Pokemon Presents 2.27.2025

[Darwinianevolution]

Frogger said:

I'm usually shitting on Pokemon, but I think the fanbase has gone overboard with the critique. ZA doesn't look bad, even a little bit. I mean aesthetically. It's a good looking game. I think the lighting is a little flat, but I think the lighting has been flat in other Pokemon games who's looks I enjoy, like the DS games.

The character models look good, the colors look good. It doesn't look as amazing as a Mario Kart 8 or something, but it looks close.

I personally like the idea of this game taking place only in one city. I consider the legends games spin offs to test features to be added to main games. We got a lot of that with legends to SV. I'm hoping for a lot of that with ZA to gen 10. I hope this version of Lumiose is amazing so that that becomes the norm for cities in Gen 10. I want one Gen 10 city to be like Lumiose City in ZA. Some of SV's biggest issues were its terrible towns, so I'm happy Pokemon is taking their time to make what is effectively GTA Pokemon to fix it.

Also, SV were the best 3D Pokemon games so far, and by a mile. They are getting better. Best looking, decent story, best over world, etc. I'm all for shitting on Gamefreak because they're ruining my favorite franchise, but people are going overboard. I miss the days of XY when it wasn't popular yet to shit on Pokemon so it didn't feel like bandwagoning yet.

I agree somewhat, but I do feel that this is more of a symptom of GameFreak resting in their laurels for many years rather than the actual quality of Legends AZ. Releasing more games faster while cutting corners, taking away features and mons and not even bothering with polishing S/V at launch, it's been happening since the Sun/Moon days. If there were less controversies and the quality of the games were higher and more consistent, nobody would complain about AZ's looks (the Pokemon community is shockingly lenient about that), but many fans have become more cynical about the series and the Pokemon Co.'s and Nintendo's direction for it. Considering they are becoming worse and worse and the sales keep going up, many are just jaded at the future, the series will be milked dry until something changes.