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@JoshTheWoz

11 ай бұрын

My room is a square space

@HenrayPatter

11 ай бұрын

@@JoshTheWozthe world is just square and space. Spheres are lies from the government.

@HealyHQ

11 ай бұрын

@@JoshTheWoz Mine too.

@mikeuk666

11 ай бұрын

As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better.

@MagicalBread

10 ай бұрын

Did you do the Blood-moon Ursaluna quest?

The performance of it is just crazy to me. Like there were areas of the base game that ran better, they just didn’t consider those at all. The entire dlc is based around a huge mountain, which you can see from anywhere, and the game slows to a crawl whenever it’s on screen. Baffling

@DefinitelyNotPedro

10 ай бұрын

I have had the game completly stop for a whole second before resuming in slowmotion. Its disguisting that i paid a combined total of 95 euros for this. They didn't even have the decency to fix the performance of the base game (except PC boxes lol). It seems to me that they focused on the dlc just because that makes them money and fixing the base game doesn't. Honestly im kinda done with pokémon games until they actually put in any effort whatsoever lol

@babidi1772

10 ай бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotPedro 95 euros spent in total garbage lol

@katiek.8808

10 ай бұрын

What are you people playing? How much hacking and glitching have you been doing? I’ve got almost 700 plus hours on this game and have none of these experiences and big performance improvements after the DLC. Any issues I had were online related (like azumarril belly drum and crashing after online coop.) but we’re not common.

@morimorizutto1907

10 ай бұрын

@@katiek.8808you’re clearly the exception.

@blanks8851

10 ай бұрын

​@YvaanAvesna probably not. It's more likely just bad optimization on the part of dev crunch and a general lack of proper time, same as the base game.

I found it funny that due to some lines of dialogue from Kieran leads you to believe that he was following you as you go from point A to point B which in my cause means 7 laps around the map and gone up and down the central mountain the wrong way like 4 times and I found that very funny

@grimbleys

8 ай бұрын

poor kieran had to book so many flights to and from paldea while following me

My favorite part of the DLC is when it asked Kieran, "Kill this person?" and he said "Yes," this game's so dark

@smoochumsmcgee

11 ай бұрын

please explain

@Aesc_the_voyager

11 ай бұрын

Where was this option

@Hatsune_mikuxX

11 ай бұрын

I don't remember that?

@MxMothra

11 ай бұрын

I also want an explanation.

@FakeGhosthunter002

11 ай бұрын

What are you guys talking about the part where kieran committed manslaughter was my favorite part

One thing I can appreciate about this DLC is that they’re making an effort to connect both parts with the story as opposed to Isle of Armor/Crown Tundra which were very separate, should help to make the whole package for satisfying and cohesive

@Shinntoku

11 ай бұрын

​@@PuzzlePottage1390damn bro, sucks to be you, I was invested and had an absolute blast

@rachadlendar4918

11 ай бұрын

​@@Shinntokuwho cares

@simpsonsfanatic777

11 ай бұрын

@@Shinntoku Trust me, it's not worth arguing with him. He can't be reasoned with.

@AevitosTrath

11 ай бұрын

​​@@PuzzlePottage1390That some people don't let bad framerate ruin the story

@PurposeDriven7_

11 ай бұрын

@@PuzzlePottage1390bro foreal pokemon fanboys will make the biggest excuses to say the games are good

I was so annoyed when I was forced to lie to Kieran and side with Carmine at every turn. If it were me, I would’ve tried telling Carmine how insensitive she was being and tell Kieran about Ogerpon at the first opportunity. Just in general, Kieran was treated very poorly. And the villagers all just believing Kieran first thing when talking about Ogerpon seems very unrealistic. The writers had a good idea for a plot, but the way it was executed turned me off a lot. At least the new Pokémon and concept of the region are very cool. I love how the Loyal Trio look so ugly and villainous, and Bloodmoon Ursaluna is the best Pokédex reward ever

@kazenna

10 ай бұрын

Kieran was the most annoying brat ever bruh who cares

@beanburrito4405

10 ай бұрын

@@kazenna That’s not the point, though I do agree that when he says stuff like “wowzers” it makes me do a double take. The point is that I have no agency

@GameAW1

10 ай бұрын

I agree with lying to Kieran only the first time its done. Dead of night, in the middle of the festival, the one he clearly is an extremely huge fan of running to the most dangerous part of the land, kid would get himself seriously hurt (if not killed) then and lying to him the was the right call for his own safety. The next time however was not right in any capacity. It was broad daylight, we're clearly doing something to the benefit of his hero Ogerpon, and we found out that he was right about Ogerpon all along. Leaving him out of things then is essentially a betrayal to his friendship.

@naganut9718

10 ай бұрын

​@@kazennahe's a sheltered and a bullied 10 year old. What do you expect?

@iversiafanatic

10 ай бұрын

@@kazennawhy does a kid being annoying mean he deserves bad things. Even if he was real he’d be a child. People in this comments section are so unhinged

My main "problem" with the DLC is, that it feels super small if you enter it with your Ride Pokemons abilities unlocked. The DLC is best explored on foot till you finish it or at least the story. And I only realized this after I did everything.

@unclephillymya

10 ай бұрын

LOOOLLL

@pascalsimioli6777

10 ай бұрын

Ah pokemon the only game in which you have to repeatedly limit yourself to enjoy it lmao

@GreyVictory1510

10 ай бұрын

@@pascalsimioli6777 not necessarily. In many games, action or turnbased, people limit themselves because they have gotten better at them with experience, not using certain items or limiting healing for themselves as a result.

@nickhartman6372

5 ай бұрын

Forget the ride Pokemon, once you unlock the warp points there is no point in even traveling anymore. Which might be just as well, considering how dead the entire world in the game seems. Honestly the more I play it, the more I hate it.....one of the worst games I have ever paid full price for at launch.

My main take-away from this is it is suffering from Part One syndrome. All set-up for a payoff that may or may not arrive. I don't know if your opinion on this will change much after Part Two, but I'll definitely be interested to see how you feel about Hidden Treasures as a whole.

@KeifersIsAwesome

10 ай бұрын

Thats the main thing right there. They're clearly going for a connected story for the whole DLC. And it does kinda suck that you get so little of an idea what exactly is happening cause now Arlo is just going to sit with this feeling of incompleteness or disappointment for part one and there's no knowing how sitting with that until winter will result in him having changed feelings about it once the second dlc comes around.

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's literally stuck in the middle. Between a good base game story and experience and a part 2 that is going to wrap things up and will likely be huge compared to 1.

@mariotheundying

10 ай бұрын

Yeah part 2 will be like the sequel to both the base game and the dlc, continuing where it left off, I think part 1 is normally supposed to go along with the main story but I can't confirm as idk the Pokemon levels of the dlc before you beat the game

@PantsaBear

10 ай бұрын

@@KeifersIsAwesome I mean not just Arlo, literally anyone who plays it is going to feel that way to some extent lol It doesnt help that the story is very very simple and doenst have much going for it besides the core premise, so it feels extra one-note when the game wants you to feel suspense. Like yeah, I sure do feel suspense... for the rest of the experience lol

@shanejames9051

10 ай бұрын

I played before beating Area Zero, and it started at level 12, and by the last fight with Kieran he has like level 35s. Then Ogrepon you fight at level 20 lol. After that, the legendaries and the Perrin stuff is all level 70+, even still before you beat the main story. It was enjoyable to start a new team at level 12 and play along with it that way!@@mariotheundying

I have only just met Ogerpon, and I will lay my life on the line to protect this jolly green friend-shaped gremlin.

