 Hey everyone, so today we get to talk about a brand new Pokemon Presents that's happening next week. And if that's all you need to know, then you already got the news from the headlines, so why the hell are you watching this video? Let's talk about what we can actually expect to see at this Direct. What I hope to see, I guess a Direct is calling it weird. It's like a Pokemon Direct, but Pokemon Presents. And before we get into that, I got to remind you we are giving away a Switch OLED system. If you would like to win a Switch OLED system, it's very simple to enter. Just subscribe. Seriously. It's that easy. Just subscribe to the channel. We'll announce the winner in a live stream in early October. Alright folks, so I'm just glancing at the tweet from this coming from the official Pokemon account in North America. And it says, Attention Trainers! Tune in to our YouTube channel on Wednesday, August 18th at 6 AM. Very early Pacific time for a Pokemon Presents video presentation featuring Hashtag Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Hashtag Pokemon Shining Pearl, and Hashtag Pokemon Legends Arceus Folks. Oh boy, it's time. We just had J.C. Smith earlier this week in an interview who is one of the PR directors essentially at the Pokemon company. Tell us that we were going to hear about Pokemon Legends Arceus soon and then here we are less than like two days later and we now know we're getting to hear about it next week along with obviously Pokemon Shining, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl. So that's the news. If that's all you care about, see you. Have a good day. Catch you in the next video. If you care about why thoughts on this, let's dive a little bit deeper. So Pokemon Shining Pearl and Brilliant Diamond, let's start there because those games come out later this year. I think either November 18th or 19th, sorry I don't remember the exact date of the time I have, but it's one of those two days I'm pretty sure of. Those games obviously had a bit of a tepid reception from Pokemon fans and the reasons were obvious. If you look at all the prior Pokemon remaster remakes, there's been significantly more work done. Traditionally what happens like Leaf Green or something like that is that whatever the current generation of Pokemon games are, the new games are basically remade in that generation's art style and in that generation's engine. And then obviously they add in the new features oftentimes that are in that generation. So as an example, people would expect a Gen 4 remake like this to be remade or remastered in the style of Pokemon Sword and Shield. They don't necessarily add any open world hub aspect to it because they don't fundamentally change the game, but they would add things in like Gigantamaxing and stuff like that. There would be an extra feature in the game like that. I wouldn't necessarily add all the features, but they would have some of them and that's just one off the top of my head. There's many in Sword and Shield they could have picked and chose from. But that's not what happened and it didn't happen because it turns out that Pokemon Shining Pearl and Brilliant Diamond or Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are actually going to be made by an outside studio. This is the very first time a mainline core Pokemon game, new or otherwise, has been handled by an outside company, aka Not Game Freak, the primary studio behind Pokemon. And it was really weird because I think we saw that first before we saw anything else when they were showing off this stuff I think back in like April or March and it was really confusing because it's like really we're getting this chibi style which by the way fits with the original games, but also doesn't really feel, it feels almost like a fresh coat of paint more so than actually remaking or remastering the game like people have been wanting these Gen 4 remakes for a long time and they weren't necessarily happy with this because they were like hey look it's going to be Pokemon Sword and Shield style and that's not it. But we found out why and that's because they later announced this game folks. This is Pokemon Legends Arceus and Pokemon Legends Arceus is a promising game. It is an ambitious game and it's one the Pokemon company is spending more time developing than maybe any prior Pokemon game. It is open world or open air or however they want to you know advertise it as because that's what the rest of the while was open air not open world. Same difference you just don't want to use common terminology but it's it's an open world Pokemon game we know a few base premises behind it but otherwise we haven't really heard about this game since outside of the fact that it's landing on January 28th 2021 and someone's gonna be like you know that date but not the shining the brilliant diamond shining pearl yeah you could tell which game I'm more excited for right because that's this is the game that has the chance to really reinvigorate my love of Pokemon because I fell out of love with Pokemon quite a while ago and while I've dabbled here and there like let's go Pikachu let's go Evie I thought we're pretty good but I you know you can call me a gen one or if you want in the end I haven't really fallen back in love with Pokemon but this is sort of the kind of game an open world Pokemon game that I've wanted since I was a child and we talked recently Eric and I on the Nintendo Prime podcast about our hopes and dreams so I'll put a link down to that podcast and maybe with a time stamp taking you directly to the exact point where we started talking about our hopes for Pokemon legends Arceus but the biggest thing that I really want to see is I want to see the frame rate cleaned up I know that's you know a minor thing and having a smooth framerate does not make it a great game but one thing that was very obvious in that reveal footage is the game felt a little bit choppy you know again it's like pre-alpha not even beta obviously it's going to be smoother than that at launch or at least that's what we should think because it's weird to see a game shown off from a Nintendo owned IP they own the rights of Pokemon to see a game shown off that looks like that at reveal it's very rare to see that Nintendo games always show their best foot forward as do most game reveals right whether it's a cinematic trailer or actual gameplay they try to put their best foot forward and that was their best foot forward which was copied in Breath of the Wilds reveal trailer in many aspects and then well having the frame rate tip a lot now that's not saying they haven't cleaned it up since then they very well could have and that footage could have been from months prior rather than more recent at the time so the game might have already been in a better state