This game bites a lot of other games, but it’s fun to play which is more than I can say for any Nintendo Pokemon game in recent memory.
Pokémon hasn’t pushed the envelope at all. I think this game really shows what you can do with battle pets in an open world and Nintendo should take notes. Not necessarily breaking their format or making a survival crafter, but there’s a lot of potential they ignore.
not necessarily breaking their format
To some degree I’d honestly welcome that. Even if it’s not going to be some Breath of the Wild quality spin-off, I just want more creativity.
Pokémon hasn’t tried anything new in decades because they don’t need to, Nintendo rakes in money from fans buying the same shit every year regardless so why out extra cost in to the product
Well, they tried new gimmicks! Like the Dream World, which was closed two years later. And, uh… that step counter.
from fans buying the same shit every year regardless
Probably the same fans are sending the death threats
If a game copies what another game does but does it better and/or gives it own spin on things (which PalWorld arguably does, considering that you can have your
PokemonPals fight with machine weaponry and alsoenslavecapture people as Pals), I don’t see how that can be a bad thing. Otherwise, people should be up in arms about every roguelike Metroidvania or Soulslike game.Shooting at Pokémon with assault rifles feels so wrong. It feels like a weird mod that doesn’t match the core of the game.
I just saw a 2 minute video to form that opinion, but I’ll check more about it.
It’d say that exactly what most of the haters are not getting. This is not supposed to be a Pokemon game. It’s a survival crafting and basebuilding game, that uses Pokemon for a great effect and neatly integrates some of the aspects of Pokemon games to fit into the genre.
I’m not saying this is a Pokémon game, but those are Pokémons, they even have Pokeballs. They are so similar to Pokémons that everyone is talking about it.
Anyways, I really don’t care, I don’t play Pokémon and won’t play this game… but those are Pokémon.
Sure. And I look at the first gen Pokemon and say, “those are Dragon Quest monsters.”
Yes, you can do that too
But what is gained from that?
Nintendo and Game Freak execs have wet dreams about developing a Pokemon game this interesting.
They haven’t iterated on their formula since the first game. The 3D version could have been a 2D re-skin.
Gamefreak has absolutely 0 drive or desire to make an actual improved pokemon game, they have been carried by the IP for the past 20 years. Now if they get some competition… Maybe they will start dreaming
My son just said the same thing. Game Freak are actually going to have to do some work!