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

Right!? She's too cute!

@JD-fi4nk

10 ай бұрын

I love Ogerpon as well. I know they were trying to make us dislike the trio, but they could have made them at least intimidating and not dopey.

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

@@JD-fi4nk Would've been cool if they at least had some kind of "Oni Mask" of sorts. But at least the bird one of the trio looks great.

@KamenracerX

10 ай бұрын

Ngl, Ogerpon is slowly becoming the reason to buy SV for me.

@AusSP

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGravityShifter Ogerpon's base form *is* the Oni Mask, though?

This Dreamcast game looks like it's really coming together! I can't wait for it to finish alpha development and start beta testing and actual debugging! 👍

@Banana807

10 ай бұрын

💀

@unclephillymya

10 ай бұрын

Pokemon fanboys with Estocolm Syndrome “THEY DIDN’T HAD TIME TO DEVELOP THIS GAME😭😭😭😭😭”

@Mojo1356

8 ай бұрын

@@unclephillymyabecause they don’t. Those stuck up executives at Pokémon Company don’t give Gamefreak the time they need or deserve.

@ThwipThwipBoom

8 ай бұрын

Worth billions but makes lazy amateur indie looking/running games smh

@Mojo1356

8 ай бұрын

@@ThwipThwipBoom honestly, the performance is the only major issue I have with SV.

I really, really hope that Part 2 of this DLC will include Nemona, Penny and Arven.

@marcoasturias8520

10 ай бұрын

They teased that something was going to happen in Area Zero, I bet they'll join the player to finish off the plot.

@ivyproductions7097

10 ай бұрын

There are leaks if you’re interested in looking for them that answer your question

@miimiiandco

10 ай бұрын

Surely Nemona is gonna be in a school focused on battling... right?

@Htiy

10 ай бұрын

Spoilers: Leak files say yes inlcluding a double battle w them

@GAHAHAHH

10 ай бұрын

I have been hoping for an "everyone is here" moment where all the old pokemon are put back into the game for many years now, I won't forget, I won't compromise and I won't stop demanding the games to be better.

This might be the first time a pokemon game shows the consequences of a rival being constantly slapped into the dirt by everyone, including the player.

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

Didn't really like the way we had to treat him. I don't appreciate being made into a liar, that just isn't my style.

@JD-fi4nk

10 ай бұрын

​@@jessicatouvell6859hard agree. I've said this before, but Carmine basically forced us into being part of Kieran's villain arc, and he was such a sweet kid. I sincerely dislike her.

@illusionaryheart3325

10 ай бұрын

While it was cool, I wish it didn't force the player to lie to him to do so.

@miimiiandco

10 ай бұрын

​@@jessicatouvell6859 Same problem Hop has, really.

@deadlydingus1138

10 ай бұрын

Carmine is arguably one of the most punchable characters in the series.

I miss the escape rope in sv. I felt so bad for Kieran, I purposefully lost a battle to him thinking it would trigger some new dialog, maybe him being happy that he won a battle and getting some pokemoney,but nope, it was just the default 'you blacked out' that's what Gen 10 needs, dialog for when you lose a battle, maybe your rival says a snarky ass remark after you lost, therefore making the rematch more intense.

@RancorSnp

10 ай бұрын

You are allowed to lose the first Carmine battle and the first Kieran battle - after that it is essential that you win for the story to progress. I'm not sure why would you feel bad for the possesive psychopath but hey

@Shnarfbird

10 ай бұрын

That can happen once or twice in SM as well - winning against Hau is not mandatory

I thought it was lacking in quests/content. The two other main characters are gonna be continuing in the Indigo Disk when you visit their school. I did find it funny that we mind-break Kieran for no reason and make him go on his villain revenge arc on part 2. lol

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

I'm surprised we got as many as we did with this expansion. Ogre Oustin, the rich couple, the lovey dovey couple, the thing with the app to change your borders (very small thing but cool for personalizing), new emotes (also small thing), the Ogre Clan stuff, and Perrin's side quest (best thing we got in the DLC aside from the Story). Not to mention the two charms you get from this DLC which is a massive boon.

@strawdeath263

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGravityShifter And the picnic chair guy with a surprisingly valuable reward.

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

@@strawdeath263 Yes that's true, forgot to add that. Buuuut if it were me, I'd avoid telling the reward for the element of surprise. But tbf, I mentioned two charms (even though I didn't say what they did).

@strawdeath263

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGravityShifter Edited out the reward to keep the surprise.

@Gzilla313

10 ай бұрын

It feels weird that game builds up to catching 4 legendary Pokemon and then there's nothing else to do. They really need to add a Battle Frontier to these DLC's so there's more than a weekend's worth of content.

I loved this DLC but id be lying if the frame rate drops didn’t make me sick

@kinggoldenboyy

11 ай бұрын

I remember thinking back when the game came out ‘at least the frames will be better by the DLC release’ 😭

@powerstar5113

11 ай бұрын

Yeah ogre ousting would have been a fun little minigame if the frame rate wasn’t abysmal

@raycraft001

11 ай бұрын

@@PuzzlePottage1390as someone who didn’t buy this dlc because of my loss of faith in Pokémon, I still think that people are entitled to purchase this, and the base game has a lot of good going for it, despite the issues. Most people don’t ignore the issues, but the hood stuff is enough for them to take precedence.

@ellec7188

11 ай бұрын

I noticed it and wasn't too happy about it I'm super lenient bc I personally know the time constraints and game development Main game though I didn't really get any frame drops so that also impacted how i may if perceived things

@mikeuk666

11 ай бұрын

As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better.😊

Better performance should've been priority number 1

Wow really giving them the bird in that thumbnail huh lmao

@thespeedyyoshi

11 ай бұрын

Lmao XD I don’t think that was the intention but that does look very similar XD

The framerates are a huge issue, and really effects the enjoyment of this, but beyond that, it's pretty decent. Not great, though. Also, love all the Gen 2 Pokémon on this map.

@watershipup7101

11 ай бұрын

Agreed

@T-Dawg75

11 ай бұрын

This game NEEDS a free Switch 2 upgrade.

@kroyre

11 ай бұрын

@@T-Dawg75 Nah, this franchise needs better DEVS that are not rushed .

@PuzzlePottage1390

11 ай бұрын

I'm so glad that Game Freak saw S/V's abysmal performance and thought 'DLC is clearly the next logical step here'. Modern Pokémon fans are drones.

@someguy3263

11 ай бұрын

@@PuzzlePottage1390 All that complaining ain't gonna make them stop anytime soon either. Give up on the franchise and move on.

Kieran: "battle me" Me: "how many times do i have to teach you this lesson old man"

This just harkens back to the original discussion of how some people are getting worse performance than others, because I'm watching this footage and the slowdown is super evident, but when I play I don't get anything like this. There was one moment where it got stuck for a half-second while I was falling from a jump up on the mountain but none of this slowdown

@remhauck1577

11 ай бұрын

Same for me. If there's a ton of pokemon spawned onscreen I may get a slight stutter, but most of the time it's pretty smooth.

