 Welcome to the Nintendo Prime Podcast episode, gosh, 98? Yes, it is. It should have been 98 like weeks ago. Yes, it should have. We should have had 100 by now. Yes, we should have. Oh, man. How's it going, everyone? It feels good to be back. I am your host, as always, Nathaniel Rumpeljantz, Mr. Prime. And who do I have over to my left, or your guys' right? It's Eric Moore. Eric Moore, as always. Again, we were going to have some people on this podcast, but it didn't work out. If you would like to be on an episode of the Nintendo Prime Podcast, be sure to check out our Patreon at patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime for $20 a month. You can be on one episode of the podcast per month. We have a bunch of $20 backers, not all of them take advantage of that, but there are some extra slots available right now that we just added this past week if you would like to get in on that. That being said, because this is the last podcast recorded in the month of February, even though it releases in March publicly, although this one is being streamed publicly, which is normally a $10 backer benefit. They get it every single Thursday. They get the livestream version of this. I am not feeling the greatest, so I apologize if some things happen here. They usually get a livestream version for $10 an up, but once per month we do livestream it publicly. It's kind of an advertisement for how this podcast is made possible. It is 100% supported through Patreon. Without Patreon, this podcast is not here. More than once a month. I know it feels like in February it was one time, but that's not normal. Anyways, let's pretend that that didn't happen. One thing we do have to get out of the way for the month of February is thanking all of our $5 and up Patreon backers. Eric, why don't you get to start with all the $5 backers? Alright, we're at the $5 backers. We've got Corey Spaulding, and I apologize if I definitely butcher some names here. Well, we've got Adam Kassilniak. Kassilniak? Kassilniak. That's what it looks like to me. That's probably not a bad pronunciation. We've got Nick Garcia, Josh Walker, Miranda Har, Nick S., Alex Boyer, Thomas Manner, John, James Fazl, T.T., Eric LeVette, Alexander Walford, Alex Leiborn, Chris Palmer, Shahram Ali. Alright, the $10 backers are Lord Platypus, Nice. Matthew Campos, Edward Norton, Zenith, Fulva Tuk, Mark Bahagiar, Joe Prosko, Nintendo, Roy Elmer, and Eric Wolf. And I guess I'll just throw Joshua Farrington in, because for some reason he's had an imaginary tier at $15. Wow. It doesn't actually exist, but thank you so much for the extra $5. Who's at our $20 tier? We've got Be Righteous, Two Homes, Mr. Neil Willis, Corey Boheim, Andrew 243, Nick Baturek, and we have a special $100 backer this month, Robert D, I think it's supposed to be, it's not Robert, it's Robert T. Smith, the fourth. I totally had a typo in that. I didn't even use that. I didn't either. Thank you guys so much for that support. Without it, this is not possible. Not just the podcast, but this channel, especially through this rough month of February. Again, we have another podcast for a few weeks. I apologize. We are back. Should be weekly from now on. Going to try to do a better job of planning, like if Eric can't be here. I've been kind of in talks with 5J on him kind of being a backup. You guys might know 5J because he used to live stream on weekends. He does not anymore. For those that want to know why, he just straight up told me that he was getting burned out. Between streaming on my channel, he also streams like Game Over Jesse's channel. And then his own live streams, it was too much for him. So he didn't mean to burn out. It just happened. But he still streams on his own channels. And I think he's just drawing himself back because he overextended himself. That being said, I'm going to bring this back just because it's been a little bit and we only have one planned topic. Yes, folks. You know we're talking about Pokemon. Come on. We're not going to talk about that generation 8 new game stuff. But before we get into that, Eric, what games have you been playing, if any, this entire month because it's been a while? I got a surprise one. You got a surprise one? I actually bought a new game. For Switch? Yeah. No. Yes. Okay. It isn't as up to... I do have some complaints about it. What is it? That would be ukulele. Oh, you bought ukulele? I did. Okay. It may just be Joy-Cons, but it feels like the control mechanisms, like the running, the... when you're spinning and that... The roll. The roll. It feels like there's... it's almost sometimes too responsive and it just... I'll be going and I just want to turn just a tiny bit, but I'm way over here. Yeah, you get used to it. No, that's not what I wanted. You get used to it. It is jarring. It wasn't as jarring to me at the time because there really wasn't any other... like Odyssey didn't exist or there wasn't other 3D platformers at the time on Switch, so it didn't really like get me at the time, but like after playing Odyssey and then going back to it, it's like... The controls don't feel quite as tight, but you'll get used to it. Now, it is admitted the easier with the Pro Controller because the sticks are longer, so you have more travel, so there's a little more finer on that. That's one... Just the joy-cons in general have less travel, so your little fine-tuned movements like that aren't as easy to do, but... Yeah, because it's like... I just move the stick barely, and I'm like... Go on that way, and it's like... No! I get frustrated. The parts that I get frustrated with is when all of a sudden you're trying to make these jumps and you do it well enough and all of a sudden you just fall and you're like... All of a sudden you're... 20 minutes back, and you're like... Why? Because that's the way it was in Mandrill-Kazooie. Then you remember you fall and you gotta redo the whole damn thing. But I don't... That's exactly what it was like in Mandrill-Kazooie. That's the thing. One of the big complaints people have about this game are it lacks all of the modern conveniences of gaming and is straight up an N64 game. Yeah. And so like we think back at, oh, we don't mind that in Mandrill-Kazooie, Mandrill-Tooie and Conker, blah blah blah. But we don't remember those parts. We just remember all the good stuff. We don't remember that you fall and you're frustrated and you have to redo the whole damn thing all over again. And you have to take 20 minutes to get back to where you were only for you to thumb slip on the stick again and do it all over again. And there's no save point that brings you back up there. That's exactly what those games were like and this is made by a lot of the same people that did those games and it's literally made the same way. The other thing that I don't like, I mean, it's a good game. I like it a lot. Well, I figured you would like it. I thought there would be some things that you would complain about because now the gaze of it being, it's not Mandrill-Kazooie where you're mentally going to be more forgiving of the things that might frustrate you because you know how awesome the next thing is going to be. This is a game you don't know how awesome the next thing is going to be. So it's like, it's got the play style. You're going to enjoy it, but things are going to frustrate you. Yeah. It doesn't quite feel