I don't care much for the chibi style, but it seems like a Link's Awakening approach was the most logical thing to do
Most logical how? So that they can rush it out early? That's not logical, that's greed and lack of caring.
oh god please can HMs not return
If they're recreating the map 1:1 then I hoped you like Bibarel cause it's going to be needing to carry about all those HMs.
Like the only way around this is them either bringing back "Pokerides" though maybe have it more work like in Let's Go where you just summon a Pokemon to do a task for you. OR they could just finally give us items that do what the HMs normally do.
To make a similar note, I know at least A Link Between Worlds got around this by having the model lean comically backwards. It doesn't come off as weird when playing because of the fixed camera.
Though in Zelda you kind of need a top down view for games in the original style as you need to see the room layout to figure out puzzles.
But Pokemon doesn't have that reason, there's no reason to have a top down view, they can easily place the camera lower to the ground and behind the player.
So, what can we infer from this? DP Remakes will NOT have the Frontier. We're getting a Battle Tower with Palmer. That's it.
Unless there is DLC for this game, do not hold out hope for that. And even then, the chances are slim.
The sad part about this is, with this simplistic art style, if they weren't rushing it out the door it would have been the perfect compromise to put the Gen IV Battle Frontier in.
In terms of the extra mechanics they mention, I'm expecting the Mobile PC so that I can play with a party of at least 14 Pokémon.
By the way, I just noticed the artwork style is different this time, in a pseudo-3D style. It's possible the outsourced team had a hand in this, as Legends's artworks are more conventional.
If we're going to have to have Exp. Share always on we're going to need the mobile PC cause that's GF's suggested solution for people's complaints about the Exp. Share being always on (you know, instead of simply adding an OFF BUTTON, no instead players are the ones expected to do extra work to make sure their party isn't overleveled by constantly switching out as many Pokemon as you can in and out of the PC instead of trying to raise a dedicated team with maybe a few back-ups).
Yeah, great, so since the artists on working on Legends that means one of my favorites parts of remakes, seeing the new/updated designs of important characters like Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Champion, & the Villain Team instead it's all going to be their original designs just in 3D (which we're already getting in Masters or has been done elsewhere). The only "original" art we'd be getting it the chibi/3D representation of their Gen IV overworld sprite. ~Ooh, so worth it~
In all fairness, after the tragedy that was sw/sh, this is like the door opening to the tomb of Christ. I mean, we’re coming out of a dark time here. Just like how at any other time, the Mandalorian would have been a pretty mediocre show, but it came out right after last jedi and rise of skywalker. They could port over a handful of 3ds models and palette-swap a mega Purugly into existence and it would still be the best Pokémon game we’ve gotten since 2016
Oh, well, if that's how you feel... GO PLAY PLATINUM!
No, I'm not giving them credit for making a 1:1 remake when they've shown past remakes they've put in work to, if not improve it, at least make it a better and/or more visually enticing experience.
This is GF testing the waters to see how LAZY they can be:
Will you accept us rehashing the same game with minor differences and no added content, not even from the enhanced version from the same generation?
Will you accept us making bare bones chain of events excuse of a story, saying interesting sounding stuff happen offscreen, and character development that either is one note or you can predict the course of by just having two brain cells to rub together?
Will you accept us regressing our art style so that we don't have to work hard to make the games look top quality and that they look like they're from a game two consoles ago?
Will you accept us not caring about what you sheep with money think and want and instead follow the whims of a guy who sometimes gets so high on his own ego fumes when trying to get development directions from him you have no clue what he's saying?
The mere fact they passed DP (and Masuda to get him out of Legends lmao)
You know, if that was their thinking, hey, GF, maybe if you're purposely giving projects to Masuda to keep him away from projects you actually care about it's time to let him go. He'll be fine, wouldn't be surprised if he starts up his own mobile game company, maybe at most you can help him set it up, just get him away from Pokemon.
We're essentially getting a DP Remake. There's room for some improvements, namely the Dex expansion. If they nail that we're in for a pretty good game.
I hate this logic.
Listen to me now. ALL Pokemon games are good. Even SwSh has its good points, all of them do.
What Pokemon games haven't been as of late is GREAT. And they have the potential to be GREAT. But GF (and why not throw the Pokemon Company and Nintendo under the bus as well as they seem to be perfectly fine with this), for whatever reason, doesn't want to put in the work to make them great. They now just want to push out games yearly when Pokemon games need years of development. "But the games have been worked on for years in the background". DEDICATED years of development, not "oh yeah we were developing it on the side until we finally got the few months to fully focus on it". There should be a few year gaps between main series titles, those few year gaps being dedicated development time to plan out the story, implement most of it, working on the graphics & animation, & polish it.
I don't want a chibi version of Sinnoh & its characters, I've SEEN a chibi version of Sinnoh and its characters. What I want is to see how a modern day perception of development being applied to Sinnoh and its characters, I want Sinnoh to be rendered in a full 3D world like Kalos, Alola and Galar was (no, I'm not counting Hoenn as
I'm being bitter they essentially 1:1 recreated most of the locations; though the new locations like the new Mauville City and Sea Mauville look great and a hint of the potential Hoenn had).
I don't want Dynamax, but they're so willing to put Mega Evolution everywhere else but the core series why not bring it back for the remakes and make some new ones too! Give all major characters a Mega Pokemon for their ace, give the Legendaries a Mega, maybe even throw a few other Pokemon who really need an improvement a bone and have them go Mega.
And of course there's the Battle Frontier they could add. You know, a post game feature that actually gives players not only a challenge but interesting new mechanics and ways to battle to test out their skills while providing them services to get hard to find items and Tutor Moves? Make the game feels like its has worthwhile content even after the main game is over where in many other games players would put it down, give the Pokemon fans something they can keep coming back to.
Sinnoh were already good games, bar some issues here and there which some were addressed in Platinum. What I wanted from the Sinnoh remakes, much like what other remakes did before it (to an extent), was to see Sinnoh & its characters rendered in current gen style & graphics, the mechanics updated to modern standards, the enhanced version stuff to be be included (just because ORAS failed doesn't mean Sinnoh can to, infact ORAS failure should be a lesson GF learned from not to do), and the story & characters to be improved and expanded upon. Because, for Pokemon, what's the point of remaking a past gen if you're making it a 1:1 recreation with only QoL improvements? At that point just release Platinum on the eShop.