@ewormXD

11 ай бұрын

Seriously, has nobody figured out what the reason for this discrepancy is? The glitches and bugs I've seen online are insane, whereas I've been playing a ton since release and got almost none of them aside from general framerate stuff and graphical hiccups. The SD card slash internal memory hypothesis wasn't it… then what is it??

@Slenderquil

11 ай бұрын

The base game ran reasonably well for me and now the dlc feels like it'll never reach 30 fps at any point. It's very bizarre all around

@omegae_1233

11 ай бұрын

Exactly! I'm on a base model Switch system (Mario Odyssey edition) and I don't see any of the stuff others talk about online besides the base performance issues. It makes me wonder if there's something wrong with the persons Switch itself or not.

@jessicatouvell6859

11 ай бұрын

I've gotten stuck in the base game, I've had the stuttering problem for both (worse in base game) and even had a game crash once during my first playthrough (luckily I still had autosave on at the time!) My biggest issue is when pokemon get stuck in a cliff wall, it's so hard to shiny hunt pokemon near cliffs or in caves. Don't seem to have that issue in the DLC though (not patched, I still get that a lot in Paldea, just not Kitakami). Does anyone else have that issue? When the game first came out I thought it was funny (first time I encountered this was just before Los Platos before even getting to the school. Saw a Psyduck sleeping with it's head phased into a tree.) Now it's just tedious.

I thought the Teal Mask was fine. Turns out I had like 75% of the Pokedex for it in Pokemon Home so that was neat.

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

I carried over quite a few shinies from PLA and SWSH too. That was nice.

I feel like I got a dev copy because I'm getting minimal frame drops compared to what everyone else is getting

@Axoleah

11 ай бұрын

Yeah same?? I’ve never had any sort of constant frame drops like everyone says. They’re definitely there but I wouldn’t say they’re intrusive in the slightest for me :/

@CreativitySkys

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, these people be playing on the stupid nokia

@Skyshadow733

10 ай бұрын

ok there yeah right

@Lordodragonss

10 ай бұрын

EXACTLY? How that works? I play on cart, maybe that?

@Dad_Shoes

10 ай бұрын

I've had big issues with performance in the base game but the DLC has given me no big issues. I have no idea why, but I've noticed on a different save file I've made, I've had absolutely no performance issues. However, they seemed to come in full force after I beat the game.

Look for the kitakami ogre clan members for some decent battles. They’re around mid to late 70s for levels. They won’t be too hard, but an effort was made for some harder fights ( albeit there are only 8)

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

Wasn't expecting a decent challenge considering I was OHKO-ing everything else. The orge clan members actually being somewhat strong was surprising to me. Granted my whole team is level 100 so not surprised I'm knocking everything out in a single hit. The only other battles that weren't over instantly were the loyal 3.

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

Ngl, one of them actually was pretty tough for me. That one guy's Snorlax walled me hard the first and second attempts.

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGravityShifter I haven't been through all of them yet. I've mostly been shiny hunting and trying to farm Herba Mysticas.

@JD-fi4nk

10 ай бұрын

Agreed! Is there any kind of reward for beating them all?

@Zaltiz

10 ай бұрын

@@JD-fi4nk Yes there is a guy near the fly point at Kitakami Hall to talk to about it. You get some items.

I wonder what Arlo thought of the Perrin side quest? I enjoyed her and the Blood Moon Ursaluna is really cool with it’s call backs to Legends Arceus

@Lumberjack_king

11 ай бұрын

😏

@andrew8168

10 ай бұрын

Rumor is that she will be the bridge to the next legends game...

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

I think she's the best thing about the Teal Mask DLC.

@AedraRising

10 ай бұрын

I wonder if he even played it. He seems to barely touch on the DLC aside the main story, and even that’s glossed over. No mention of the Ogre Clam or Ogre Oustin either, though with the former he already chose to ruin the difficulty for himself anyway so I wonder if he’d care about battling them considering he’s fine with hurting his own experience intentionally.

@DvH_2

10 ай бұрын

@@AedraRising i kinda skimmed the video so I wanted to ask what was arlo intentionally doing?

I am invested into finding out what happens to Kieran. I feel Carmine will be nicer next time we see her

@remhauck1577

11 ай бұрын

Really felt like this was the guy's villain origin story.

@sirninja6027

11 ай бұрын

@@remhauck1577I doubt he will become a full on villain. More likely a tryhard competitive rival.

@jessicatouvell6859

11 ай бұрын

@@sirninja6027 I agree that Kieran has the potential to become a new rival. Maybe Blueberry Academy Champion? That would be cool. I think Carmine was more villain material, did not like her at all, not even at the end when she started being nicer. She spent to much time being mean to her brother and the player.

@lucastrier1034

11 ай бұрын

By the end I feel Carmine was really good she said goodbye really nice and even tho she went about it the wrong way she was just trying to protect her younger brother from feeling bad. Like she even let him pair up with us because he really wanted to. Plus it turns out she was really looking for a third mask to give to us. She’s kinda the tsundere type actually. When you picture both Carmine and Kieran as actual youths I don’t get annoyed as easily.

@jessicatouvell6859

11 ай бұрын

@@lucastrier1034 I understand protecting your younger brother. I was an older sister and did what I could to keep both my little brothers safe to the best of my ability, but I never treated them the way she did Kieran. I was younger than her too and my brothers annoyed the heck out of me, so it wasn't like she had to be so mean, even if his behavior did annoy her.

the fastest Arlo Pokemon game review in years

@Lulleebee

10 ай бұрын

the DLC was very short lol

I'm surprised you didn't mention the little photography side story with all the Legends Arceus fanservice, it was short and simple but was probably the highlight of the DLC. The new Pokémon at the end of it is one of my favourites introduced in this generation as well.

@nathanstewart4131

10 ай бұрын

​@@unclephillymyaursaluna is an evolution of a gen 2 pokemon, rather than an alternative form

@mlpfanboy1701

9 ай бұрын

I found it the most frustrating as you needed to find them and needed the shots to be specific.

It is really frustrating how Pokémon is the highest grossing company yet can’t even manage a running of game that’s considered “good” AT LEAST. 😅

i had literally no expectations going into this dlc. But i will say, that raising a new team and going through the story that way was very interesting and i had a lot of fun doing it

@PokeHokage

10 ай бұрын

This, I even went in with a hisuian starter. It's definitely a lot more fun If you take your time building a new team and exploring between story bits.

@Pablo360able

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's so clearly what you were supposed to do. I was confused when Arlo said the fights "weren't a thing" because there were some pretty intense fights, especially the Ogre Clan optional fights. But it all made sense when he said he used a team of level 80 Pokemon to do them.

@GrimmiesN

10 ай бұрын

The excuses you people come up with to excuse poor difficulty curve is insane. No you aren’t expected to start a new team. That’s just something you came up with to make it feel better for yourself.

@PokeHokage

10 ай бұрын

@@GrimmiesN Well outside of Making every trainer have level 100 pokemon there is no way to account for months between release and dlc release where the player could be packing six level 100 Arceus if they wanted.

