 I have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement. Okay, no, I do- I do want to be serious about this. Uh, first up, I want to say, I'm- I am so stupidly tired. If it wasn't for the fact that making this video right now and getting it up ASAP is important to me, I would not be- I would be either- I would be in bed- Ironically playing Pokémon, because I haven't got to play in the last couple of days, and I'm really craving playing some more. Because what a surprise, it's a game that I really like. I've been really enjoying. And that is the point of this video. Welcome back to my Pokémon review, version two. Wow, two in one day, aren't y'all lucky? Uh, I feel like I severely miscommunicated my Pokémon video. That's not to say that the things I said were incorrect or lies or fibs. Everything I said in that video were my honest opinions. Just my opinions. But it's how I honestly feel about the game critically. However, I- I- I screwed a couple things up and it's totally my bad. And I- I just don't feel right not following it up and- and clarifying a few things. To start with, the entire video ended up having an extremely negative tone. And that was for a few different reasons, and I didn't intend it to be that way. My first mistake was talking about the things I liked about the game at the end. I did try to- every time I brought up a bad point throughout the first, like, 80% of the video, I tried to counterbalance it with something I liked about that thing. Like, you know, trying to be critical. Like, I mentioned how the wild area doesn't look that great. I actually cut out a lot of stuff. I talked about how the frame rates weren't that great either. Like, I had issues with the wild area, but as a whole, I really loved it. You know, I- I tried to talk about how the animations for the Pokémon weren't that great and I really wasn't happy with them. But the Pokémon themselves, I really love the new Pokémon. I feel like they have really nice designs, and I found a lot of Pokémon that I really liked this generation. I tried to counterbalance everything, but overall, it definitely had a negative tone for the first over half of the video. And that's just dumb. It was just dumb of me to leave my final thoughts of, I actually like and I'm enjoying this game till right at the end with my favorite things right at the end, because as I know as a content creator, the average view duration for most videos is like half of the video's length. So if I'm making a 16 minute video, the average watch time is only going to be like eight minutes, which means most people aren't going to get to the second half. So most people are only going to see me be negative. And that was just really dumb on my part and my bad. But the reason why I went in so hard on this game and like kind of had a no holds barred attitude about it was because just the people I have surrounded myself with that are playing the game as well, everyone seems to have been sharing similar opinions as me. And then all out in the internet, I've just been seeing all this negativity about the game and how Game Freak lied and the issues people are having and it all seemed to correlate with how I felt. And I kind of just got the feeling that everyone was on this page of the game has issues, but it's Pokemon, so it's still fun. And that's the video I tried to make. And I felt way more comfortable than I usually would being a lot more critical about it. And a lot of people did get upset. The dislikes were rolling in pretty quick and that usually doesn't happen on my videos the last time that obviously happened was Xenoblade. And I wasn't really ready to have another Xenoblade experience right now, especially not with Pokemon because unlike Xenoblade, which I will always be very unapologetic for, I am really enjoying Pokemon. And I feel like my actual thoughts and feelings got skewed on the game and you guys left the video thinking I felt a certain way about a game that I didn't. And I think the title didn't help either. I think the title just got the video off on the wrong foot. I thought it was a really fun, quirky title. I like putting puns in my titles. And I actually don't really feel like Game Freak dropped the ball, not as a whole. I feel like they dropped the ball on a lot of elements. I think Game Freak doesn't really know how to innovate in their games. So while I do feel like there was areas they dropped the ball in as a whole, I don't think the game gets a complete mess on player ball and they dropped the ball. I was just sat there trying to think of, how am I going to make a title for this video? Because I don't want it to be a super negative title. I don't want to imply that I don't like the game. What's kind of whimsical? And I went with Game Freak really dropped the poker ball. I thought that was funny and quirky, but I can see from the outside looking in it immediately looks like, oh, this game is trash. And then when I start actually trashing on the game, it just all comes across very negative. And again, that was my bad. I marketed that video very poorly. I tried to balance that line between, do I like it or do I hate it? And then you watch the video and you find out it's kind of both in a way. But I don't think I did a good job on that at all. I think it just more looks like I don't like the game, especially if you don't make it to the last 30 seconds of the video where I actually say the words, I like the game. I don't know what I was thinking. And don't get me wrong, I'm not apologizing for anything because I'm not apologizing for my opinions on a video game. I'm not apologizing for my opinions. I'm apologizing for the way I presented those opinions because it wasn't, it didn't end up being a great video. Weirdly, I mean, as I said, I wanted to make this just to clarify that, but it's weird because the dislikes are obviously so high for a video like mine. And that's completely fine. If you don't agree and you dislike the video, that's what the button is there for. But I was worried that maybe it was getting disliked because of miscommunication, which is something I would rather clear up. But weirdly, the comment section was fine. It was like overwhelmingly positive with the highest comments being liked, being ones that either agreed with my points entirely or saying that they don't agree, but they appreciate my opinion. And I am by no means asking anyone to get rid of those dislikes. It's not my best video. If you don't agree with what I said, go ahead and dislike it. You