as obvious what you're supposed to do next, either. Sure. Because Mandrill-Kazooie, they kind of, the levels, they kind of lead you in the kind of... They kind of give you a... You can go off the path. But it's not fully linear? It's kind of... Well, it's like Breath of the Wild in the sense like Breath of the Wild tells you where to go, but you don't have to go there. This game doesn't deliberately... Mandrill-Kazooie didn't deliberately tell you, but it kind of... It did like a camera trick whenever someone was talking to you, kind of showing you like, oh, you should go up here, but you don't have to go up there. You can go anywhere you want, but eventually you probably should go up there. And this game doesn't do as good of a job of that. How far are you in it? I'm in the second level. Okay. It's no level. Okay. Basically just kind of started that trying to find some of the other moves so I can get back into the first level and get some of the more of the pages. Yep. Did you get all the moves from the first level? Yeah. I've gotten all the moves in the first and second level. Okay. But another one of the bigger things is there's no actual save option. It's save and quit. And it's like, really, I just want to save. I don't actually want to quit. And this game actually does, in handheld mode, does take a little bit to load. I've noticed. And so, yeah, saving and quitting is kind of a pain in the ass. Sure. Yeah. I'm not a fan of it, of that aspect. Not the game. I enjoy the game. I actually, that's kind of my back out of the beat. Now that you're playing it again, maybe I'll pick it up again so I actually finish it off. And maybe it's again, because I, when I was playing it on the, I bought it, I think, I bought it at Chris's house. And I was playing it in his dock and it didn't seem as bad. So maybe it's more of a, I need to dock it for that. For the controls? No, just, yeah, I don't know if it was just the controls or if it was just, it felt better on the large screen. Sure. I don't know how to explain it. I hear you on that. There are some games on Switch that I feel like that where, yeah, it's playable and portable. It's okay. But I think for like ukulele, it's a collect-a-thon. So a big thing in a collect-a-thon is being able to see things. You got to see things. And you got to see far. And like you're trying to collect, I think they're quills? Yeah. Or whatever. They're small. And it's just easier to see when the screen is bigger, easier to see things going on in the background. And thus, I don't want to say it makes the game easier, but it makes you not have to be as close to figure things out. And I think that's important in any sort of major 3D platforming collect-a-thon kind of game. And I think that's a disadvantage of being on the go. And it also shows why I actually like the Switch because, yeah, you could take it with you, but there are some experiences that are better than the big screen and it lets you have those experiences on the big screen. Whereas if it was just a portable, which some people wish the Switch was just a portable and didn't even have the dock mode option, it can hurt some games in that kind of sense. And I think ukulele is a good example of that. Yeah, there's some fun things in that game. Maybe you'll find yourself laughing at any of the jokes yet. You're pretty early on. So the jokes are kind of, I mean, they're lame, but of course they're lame. It's Banjo-Kazooie. In that sense of humor, I love the talking because, again, it's all Banjo-Kazooie. Yeah, I love that. It does get a little old after a while, but, you know, it's not terrible. I do like it. Trying to think of what else there is. Overall, I mean, I enjoy the game. Yeah. I always knew you'd enjoy the game. The thing is, to me, is how much do you enjoy it will be determined, I think, by how long you continue to play it for? Because I just happen to know you haven't beat Zelda yet, you haven't beat Odyssey yet, and you really, really, really love those games. But if there was a new Banjo-Kazooie game, you would have that beat the first week. So it's one of those, is this going to be the first game of Switch you actually beat? I don't know. I mean, it depends on how long it is, too, of course. And I'm not telling 100%. The thing is, I think it's a collect-a-thon, so we can't help it. We have to collect everything. Yeah, I'm 100% in a collect-a-thon. Yeah. I mean, that's why you play on them. It's for the cool platforming and the collecting things. Is it at this point in time with how long it's been out? Is it a spoiler warning? No. No, there's no spoilers. No. I do like the throwback quiz show. To get into the second one, that one was funny. Yeah. Although, I do feel like there were some questions that were given to you that you had no chance of knowing because you never actually accessed those areas in the first level because you didn't have certain moves. And it's like, you're asking me this question and I didn't find this character. I didn't do this. I didn't do that. It's trial and error. No, I know what it is. That's how I got through it. That's how I got through it, too. But it was like, I didn't find this character. This character's in the second level. What? I mean, it's possible that the one character is in the first level, too, but I just had fun because I don't have the moves to get to them. Sure. But it's like, okay, sure. Why not? I like the throwback. Honestly, the whole game's a throwback, so it's... Yeah. It's a fun game. Not perfect, but you know what? It's been a long time since we had a game like it. There's been other 3D, even like Super Lucky's Tale that came out on Xbox. Really, really good. That might be coming to Switch eventually here. And that one, that's another one I'm interested in seeing. Some people really liked it. Some people said, oh, it's not as good as the old games. It's like, well, are we putting the bar too high? Because these 3D collect-a-thon-style games, besides Mario, just haven't really been around. Yeah. So, can we give people a break? This isn't even the full old-school team that made it. They were just part of that team. And so it's like, okay, they did this. Don't you think that if they do it again, they're going to be better the second time around? Yeah. You would figure they're going to learn from it and get better. Right, definitely. So, you know, let them grow. It's not like just destroy these games because oh my gosh, they're not as good as our holy grails. Right. Right. You know, I want them to tackle a spiritual successor next to, you know, a little conquer action. No. I want some M-rated, comedy, and... You know what you're going to have? You can't go conquer themselves. No. No, obviously. Just like, this is Banjo-Kazooie, but it's not Banjo-Kazooie. Right. Like, yeah, something like that, but then goes for the M-rated humor. Oh, the toilet humor. