>>38983827I don't give a single fuck about the national dex.
I've never transferred up Pokemon and now that I know about Home, I never will.
I will never buy Sword or Shield for the full $60.
The art looks like shit. I love James, but holy FUCK, when did you forget colors. Every fucking locale we've seen so far looks like a fucking child's playset. No one over the age of 8 will care about the towns or what's in them.
The overworld looks so empty. There's nothing to make me want to explore. I would rather walk outside in my smalltown of Buttfuck, Nowhere USA then explore Galar.
And speaking of, GREAT fucking job on the map design. It's a fucking line. A literal fucking line. Were Masuda and Ohmori so stupid as children that they couldn't navigate through semi-complicated maps like Kanto and Johto, or do they just have such fucking egos that they simply think that they were geniuses for figuring out a child's game as children?
The bugs are already a meme. Steelix, the grass, the RUNNING ANIMATION YOU TOOK TO FUCKING E3? How did no one stop along the way and say "we can't do this?" In all honesty, someone probably did but because of the TCG and anime, they just couldn't fucking stop. Not to mention Nintendo's BULLSHIT about wanting 1 game per year. They're starting to do that with Zelda, and believe me, it'll be a whole other shitstorm when THAT hits the fan.
The music sounds uninspired, the starters look uninspired, everything looks so cookiecutter and dull.
And the thing is, I don't even want to hate this game. I fucking lost my shit at dynamaxxing in the direct. I thought the promo art was looking pretty good. Everything seemed fine until the fucking treehouse segment and the leader with Charizard so that we can cash in on our KANTOOOObucks.
Pokemon is a lifestyle brand now, so keep giving us money for the characters, not the games. You saw the press conference
