Because this was a more pleasant subject than some of the other Tumblr rambles I was considering.
But HOLY WOW. It happened! It finally happened! We have our first brand new Pokemon generation on a home console! It took Nintendo merging their home and mobile console experiences and we got a remake nobody can agree on if it’s a spinoff or not first but it happened. And I could not be happier. It looks so pretty. I know people wanted super-powerful graphics (more on stuff like that later) but Pokemon’s always looked nicer with that cartoony style (Detective Pikachu notwithstanding) and for what it is it looks gorgeous. I especially loved the way the water and the forests looked, and some of the effects. There’s this mysterious symbol going on with the gyms and the soccer/football jersey and even the game’s logos. I’m assuming it involves the Big Gimmick of this generation, the Mega and Z move equivalent. What it is, I can’t say. I’ve heard rumors but I don’t like any of them and have good reason to doubt most of them. But we’ll see. THE STARTERS. I love them all. I love Scorbunny the most though and I don’t care if it’s Fire Fighting I will love and protect it. I like the other two about equally, which is weird, since I can usually pin a least favorite even if I like all of them (which I always do). I just… want to hug them. Grookey needs more love though. Of course I need to see their evolutions before I make any final judgements but. The region looks really nice. I was surprised the UK rumors were true but I kinda like it. I especially like all the memes that have sprouted around this fact - particularly the female protagonist having all the essence of Groundskeeper Willie and Scottish Twitter stuffed into an anime girl’s body. I am a little disappointed in a couple things, and they’re both actually things I liked in Let’s Go. First off was the fact that classical random encounters are back instead of Pokemon appearing in the overworld. My ideal would have been that happening but you still fight them traditionally. I get the sheer amount of Pokemon that tended to appear at a time in Let’s Go might be weird to do in this engine, but it happening at all would make the world feel even more alive. Second is the lack of following Pokemon, which I was really hoping would be making a comeback. I just really hope all the genuine innovations in Let’s Go aren’t stuck there since this is more traditional - I want to nickname Pokemon on the fly and keep my PC in my bag and do co-op and stuff like that. I’m also a little disappointed we’re returning to gyms but there’s hints the gyms won’t be… conventional so we’ll see. That said… I keep seeing people who are disappointed in this game for kind of silly reasons? It’s like that Spongebob meme I did a bit back - you’re either happy this game exists at all or you’re disappointed it’s not some Breath Of The Wild or Super Mario Odyssey-esqe experience and the only in-betweens I saw were… like, three gaming and Nintendo Youtubers I follow. They outright said this was going to be more traditional, Gamefreak always takes baby steps, and, like, we’ve only seen less than seven minutes of gameplay so cool your jets on how “”“ambitious”“” or not this is. I did say on my main blog I wouldn’t mind this looking kinda like a Tales game and this is giving me kinda-sorta-maybe Vesperia vibes with how it looks and plays with camera angles so. On the note of getting more info, now begins the drip feed. The first couple months are always slow, but we’ll get more info eventually. I’ll probably go over my hopes and predictions for this generation in another post soon though. But yeah this year is a crazy one to be a Pokemon fan. We’re getting our first brand-new mainline game on a home console, we’re getting a remake of the first animated movie that’s also the first full CGI movie, and we’re getting our first live-action movie that has even weirder CGI than the full CGI movie. Shit’s wild man. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to hug all the new starters.
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