24 hours (and some) afterwards, 8 pages of reading opinions to see if someone else's perspective could actually clear my mind with something I have not thought about yet, and I still cant' wrap my head around how I truly feel about the release of the remakes (I feel a lot more confident with my opinion on Legends, but that's another discussion).
Just to set the tone:
Sirya is 100% right and I back up every word of those posts. The overwhelming majority of the playerbase and fanbase is so drunk on the little tidbits of participation trophies that later games have been giving out while actively attempting to turn us into a series of robots satisfied with a Go-like dull game like SwSh that we can't appreciate how much extra care games like HGSS carried. Just wait for the next raid event or given-out Mythical (which NEVER make sense in-game), and we're good!
And, to be fair, I don't even like HGSS that much. They're just an objectively above-par Pokemon release. SwSh are not.
Sinnoh is my favourite region, introducing many of my personal favourites (Infernape, Torterra, Rhyperior, Electivire...) together with a compelling set of legends (Lake Trio+Creation), very good Mythical Pokemon and their events (Darkrai and the sick kid, the infinite straight line of flowers leading to Shaymin, and the Azure Flute chills... I am not ashamed to say that I played all of them with every means possibile)... add to that my favourite route(s) of all of Pokemon games, the neverending climb to Snowpoint (I know, I'm weird). So having two announcements about Sinnoh should poke my interest, I daresay...
Let me preface one thing though: many games (Cyberpunk2077Fallout76) have been accused of, false advertising due to them showing in-game footage before release that looked way better than the actual games.
This certainly will not be the case.
Is this good? Well, not a chance. I am deeply worried by how the games look, both in the overworld and in battle.
You can go with the Chibi models, but something felt off from the beginning, then I realized that I was put off by what
Codraroll explained: the models' heads will overshadow everything, especially while moving. I can get along with the Chibi models and the tile structure (hell, I'm enjoying Dragon Quest XI's missions from the original games in 2D, which are graphically far, far worse), but not with how much distorted the movement looked.
Also, am I the only one to think that the color palette is completely off? Or is it my eyes?
I can't say anything about the battles sans that they look worse than XY's. And I guess that tells something.
Everything considered, graphically, you shouldn't remake a 2007 game in 2021 and make it look like it's from 2012, just saying.
I won't say anything else about what to expect, returning/missing Mons, Dex, which features to expect, what ifs and whatnots because it makes little sense to me and would only be a lot of wishful thinking, given that we know so little. I guess that the baseline should be that the games should be major improvement over the originals, all checkmarks for FRLG, HGSS, and ORAS (you could debate what was
still missing, especially in ORAS, but they were an improvement from many standpoints).
The only speculation I'd make is that the legends will indeed have some new caveat to them, and I hope that the games have some continuity with SwSh in terms of compatibility and rosters. It would make little sense to outsource not-mainline games to keep the mainline games shitty forever.
That being said, I very, very much look forward to having the best set of starters ever at my disposal, chilling in the Old Chateau, climb Mt.Coronet as it gets procedurally more open as you advance, and get stuck in the snow.
Especially getting stuck in the snow.