This was equal parts delightful and annoying. The delight mainly came from the inherent nostalgia of the game, given that its essentially the third time that Red/Blue has been remade. So seeing this world thats basically been woven into my DNA in 3D was pure joy. I could gush about this but alls that needs to be said is that this world is still real great.
The bad, though. Bad might be too strong a word, annoyance is maybe more appropriate.
Ok so I still play the hell out of Pokemon Go, and as such was excited to take advantage of the fact that I could transfer my catches from Go into Lets Go, however you cant actually do this until about halfway through the game, which in turn maybe made me rush through a bit. Which then presents a number of other problems, such as the fact that, despite replacing Safari Zone which makes sense to gate behind later game completion, by the time you get to the Go Park you dont even have the benefit of having these overly powered Pokemon at your disposal since the other trainers accelerate their levels kinda quickly in the game, and the max in Go is level 40. So thats annoying. Also annoying is how hard everything you have to catch is if its above level 15, which is fine if youre battling the Pokemon to weaken them but in this game it truly seems impossible to catch anything without draining Ultra balls and berries. The fact that Im coming from Go rather than a main series game made this more annoying, since its not super hard to catch anything once you get to level 20. Annoying at times, sure, but not frustrating.
Another thing is that it does away with showing type effectiveness on moves in battle, which after 20 fuckin years of playing these games I still struggle with. Some are obvious like FireElectric but I dont remember whats better than poison or psychic, man.
Another thing with Pokemon games now, and with a lot of the other more cartoony Nintendo games outside Kirby, is that the antagonist is realllllllly softened to the point where your rival just seems like a total fuckin loser that you beat every time and doesnt seem to care that much. Which I guess sends a more positive message to children than ‘bully grows to grudgingly respect competitor’.
Also I’m really fuckin over Gen 1 at this point.
But all that aside, between this and Detective Pikachu, seeing this world come to life is kinda magical that you sorta forget the inherent annoyances that these games give
The bad, though. Bad might be too strong a word, annoyance is maybe more appropriate.
Ok so I still play the hell out of Pokemon Go, and as such was excited to take advantage of the fact that I could transfer my catches from Go into Lets Go, however you cant actually do this until about halfway through the game, which in turn maybe made me rush through a bit. Which then presents a number of other problems, such as the fact that, despite replacing Safari Zone which makes sense to gate behind later game completion, by the time you get to the Go Park you dont even have the benefit of having these overly powered Pokemon at your disposal since the other trainers accelerate their levels kinda quickly in the game, and the max in Go is level 40. So thats annoying. Also annoying is how hard everything you have to catch is if its above level 15, which is fine if youre battling the Pokemon to weaken them but in this game it truly seems impossible to catch anything without draining Ultra balls and berries. The fact that Im coming from Go rather than a main series game made this more annoying, since its not super hard to catch anything once you get to level 20. Annoying at times, sure, but not frustrating.
Another thing is that it does away with showing type effectiveness on moves in battle, which after 20 fuckin years of playing these games I still struggle with. Some are obvious like FireElectric but I dont remember whats better than poison or psychic, man.
Another thing with Pokemon games now, and with a lot of the other more cartoony Nintendo games outside Kirby, is that the antagonist is realllllllly softened to the point where your rival just seems like a total fuckin loser that you beat every time and doesnt seem to care that much. Which I guess sends a more positive message to children than ‘bully grows to grudgingly respect competitor’.
Also I’m really fuckin over Gen 1 at this point.
But all that aside, between this and Detective Pikachu, seeing this world come to life is kinda magical that you sorta forget the inherent annoyances that these games give