know, whatever, we all make mistakes. We all move on. So now that I got all that out the way, I wanted to spend the rest of this video actually better fleshing out the things I like about the game. I cannot stress enough how much I like this wild area. Like this wild area in itself is almost everything I have been asking from a Pokemon game for years. It is a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. I love that. Apparently I am an idiot as well, by the way. And the reason why it was night when I walked into the wild area the first time was because it was night in real life. It actually syncs up with the time zone that you're in. That's awesome. And I didn't even know that. I already did love just the weather effects, the fact that it rains, it snows, and then different Pokemon will pop up depending on what's happening. I really quickly mentioned that they did both random encounters and seeing Pokemon in the wild. And I actually cut out in my editing me talking about the fact that I, as much as I don't like random encounters, I do like the way they're implemented in this game. It comes up with a little exclamation mark and you can choose whether or not you want to walk into the random encounters. And as much as I was leaning towards having these Pokemon walk around like they are, and I prefer that and love that, I love this way of doing the random encounters because I can still avoid them, but I know where they are. And I think, and I mean, someone can clarify this down below, but it almost seems like there's a higher chance of finding something you don't already have in those random encounters because every time I walk into one, it's always some Pokemon I haven't seen before, which makes actually seeking out these random encounters more exciting. And I know it doesn't have the entire Pokedex, again, that doesn't bother me in the freaking slightest because that's like 400 Pokemon and I mentioned earlier today, there's so many Pokemon that I missed out on the last couple generations that I haven't seen before that these like 400 Pokemon there are, most of them I swear I haven't seen before. So for me, it feels like there's way more than just the new 80 in this game. It feels like there's just hundreds of new Pokemon I haven't seen before and it feels like a brand new Pokemon adventure for me and I love that. Another thing I cut out of the last video, I like, I know they've been doing it for a while now but I like that every Pokemon levels up at once because it kind of sucks when you get a Pokemon that you want to like eventually because you know what evolves into something but you really don't want to go through the rigmarole of having a user at a low level. When you are hatching egg and it's like level five or whatever it is, I've been hatching Eevees and I love, I'm so glad Eevee's in the game. I've been using the daycare to put my Eevee in so that I keep getting new eggs for new Eevees so I can get all the evolutions because if you don't know, Eevee's my favorite Pokemon and I love hatching one of those, putting it in my party and then finding a high level Pokemon like out in the wild or doing a gym battle or something and every time you beat one thing, that Pokemon goes up like 10 levels. As much as I already expressed that I don't like the linear progression in these games and it almost feels like there's less branching paths and choices as far as how you get to the next area it just seems very like this is the road you have to walk on and I'm not, I'm not trying to complain again but as much as I don't like that, I do love the towns. As I said, all the new places they have made have been rebuilt from scratch and they look beautiful. Every time I hit a new town or a new city and I know I already talked about the one in the woods but that one is so vibrant and the lighting, the little mushrooms that glow and that has almost solely been the thing that's been pushing me along this linear part of the adventure. Like I'm serious when I say I've spent half of my gameplay in the wild area and the only reason I end up leaving the wild areas is because I get to the point where I'm like, you know, I really do want to see that next town and then I go and I find the next town. I didn't talk about the Pokey camps because I kind of don't like them all that much. I think waving a little one to Pokemon is kind of like beyond me in years but I do like that in the Pokemon camps, the random people's camps that you find, there'll be other Pokemon around, not your Pokemon and I only found out today actually that some of those Pokemon, if you play with them and you know, talk to them, communicate with them, there's a chance that they'll actually like you enough to want to join your team and you can catch Pokemon that way. That's a really interesting aspect and something that I could see getting fleshed out some more. Interacting with Pokemon in a unique way that builds a stronger connection between the two of you especially when they just willingly want to join you. I think ultimately my issue was I do love and adore Pokemon so much that I wanted maybe too much at once and clearly they are trying to walk a fine line between what some people want and then what other people want to the point where it's such a controversial topic to even talk about. The fans seem so split down the middle with what they want and I guess Game Freak had a choice to make between which direction they go in and they tried to just make everyone happy. So a lot of my complaints I think stem from that which I can't fault them for but again my main overarching point was a lot of the things that they did do that were perfectly, I was perfectly fine with it being that way still felt rushed and they didn't care for those elements enough to actually finish them and polish them up. End of the day collecting little adorable monsters however they're animated whatever they're doing is fun on its own right. That's why collecting Pokemon cards still images of these Pokemon that we love so much is just as addicting. Either way I did not market and present my video the way I should have. I hope that this video has done more good than bad to explain all of that and I didn't just make things so much worse for myself but again I'm okay with people knowing that I don't like Xenoblade. I have my reasons for that agree with them or not. I wasn't okay with people thinking that I don't like these new Pokemon games but in all seriousness man Game Freak really screwed the pooch on this one.