@Pablo360able

10 ай бұрын

@@GrimmiesN Look at the levels of the wild Pokemon. It is so obviously expected that you would want to catch the new Kitakami Pokemon, and then obviously you would then use those on your team because they're the right level for that to be an appropriate challenge. And even if you didn't make a new team, the next obvious assumption would be to use a team from around the level of the endgame, which is not goddamn 80.

The DLC felt like it wanted to bully Keiran so much. Every time I thought his character arc was over the game decided that the kid needed to suffer more. He forgives you for lying to him, now Ogerpon doesn't like him; he gets Ogerpon to be liked by everyone, now he wants to keep Ogerpon; you beat him in a battle to gain ownership of Ogerpon, now he goes crying to his room and swears vengeance.

As someone who loves legends arceus im really suprised you didnt bring up the Perrin quest did you not do it?

@JD-fi4nk

10 ай бұрын

I LOVE that bear.

@hectorwhoz

10 ай бұрын

Considering you have to catch 150 pokemon at least to start that quest and its not something easy to do unless you've been catching and evolving pokemon beforehand, its not a quest you can quickly start. I finished the Teal Mask DLC with roughly 50 pokemon on the pokedex caught. So I feel only the more hardcore fans will be able to access that questline quicker. And given Arlo has lvl 100 pokemon, I don't think he was doing much catching.

Yeah I felt the same about the characters and legendaries. The sister started out just insufferable and only got better at the very end, the brother I was initially nice to and then he started getting jealous and I bounced off him so hard. The legendaries too just...nah, I'm good. The main one sure I'll maybe use it sometimes. The other three? I'll catch them for the Dex and then they go into box purgatory even if they're good.

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

Same on the legendaries. Ogerpon is adorable but the other three are so...meh. Not interesting at all. I did the same, caught them for the dex but probably won't ever use them.

@mlpfanboy1701

9 ай бұрын

I use ogerpon as much as possible, the loyal three are good but they need signature moves. Maybe something to do with the toxic chains. The ideas i came up with for them all start with the same effect: it makes it more likely for toxic chains to go off. If used on foes inflicted with toxic or poison status monkidoris psychic type move would decrease the poisoned targets special attack by one stage and special defense by 2 stages after damage. Okidogis moves second effect after damage would improve his physical attack, physical defense and special defense by one stage when hitting a poisoned target. Fezendipidies depends on if the foe is male or female. Male will make his fairy type move have a 50% chance of an omniboost, female gives a 50% chance of infatuation.

I haven't played it, but just from the footage here it's cool seeing that they're going very much into Momotaro's story. Oni mountain... the legendarys being a dog, monkey and bird... would be interesting if they really explored a lot of the ideas from the original story.

@mlpfanboy1701

9 ай бұрын

They did. But it is inverted.

I can totally relate with feeling sad and hurt when I watch Carmine bully Kieran. Kieran was the only one who believed the truth from the start and he gets zero credit, and treated like a baby, and like he has to constantly apologize, when Carmine is constantly furious and rude as hell.

@Robin_Glorb

8 ай бұрын

Keiran didn't believe the truth from the start. He didn't like *Ogerpon* because he knew *she* was the real hero in the story. He liked *The Ogre* because *it* defeated the Loyal Three by itself and he thought that was cool. It's no different to children saying they like Elsa from Frozen because she has ice powers

@erikmclennan3934

8 ай бұрын

@@Robin_Glorb He liked *the ogre* before he ever knew that it defeated the loyal three...

@Robin_Glorb

8 ай бұрын

@@erikmclennan3934 here is a quote from Kieran after the player reads a billboard about the story of the ogre and how the loyal three supposedly protected the town at the cost of their lives. As far as I'm aware, this is the first time the story is told to the player and is also before Ogerpon appears on-screen. It's pretty clear that Kieran has heard the full story long before the beginning of the dlc: "But don't you think the ogre in that folktale sounds kinda...cool? It was up against three whole opponents at once, battling it out all by itself --- wowzers, that's so cool!"

@erikmclennan3934

8 ай бұрын

@@Robin_Glorb Okay. Still, Kieran somehow intuited that the Ogre was worth liking, even not knowing the truth - a quality which his grandfather says he has (intuition), and has been passed down his family line, right from the original mask maker who chose to help the ogre and the trainer.

@Robin_Glorb

8 ай бұрын

@@erikmclennan3934 that is correct. funny, I was rewatching RT playing the dlc and I got a notification for this comment right as RT was on the scene where Kieran's grandpa says that. I do not have a counter-argument

I love this DLC, but I feel like you miss the point of the characters. Carmine was meant to be unpleasant at first but once she saw she generally hurt her brother by lying about the ogre she slowly became a better person and her monologue at the end proved that. Kieran also doesn't start off as jealous of you but rather admired you, it's when you were forced by the to lie to him that made him more jealous as his dream of meeting and befriending the ogre is given to you rather than him. The point of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet was the treasure hunt and you could say that Kieran's treasure hunt was the ogre, so I felt like it played into the themes of the main story.

@otakumarcus

10 ай бұрын

Wow! Arlo being an ignorant? Who could’ve foreseen that coming?

@soaprobot3609

10 ай бұрын

@@otakumarcus I think that's pretty mean to say. Sometimes not everyone resonates with a story, and the linear gameplay structure makes it even harder to really "care" or be invested. Also Arlo saying that just in general, they are not happy about the portrayal of that sibling relationship, would totally be justified to not spend more time than necessary with those themes. (English is not my first language, but I hope this was understandable).

@maggiecelentano9927

10 ай бұрын

​@@otakumarcusgotta be a special type of person to have a pokemon plot resonate with you. And by special I mean autistic

@modkip25

10 ай бұрын

@@maggiecelentano9927 chill out with the ableism. No need to bring autism into this.

@modkip25

10 ай бұрын

@@otakumarcus Disliking the dlc doesn't make someone arrogant 😂 wtf

I'm glad we live in a world where cookie monster's brother is a gamer

The environment looks like an early-access Steam game that will never be finished.

There were way too many sparkly spawns in the dlc, like I shouldn’t get 20 rare bones in 10 seconds. Plus I feel like the Pokémon were everywhere(especially the hard to see ones), it felt hard to get some exploring done. Boxes fixed though, so that’s something!

@beingmegucaissuffering.5326

11 ай бұрын

The boxes fix made me actually want to work on my SV living dex lmao, I just couldn't do it without they were before

@nicklinn5731

11 ай бұрын

@@beingmegucaissuffering.5326 it was a slog, but I did it.

@TheGravityShifter

10 ай бұрын

I was strapped for cash so I'm totally fine with it since I can get all those Rare Bones. Tera raiding can be a huge money sink so it's welcome. But I don't disagree with it being OP, it wouldn't kill them to reduce the spawns just a little bit.

@bubblemage

10 ай бұрын

i mean farming in pokemon games is stupid and tiring, so i like that there's 300000000000 items per second on the floor (and they respawn over time)

@scelestion

10 ай бұрын

This DLC makes you spend a literal 1,000,000 Pokédollars for a special jinbei after finishing the story (talk to the caretaker at Kitakami hall). Sure, you can get most of the money by doing all the Glitterati encounters, but I also need the money for prepping event tera raid counters, like TheGravityShifter said. I have often come close to becoming broke with all the EV and IV training and such, so I'm happy about every single valuable item. And I'm saying this as someone who makes sure to battle every NPC and uses the Amulet Coin in every battle.

