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Pokémon Legends Arceus
Feb. 14th, 2022 09:05 amOne of the things I will forever love about Final Fantasy XII is its sidequests. I love doing monster hunts for people in order to learn more of the game’s lore, and I enjoy the task of defeating a certain number of whatever monster to unlock more of its bestiary. I love this aspect of Hollow Knight, and I love this aspect of Hades, and this aspect of Breath of the Wild (such as it is) is the only reason I replay the game so often.
Pokémon Legends Arceus seems as though it would be the perfect game for me, but I’m not enjoying myself. Your job is basically to catch or kill a lot of pokémon species in an open-world map, but there’s no real overarching narrative or deep lore (outside of the standard Pokémon storyline) to make this worthwhile. Also, I hate to say this, but the game isn’t visually interesting. I was looking forward to seeing the Pokémon universe’s equivalent of the Meiji Period, but there’s not much there.
Idk, Pokémon Legends Arceus feels like a spin-off game that just doesn’t have the same level of charm and detail and originality as the main series.
Or? It could be that I recently played Pokémon Shield and Pokémon Shining Pearl, and that I’m a bit Pokémon-ed out at the moment. It could also be that I just haven’t gotten far enough in the game for it to have gotten interesting. I think it might also be the case that I usually get hyped up about the Pokémon games through the fandom, and Tumblr is all but dead while Twitter’s algorithm isn’t showing me anything I want to see right now.
Maybe I’ll come back to Pokémon Legends Arceus in the summer. Maybe. Meanwhile, now that Dark Souls is available on the Switch, maybe it’s finally time to give that series a shot...?
Pokémon Legends Arceus seems as though it would be the perfect game for me, but I’m not enjoying myself. Your job is basically to catch or kill a lot of pokémon species in an open-world map, but there’s no real overarching narrative or deep lore (outside of the standard Pokémon storyline) to make this worthwhile. Also, I hate to say this, but the game isn’t visually interesting. I was looking forward to seeing the Pokémon universe’s equivalent of the Meiji Period, but there’s not much there.
Idk, Pokémon Legends Arceus feels like a spin-off game that just doesn’t have the same level of charm and detail and originality as the main series.
Or? It could be that I recently played Pokémon Shield and Pokémon Shining Pearl, and that I’m a bit Pokémon-ed out at the moment. It could also be that I just haven’t gotten far enough in the game for it to have gotten interesting. I think it might also be the case that I usually get hyped up about the Pokémon games through the fandom, and Tumblr is all but dead while Twitter’s algorithm isn’t showing me anything I want to see right now.
Maybe I’ll come back to Pokémon Legends Arceus in the summer. Maybe. Meanwhile, now that Dark Souls is available on the Switch, maybe it’s finally time to give that series a shot...?
