Congrats to the devs for reaching such a massive milestone of like 5 million sales (at the time of writing this) in a couple days without even counting gamepass. Whether you hate the game or not, thats a feat. That being said, If I hear about this "pokemon killer" one more time I'm going to explode. I played for about 4 hours before couldn't continue playing. I do not tend to like survival games, theres too much babysitting and base building is never something I care about. If it wasn't for gamepass I wouldn't have even bothered. I hope for everyone who is actually enjoying it, they don't abandon the game like what happened to plenty of Early Access survival games of old.
Outside of them getting the pokemon style down (plagiarism allegations, ai art or whatever the fuck else I don't really care) for the pals and the fact they can be captured and used for battle, thats where the pokemon ends.
Battles are in real time, you're fighting with them and they tend to spam the same attack in my experience. There is no story that I ran into, so if you don't suffer from wanderlust syndrome you're gonna be trying to find fun with the genre staple of punching trees to get started. Its Ark but without dinosaurs. You WILL be building and you will be interacting with survival mechanics or you will have a bad time. You can then put your pals to work in the fields while others roll up with you to ice some guy, then catch that person you rolled up on and sell them too. You also gotta babysit your own character as well as your pals cuz you both got your survival meters to keep an eye on like hot and cold.
I really don't see this game posing any sort of "threat" to pokemon like the redditors want it to. These aren't even the same genre. If things that are actually close to pokemon in more ways then just "catch monster" like Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Yo Kai watch, Dragon Quest Monsters and even SMTsona (who did the catching thing long before pokemon) didn't light a fire under their ass then I can't see this doing it. I hope thats the case too cuz if pokemon goes a survival crafting route, I'm gone.
Outside of them getting the pokemon style down (plagiarism allegations, ai art or whatever the fuck else I don't really care) for the pals and the fact they can be captured and used for battle, thats where the pokemon ends.
Battles are in real time, you're fighting with them and they tend to spam the same attack in my experience. There is no story that I ran into, so if you don't suffer from wanderlust syndrome you're gonna be trying to find fun with the genre staple of punching trees to get started. Its Ark but without dinosaurs. You WILL be building and you will be interacting with survival mechanics or you will have a bad time. You can then put your pals to work in the fields while others roll up with you to ice some guy, then catch that person you rolled up on and sell them too. You also gotta babysit your own character as well as your pals cuz you both got your survival meters to keep an eye on like hot and cold.
I really don't see this game posing any sort of "threat" to pokemon like the redditors want it to. These aren't even the same genre. If things that are actually close to pokemon in more ways then just "catch monster" like Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Yo Kai watch, Dragon Quest Monsters and even SMTsona (who did the catching thing long before pokemon) didn't light a fire under their ass then I can't see this doing it. I hope thats the case too cuz if pokemon goes a survival crafting route, I'm gone.
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@Noimjory
I heard they didn't even know what a "rig" was when making this game and I find that hilarious. People just see monster collecting and think "finally, pokemon competition" when pokemon has had competition since its inception but they just never capitalized on it. I was around when pokemon was brand new and pokemania was in full swing. I saw many things come and go and be forcibly turned into something resembling pokemon when they have no overlap outside of "kid and monster buddy".
People want the pokemon games to be better and I would like that too. If Scarlet didn't have a worse performance than a 3 wheeled car in a drag race I fully believe they would be held up highly. But since the entire brand pretty much relies on the games introducing new mons, locations, gimmicks, and characters then they are given no time to actually put in the work a series of its caliber needs. People can't move on when something isn't for them anymore or doing things they don't like but others are fine with. It must be changed to suit them.
I heard they didn't even know what a "rig" was when making this game and I find that hilarious. People just see monster collecting and think "finally, pokemon competition" when pokemon has had competition since its inception but they just never capitalized on it. I was around when pokemon was brand new and pokemania was in full swing. I saw many things come and go and be forcibly turned into something resembling pokemon when they have no overlap outside of "kid and monster buddy".
People want the pokemon games to be better and I would like that too. If Scarlet didn't have a worse performance than a 3 wheeled car in a drag race I fully believe they would be held up highly. But since the entire brand pretty much relies on the games introducing new mons, locations, gimmicks, and characters then they are given no time to actually put in the work a series of its caliber needs. People can't move on when something isn't for them anymore or doing things they don't like but others are fine with. It must be changed to suit them.
I'm pretty sure the only reason the Pokemon comparison exists is because it's the most surface level analysis you can make without needing to play the game. The closest the game gets to me is battles feeling a bit PLA-ish, and when the enemy/boss AI is functioning it kind of slaps that game in the ass, otherwise nah
Noimjory
3 months ago