As for the story I think all of these characters will be expanded on in part 2 because of the cliffhanger ending

I think carmine was not meant to be, it was meant to be a "I know him best and do what's best to push him, etc" and it goes predictably poorly. Which is why I wanted l an option to tell him early haha. Get it over with

Personally, I liked this dlc waaaaaaay more than I did the sword and shield dlc. I actually connected with the story, and it’s the first time it’s made me care about a legendary Pokémon in quite a while. Carmine is an interesting take on anti-tourism sentiment from locals and I like that the story actively scolds her for the way she acts. Kieran is a character I like a lot, it’s not an arc we’ve seen much of in Pokémon of a kind-hearted person having their darker side drawn out from neglect and mistreatment (even if not having a choice at the player on the matter is frustrating)

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

I agree, the dlc was more interesting than IOA and CT. I see what you're saying about Carmine. I just don't like her attitude towards her brother. It's one thing to be mean to a total stranger, but a whole other story with family. I get siblings annoy each other and fight, but she took it to a whole other level. I also get she was trying to protect him too, but there were other ways to do that. Can't wait to see what part 2 will be like.

@blueknight8657

10 ай бұрын

To be fair she realized it wasn't the best thing to hide it and her intentions were good even if it wasn't her best idea

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

@@blueknight8657 I can give her that one, and she did become nicer in the end. I just didn't like her attitude towards him prior to that.

@Missiletainn

10 ай бұрын

What? The story doesn't scold her at all. That's like the main issue with it. Every time she acts up, nothing happens, there is only 1 line where someone calls her out, and it's brushed off instantly.

@raptorskilltor4554

10 ай бұрын

Tbh there were tourist trainers Billy onair that I’m pretty sure gave her that sentiment of her home town becoming a tourist trap and if you talk to the caretaker in the end of the game he pretty supported that claim

I couldn't even finish the main game because of the performance. And I'm usually someone who doesn't care much about frame rate....but it was so BAAAAAAAD.

About the level scaling thing, because I always get a new team of Pokémon from the ones available in the dlc, the level scaling never hurts since the wild Pokémon are of similar level to the trainers and it made my experience very fun.

@Flapjack3734

10 ай бұрын

Yep and even if you didn’t want to fill your team full of only “new” dlc pokémon, you can catch some in area zero or get rare candies from raids to level up anything underleveled

@zayneharring9570

10 ай бұрын

Fax. It's no fun running through essentially a new region with a squad of 100s. I had some shinies to use anyways plus I used weaker pokemon like a Mightyena. I almost died to ursaluna and the trio since I didn't have my favorite wall, Corviknight. 😂

@the_godbodor7026

10 ай бұрын

@@zayneharring9570 I used some strong pokemon yet Leavanny did the best on my team and that makes me very happy. Love that theyre finally back.

@SegaDisneyUniverse

10 ай бұрын

​​@@zayneharring9570"It's no fun running through essentially a new region with a squad of level 100's" Me who had fun nuking everyone with my lv 100 team because I like being an unstoppable, supreme overlord amongst the NPCs in my world: 👑 😌

@mlpfanboy1701

9 ай бұрын

I would too but i have too many master balls unused in my main file to reset.

I FEEL LIKE I'M NOT GOING CRAZY - Thank you Arlo, for being one of the few people I've seen talking about this DLC who recognise how uncomfortable Carmine's interactions are with Kieran. If Kieran had more attitude and a more agressive personality, perhaps their interactions could follow the "squabbling but love each other" sibling trope, but yeah instead it just comes across as bullying... Enabled by their Grandparents no less. It really made it hard to like the cast of characters in The Teal Mask, especially with no player agency to side with Carmine or Kieran on "the ogre"

Made a new team for the DLC based on the *spoiler* you get and the wild mons around the map. Playing it that way I think made the experience much more enjoyable

@deadlydingus1138

10 ай бұрын

People be like “This DLC is too easy. My team is overleveled.” My sibling in Arceus, why do you think they brought back old pokemon?

@pascalsimioli6777

10 ай бұрын

... To make more money? Oh my god you lack the fundamentals of thinking.

The only thing I wish'd that the characters were actually real characters you didn't interact with much. Like Using Eri and Atticus who could bounce off Carmine and Keiran very well, one very artsy and traditional Atticus could probably surprise Carmine. And Eri's earnest nature could be great for interaction as well! Wanting to help deal with the three pokemon troublemakers (I'm kinda trying to walk around full spoilers) Also in the battle tournament I think S/S did better with the DLC characters appearing in it and double battles too! I hope they update the tournaments so that the new characters AND the Gym leaders appear in the battle star tournament- cause otherwise you just don't see the gym leaders *At all!*

@violetshadowstone5250

10 ай бұрын

This would of been so much more interesting! Crazy how some writing works to make things better.

I enjoyed this DLC enough for what it was (mostly because I adore Ogerpon), the new pokemon are cool, but tbh for what it costs it's awful value. It's 35 US dollars in America but the DLC cost me the equivalent of 55 US dollars because I live in Switzerland and the price here is 50 Swiss francs, which is insane. And tbh no matter how good Part 2 is, there's no way it's gonna be good enough to justify this, especially when Part 1 is like 5 hours of content. Meanwhile RE4 Remake's expansion costs 9 dollars. A much more polished game with much more content and a much more significant expansion, and it's a tiny fraction of the price. The Pokemon Company is absolutely robbing us blind. I won't be buying any DLC from them in the future if this is how they price things.

I am curious of how will they develop the story of the next DLC since the Blueberry academy doesn’t appear to have much of a story itself

@Terranigma23

11 ай бұрын

Exactly! It just looks like a huge Saffari. We have these for free back then 😅

@desdar100

11 ай бұрын

Without giving away anything from the data mine, there's actually a boatload of story

@Critical_HitZ

11 ай бұрын

Oh boy man, hope you’re ready

@GDKsan

11 ай бұрын

don't forget the 2nd DLC also opens a new area in area zero too

@mikeuk666

11 ай бұрын

As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better.

I haven’t played this DLC yet honestly, I’ve been addicted to Vinemon- probably my favorite Pokémon-like that’s come out this year, even with the already stacked roster of things such as Cassette Beasts and Infinite Fusion. They came out when they were ready. I am still kind of excited to try this sometime, but man I just want GameFreak to get the time needed to finish their work… and to actually have sleep schedules free of such crunch and stress.

i burned through this DLC looking for friend trio story content that turned out to not actually be happening at all until indigo disc. they never even notice you left since the DLC can be done at any time and not just as postgame, they're still just one-liner statues in their rooms waiting to actually be able to hang out with us again. you know GF initially planned for it to be them on this trip instead of three nameless kids though, you know they did. the writing of the teal mask overall was a bit more usual pokemon stuff and a little less whatever gold they struck with base game S/V, which makes the fact that they haven't shown new footage of nemona/arven/penny at all in the trailers for the past half a year, just new characters, really stressful. they do know it was gold, don't they...? the teal mask really would not be worth it if it could be bought standalone. it's just a teaser with a few days of stuff to do when we needed a few months of stuff to do. no performance improvements either, as you noted. a lot of the story battles were running in slow mo for me because of the dense grass around town. but i did warm up to carmine despite her pretty obviously causing her brother's problems, probably without realizing, largely because of how funny her mannerisms are. her unpredictably sweet or mean behavior is acknowledged by the story and symbolized by her morpeko, so it's obviously not just bad writing. her saying she doesn't trust tourists and then that not being a plot point at all kinda is, though. a lot of people feel like this storyline forced them to do things they didn't want to do, too. it's weird to try and have a faceless voiceless self insert protagonist but also have them make decisions on their own we have no control over. kinda the worst of both worlds. main story got away with it because the other three made our decisions for us.