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I would love that. We'll see if that ever happens. I don't know what these groups are working on next, but is there any other games you play this month? No. I don't think so. Well, we obviously played some Madden on the Xbox one. A little bit of Switch or a little bit of Smash. A little Smash? When I was back over at Christmas earlier this month. Yeah. No, I think those were the main two games that I played. Cool. For me, let's see, I got to dig into it. First of all, I got to be honest. I have not been playing a lot of my Switch over the last couple, not really most of the month, which it's weird because you figure with all the snow days and they're not, you know, why wouldn't you pick up your Switch and play it? She didn't have the energy or the time. Well, that, snow days, your kids would have it. No, I don't really let them play it on the snow days too much, but the first, the one snow day I did, but outside of that, I usually try to entertain them and have like different activities and stuff, so they're not just playing video games all the time. Zinai, I saw the one-picture. Yeah, yeah, that was the one snow day where I was like, okay, play video games, so that was probably snow day four. I don't know. But, so, for starters, I just haven't played a lot of my Switch this month. This is probably the least amount I have played my Switch ever. Just, not out of desire. I've had, like, earlier today, I had a desire to play it. I just didn't have it with me. I had a desire, I've had desires to play it at times when the battery was dead because the last person to touch it was my son. And another part was, I had to sell some of my games, some of the games I want to play, I just don't have right now, which I can afford to get them back. I just haven't done that yet. I'm kind of waiting on a good sale, or I thought about making, hey, a GameStop video where I order all a bunch of used, a bunch of used Nintendo Switch games online and see what they send me. I, I'm going to regret it because I'm- Does GameStop sell GrabBix? No, no, no. You have to, you know, you buy the games, but like, you don't know if you're just getting the cartridge, you don't know if you're getting the box, you don't know if you're getting the manuals, you don't know what you're getting. You know you're getting the cartridge. Oh. You hope that it's not bootleg or something. You don't really know. It's kind of a crapshoot. You bought the game, so they'll send you the game. Maybe, unless they send you the wrong game. Yeah. But, anyways, I thought about doing that, but then I'm like, if something's wrong, I'm going to have to send it back. I don't know what I want to deal with that. I would rather just go in the store, but they don't also always have all the games I want in the store. So, anyways, the thing is, you can't take a camera in the GameStop. They make you turn them off. So, What? Yeah. Although, I think if the store manager is there and I sweet-talk to him a little bit, he'll let me keep it on. Why? It's a corporate thing. Why? Because nobody brings a camera in the GameStop to make them look good. Sure. When's the last time you saw a video about GameStop to make GameStop look good? GameStop does a very good job of making GameStop not look good. I know, but that's what I'm saying. Nobody brings a camera into GameStop for the purpose of making GameStop look good. It's always to make them screw up somehow so they can make a viral video happen. Yeah. Well, I mean, I mean, just so you can't have your camera on in Best Buy either. There's a lot of stores that won't let you have your cameras on. It doesn't mean there aren't people that sneak it or try to, they'll be discreet about it, but... Yeah, that's what the forums for. I know. Well, that's what people try to do. They'll like, try to be like, oh, I put it in my top pocket with the camera conveniently turned around. It's like, if that's not obvious. Yeah. Um, but, yeah, it's... anyways. Um, so we'll see. There might be a video on that coming in the future if I decide to get my games back from GameStop just to make a video out of it and to get my games back. Um, so I haven't played a lot. Obviously, I've been, been really enjoying Madden on the Xbox One X, uh, once I finally got installed in there, all that was taken care of. It's actually been, it's been a pretty, pretty smooth experience. Still some bugs here and there, but they're the same old bugs that I'm used to, so I don't know if I just give it the excuse because I'm used to them. But like the, like the fact that right now, the Xbox is on, the TV is off, after we're done recording, I'll turn the TV on and the game won't work. Yeah. We'll have to close the game for some reason to restart. For some reason, sleep mode, one of the most basic modes ever just doesn't work in video games or work for Madden anyways. Yeah. I haven't had a problem with it on Switch at all. One thing I can say is, did play a little Smash Bros. this month with my son, helping him out. He's actually further in World of Life than I am. Nice. Good for him. Yeah. He's determined to help beat it. And I've been helping him with some of the tougher ones. I think he's playing on easy. I'm not even sure maybe he's playing on normal. And I've been noticing an issue with my Joy-Cons. Yeah. They just randomly, like when they're on the side, they just randomly disconnect. And I have to take them off to reconnect them. Hmm. Like I can't just hit the buttons with an on to reconnect. Only happens through Smash too. Interesting. I don't know what's up with that. So if I leave them disconnected, like if I take them off and I put them in the Joy-Con grip, Yeah. No problem. They never disconnect. But if they're connected to the side of it, they just randomly in the middle of matches, whatever, they just stop working. Interesting. It's like they died, but they're not dead. You mean like my It makes no sense. And I don't know if other people are having this problem and I've only had it happen with Smash. Yeah. Well, I know Smash had some random, it seemed like random issues from what I remember with like, but I think it ended up going down to terrible, say, cards. Oh, yeah. You're talking about the DLC. The DLC, Save Data Corruption. Yeah. Yeah. That was apparently, suppose they had to do with fake SD cards. I, but I don't know, like I've never had that Joy-Con issue. Maybe that's something I should probably talk about in a more public live stream where I'm talking in the chat more because then Sure, for sure. I'm actually curious if it's a problem where people have, because I can't, like, make it happen. It's hard for me to capture it on camera because I don't know when it's going to happen. It's just random. There doesn't seem to be any consistency to what's causing it. And it's possible I just have bad Joy-Cons and if I get new Joy-Cons there's no problem. Or possible there's something wrong with my Switch. Or there's something wrong with the game. I don't know. I'm not sure. Yeah. But Is there update for the Joy-Cons or are you just missing? Nope. Yeah. But then again, if it was missing an update and that was causing the issue you'd see it across all games. You figure. Well, no. I don't know. It's always the case on Switch. Just like you can get drifting, like stick drifting in one game but not another. I don't really get it. Okay. I don't understand it. Could be memory leaks too and stuff where, you know, you push a stick one direction and all of a sudden you start eventually your character just starts slowly going in that direction and you're like, I'm not pushing that direction anymore. What I can say is the month of February is the first month I have not bought a new game. Since Switch came out. Well, you still got I think I have bought a new game. Two hours? Every single month