New info about the games, great!
…except it is not really any new info, just a release date and cover art for the games. Oh well. Better than nothing, I suppose.
First, the release date. November 19th. A Friday in November, the usual standard. I hadn’t expected anything else. It is also another true worldwide release, which is great. It is about half a year left until the release, and that works for me. Though the odds that I will get SP on the release date (if I get it at all) are pretty low at the moment so it doesn’t really matter all that much to me.
As for the cover arts, I agree with most others in that they aren’t all that interesting. Being able to see details like their tongues or Palkia’s feathers (didn’t even know it had feathers) is cool, but if you can’t see these details unless you zoom in to the extremes, they don’t really matter. When it comes to cover arts like this, I’d rather look at the whole picture than just the details. I also think their poses are a bit weird. Not to mention the fact that I think that these covers look especially boring compared to the great box art for L:A (more about that in its own thread). And at the risk of sounding too negative, I honestly like the covers for S/S better than the covers for BD/SP.
Regarding Masuda and his involvement with the games, I don’t really mind. From what I can find, he has been the Director for R/S, FR/LG, B/W and X/Y. Those are all good games IMO, so I am not super worried. But at the same time, it is hard to know exactly who does what in every game. Who is behind all the bad things and should be criticized for them, and who is behind all the good stuff and should be praised for that? I don’t know so I’ll just stop here.
Back to some more general stuff. It has been three months since these games were first announced, and during that time, I have been thinking about them a fair bit. Should I get SP or not? If I were to make my decision solely based on the little info we have gotten so far, I will not get it. What they have shown so far has not been enough to convince me that the game is worth getting. It doesn’t seem to be all that different from the original D/P, and seeing as I have already played through both them and Platinum, a new version of Sinnoh with minor differences (if even that) doesn’t feel very interesting to me. That said, I am willing to give them a chance. I’ll keep looking at more pre-release info to see what is shown, hoping they will show something really cool. Interestingly, this will be the complete opposite compared to how I did for S/S. For them, I looked into as little pre-release info as possible in order to not get spoiled. Here, I will have to look into as much as possible just to see if SP is worth getting at all.
I really wonder if these games will add something new to the original Sinnoh games. All previous remakes added at least something new to their originals, will BD/SP do the same? Since they haven’t really shown anything new so far, I feel that there are two alternatives: Either they won’t be adding anything new and therefore they have nothing new to show, or they will add something new but they are waiting with it in order to make a big announcement for it (or something). Personally, I really need something new in order to get the most out of SP, otherwise I can just stick to my original Sinnoh games.
I also feel that after playing Sword, I feel sort of satisfied with Pokémon on the Switch. Despite Sword not being everything it could have been, everything I wanted it to be or everything it should have been, I still liked it a lot and had a ton of fun with it. And the DLC just made it even better. After recently having gone back to it once more, I still find it fun to play and I still like it. Plus, there are several things left to do in Sword that I haven’t done yet, so if I want more out of Pokémon on the Switch, I can just stick to Sword, there’s no direct “need” for me to get SP. In addition to that, there are also a ton of other Switch games I am interested in. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get any more new Switch games after I got Three Houses last year. There are many other Switch games I am interested in which I don’t have yet. Plus, I still haven’t finished XC2 and I have planned to play through Three Houses a second time as well once I am done with XC2. All in all, the whole idea of taking a longer break from Pokémon and focusing on other games instead just feels more and more appealing.
I have a lot of questions and concerns about these games, not sure if I should write them down and then post them here. I am a little unsure about if it is allowed, so I’ll skip it for now.
Overall, I’m definitely not sold on getting SP yet. I’ll wait for more pre-release info before making my final decision, but going purely on what little we know so far, there’s a big chance I’ll skip it and just wait for Gen 9 instead.