I raised a whole new team for the DLC and it was AWESOME, the battles felt challenging, I fell in love with Pokémon I've never used, tried out the new ones, got a shiny Rockruff, got a new angsty rival, it was a ton of fun. To each their own I guess, but I personally cannot wait for part 2 of the DLC and to see Professor Tera-earring's part in the story lol.

@charliez077

10 ай бұрын

And it's great you enjoyed that - but the point is that it is FLAWED game design/difficulty balancing if you HAVE to self-restrict yourself to have any sense of difficulty. (and it's particularly inexcusable since the SV postgame motivates you super hard to train many perfect Lv100 mons for Raids)

@notburntfries6566

10 ай бұрын

@@charliez077 I'm pretty sure this first part of the DLC is supposed to happen alongside the main story, and the second is postgame. I would assume when someone would play through the game and dlc together (like they probably intended), this would be a side area to grind new pokemon. I do think they should have increased the level cap past beating champion level, maybe around 70s - 80s after finishing the base games post-game.

@charliez077

10 ай бұрын

@@notburntfries6566 what they should really do is lower max level until DLC's come out. max level in base game = 70. first DLC = max level 85. second DLC = max level 100.

@charliez077

10 ай бұрын

​@@notburntfries6566 bottom line - it's THEIR responsibility to make it work. you cannot let/motivate players to make Lv100 teams and have them fight Lv65 trainers in DLC, it's a complete joke. I don't care how they do it - make it WORK.

@EnzoDraws

10 ай бұрын

@@charliez077 sure! I was just sharing my opinion and experience with the community

I enjoyed the Teal Mask, but yes the beginning is just about as handhold-y as Sun and Moon’s beginning. I really hoped they would have fixed the performance issues. At this point, I won’t be surprised if the Indigo Disk runs just as awfully, which is saddening. I did like the story and Ogerpon is just ADORABLE. Most of the graphic updates seem to apply towards the texturing on the Pokémon themselves, which is fine, but it also seems to have an impact on the framerate, but this is is an issue with the base game mostly. If waiting a few more years for the next generation Pokémon games means better performance and quality, I’m willing to wait. Can’t say the same about the franchise’s investors and merchandise distributors. They’re about as impatient as Vigoroth.

They can't do a performance patch, but they can do paid DLC. They aren't getting my money

@ValiantPixel

11 ай бұрын

They are releasing another patch soon but it’s not going to address the bad performance very much, if at all.

Kinda blows my mind how inept the developers of Pokémon games are. They have the most profitable IP ever created and the best they can come up with is this 😂

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

Same, but the millions of NPCs that keep buying their poorly optimized, lazy games are the real culprits here. Gotta consoom them all!

btw there is a tad bit of inconsistency. there are pokemon that scale up to 60-86. Ogre clan have around level 70-80 pokemon as well

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

Still too low considering a great deal of people are in the 90s-100.

An Umbreon called Erebus is unhinged, I hope he gets hurt in every battle

Honestly S tier youtuber. Ive been watching you for years, weather its a big fat review of breath of the wild, or small quickie like wario ware. Consistently excellent, thanks Arlo.

You summarized my feelings about the story/characters perfectly. And I'm glad you addressed the issue with Carmine. Like there's jerk rivals (she's not even really a rival??), and then there's characters who're just... meanspirited. Maybe she'll get some kind of character arc in the second part? I guess? But for right now it just feels gross, especially for how much the game forces you to ALSO be mean to Kieran. It's just "DLC Part 1: Let's Bully Kieran Together", I guess. It's just a bummer compared to the base game's story, I think. You go from incredibly impactful stories and characters that leave you feeling good about what you've been through, to a story that ends with you feeling kind of gross and like a villain against your will. If Carmine wasn't Like That, and the scenarios that repeatedly make Kieran inferior weren't so ham-fisted, maybe I could be more on board with the idea of unwittingly being the reason for someone's villain arc.

Was the base game ever fixed?

@partimentieveryday

11 ай бұрын

No lol

@mesmorrow

11 ай бұрын

Game Freak fixing a Pokemon game, hahaha heck no.

@mikeuk666

11 ай бұрын

As long as people keep buying garbage from the pokemon company it will never get any better..

@mesmorrow

11 ай бұрын

@@mikeuk666 Exactly.

@partimentieveryday

10 ай бұрын

@@mikeuk666 I haven’t played a Pokémon game on switch. Everytime Pokémon puts something out, it looks more and more like sun and moon will be my last Pokémon game. Sucks bc those games sucked too lol

They prob arent doing a patch because they are working on gen 10 which is insane to me

At last, confirmation that Arlo is in fact a Muppet fan.

I liked the story and the side quest but yeah it was definitely short. I did everything in about two days playing casually

I still can't believe that the performance of a main series game is sooo bad - and they are just going with it, like pretending that nothings wrong / needs to be fixed. I really hope that some Nintendo Chiefs are smacktalking Gamefreak behind locked business doors so that this will never happen again.

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

They won't, because sales are good.

When playing the main game, I had a few moments where I genuinely thought "I am having fun! I am enjoying this!" But with the DLC, the whole time I was just thinking "I just want to be done with this."

In tears of the kingdom you could fall from the heavens to the bowels of hell and it ran buttery smooth and looked amazing. In Pokémon, you just look at a pond and the game drops to 5 frames a minute. And that hurts my feelings considering this is the most fun I’ve had with pokemon since I got the original Pokemon Gold for my gameboy color on launch day.

My favorite part of the DLC was when Ogrepon said “It’s all ogre for you!” and then proceeded to beat up the Loyal Three.

Here's the simple truth: TPC isn't going to fix the game because they know they don't have to. It already sold millions of units, so they have zero financial incentive to do so. The only way we're gonna see genuine quality improvements to Pokemon games is when the low quality begins to affect sales.

Imagine you are obsessed with Bigfoot then all of a sudden this guy shows up, finds Bigfoot, kicks you in the balls, then leaves. You would be mad too.

I think it is fair to say that Isle of Armor was a better first-parter than Teal Mask has been. Performance and resolution aside (IoA at least looks good), there’s at least a bit more of a climactic finish and wildly different environments. Teal Mask felt like it was demoing the few features it had through the story, followed by the obligatory catching of a legendary. I wasn’t expecting this DLC (which costs more as a reminder, if only by $5 total) to be less substantial than Isle of Armor but I am entirely wrong in that. Maybe Indigo Disk will be better like Crown Tundra was, or maybe we’ll feel better about Teal Mask in retrospect, who really knows. As things currently stand though it feels like the bare minimum they could have delivered. 100 returning pokemon, a couple new ones, some battles, and a minigame/sidequest or two.