at least one game since Switch came out. You still got two hours. I mean part of me wants to get Wargroove came back back on February 1st. Heard it's really, really good. But when am I going to play it? I don't know. Okay, I'm sorry. No, I did get one new game because it was free. Tetris 99. Oh, okay. So there you go. I didn't buy it but that's because it's not a game you can buy. Oh, okay. Well, you can't argue I did because I have to have the Nintendo Switch Online service and I have that. So I guess I have played Tetris 99 this month. I did really enjoy Tetris 99. I think it's brilliant. Battle Royale Tetris. Yeah. Battle Royale Tetris. Let that sink in. Yeah. And it just works. It sounds like the stupidest thing but it just works and I love it. I'm not like that great at it but I don't care. It's fun. Yeah. It is so fun. And what I like about it is it is a battle of survival. It's not like, oh, yeah, oh high score. No, no. It's last person standing maybe and like you can attack other people like by sending extra lines to them. Yeah. And I haven't quite figured out how that all works yet. There's a specific way to do it and that's why all 99 of you are on screen at once because you can like select people and like, I don't care. I'm just trying to stay alive myself. I'm not to the point that I'm pro enough. I'm not gonna Tetris. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it feels like. Like I'm going along cool and all of a sudden I get to the top 50 and I'm like, what is going on? Stop sending me lines. They just know it's you and they're like, yep, yep, yep. It's a YouTuber we got to take about. So yeah, no Tetris 99, a lot of fun, a lot more fun than I ever thought the concept would be. So I have played quite a bit of that. That's probably the game I played the most of the month. I probably sung at least 10 hours into Tetris 99. But yeah, besides that, I did play the demo for Daemon X Makata. I played and beat that. I am now sold on the game. I made a whole video about that. I think about how I'm sold on the game so it's not perfect. I still don't fully understand the story. I'm sure if I replayed through the demo, I would understand it better. There was a lot going on and I didn't pay, I guess, close enough attention. I was having two or 12 with the gameplay, which surprised me because I'm not into mech games. I mentioned in my video about it that it reminded me of the gameplay itself, reminded me a lot of Starlink Battle for Atlas, which is why I like it. Other people are going to be like, well, this game is more like these other mech games. I mean, that's cool. I don't play mech games. So I'm comparing it to things I've played. I'm sorry. And I really, really enjoyed it. There are FPS issues for sure. And I think that turned a lot of people off from the game. I think I'm a weird one with FPS. There's very few situations in gaming that FPS dips bother me to the point that I don't want to play anymore. Madden is one. When we were doing Madden on PC, I had to mess with the settings around because low FPS on that I hated because you get those lag spikes and I can't deal with that in that. But it's a multiplayer game that requires quick button pushing and twitch actions. Whereas World of Warcraft multiplayer game, I played that game in single digits forever. It didn't really bother me. And even now, even today, I can run World of Warcraft in 4K and blah, blah, blah at ultra settings, but then I'm only running at 25 FPS. And I just don't care. I'll just run the game at 25 FPS. Everyone else will be like, why don't you lower the stuff down and get to 60 or to 100 plus? I'm like, I don't know. I do it and yeah, it feels smooth, but the game doesn't look as good. And I just rather have the game look good and have my character every now and then. Go like this to this. I'm used to clicking now. And then having my spell cast. Like no. Like it doesn't, I don't know. It doesn't bother me as much. So like starting better for Atlas. There are FPS dips in starting better for Atlas. And I just didn't care. It bothered me. Maybe it's because it's a solo single player. I don't know. It just didn't bother me. So like that's why David X Machina, like someone pointed out, oh, but what about that? Oh yeah, I remember the framerate dips here and there. I remember like in my mind, I'm like, oh, that's not that good. But then I just stopped caring. Yeah. So I'm one of those people that where a framerate, I guess doesn't matter as much to me. It matters for some other reason. It matters. Like I would rather there be a smooth framerate than not. But I honestly don't care as long as it's playable and fun. I care that it's fun what I'm playing. And if I'm having a lot of fun, framerate dip in here and there is whatever. I'll deal with it because it's fun. Yeah. So I guess the moral of the story is I think David X Machina is so fun that the framerate dips don't bother me. Yeah. Yoshi. Yoshi. Ooh, that's for the Yoshi demo. I know I have to get that. It's good. Yeah. It's a very good demo. Very easy, but Yoshi's always easy and it's the beginning stage, so whatever. Collectathon, love it. I mean the only knock is the resolution. They witness 60 FPS. But you can tell, like forget digital foundry and their analysis. Like I didn't need their analysis to tell me this wasn't running in HD. There are many times, especially in handheld where it's like it's a little blurry. This game, it's like there's a filter over it and it's all blurry. Why? Yeah. Because they wanted to maintain 60 FPS and they wanted to do it in Unreal Engine 4. Unreal Engine 4 is really hard to maintain 60 FPS in. So they decided to sacrifice resolution in order to do that. So it runs sub HD pretty much all the time. It's a dynamic resolution scaler that pretty much never hits 720p. So that bothered me a bit. It bothered me to the point that what did I just say earlier? Okay, you know, games run in single digits and I'm okay sometimes. I wouldn't find if Yoshi was 30 FPS. I don't think I would have cared. I know a lot of other people would have though. They would have been screaming, how could this not be 60 and blah blah blah. Like I don't know. I would have been fine with 1080p and 30 FPS. Personal preference. But it's a single player game, the two. So like it was a multi... And the thing is I know some people in platformers they love that smoothness and I'm not saying that I wouldn't prefer 60 FPS. I would prefer 1080p and 60 FPS. But if I have to have one or the other, I'd rather have 1080p and 30. But that's just me. Everyone is different. I'd rather have 720 and 60 if possible. Apparently it's not possible with this game. So it's very interesting though. I mean who knows? Maybe a Switch Pro or something will come out someday and games like this with dynamic resolution scalers will just stay at 720 or higher when that comes out. If it comes out. And yeah, I think that pretty much rounds out what I played this month. Just some demos and Tetris 99. Yeah. Alright. I guess we can get to the big boy. The big story. Yeah. The one that people might love or hate our response to. Yeah. So over the past week, the new generation of Pokemon was finally unveiled. Officially on Pokemon Day which is the anniversary of... Is it the anniversary of the whole series or just the anime? I can't remember. Yeah, I remember. Anyways. I didn't even realize it was Pokemon Day. