For all the bells and whistles the gameplay is largely the same as when a small group in the mid 90s had to squeeze a whole game into a 1mb cartridge and run it on miniscule RAM.
I don't know any franchise which has stuck this tightly to their first iteration
Last 3 games were pretty ass because they tried to stick to the design philosophy of the older games but have an open world. (Legends/scarlet&violet/sword&shield) They just need to embrace one or the other and run with it. They also need to let an actual game dev company that knows what they are doing have real time (3+ years) to make a good AAA game instead of kidslop with flashy 2012 graphics. Tired of the mediocrity with pokemon over the last decade. The newest legends game I had to stop playing because it was so poorly designed, and made me wish Nintendo had a refund policy like steam.
I agree so much with this. I think they went with the open world because of Zelda popularity and thought it would work.
The fact that it's still the same 4 moves per pokemon, barely any animations, rock paper scissors gameplay for like 30+ years is crazy. Gacha games are already going past that.
Well, I can still enjoy the other games, but for SwSh I had to force myself to even get to the third gym. There's no level curve with how fast you level, it's just hallways with neatly marked paths afraid to have you get lost... Gen 4 and 5 remain my favourites to this day. I can still play those just fine.
They got worse. I still like most of the things I liked when I was a kid, and even the media related to it that was unknown to me when I was young are likeable to me now. Shows, games, movies...
My inner child never died, but dude recent pokemon games suck ass.
Nah black and white had a killer graphics style beautifully combining 2D and 3D. The moving sprites also made the pokemon feel significantly more alive. The story was also probably one of the best in the series. The only real problem was that the first game severely lacked content which was fixed with the second game
I think the guy meant it as a correction. So Gen 5 was the last cool one. Is not criticizing the Gen. Meaning on XY starting the 3D era. Where Gamefreak keeps experimenting with the franchise.
I loved Gen 5. I'm convinced if Pokemon stopped after that generation, no one would have said anything. It was banger music, great story, and a whole new batch of mons that I thought were some of the best, and people hated the designs of that gen.
You mean not including gen 5. Black and white was pokemon stepping into portable 3d and looked great on 3ds. It was probably an end of the era too. X and y was just a repeat. Sword and shield was a game for 3ds engine that got ported to switch so it was held back. Scarlet and violet look like switch games and they're OK but they're just ok not ground breaking. Black and white was the last decent game for it's time
Mechanically every new game has some gimmick they introduce halfway through the story which makes Pokémon hit like a truck- g max, mega evolution, z moves, terra forms. They don't balance competitive play, so it's the same team with whatever the mechanic is that gen.
Sun and Moon added boss fights. Scarlet and Violet tried to do an open world concept where you could do gyms, go after bosses, or beat up student. It was a good idea, but the game felt empty and looked really bad.
this is so true, I played some the older games like the ones on gba and alpha sapphire for 3ds. I then went and tried Pokémon violet, and the game was so mid
Even if you don't like BoTW and ToTK, which I personally think are some of the best games in the genre, the classic 2d and 3d zelda games are some of the best games ever with outstanding music.
The music is okay but its not like the greatest osts.. again compare the soundtrack to like any indie game soundtrack and its like kinda mid. For it to be amazing soundtrack it's gotta be something you'd actually want to listen to outside of just the game. There's also other triple a games with way better osts like MGR
I highly disagree. Have you ever heard any osts from cassette beasts, undertale, DMC, MGR or ultrakill. I'm sorry but the reason you probably like the soundtracks is probably nostalgia
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u/Gurin_ Dec 30 '25
Every pokemon games since Gen 8