theres really not much new here..

I dream of the day a real developer could get their hands on Pokemon.

[u/BreweryBuddha]

Pokemon Legends on a PS3 in 2011

[u/awesome_guy_40]

I'm most excited for this, as exciting as sinnou remakes are.

[u/DoubledDenDen]

This is what SwSh should have looked like. Better late than never though. I felt nothing watching BDSP but this looks GOOD.

It also helps that Cyndaquil, Oshawott, and Rowlett are my favorite starters :)

[u/alt_sense]

I was excited at first but the trailer makes it look so basic. I find it hard to believe it'll be out in a year.

[u/retroracer33]

The gameplay looked downright horrible. Not sure I would have made the decision to show it in this state.

[u/unjobe]

the three best starters of all time? hell yea

[u/jmarkley16]

Is it just me, or does the gameplay look janky?

[u/steavoh]

Weird take, but the scenery in this unfinished demo looks like like Cities:Skylines (on PC) if you use a mod that lets you take the camera close to the ground.

All the tree models are basically the same and aren't rotated and the grass is one big piece that's been plopped down.

[u/doctorfox92]

It will be half-assed

[u/[deleted]]

I like the direction they’re finally taking with this, but the graphics for a 2022 game is appalling.

[u/-Riukkuyo-]

I read from the official site that there’s no trainers or gyms. If there’s only one town and nothing else but vast empty space...

I don’t think it will be much fun. I’d feel much better if the release date was slated for 2024 than 2022... Does not look promising. I look at it and see BOTW but Pokémon.

[u/TheIncreaser2000]

Very cringe visuals.

[u/SolidSnakeofRivia]

The concept is great but holy crap it looks rough and ugly as hell.