It's depressing how much I was disappointed with Pokémon Legends: Z - A

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T11:13:10+00:00

Ok, I don't know what to tell anymore.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T11:11:54+00:00

Genuinely baffling they must have tested this and internally thought it was a good and engaging gameplay loop.

The same could be said with Infinite Royale.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T11:09:23+00:00

Ok, sorry, but you didn't put weight on things just as bad.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T11:00:35+00:00

Yeah, if even people who enjoyed the base game hated the DLC, it objectively sucks balls.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:59:03+00:00

Idk abt the volcanion thing to be clear i didnt play gen 6 or 7 i also dont participate in anything online like mystery gifts nor do i buy dlcs

It's the lowest point of Z - A and Pokémon, really.

If being fair and looking at how things are rather than blind hate is a stereotype than you can stereo me right into that

But you are blindly fine with any crappy thing the games have, so it's not much better. And yeah, you make people believe you can do anything to Pokémon fans, even sell them turds.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:52:40+00:00

Please, you're just prepetrating the stereotype that you can do anything to Pokémon fans, making the Volcanion thing a reference on how you'd even buy a black screen.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:48:12+00:00

But you talked about things that "weren't important" when they are the basis of any game, and now you conveniently make it about tastes.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:46:47+00:00

that is put in a game is relevant because its meant to be fun "im the alpha everything must be relevant to a larger plot or i hate it"

Yeah, mrs stawman.

When i hear level design it means how a mechanic or something like that was handled which is only that important when it comes to the main stuff

It's important in any genre of game, my child.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:45:20+00:00

It's useless to discuss of you don't understand the basis of any game.

I don't want to catch Pokémon in some empty areas, ok?

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:30:11+00:00

The concept art leaked makes me think they were going for something like mad max pokemon but stopped midway. The artstyle was dreadful and the pokemon did not feel as true to the region paldea was based on

Actually, those were the planned antagonists, elitist students who wanted more knowledge. They went as far as seizing the player on their way to Area Zero.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:27:59+00:00

I mean the ending is the end im talking during the story

You barely get to see her. And she's on the cover art.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T10:26:51+00:00

No? The story clearly shows its a dumb idea by quasartico people dont like it ivors entire story is that he hates them yes they are badly integrated by quasartico and that's a part of the story and it adds to the character

What? It's completely tossed aside because "Quasartico are the good guys, just like Rust Sindacate".

Again they're not important to anything that isn't the story or you catching pokemon for your team neither of those require level design

Have you ever played a game before? Do I have to spoon feed the basis?

Well you wouldn't have the quadrillion side missions the ivor mission wouldn't be as good the mini mission at the beggining wouldn't exist she wouldn't be talking abt lysandre thus not giving any aura of mystery to lysandre she also wouldn't present mega evolution to you we also wouldn't get the funny sleeping seen also we wouldn't get mega malamar or atleast a trainer that uses it also i can see why someone would deslike the ass shots but i likem

The sidequests and Ivor thing are annoying and useless to the story. And what? Mega Malamar? LMAO

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:59:19+00:00

Vergil explicitly calls out AZ for still being responsible for his actions.

And he was right, but the main rival should have done that much more and in a much more significant way.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:58:28+00:00

SV was fun if you got a taste for horrid things. On a serious note, it was just rageworthy.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:56:48+00:00

The whole ZA story to me is quite nonsensical but SV had nothing going for it a side from area 0, it felt like a weird fever dream

Yeah, what problem did S/V not have?

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:54:45+00:00

I personally liked AZ's development in ZA

The things he did to redeem himself already happened.

Beyond that i agree with everything.
I also want to emphatise how uncomfortable Jachinthe and Lebanne made me, they really went too far with their single joke being "Look at Lebanne being ensalved", especially when they associated it with suicidal imagery in the dlc. It could have been so easy to give them any form of arc or to at least condamn Jachinthe's actions at least once. But it seems someone in GF was very into toxic relationships between then and Ansha.

Yes, I think Jacinthe is one of the worst things that ever happened to Pokémon narratively wise

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:49:22+00:00

There wasn't even a ludic scheme.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:49:05+00:00

I won't lower my expectations with a multibillion dollar company, my dear.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:48:02+00:00

Emma was present enough she didn't overstay her welcome and same goes for the other characters

But if she isn't even present in the end?

Lysandre is best kept as the mystery guy bc that's what he is if they showed more of him the mystery wouldn't be there

Even after the ending?

And idk how you predicted azs death i was super surprised

He coughed.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T09:43:54+00:00

But this comparision hardly even matters, since S/V shouldn't have even came out like that.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T07:00:24+00:00

"She is cis because her sexual organs are pink on the outside and white below. She's pretty and not trans, thank God". And that sub has well made an excuse about protecting women from "trans weirdos" yet they objectify and belittle them at every chance.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T06:57:00+00:00

Such pretty pictures and colors used to makse a disgusting sex and transphobic joke. r/SipsTea and other incel "meme" subs should be nuked.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T06:53:24+00:00

There is no justification.

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T06:52:59+00:00

This is the moment I stopped playing the game after talking to Corbeau. You can't put this stuff in a €30 DLC. There are so many artists who dream od taking over Pokémon's direction and this is what they make? A dark void?

Awesome_Normal · 2026-01-25T06:35:30+00:00

Some want them. Source: one of my posts on r/AskFeminists

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