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. 27th of February, Pokemon Day. Anyways. I know that. Come on. You're not a true Pokemon fan. You know what Pokemon Day is? Anniversary of our childhood. Yeah. Anyways. Of course. As I don't even remember if it's for the game or for the anime. I think it's for the whole series. But anyways. Yeah. So Pokemon Day. They did a seven minute Nintendo Direct or I should say Pokemon Direct as they called it. Yeah. Again. Never been unveiled in a Nintendo Direct. Yes. Pokemon Direct. Alright. It was quite literally just about the 8th generation games. No. No. Yes and no. It's a yes. Okay. The last little five second snippet that just makes you get frustrated. Yeah. Right. Alright. So what are we talking about? What are these games called? Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield. Pokemon Sword and Shield. First starter's name. What do you think about the names? I like it. I think it's... I see some people that don't like it. I don't know what... I mean there's people that don't like it. There's always people who like and don't like anything. One. I like high medieval fantasy. Sword and Shield. Sounds cool to me. Logos look cool. I like the wolf heads. The color schemes. Obviously red and blue. Yeah. Who's gonna hate on that color scheme for Pokemon? Right. But I guess I can understand like why some people might not like the names or like the logos because if someone had told you it was gonna be Pokemon Sword and Shield like a month ago and they showed you these logos you would have been like that's gotta be made up. Like that doesn't look like Pokemon. Yeah. Sword and Shield. They don't fight anyone with the Sword and Shield. Yeah. Wolf head? Like what is this? The Witcher? Right. I mean I get it. But there's a thing. We don't know the full context. Right. So like it looks confusing now but then when we know the full context of the game maybe it all makes sense. Right. So it's all just left up to our imaginations now. Like I think people just got used to other things that I guess made more sense in colors. Yeah. Or like minerals. Mm-hmm. Sun, moon. Yeah. Stars. Yeah. Just like I don't know. I guess more scientific-y kind of terms maybe. More something like that. Where it was like Sword and Shield was like no like that's fantasy. Like when you say Sword and Shield you instantly think like medieval ages. Right. And you're just like huh? Yeah what? But yeah this doesn't take place in medieval ages. Yeah. It takes place in I was like Galara? Galara or something like that? Yeah. I probably butchered the name. I apologize. I don't have like an info sheet right in front of me. But the land itself the overall map I think it's the UK. You think it's the UK? I think it's the UK. I initially like in the stream was in Italy. Italy. Yeah. But I'm like the more and more I looked at it I'm like oh wait that looks more like the UK just elongated a little bit. Even like there seems to be like this wall on the map that reminded me of Game of Nations like the wall on the north and like that just reminded me of England and Scotland. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sword and Shield. The one chick is wearing like the Scottish kind of cap. Yeah. There's the one town that we got to like a look at that looked like it had Big Ben although it wasn't Big Ben but it looked like it looked like London basically is what it looked like. I know it had like a little steampunk vibe there but whatever it looked like London. Yeah. And to be fair a lot of people when they think steampunk they start to think of London because that's like where some of the steam like revolution started like an actual technology and stuff at one point in time trains and all that so I think it's a let's just I've already made a video on this Eric what are your thoughts we saw about I don't know about a minute and a half of the game itself. Yeah. So what are your thoughts on this game. Positives looks beautiful. Yeah. That's it. It's your only positive. I mean I do like that the starter Pokemon are pretty cool. I do like them. I do like that I for the first time ever I think I like the grass type starter the most. Grookey. Yeah. You're feeling grookey. Yeah. Yeah. I'm feeling balls are back in the day. What's wrong with you. Yeah. Right. No. Not the most. Yeah. I did see one thing that kind of bothers me. Oh here we go. Let's go. Sorry. So one other. Yeah. Okay. Thing that bothers me the most looks like we're back to the random encounters. We're definitely back to the random encounters based on what we saw. Lock and change. I know why. I just don't understand it. I get it. It's a core mechanism of the it used to be a core mechanism of the game. It is a core mechanism and everything but let's go. I know. But that's like the one thing from let's go. We always want to carry it over. Yeah. I hate having to go into an area and not know if there's a Pokemon there and have to sit and walk around for however long to just find. No and not just that. What I loved about how it worked in let's go is you walk around an area and you would get I don't know. You'd run into 20 or 30 different random encounters just to find the one you want. Right. Whereas like in let's go. Yeah. You still have to move around back between areas to make new Pokemon up here but you don't have to keep encountering them. Right. In order to finally get the one that you want. You could just keep moving around. Keep enjoying the world and the music. Right. You don't have to get bogged down as much and that is something I loved in let's go. It is one of the biggest things in let's go that was absolutely nailed. Yes. And that's not how this game works. This game is straight up traditional random encounter. I mean literally so I'm sneaking through the grass. I don't know if that was a potential move to like get a jump on a Pokemon. Maybe. You know I don't know that could be a new mechanic or something. But what I do know is they were just kind of sneaking through the grass and. Yeah. Pikachu. It's like oh yeah. Hooray for random random encounters. I mean yes you can still have quote unquote random encounters in let's go. Well yeah they would like pop up right in front of your feet. Yeah. But you could still. But you know what you're fighting with good with good stick work with good stick work. You can avoid it. Yeah. But you're at least you knew what you were going into. Yeah. It's like crap I didn't want to fight this real accidental bump into. Yeah. Yeah. Right. But you know it's one of those things that you know you're just wandering around. Zoo bats cave. You can see the zoo bats. Hey guess what I can not fight them. If I don't want to. Yeah. It's. That's the part that. It bothers you. It bothers me. I don't know why because. Pokemon has been. That's the way it's always been. Yeah it's always been that way. But. Now I've gotten the. Pokemon on the screen. I don't want to go back. Want to go back. I don't. Why is it better for you. I can see things. I know if something's there. I can avoid it if I don't want to fight it. It. It makes gameplay. Faster. And especially with how it. Again. Going back to being a genuine water. Quote unquote. And having the got to catch them all. Thing. Slammed down my throat over and over and over again. I still slam it down my throat. Right. So