by that point and what worries me maybe the most about Pokemon Legends Arceus is not only the ambition of the game but that it was developed large part during a pandemic and I'm not sure you know Game Freak has like this reputation where they make quality games right I'm not gonna sit here and say Pokemon games aren't quality Pokemon Sword and Shield is a quality video game I wouldn't say it's necessarily all the ambitions that we hoped they would have went for and I'm not going to say the texture details always the best for their first HD home console style Pokemon game things could have been better but at the end of the day it's still a quality experience Game Freak also tends to lean a lot on sameness and repeating things and a lot of this isn't even their fault they are really not as large of a studio as they should be for one of the biggest IPs in video game history I think they're just 150 developers maybe they've grown a little bit since then but that's not that many developers considering there they have multiple Pokemon projects going at once and this is definitely a triple a worthy IP this stuff is you know there's very few games on the level of Pokemon very few I mean you could talk about maybe Mario Kart is up there you know probably things like you know obviously Grand Theft Auto you would play as probably past Pokemon although Pokemon might get the same amount of sales just with multiple releases versus like GTA 5 getting like 80 100 million sales that's over the course of like seven eight years so you know there's a pattern there where obviously they can continue to sell one game for a very long time like a Minecraft style game versus Pokemon that would sell like 15 20 million a pop every single release or at least 10 million is usually like the low ball number for a core main line game even let's go pictures maybe I think so like 12 or 13 million so yeah I'm pretty excited about the game but I'm also cautiously cautiously optimistic because it's what I want but it's also do I trust Game Freak to do it right there were enough red flags and sort of shield to be like maybe not but also maybe yes because maybe those red flags existed because honestly they were more focused on legends Arceus so what I have heard through the grapevine is that Pokemon legends Arceus has actually been in development since before Sword and Shield came out now obviously the team would have been smaller than maybe only 20 or 30 people but I have a sneaking understanding that this game has had at least three to three and a half years of development and it'll almost be four years by the time it actually comes out which is a crazy long time for Pokemon because they usually stick to a very strict release schedule the thing is though legends Arceus kind of fits outside of that normal schedule right like I think the reason they wanted to come out in January and they wanted to release in January 28th is because they want a majority of the team working on it to move on to the next Pokemon game whatever is coming out next year I mean I mean God you talk about legends Arceus in January there could be another let's go game coming out at the end of 2022 for all we know so they want to get that team quickly moving on so that's why it's such a early in the year first month of a month release and they didn't want to stack it I mean maybe they thought they could get it out this holiday but they didn't want to stack it on top of brilliant diamond and shining pearl because it would have probably overshadowed it maybe I have no idea I think brilliant diamond and shiny pearls still has a chance to crack 10 million in sales but we'll have to wait and see on that from legend Arceus to me is where the hopes of the potential future of the Pokemon franchise lie and I think that's what's exciting what having a Pokemon direct next week Wednesday is that we are potentially going to see the future of Pokemon or what the future of Pokemon could be if they do this right if they bomb out it flames out it barely sells in comparison other Pokemon games you know like three four million yeah we're probably done with that concept and they're not going to come back to it because I have a feeling that this is gonna be the most expensive game they've ever made and it's not necessarily tied directly to the anime like a lot of other Pokemon games that's why they're on such a strict schedule because they have the animated series and the games running side-by-side and they're supposed to kind of co-support each other and that helps keep both of them relevant but yeah I do think that this is the potential future of Pokemon and if they do this right and I don't even know what right looks like I talked about on the podcast things like you know open-world action-oriented combat versus turn-based combat and some other concepts I had but those are just concepts off the top of my head I'm not saying that that's the way these games should go I don't know what way these games should go that's why we need to see what the Pokemon companies doing this is their baby this is gamefreaks baby and I'm going to hope and pray that they did it right and I guess we'll find out more on Wednesday I don't think we're gonna fully know if it's quote-unquote right until the game comes out but we could definitely see if it's gonna start living up to some of the initial promise of the mere idea of an open-world Pokemon game brings to our minds so again we find that out next week Wednesday at 6 a.m. Pacific or for me 8 a.m. Central Time and you know what you guys know I am going to be live streaming that event I am not missing it I know I kind of slept through and forgot to stream the indie world event so I do apologize for that but that will not happen this time any alarms will be set we'll be kicking off the stream probably an hour early getting our hopes and dreams and your guys's thoughts in and guys next week we also will have a second stream on that same day because we have our podcast and yes I am working on getting one maybe even two yes possibly two don't quote me yet on that but possibly two special guests on that our Pokemon experts because you guys know Eric and I aren't exactly experts when it comes to the Pokemon franchise but I know many other YouTube friends and all that are so I want to get them on so we have a more in-depth conversation on not just Arceus but also a brilliant diamond and shining pearl and then again any other games they might show Pokemon presents often have new game announcements you know whether it's like Detective Pikachu 2 or something like that so we'll stay tuned for that thank you guys so much for tuning in I am Nathaniel Robo dance from Nintendo Prime feels kind of nice to be talking about some Pokemon today I'll catch you guys in the next video