13 million is pathetic 

Specially when it's a game with a long list of credits like Pokemon. Pokemon is a franchise that stablish itself as having a long list of creatures to catch, and of course those Pokemons need artists to model their assets. To keep a budget so short they are very obviously opting for cutting content and reusing models every entry instead of developing new, better assets 

I'm confident I will never buy a Pokemon game in my life. Gamefreak is far and away the most pathetic and untalented game developer in the world, and looking at their budget I can easily tell they are also the most money hungry. 13 million for a game that can sell over 10 million units? Insanity 

The issue lies on The Pokémon Company, not Game Freak per say. TPC is the one who must decide the budget for the games and Game Freak must work around with that

GF is a parent company of TPC, not the other way around, though.

TPC is just a joint venture they created along with Nintendo to oversee the brand (along with Creatures Inc., which is kind of a shell corporation for Game Freak, anyway).

Super hyped!

if Pokemon is to maintain its status as king of the monster taming, these better be true!
many Pokemon fans are trying Digimon nowadays

wouldn't be surprised if these are approved leaks to feed the youtubers and calm the angry core fans that have bashed Legends ZA before it even released, it's like they admit that the game is as bad as it looks

I HOPE Monolith is helping gamefreak. Monolith is excellent at world building, and I mean that in the literal sense.

Such BS if true. It means they’re planning to continue the same annual release strategy of the switch era, which means we can kiss any hope of them finally returning the franchise to its former glory good bye. It’s simply not possible with that amount of crunch on modern AAA games.

Very interesting finding. Appears that Pokémon Gen 10 may have changed directors sometime between 2021 and 2024. Would be curious if this change up came in response to the overwhelmingly negative response to Pokémon ScVi? Game Freak seems to take note of fan reactions, as observed by another internal leak claiming they hope to avoid another BDSP situation, aiming instead to do a full remake instead of a glorified remaster.

I hope so. Game Freak needs change at the top, because I was starting to accept that I just might not be a Pokemon fan anymore and never touch another entry again so long as it kept heading down its current direction. I've skipped two entire generations now, and I'm willing to make it a third if they don't get their shit together over there.

Legends ZA reviews are at 81 at the moment! Could the game be good afterall - dispite the bad graphics and designs? o_O

Anyone played it?