long ago. Right. With how many Pokemon there are. Speeding up the game to get all of them. Isn't a bad thing. I think it's just a people like it. Like I like it just because. It's. It feels like a game. It's like it respects my time. Mm hmm. I get that in RPGs there's always a lot of grinding a lot of this but here's the thing. The grinding is usually for the purpose of leveling and you're still going to have to grind to level your Pokemon. So like. The grinding had a purpose. But in Pokemon if you were just. Trying to catch you weren't trying to level any Pokemon. Mm hmm. Or learning new moves you were just trying to catch a specific type of Pokemon. All the grinding was was tedium. Mm hmm. And you still like even in let's go. Like. Just because you know there's like a 1% chance that shiny this or whatever you know shiny ponytail whatever is going to appear in this area. It's a 1% chance it can still take you hours of just farming that area to still get it. So. It didn't. Make it. Easier to get the Pokemon but what it did. Was respect the time in between. All the Pokemon. Also. It feels more realistic. Yes. I'm out in a world and I'm walking through. Knee high grass waist high grass. I can generally see the grass moving. I may not know the exact Pokemon. Pretty sure I could see a Snarlax above. Right right right right but if like let's say. Or a deer or a or a or a or a Pidgey or a Pikachu if they're in the tall if it's in quote unquote taller grass. Yeah you may not know which one it is but you'll know a Pokemon is there. Yeah. And that would have been fine too like if they were to just show that the grass is moving. Yeah. Okay. You don't know what it is but you know something. Right. Especially if you're out the open especially for the smaller Pokemon. You're in it you don't generally have random encounters out in the open you're generally in grass or you know what not unless you're in a cave. Like when you're out in between worlds if you're in the middle of a walkway you're not going to have random encounters but you know if they're out in the open like in a cave if you know you see things it makes it more realistic. Sure. Okay. Is there any other bad takes you have or negative takes I guess of the rest of it. No no it looks beautiful it looks like it could be fun. I never had a problem with the I like battles so it you know the whole battling to capture type thing you know that part I'm neither here nor there on I know you like the just throw the pokeball to capture. Yeah. That I understand I see both ways I like battling I knew that wasn't going to come back but I right I prefer it I wish it would come back but whatever right I know it's actually makes more people happy that that's not there right. That one doesn't that one didn't bother me as much. I think when I so what my original take on this on this stuff was that I think it does have the potential to be the greatest Pokemon game ever made they said they wanted to be the greatest Pokemon game ever made it looks grander I guess is a good term to use than any other Pokemon game I've seen. Yeah. Like they are making a bigger world this is the biggest map I think I've ever seen. Yeah. The camera angles I don't know if there's a free Rome camera I hope you can control the camera if you can't it's going to be a big let down for me personally. And I think it's going to let down for a lot of people if you can't control that camera and actually enjoy the world. That is something I've always wanted in Pokemon understood why it wasn't possible and top down. Right. You know 3D but we're not 3DS anymore. Right. Give us the ability to enjoy the Vistas anyways that's besides the point. I my original take was that this to me looks like what the next Pokemon game would be if there was just a more powerful like the next 3DS came out. Yeah. You know whatever 3DS to 4DS whatever you want to call it like the next generation 3DS comes out this feels like that's what Pokemon would be on that it would just be what Pokemon's always been with a little more on top. And that's what this game feels like and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that and that might lead to it being the best Pokemon game ever made but for me like I have this thing in my mind and this is totally on me. Game Freak never promised this in fact we should have expected it to be more like this because Game Freak said they were making that let's go was made for TV that Jenny it was made for handheld so that should have been our first clue that they weren't going to do anything super special. I have this thing in my mind where I want like how long have we wanted a Pokemon game on a home console like a traditional Pokemon game I mean I'm basically a whole life. Yeah. Basically we've been waiting like yeah like some of you guys like oh whatever like I've been waiting for this for 20 years. Yeah. Ever since it came out on Game Boy the incident are not even just not just Game Boy ever since we got Pokemon Snap ever since we got Pokemon Stadium. Stadium. Yeah. How badly did we want a whole Pokemon game like Pokemon Stadium RPG style on a home console. Yeah definitely. We never got it. We never got it. It's been 20 years and it hasn't happened. Yeah. So for 20 years I've been waiting for the core series to come to a home console and it comes and this is what we get? Yeah. This to me is just I don't agree with that one. It's another handheld it's another handheld Pokemon game like all the rest of them and people are going to be happy with it and I'm like where is my next leap my risk my where's the innovation the the to a certain extent the Bravidos I don't like Ocarina of Time Super Mario 64 you know Metroid Prime Yeah. Like all these series that like they were always this one thing and then finally when they had the power to be something more they did it. Yeah. I do want to I do want to have one caveat on this though we are basing this all off a really really really really short. Sure. So there is that caveat but what I what I'm looking for that clip is like the exact polar opposite I'm not going to I'm not going to scrap that and make a whole new game between now and end of the year I understand but you have to throw that caveat in it. Sure. It's based on based on there's even there's even things in the game that like I like to snow that was pretty cool and then it was like snowing and the weather was there and stuff like that and then you get through with like everyone's about rains or Sure but to me we're just talking about natural progressions of what happens anyways. Yeah. Like Pokemon has changed many times over the years but it's all just been that natural progression where's the leap? Yeah. Where's that leap? Mario 64 I'm sorry that was not a natural progression from Super Mario World. No not really. That was what? Um excuse me no one thought that and then oh that happened to people like oh when are we going to get like a 3D Mario or a 3D Zelda or whatever that's fine well you know maybe you expected there to be a 3D Zelda because of a precedent set by prior games so here's my thing where's my 3D Pokemon game? I'm sorry this to me is Link's Awakening DX Yeah we're still this is Link's Awakening on Switch this is top this is still top down this isn't really full 3D perspective that we want but we're still like 2.5 is that why it's okay it's in 3D right like