@RancorSnp

10 ай бұрын

SwSh did two disjointed stories - with IoA - for me at least - being far more fun than CT (although the story of CT was fairly enjoyable, and Dynamax Adventures are cool). S/V instead present one story in two parts. So it shouldn't be possible for a person like me to just get bored of part 2 and go back to part 1 - because they are one whole

I've been living in the real Kitakami in Iwate for a few years and I got a bit excited when they announced this new area. But it's just kind of...boring? Like, Iwate is VERY rural, but there's still enough here to draw from, other than a mountain and a village. Heck, Momotaro, the story that the legendaries are based on, isn't even from this region, it's from down south. That's like having Paul Bunyan down in Arizona or something. Just a tad disappointing and not doing much to really utilize the area it's based on. Maybe in a future game they can have a full region based on Tohoku and expand on this region some more

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

Wait, why is a location in Japan the central focus for a pokemon game based on Spain? I thought the Pokemon equivalent of Japan was Kanto/Johto.

@Shnarfbird

10 ай бұрын

@@Ergeniz Since the dev team is japanese, they just like to do a little showing off. (Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh are indeed poke-japan but not every island)

@Shnarfbird

10 ай бұрын

I suppose it doesn't have to be 1:1 and location liberties can be taken, they could put paul bunyan in north dakota for all I care. But... More broadly speaking, yeah. The place looks like if you stripped the japanese theming, it could still be in paldea - not enough botanical distinguishments imo

Haven't played SV in a long time. Forgot how absolutely ugly it is lmao

How do you get pikachu on a bus? *You Don’t*

@hoodieee5980

11 ай бұрын

pickachu

@bowen13

11 ай бұрын

You poke'em on

@HenrayPatter

11 ай бұрын

@@bowen13 😂😂 hilarious! Felt like I was hit by a Bus! (Of comedy)

@bowen13

11 ай бұрын

@@HenrayPatter Oh no, you must be tired

I like the bait and switch for both the Legendaries, and Kieran and Carmine. I thought it was a relaxing, if not kinda sad, experience. I really enjoyed Kieran and Carmine, and Ogerpon benefits from the Miraidon/Koraidon way of getting you familiar or forming a bond with a legendary. Kinda excited to see them return in the Indigo Disc.

I still find it hysterical how not only is this performance outright not acceotable in the base game (and that every attempt they've made to alleviate it has only made it worse), but they also had the nerve to charge $5 more than the SW/SH dlc. Hopefully the B team will still be allowed to make legends games in the future cause its the one game keeping me semi invested.

One of my biggest issues with SV is how easy the game was. I like the addition of the ogre clan battles and the rewards you get for completing that quest. That final battle was actually very difficult. Unfortunately I think that’s the closest we’ll ever get to another Red battle but I hope I’m wrong. Granted, I did get an entirely new team to go through this instead of using my level 80+ Pokémon

@kazenna

10 ай бұрын

What do you mean close to the red battle?

@JGr2000

10 ай бұрын

@@kazenna the battle against Red in Gold Silver and Crystal and HeartGold and SoulSilver. In HG and SS his team ranges from levels 80-88. It’s at the end of the game after getting all 16 badges

Still you think GF would be able to create an engine that can reuse previous animations and models. If Genius Sonority was able to reuse gen 1&2 models and some animations from Stadium in pokemon colosseum in thier no excuse for Gf to have dexcuts aside for rushed development.

You know, I never saw that muppet recommendation comming. Who woulda thought...

haven't bothered with this dlc. the switch pokemon games just haven't done it for me, and while scarviol was better than swsh it wasn't the difference I needed. So I've gone back to the ds & 3ds games, & been having a lot more fun.

@VGF64-2

11 ай бұрын

Same, I haven't bothered with the Switch Pokemon games either. I'm just sticking to just playing Pokemon games from Gens 3-5.

I have to personally disagree about the characters Arlo. I looooved Kiki and Carmine and the way their characters changed, it felt dynamic and I’m way more hyped for the second part than originally. Specifically because we get to see these characters again. They’re the two characters who change the most, the most out of the entire franchise (maybe beaten out by Silver in HGSS). Overall I really enjoyed this DLC but I reeeally wish it were longer and that the frame rate issues were fixed

@ewormXD

11 ай бұрын

For me Carmine came across as the type who knows her intentions are good and assumes everyone will understand that even though she completely blows at showing it. It's a character that can be both funny and actually interesting, especially as she develops and learns that she needs to be a bit more honest and direct about things. On the other hand, Kieran was a bit annoying for me, though mostly because it's a character type that's hard to do well without creating an annoying whiny loser. It's kind of a rip-off Wally from Hoenn, except without the excuse of poor health leaving him with few to no friends and experiences. Sure, Carmine's a bit of an overbearing personality, but Kieran is already a trainer, unlike Wally, and he attends a prestigious school giving him the chance to interact with plenty of peers. He even grew up in a super-friendly little town, so his problems don't seem very legitimate. The final twist at the very end of the story is also hard to take seriously, considering the last we see of him before that is him literally running away crying because he didn't get his way - a scene that seems to completely undo the entire development he got through the story, such a bizarre choice.

@iversiafanatic

11 ай бұрын

Carmine doesn’t change at all. Explicitly.

@iversiafanatic

11 ай бұрын

@@ewormXDare you.. saying.. a 14 year old child’s social challenges… aren’t legitimate? He needs trauma to have them? Huh

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

I liked Kiki, but didn't like Carmine all that much, hopefully she continues to be better in part 2. Looking forward to the Indigo disk DLC. This might actually be the first game on the Switch (besides PLA) that I complete the entire pokedex.

@ivyproductions7097

10 ай бұрын

@@iversiafanatic Yes she does! She goes from hating the player and outsiders to accepting everyone. The way she behaves in the beginning is pretty different to the way she behaves at the end.

Honestly I enjoyed the siblings. They're flawed and growing and have their own dynamic and you know they care about each other but aren't really upfront about it. I feel like we need more characters like them in Pokemon. A lot of Pokemon characters are just kinda "flawless" if that makes sense

My favorite part of this dlc is where they fixed the games bugs, updated the graphics and actually made it fun. Oh my bad this isn't cyberpunk 2077.

Man, I still just can't believe the biggest, most profitable game franchise ever still makes games that look so lazy and cheap

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

Man, I still just can't believe millions of people still continue to buy poorly made products that look so lazy and cheap. Oh wait, I can believe it. Depressing.

While I can appreciate the effort put forth by the team to make this game/DLC fun…I just can’t get past the issues man. Like a few things look better compared to Sword and Shield but I think that those games were better from a performance standpoint. Hopefully this just means GameFreak will make the next mainline entry spectacular because they have a lot of nice laid foundation to grow off of.

@sleeplessarcher

11 ай бұрын

Lmao no I admire your wistful thinking, but the reality is that they won’t make a spectacular game next gen. They sold SWSH, which was at best a 5/10 with a lot of broken promises and was the epitome of 1 step forward 2 steps back. Then they sold dlc for $30, which people bought. Now, they sell worse dlc for $35 that comes with a $60 game that runs and looks WORSE than SWSH. But it still sold amazingly, regardless of the issues They literally don’t even have to try. And they won’t.

