Ludwig Horsecock

Black Flag was over a decade ago, had better facial animations, better combat, better weather systems, and they actually bothered to motion capture actors playing out cutscenes. So many steps backwards from the game that inspired it, it’s unrecognizable. You’d have to be high on a mountain of copium to call this a “Quadruple A game”, and this company should have shut this down rather than sink over a 100 million in dev money, it floors me that a game where you button press cutting down trees and can’t even leave the ship to go on islands cost anywhere near that amount to make

They tried something different but it could have been better. Main complaint is that there is only 1 town in the entire region. Don’t get me wrong, the game is still fantastic. This is definitely a step in the right direction by GameFreak and I hope they can make another game just like this one but only bigger. Keep the quality as good or a little better and add more quantity and I think we would have a stronger 5 star candidate here that I would be willing to pay AAA price tag for. I give it 85-90% because it looks like they actually tried with this one. Im honestly hoping for another pokemon legends game but for Mew or one of the other big region legendaries and just make it about twice as big as this one.

Lacks ambition. I think games like Genshin Impact and other games have spoiled me on what current gen gameplay is supposed to look like. Elements, reactions, bosses with tons of attacks and unique methods needed to take them down, and great soundtracks. In this game, bosses are hp sponges which effectively makes playing a barbarian the most boring experience ever. All the bosses feel the same and have like 3 different attacks which is just so dull. The music and especially the music in boss fights feel like generic medieval chorus and instrumentals, not catchy, not great, but it works for what it is I guess. They clearly did not have a creative vision beyond putting a new coat of paint on Diablo III or they would have changed something to make it stand out from the previous games which were great for their time, but with all the great games that have been releasing since then, they really do not stand the test of time, so using them as a template was not a good idea. Overall, this game just isn't good bc it tried to be something that didn't age well rather than at the very least make changes to keep up with what ftp games have to offer much less try to go above and beyond them considering it costs 70 bucks.

$60 + $30 for the worst Switch graphics of any non-indie game, compressed 3DS Pokemon cries, Team Yell is the worst team ever, no exploration, Hao 2.0 (like 0 originality for this character), underwhelming postgame, terrible story, exp candy overlevel exploits before postgame, and 0 replay value. Music is unremarkable and forgettable in addition to sounding like compressed 3DS music. They couldn't even be bothered to make the music sound good. The wild encounter music sounds tinny and just awful and the crowd chanting during the gym battles sounds bad and ruined what was originally a pretty dope sounding battle theme. And why does all the music *have* to be 100% computer generated. It's a console game and you're the largest franchise in history, and you couldn't have a live instrumental performance or orchestra play the music?! And you instead went with compressed 3DS quality music and sounds when the Switch is capable of more?! Listen to Mario Odyssey's soundtrack if you wanna hear what the Switch's speakers are capable of playing. This game fails on just about every level and GameFreak should be ashamed. What a hot mess! The lack of effort, funds used, and love for the craft is written all over this cash-grab and it's so sad to see. I expected better for the first ever GameFreak made Pokemon game for the home console. Trainer Card customization was pretty dope though.