I'm not saying these aren't 3D character models and that like we haven't seen angles where you know but like still it's the camera angle okay still gives off this perspective that you're just playing another Pokemon game that's not like this revolutionary thing you're not with the camera behind Link running through that grass right you're still looking at grass running through from the top that's not that's not new yeah and there's gonna be new mechanics there's gonna be new stuff be interesting to see a Pokemon game first person that would be interesting again and I'm not even saying that we need open world I know some people really want to open world one I don't know that we need open world I'm just saying something different something fresh like take a risk this feels so safe to me the safest they could have done a new generation of Pokemon on switch it's look we know what we're good at we're just gonna keep doing that and make it look prettier it's like okay yeah and even then I get you even then if you really want me to nitpick for as gorgeous as the game looks it only looks gorgeous for a Pokemon game yeah if you dig through the visuals themselves they don't exactly look that impressive yeah I mean I've only watched it twice I've watched it like a few dozen times it's like there's textures in the game that are super blurry which that happens right like a lot of games have low poly textures but like it feels like there's a lot of them in this with an art style that doesn't need again though and again that's where your caveat it's not done yet can come into play those textures can be improved but there's other things we know have to be improved as example there's other things that obviously will be there you assume they're going to be they're going to hope the world's on this empty I mean if it is then it's definitely post apocalyptic and what the hell happened why is everyone dead that would be interesting why is everyone dead that's why it's short sword and shield it's post apocalyptic and we have to go back to the basically the middle ages there you go yeah we've got to crawl through a hole and find the kakiri sword yes and then oh man another thing though too is how much of these how much of that was actual game play versus trailer well some of it I think was trailer for sure like that opening shot they show like I think is probably the starting village that to me is trailer and or cut scene lead in because I don't think because you're not controlling a character at that point so to me that's just hey we backed off the camera I'll look at how pretty this looks and like the thing is when they did that some people are like oh that reminds me of breath of the wild remember that opening shot breath of the wild where you see the whole world and it's like yeah but that's not actually representative of the game play per se although breath of the wild you can get some viewpoints like that like in this game none of the camera angles after that when the character was actually being controlled on screen looked anything like that I mean heck there was even one where you're going through like this mountain pass snowy area that you mentioned and like it was completely top down totally traditional pokemon so it's like but I don't want that I've had that for 20 years and here's the thing this isn't me saying these games aren't going to be great I'm picking them up let's go was good enough for me to give this generation a shot and see who knows maybe it becomes my favorite pokemon game of all time but I'm still going to have this thing in the back of my mind that I'm playing this on what Nintendo is telling me is a home console in fact I'm just straight up going to be playing most of this game on my TV and I finally have that home console pokemon game that I've been begging for 20 years and it's just more of what I've already been playing for 20 years just prettier I don't know which ones textures you were specifically talking about but in my mind I was thinking you were talking more about like that house that the roof on the house looks horrible when it looked almost like an oil pump but it's not that's what it looks like it reminded me of looked like an oil drill I'll show you one example I tweeted it look at the texture on the arm logo are you kidding me right now yeah that is disgusting that's on switch yeah walking into the stadium at the end there's this logo patch on his arm it looks I mean it looks okay I'm going to use I don't like bringing up with the YouTubers opinions on things like this because I don't want people that feel like it's shaped mine but the bit block did a video and he's not a fan of Pokemon so full disclosure there that he's not a fan of Pokemon so he's not going to have a lot of nice things to say anyways but he brought up an interesting thing multiple times when he was reacting to the footage it looks like a Wii game it looks like a GameCube game it does not look like a switch game of all the switch games we've gotten like this game does not feel like a switch game like put it this way if you do side-by-side comparisons of that trailer and then even something like Octopath Traveler right super old school Octopath Traveler looks so much crisper and so much better and yes I realize that's a finished game versus an unfinished game but it's like do we really think Game Freaks is going to do suddenly fix that like those little minor details that they just don't care about most of the time that we don't notice on the 3DS and DS because the resolution is so low tiny who cares like I mean think about it think about this Pokemon Let's Go came out and there's been a lot of like you know criticisms of it but for most part people think it looks crisp and clean and all that and I'm not saying that's got better texture work although it's crisper texture work but they still you go in to put your Pokemon to heal them what are the images used for healing your Pokemon you know that they put the six Pokemon on screen the old sprites when you're buying things in the shop what are all the images the old sprites why why are we why so like Game Freak did that so now it's supposed to suddenly think they're going to fix this I don't know you're right why they know 15 plus million people are going to buy these things why why spend the money why put in the work why that's the thing there's a difference between Game Freak and Nintendo's internal studios and that Nintendo's internal studios care so much a lot of the time not all the time about game quality or IP like you would never imagine going gosh imagine in Breath of the Wild going up to Beetle and you go to buy arrows and the symbol for an arrow is the old school NES arrow symbol I mean it'd be cool looking but imagine the entire inventory is that all the time it's like really you couldn't make a new art piece for the damn arrow the other thing too is I was going to I was going to ask I thought about something you know you showed me that picture and I don't know why this bothers me but the guy looks like he's got helmet head the hair is just there's nothing to it it's a it's in the final version of the podcast I'll throw up the image we're talking about yeah it's just flat and I was like well could they texture that out a little bit and I was like would this switch be able to handle it of course the switch not just that but breath