This.It seems downright ridiculous to me that pokemon can call for help and use a move in one turn. They should do one or the other, not both.
This describes a lot of the new features for me. The Alola-forms for older pokemon was a neat concept that was poorly fleshed out, the Trials had a lot of potential to add variety to the game but many of them were less interesting than a seried of challenging trainer battles would have been, the SOS system was obviously extremely flawed and seemingly (bizarrely) designed to fuck over players who couldn't sweep all enemy pokemon with one move. Plus the constant railroading made the story feel cramped and offered the player very few opportunities to choose where to go next.This.
The SOS system is fine, it's how it's implemented that's not.
This describes a lot of the new features for me. The Alola-forms for older pokemon was a neat concept that was poorly fleshed out, the Trials had a lot of potential to add variety to the game but many of them were less interesting than a seried of challenging trainer battles would have been, the SOS system was obviously extremely flawed and seemingly (bizarrely) designed to fuck over players who couldn't sweep all enemy pokemon with one move. Plus the constant railroading made the story feel cramped and offered the player very few opportunities to choose where to go next.
Dedpite these flaws I think SM stands as one of my favorite generations. The new pokemon designs are more insipired than they've been for a while, the new setting was refreshing and cute, and some of the trial pokemon battles were really fun. Not to mention they avoided falling into the trap of making trainer battles dreadfully repetitive by not giving trainers more pokemon than necessary. Most of the trainers in the game fall into the category of "1-2 unique pokemon" as opposed to fighting a trainer with a full team of boring normal-type pokemon, like the older games were so keen on throwing at you.
Compared to previous games, that's nothing. Remember Silph Co? There are around thirty Rocket Grunts in that part alone.what does this mean? they threw endless filler trainer fights at you, so many grunts
Compared to previous games, that's nothing. Remember Silph Co? There are around thirty Rocket Grunts in that part alone.
Gyms were super boring and trainers were just fodder
Pokemon calling is great for EV and IVs.
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qUESTION? Is Pokemon Moon an ok first pokemon game for a 9 year old? The only other pokemon game she played was Pokemon Go.She is a gamer, plays lots of minecraft, Rocket League, and Roblox so I don't think it would be beyond her.
X almost put me off Pokémon. Didn't even get Moon day one, which is a first for Pokémon. Only reason I got it was because it was a Christmas present.
In the end I found myself enjoying it and it was a great improvement all round from X and Y,. Heck, just removing those damn rollerblades made it far more enjoyable to play (god I hated those).
And even if it's not the most mind blowing story, it was far better than that convoluted mess that was X and Ys. This was a story about you and the people you met along the way, which is what I want from Pokémon. Not you being a third party eye witness to some ancient giant's quest to find their lost Pokémon or whatever was going on. It was a major drop in quality after the excellent B and W too. Also I like that the main Team squad is the most down to earth one yet (just a bunch of common thugs) and yet the alternative team resulted in the most atypical JRPG fight ever for this series. Refreshing in two ways.
Oh, and I hated the fishing system. The bubbles can blow me.
I enjoyed the rejigged structure and improved presentation but the main game does feel a bit thin. SM feels like an appetiser for the real Gen 7 game on Switch.
Too much story and calling for help are what have annoyed me the most, but I'm not finished yet.
Yeah, I guess I must be comparing it to older games. It's been a few months since I played Sun/Moon but I remember my impression the ratio of super-tedious regular trainer battles to somewhat interesting ones skewed more towards the latter than previous games. Maybe I'm misremembering though.Compared to previous games, that's nothing. Remember Silph Co? There are around thirty Rocket Grunts in that part alone.
I think so, yeah. The game does a decent job of easing you into the mechanics, it's always very clearly pointing you to where you need to go next, it never gets so difficult that you can't progress and you're never more than a few minutes of grinding away from being pretty powerful. The world is pleasant, the game has a positive message and the story doesn't get as weird or overly dramatic as some of the recent games did (the villians don't want to destroy the entire world, for example).qUESTION? Is Pokemon Moon an ok first pokemon game for a 9 year old? The only other pokemon game she played was Pokemon Go.She is a gamer, plays lots of minecraft, Rocket League, and Roblox so I don't think it would be beyond her.
Sounds like the worst Pokemon game ever tbhI was enjoying the game, but it doesn't give the player any free reign to do much of anything. The ways places you aren't supposed to go are blocked off are much less natural than early Pokemon games. They gradually got bigger as you were able to use a new item or HM to clear new routes. Sun and Moon is just "I gotta take care of this Tauros," "We're not going there yet!" or those barricades that make no logical sense whatsoever within the game world. Makes the world feel more lazily put together.
And so many cutscenes. So much dialogue. So many Pokemon constantly calling for help when you don't want it.
The removal of Supertraining is a huge step backwards for me. I get that you can farm EV's through the "Calling for Help" system, but the ability to min-max my pokemon with little to no chance of screwing it up was very appealing for me.
It's a great game in spite of its flaws (a major one of which is certainly the campaign structure).Sounds like the worst Pokemon game ever tbh
Ehhhhh...I'm...not entirely certain that people look to Pokemon games for that.