A few hours into the game so far -- it is very fun gameplay wise. Going in and out of battling/catching is super fluid which is a nice change. Definitely some stuff that needs to be brought into future games.

The graphics could and should be better than what they are, but the game gets me excited for the next Pokemon Legends game (hopefully on new switch hardware)

i really wanna be optimistic about GameFreak doing new things with the franchise but the fact that it is different gameplay feels like the only talking point i have seen from the general public over how good that gameplay is in actuality.

Ultimately GameFreak itself has proven to be very technologically inept and all the best games of the Pokemon franchise where made by other devolpment studios and thats just kinda sad.

Been playing it since the 19th on my modded switch. It's been really fun so far. My first pokemon game since Pokemon Red since the other ones I got bored of in the first 3 hours.. This one I think i'm around 15 or so into and it's been a blast! GameFreak needs to lean into actual change in their games imo, keep the franchise core things, (catching, battling, exploring.) but change up the actual inbetween gameplay and keep things fresh.

Big agree about the music. I was just chilling cleaning my room while listening to the towns theme music. Very good stuff.

its still very ultimately a pokemon game and the gameplay feels very familiar, but how you interact with the world and fill out your pokedex is nice and you can do a lot without feeling tedious. it could use some tweaks though. the box system is basically unchanged and that makes things really messy when you need to catch 25 magikarps to fill out part of its pokedex entry. a way to stack them would be nice

oh yeah also the lore stuff is fuckin weird. theres a lot of stuff that they tried to justify considering that youre however far in the past, and they would have been better off just not acknowledging it at all

https://fitgirl-repacks.site/pokemon-legends-arceus/

If anyone's looking to try it before they "buy it"

I've lost all confidence in GameFreak to make a good innovative Pokemon game. Imagine if an actual good dev studio under Nintendo made this game. I don't care if it takes 2, 3 or 4 years I just want something that makes me think "damn this is the best Pokemon game ever" which I haven't felt for years now.
It'd be more excusable if this was the first game that had bad graphics, but Sword/Shield also suffered from the same mistakes. Just shows GF don't learn or care about their mistakes and just want to pump out sequels and get their mindless fanbase to consume product

im stupid but how do i actually use this do i need another emulator program or whatever

You run it through an emulator called ryujinx. Fitgirl does good stuff, and usually their switch repacks have the emulator in the folder as well. Once you install it you should be configured and ready to go. Usually they have a shortcut that opens the game through the emulator for you. At most you'll need to find a prod.keys file and put it in a specific location but it's not rocket science

That torrent comes with the emulator, once it's installed there's a .bat file that you run to launch the emulator with the game loaded into it

well yea, its a game for children, can you blame the company for taking the easy route in this.

games dope. anyone writing essays about this shit is a dork. lol.

bill don’t be horny for the virtual women in the kids game

Anyone got any shinies so far, excluding the request Ponyta? This is probably one of the most generous mainline games with shiny spawn rates, especially when you complete more of the dex throughout the game. Just from wandering alone, I've gotten a Drifblim, Haunter, and alpha Gardevoir. When I actually did an outbreak shiny hunt to see how high the rate was, got a shiny Bidoof on my first try.

thought about that too after i found my first but it makes alot of sense to find more shinies in this, you can see shinies in the overworld and also see like 6 pokemon at all times, so even with the same odds as usual you are getting to roll the dice alot more/faster than in any previous game
in my case, the game just spawned a Luxray in my face during a rift, if it was say Emerald and i could avoid that encounter i would have and never seen that it was a shiny in the first place

Apparently if you max everything, are in end game and have a mass outbreak the shiny rate is something like 1/50. Absolutely absurd and not sure if I actually like it being that easy...

This being said, I have seen data that basically says as the game progresses, the shiny rate is still 1/4096 per roll, but every pokemon that spawns gets more and more rolls to be shiny depending on what milestones you've hit, i believe maxing out at 32 rolls per pokemon, roughly 1 in 128 in an outbreak with perfect pokedex research and the shiny charm. So yeah, you see a LOT more pokemon in the overworld, but the chance of each one being a shiny is still higher than in base games by a large margin, hence why they're super common.

i got a shiny croagunk in my first mass outbreak and have not found another since

I want the switch experience and play on the go, but I can't afford the game rn
Deciding whether I should emulate this or not

Would probably emulate it on principle because Nintendo has been shitting the bed for a while now but you do you rahBoss