This review contains spoilers
One of the DLCs of all time
I liked SV despite them being extremely broken & embarrassing unpolished technical messes because their strengths were in areas that generations like 6 & 8 didn’t even try with (characters, story, an attempt to innovate in gameplay). This felt like a lot of the not so good aspects of gen 9 condensed down to a 3-4 hour experience
The story is fine I guess, I think the idea of legendaries assuming the story villain role is actually a cool concept but the royal three are so lame (and also some of my least favorite Pokemon designs ever) and have no actual role in this besides being generic catch encounters with underwhelming music. Carmine is on the better end of Pokemon characters and actually has a fun personality, but I thought Kieran’s character and story in this was extremely melodramatic and annoying, and yes I realize it’s Pokemon but things like the last few hours of SV show that they can do better than this if they actually feel like bothering to. Ogerpon was kinda cute ig
Kitakami feels very bland as an area, and doesn’t really have much personality going for it. Something that should be cool like the mask festival is just a generic badly rendered 2 minute walk with nothing in it except a bad mini game. Most of the main story just has you going back and forth between the same maybe 1/4th of the overall map area which doesn’t really help
Decent amount of old pokemon added back which is nice for competitive, but feels like a weird thing to be giving them praise for.
Idk maybe part 2 will be better
I liked SV despite them being extremely broken & embarrassing unpolished technical messes because their strengths were in areas that generations like 6 & 8 didn’t even try with (characters, story, an attempt to innovate in gameplay). This felt like a lot of the not so good aspects of gen 9 condensed down to a 3-4 hour experience
The story is fine I guess, I think the idea of legendaries assuming the story villain role is actually a cool concept but the royal three are so lame (and also some of my least favorite Pokemon designs ever) and have no actual role in this besides being generic catch encounters with underwhelming music. Carmine is on the better end of Pokemon characters and actually has a fun personality, but I thought Kieran’s character and story in this was extremely melodramatic and annoying, and yes I realize it’s Pokemon but things like the last few hours of SV show that they can do better than this if they actually feel like bothering to. Ogerpon was kinda cute ig
Kitakami feels very bland as an area, and doesn’t really have much personality going for it. Something that should be cool like the mask festival is just a generic badly rendered 2 minute walk with nothing in it except a bad mini game. Most of the main story just has you going back and forth between the same maybe 1/4th of the overall map area which doesn’t really help
Decent amount of old pokemon added back which is nice for competitive, but feels like a weird thing to be giving them praise for.
Idk maybe part 2 will be better