@jessicatouvell6859

10 ай бұрын

@@sleeplessarcher Sad but true. As long as we continue to buy GF will keep doing what they're doing. And we do keep buying with the hope that the next game will be better than the last. I will say, that I do prefer SV graphics over SWSH, the other issues put it more on par with SWSH. Honestly the only Pokemon game on Switch that I did not feel disappointed in at so level was PLA. And I have LGE, both SWSH, both BDSP, PLA and Violet.

@EchidnaKida

10 ай бұрын

They won't make the next game any better. It will be even worse than Sw/Sh or S/V, made by a weak team of 100ish people on a 1 yr crunch dev cycle, and it will get terrible reviews. IT WILL STILL SELL OVER 10M UNITS, and ThePokemonCompany will learn nothing. Give up hope.

@momzwrite

10 ай бұрын

I'm.. skeptical of any promises of improvement. They've had many, many years and generations of foundation to use for these games

It really frustrates me how so many people have seemed to fall in love with Carmine as a character. I immediately hated her because of her abusive personality and xenophobic comments. I was hoping that she would turn it around, but she didn't really. Even into the end she was still pushing her brother around and downplaying his own feelings. It made me super uncomfortable as well. By far the worst part is being railroaded into lying to Kieran, then being called a liar for something we had no control over. It's like a bad Telltale game where you're given several choices and then everyone hates you despite yourself having no control over the situation. If they wanted to do that, have an option where you tell him, and maybe he gets hurt or something happens to the village and Carmine is the one that hates us, but that would require Game Freak to actually put time and effort into the final product. This just feels very lazy.

Yeah, sorry Arlo, I've gotta disagree with you about the story and characters of this DLC. All the other parts? Completely valid complaints, but just saying that you didn't like the characters because they were "unpleasant??" That was the entire point. You have a typical jerk rival who ends up being your friend by the end, and the typical friendly rival who ends up hating your guts by the end. You're not supposed to feel good. Same with the legendaries. They're not pleasant because they're literally villains. You also have to remember that this is a 2 part story. Characters like Briar are going to be utilized in the Indigo Disk, she's just being introduced here so we're familiar with her whenever she becomes more important later. Most of these character's arcs are not complete yet, which you can see especially with Kieran who ends this part on a cliffhanger. No offense or anything, you're allowed to have you own opinions, but this entire review feels like you went into this expecting one thing, and were disappointed that it wasn't the safe, fun, Pokemon adventure that the Isle of Armor was. Sorry again about this essay, but I just had to get my thoughts out.

I also had a team of level 80+ Pokémon going into this. I just ended up getting an entirely new team to go through the story with so it wasn’t a complete cakewalk

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

Its sad that the player has to actively nerf themselves to enable a semblance of a challenge with this game. I've always said one of the stupidest decisions in pokemon was removing the battle tower.

@JGr2000

10 ай бұрын

@@Ergeniz totally. The lack of difficulty is one of my biggest issues with modern Pokémon games. A battle tower would be great, but if GameFreak ever brought back the battle frontier, I would be so happy. Sadly it probably won’t happen, especially considering GF didn’t add the battle frontier in ORAS

@JGr2000

10 ай бұрын

@@Ergeniz totally. The lack of difficulty is one of my biggest issues with modern Pokémon games. A battle tower would be great, but if GameFreak ever brought back the battle frontier, I would be so happy. Sadly it probably won’t happen, especially considering GF removed the battle frontier from ORAS

@Shnarfbird

10 ай бұрын

@@Ergeniz chuggaaconroy's "just use worse pokemon" take

@dewot1256

9 ай бұрын

​@@ErgenizIt's pokemon. The tagline is gotta catch 'em all. Catching and raising a new team for a new region is literally part of the fantasy. If you want to test your ability in battle that's what VGC is for.

the idea of wanting your playthrough pokémon to still be at the right level is a little ridiculous… i think a lot of the fun in the dlc comes from catching new mons and using them. i had a good bit of challenge doing this

@Buglin_Burger7878

10 ай бұрын

It really isn't, you DLC should take place post game. So unless you did some post game grinding they should naturally be at level.

@RancorSnp

10 ай бұрын

@@Buglin_Burger7878 Weeelll... The base game ends the story lines at level 60 and the DLC starts with level 60 trainers so...

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

@@RancorSnp The base game opponents end at that level perhaps, but the player doesn't even if they avoid most battles. EXP share is forced on the player. Its one of the main criticisms of Scarlet/Violent to start with.

DLC that costs a quarter of the game itself should offer content equivalent to a quarter of the game itself. This was a $5 dlc

For me it was the other way around. I liked Scarlet and Violet at first but then hated these games but this DLC brought back my joy and love for Gen 9. I absolutely love this DLC, had a blast with it. And now I like the entire pack a lot more. And with the second DLC, I am sure Gen 9 will be one of my favorites, top 3 material. Nothing will beat Gen 3 and Gen 8 for me though. Those were my favorites.

I honestly loved the dlc and feel its a step in the right direction as far as the story goes. Also i did make a whole new team so there was an actual challenge.

I'm so glad to see someone else talking about Carmine's completely unnecessary meanness and bossiness to her brother Kieran. If it wasn't for that, she would be a pretty enjoyable character imo; I thought it was kinda amusing how cocky and angry she gets, but not when it's directed to Kieran. Frankly I don't blame him at all for snapping even if I think its dumb that the game is hinting he's going into a villain arc in Part 2. I do agree that the game basically sets you up to feel bad for doing basically anything because of these two characters. You can't help Kieran with his crippling self esteem issues and you also can't tell Carmine to knock it off.

7:12 Relating to the limited pool, a notable part of Kitakami's dex is basegame 'mons.

Gonna wait until the second and see if that's worth it. If so will do both DLC at the same time.

There are a few NPC battles that can be tricky that are above level 60 (the kitakami clan)

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

Not if you've got a team of level 100s.

The DLC battles are actually good/challenging if you use a new team from the DLC mons. The ones you can catch in the DLC are at a good enough level to use in the story battles.

@Ergeniz

10 ай бұрын

This is stupid. People want to be able to use their teams from the base game. You're basically excusing the dev's laziness by saying, "Well no-one is forcing you to use your high-leveled team. Just nerf yourself".

Dear god I need some fan art of ogrepon hanging with mudbray RIGHT NOW

Arlo: i love battling Arlo: i love jhoto Arlo: this dlc let me down with battling. Also arlo: refused to catch new pokemon and use them and used an over leveled team then complains about the game being easy. When i started the dlc i caught a poochyena and named it after my dog who passed recently and i got curb stomped by the first few battles not expecting them and def didnt expect the difficulty of them. Arlo basically made the dlc lack fun for himself simple as that. Also arlo somehow having bad media literacy with the siblings ig

I really liked the DLC! The slight lore the trio has and Ogerpon's backstory is really neat, Ogerpon herself being really cute. I wasn't such a fan of Carmine at first (same reason as you) and actually related to Kieran (I'm the younger brother) But I feel like Carmine'$ attirude was wrapped up nicely by the end. And I think something is going on with Kieran, will probably be followed up in part 2! Excited.

love your videos arlo.

The three other “legendaries” don’t feel like legendaries to me, they just feel like normal pokemon who are related because of the toxic chain thing