CockyRocky
very good bosses
I wanted to play it again because I never got past the first season as a kid, and now that I'm replaying it as an adult I understand why. This game is so incredibly tedious with its mechanics.
For starters, farming suddenly became more complicated than just watering your crops once a day which is so dumb because I think the main appeal of these games is how simple it can be but also the appeal for minmaxing for the more tryhard players. The mechanic they added basically forces you to keep track of how much sun/water each crops have or risk them dying on you which is awful given that the weather is completely rng .Those striving for an optimal run are basically screwed over for no reason unless they want to get into rng manipulation. Meanwhile those who just want a simple game to play suddenly have some crops dying because they have no idea how much sun/water each crop needs and have to eyeball it everytime. God forbid you stop playing for a few days or a few weeks and come back clueless what the status of the crops are.
My other main issue is how slow and annoying the menu systems are, one time I accidentally threw away my Watering can while trying to equip it and I haven't saved in 5 days. You could say its my fault but the menu is genuinely so trash and manually swapping between tools is such a hassle. Why does rotating between tools only go clockwise? You have to waste so much time cycling through its faster to just press pause and do it in the inventory. I could have just bought a new watering can but I had 3 Wonderful Equips on it and at this stage in the game thats all I fucking had. Why is there no confirm button for trashing potentially important items? You can easily make this mistake by selecting the item and then mispressing ONE BUTTON.
Sorry I really tried to like this game but its shit
For starters, farming suddenly became more complicated than just watering your crops once a day which is so dumb because I think the main appeal of these games is how simple it can be but also the appeal for minmaxing for the more tryhard players. The mechanic they added basically forces you to keep track of how much sun/water each crops have or risk them dying on you which is awful given that the weather is completely rng .Those striving for an optimal run are basically screwed over for no reason unless they want to get into rng manipulation. Meanwhile those who just want a simple game to play suddenly have some crops dying because they have no idea how much sun/water each crop needs and have to eyeball it everytime. God forbid you stop playing for a few days or a few weeks and come back clueless what the status of the crops are.
My other main issue is how slow and annoying the menu systems are, one time I accidentally threw away my Watering can while trying to equip it and I haven't saved in 5 days. You could say its my fault but the menu is genuinely so trash and manually swapping between tools is such a hassle. Why does rotating between tools only go clockwise? You have to waste so much time cycling through its faster to just press pause and do it in the inventory. I could have just bought a new watering can but I had 3 Wonderful Equips on it and at this stage in the game thats all I fucking had. Why is there no confirm button for trashing potentially important items? You can easily make this mistake by selecting the item and then mispressing ONE BUTTON.
Sorry I really tried to like this game but its shit
kinda lame, I kept getting stuck because I have no idea where to go and at this point I just wanna get the game over with, like that one ladder I missed and had to look up. Or the disgusting bug place switch. Cool final boss at least so I'll give it a fair score
Great selection of pokemon, level curve made perfect sense and no grinding at all is necessary. Still have postgame but maybe I'll do it some other time.
2016
Finished the game in a few days under 30 hours, I still have DLC to play but god damn that was nice. Difficulty wasn't too hard nor was it easy it was perfect. Even though 90% of the things I collected in this game were useless to me because I rarely use consumables or experiment with weapons it was still fun to explore the map and pick up all the loot I can find while trying not to die.
2014
I remember this game being so mid, it felt like the first Dark Souls but watered down. I barely remember any bosses because most of them were pretty easy.
2011
Played it like 3 years ago, was a lot of fun exploring and killing bosses but I feel like I had no direction at all. I wish the lore was explained a bit less cryptically because I felt absolutely nothing after killing the final boss other than "oh thats the last boss ig".
I fucking love this game. Only bad thing about the game is that some parts are really tedious but jesus the payoff at the final ending is one of a kind. AND THE MUSIC IS WAY TOO GOOD. Man I'm gonna miss these characters.
2013
It gets quite stressful at times, not really scary especially when you die and have to repeat a section it just becomes annoying.
2023
Fun game beat it in around 30-40 hours, definitely recommend playing with at least one other person. Be prepared for low fps though, game is badly optimized.
2021
Fun game, I enjoyed hunting for around 100+ hours. I wish there was a Fatalis or Alatreon like monster to hunt with your endgame gear though. Hazard Elders mainly Valstrax and Shagaru are really hard but not really on the same level.
2016
Compared to the first game, this game is simply on another level. There's way more stuff to do and the story's really picked up the pace. I loved getting the assassin tombs, it reminds me of myself as a kid imagining the best way to parkour a place when I'm bored. My only complaint is that the game is kinda janky control wise. I can't count how many times Ezio did a dumbass jump and got myself killed or have to redo a section.
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replayed it as an adult - I think it's cute game with follower pokemon but kanto is really meh kind of an overrated feature especially with how they went about it. The wild pokemon are so low level its really just more gyms to beat using the same team you already have from the elite 4. The concept of fighting Red is really cool but he is way too overleveled. By the time I could access him all my pokemon were still 30 levels below his. So the only viable strategy is grinding your ass off (which is boring) or pumping your pokemon full of stat boosters and sweeping which is also kinda boring. I think with better balance this would be a much better game.
2022
On a technical aspect this game is absolutely horrible. Low fps all the time and the game is kinda ugly at times too. However, looking past this is actually really good for a pokemon game. Dlc had an interesting short story too.
2020
Been playing for more than 3 years and overall it's pretty good especially given that it is free. But yeah I'm so sick of this game but I still love the soundtrack, I can always expect great music with every new major patch.