Community Review: Gotta Catch ‘Em All (For Research Purposes)

7 responses to “Community Review: Gotta Catch ‘Em All (For Research Purposes)”

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   miketarno

   February 1, 2022 at 5:57 pm

   I don’t always agree with IGN’s reviews, but this time I found they were spot on. After about 5 hours, I had to return the game.

   It wasn’t worth the limited time we get on this planet with its uninspiring story, empty world and inane quests.

   And people can try to justify it all they want, but the game looks bad, especially compared to many other titles on the platform. For a company with so much money behind it, they could do much, much better.

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      ruddaga

      February 1, 2022 at 7:11 pm

      Yeah I bought a copy and I am struggling lol It’s just boring.

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   louie

   February 1, 2022 at 11:09 pm

   Man, I don’t know how people complaining about the game are calling it boring. There’s so many Pokemon in out of the way areas that are interesting to find regardless of the quest system, along with Alphas, Shinies and the other Pokemon running around. If you’re actually aiming to complete the Pokedex, the game doesn’t hold your hand at all in what you have to do beyond quests nudging you to use certain features or find some of the more out of the way Pokemon. Maybe they miss the rampant handholding of previous games where all it did was funnel you into a straight line while you curbstomped your way to the Elite Four. But different strokes for different folks.

   The graphics are much the same as BotW, to be blunt, so how people like that game but rag on this one when it’s got 250+ more character models, AI and more to include over other open world games in mind boggling. The game is called “Pokemon” and ultimately they focus on the Pokemon. BotW might’ve been about the landscape, but this game’s landscape is more about being in the right place at the right time looking for the right Pokemon, not admiring views (unless the view is of your imminent death). Sure, they could’ve added more shaders and textures, but that’s it. The graphical quality isn’t that different from other cel shaded games and certainly isn’t bad enough performance wise (apart from environment pop in) for me to really care.

   Overall, I’m fairly happy with what’s there gameplay loop wise, but I really wish the control scheme was better or allowed remapping.

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   1. 

      scarecrow88

      February 2, 2022 at 10:39 am

      This comment brought to you by Nintendo/Gamefreak cucked fan #201.

      Imagine claiming the graphics are “much the same as BotW”. HAAAAHAHAHAHA

      What AI champ? The NPCs stand completely still, they have no AI. The pokemon have 3 “modes” of AI and just walk around in vast empty fields.

      BotW had a full weather system.

      Sometimes it really does baffle me how fucking cucked some fans are. What a doozy of a comment.

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      1. 

         louie

         February 2, 2022 at 11:47 am

         No, brought to you by “I’m an artist and know just how little difference there is between BotW cel shading, this game’s cel shading and every other type of cel shading”. I know people are blinder than a bat and have the less knowledge of these things than my potato masher, but the fact that people have been jumping up and down so hard over it has been a sign of mass hysteria rather than anything founded on logic. So if you want to have a cry, let me help you out.

         This is BotW’s “awesome” graphics : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5aIvr9hcD0

         This is Pokemon’s “bad” graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChoYs8P99WA

         You know what actually separates them? *Lighting.* That’s it. The textures are equally crap and the actual modelling is of equivalent quality. You’re sitting here, crying into your cornflakes because you don’t understand how *lighting* works. And you know what? It’s an easy enough thing to fix, but Pokemon isn’t BotW and has a few hundred more characters and enemies to model than BotW which has equally sucktastic graphics at its core. I can forgive them not spending time on lighting when they’ve reimplemented 250+ Pokemon models + animations, objectively more work than BotW developers had to do. While it would’ve been nice to have more lighting, I also don’t know how realistic it would be to expect with COVID smashing development schedules across all of Nintendo as well to the point where they’ve stopped announcing games ahead of time.

         As for the NPCs, since you seem to be hard of basic reading comprehension, the Pokemon you encounter to catch are *ALSO* Non-Player Characters. I know it’s right there in the name and it must come as a shock to you, but they do have a far wider range of behaviour’s than BotW’s *sixteen* enemy types and do far more than walk around. But that’d require you to actually play the game and not come off as an ignorant mouth breather with no ability to understand basic game design.

         BotW’s has a weather system, but the only thing that mattered was rain and all rain did was waste your time climbing up rocks. The weather didn’t do anything else of worth. You want to give it a gold medal for 16 enemy types and rain? You do you man, but I’m pretty sure Morrowind had more than that back in 2002.

         While you’re sobbing about minor graphical differences, what I can’t forgive is their brainless control scheme which is only marginally better than BotW, the lack of shared storage when completing in game quests (why isn’t my storage combined when in town so I can craft from my menu?), the needless cost of item expansions, the price of XP candy and a whole host of other design things that could’ve been done better with more time and attention. Not that you mentioned any of these problems, because it requires more critical engagement with media than anything you’ve displayed.

         What baffles me is how brainless people like you are, so full of confidence and so lacking in elementary knowledge, but the Dunning-Kruger effect as a term of summary wouldn’t exist without people like you, so thank you for remaining the gold standard. If it ever gets through moderation, because it doesn’t like links.

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         1. 

            m2d2

            February 2, 2022 at 2:00 pm

            Louie, i know we have had a few disagreements over time, but…
            When someone uses ‘cucked’ when you defend a video game.
            This long of a response is not needed. No matter what you say they wont take in a single word, your summation of brainless is correct.

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            1. 

               louie

               February 2, 2022 at 2:10 pm

               Oh don’t worry, I know, this post really isn’t for him. I was going to put these links, comparisons and complaints in my first post with a more friendly analysis, but I didn’t want to deal with the auto moderation for adding links (since it’s inconsistent in what it doesn’t like). Hopefully other people can appreciate why the graphics complaints are so low tier after looking at direct comparisons and reserve their scathing criticisms for more deserving parts of the game.