Pokémon Legends: Arceus releases on friday

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Slownenberg said:

After reading reviews yesterday I went from "this game looks cool but I won't buy cuz i already have one Pokemon on Switch", to "I will pick it up at some point this year, possibly on a whim in the next few weeks".

Still not quite the dream of an open world pokemon full of interesting things to do and explore, but seems to be halfway there. This seems like what I was hoping Sw/Sh would have been in terms of progress in the franchise from the original Pokemon games. Red was the only one I ever played before Sword and while Sword was fine I expected 20 years of hardware and software innovation to provide for a much more interesting and evolved Pokemon game. Legends looks like that innovation is finally really starting. I just hope the difficulty on Legends is up. Part of why Sword was only decent is that there wasn't much difficulty. Easy games don't really hold one's interest.

This game looks cool and is the first step toward Pokemon reinventing itself and improving on the now stale formula of the franchise. Actually wish I had skipped Sword and just waited for this game.

About the difficulty: some reviews suggest it is indeed a bit more challenging. Some of the bosses might be leveled above you and apparently wild pokemon can gang up on you and attack you at the same time. Don't know how that works, but we will see I guess. So in that regard it seems to be a bit more challenging.