of the wild the individual grass blades I'm like yeah never mind the second you brought up breath of the wild I'm like wait a minute grass blades never mind it can definitely handle it like I'm not even mad about the lack of anti-aliasing because Nintendo just doesn't use anti-aliasing so like the little um the little blurriness around the edges doesn't really bother me so much but like that that logo I mean that is horrible absolutely horrible and it's not even that like if you look earlier when he's walking up his shoes look just as bad as that and it's like and there's like a point even in that big opening shot when they show you the village if you actually look on the edges along the bridge some of the texture of the grass or the moss or whatever I don't even know what it is it's so damn blurry it's like there's just parts of this everywhere in this thing apparently I must not have I well because okay when you're looking at the overview there's so much going on right like you notice the snow you notice the cool effects or this and that like there's action they draw your attention away from it to the crisp clear area yeah your eyes are being drawn away from it but when you step back and you look at the broader scope but it's like ooh like oh like like they zoomed in on that weather vane right and it's like okay yeah that weather vane is cool but look at that rough what is going on that is disgusting but they're focusing on the weather vane like and the thing is this isn't me saying that this isn't the best looking pokemons ever been in terms of the core games I'm saying in terms of the core games because there are parts of me that are starting to think games like pokemon snap even in the lower resolution look better I like pokemon snap pokemon snap is so good pokemon stadium pokemon colisea heck someone needs to get pokemon colisea and start comparing it to this game because the more and more I'm like this is like we in gamecube level like where why doesn't this feel like a new generation game it feels like it's a same old same old to a certain extent and I'm going to get blasted for this I've been blasted for it I'm sure we're getting blasted right now it's I think it's going to be the greatest pokemon game ever made I think that they are going to achieve their ambition and this is going to be one of the most beloved pokemon games of all time and I might be singing its praises but I can't help but have this feeling that I feel like this should have been more significant than what it is but there's nothing I can do about that and people are going to it's your own personal expectation it's this is that I'm like well one I don't think anyone should ever have the expectation for a game to look like it's from they wanted this to be the best so they set a high bar but here's the thing it could be the best it could be the best without being my expectations like their bar to be the best is just to be better than what all the other games have ever been doesn't have to be an ocarina of time of the series generally when somebody says that Nintendo if there's ever been an expectation said it was Nintendo whenever there's been this like the 3DS so whenever something like that happens what does Nintendo done in the past they've done something special with it well this was a chance for Pokemon finally and I'm left feeling like there's other games like pocket tournament hello looks better now a question I'm fairly certain that it works with the the Pokeball plus what then there's gonna the new Pokemon why would it why would it it doesn't have the the motion throwing mechanics as far as we're aware yeah then I granted Pokemon's always been able to control by basically one or two buttons so it might still work as a base controller I don't know but they didn't talk about that it almost feels like it should I mean you pay for a controller for one game yeah but you knew that when you bought it knew that when you bought it and I bought it for some ungodly reason I bought it yeah that's just to be honest you want to you're you're it's gen one you need that you need that there it is but you know I that aside next thing for me is good god is there is some sort of stadium league something so I think this is where we get into some positives as much as I it's not meeting my expectation for what I hoped that the first like console Pokemon game could be especially compared to prior console Pokemon games anyways setting all that aside and setting the visual quirks and everything aside there are some things about this that look pretty exciting obviously we talked about the weather some of the different themes are really cool like steampunk in London it looks like there was like this futuristic thing going on above the wall on the map on this massive city that's sprawling and bigger than anything I've ever seen in Pokemon so like like that's that's a thing that exists that we didn't really get to see much of and there at the end of the thing and even on the map like there's like this stadium and there might be multiple of these stadiums people presumed they were gyms but maybe they're just stadiums maybe they are gyms I don't know stadiums well if you think about it in the animated series like Ash is fighting in tons of stadiums all the time and it's not for gym badges there's gyms and there's stadiums and the stadiums are like the leagues that's very true right that's where like you're trying to get rated the indigo league the jota league you're trying to get rated and ranked and climb up the rankings and eventually fight the championship and I wonder if they're bringing that aspect from the animated series to the games could be cool could be especially if they make it semi multiplayer where you're doing the stadium battles but you have the initial NPC ranks and all that stuff like there's an additional league in there where you and say you know 20 of your friends can join up at one league at one gym and you guys battle it up to go to the top and become the champion there so then not only do you get like you know get the bragging rights of in-game stuff I think that would be really really cool too because then that also brings Pokemon because Pokemon's always been multiplayer from day one so it kind of brings it to life a little bit and that you sure you have your NPC and your single player away but then you also look at multiplayer away I think that would be cool and I think that's something that they haven't really done I don't know if I see them doing that but they talked about doing things like not being afraid of doing new and unique things as we talked about them not doing unique things but they talked about doing new and unique things while having to still feel like Pokemon and I think even within the framework of what Pokemon's always been that could work that would still be what Pokemon's always been it's just something that has been more associated with the animated series not so much with the games as much so I think that would be cool there's definitely something going on I hope it's not just like a cutscene for like their own Elite Four or whatever because it looks so cool but yeah I had one surprise me if that was the case and I think I think I think some of the moves like we got to see some of the Pokemon fighting moves it's hard to tell a lot of the advances over what we just got and let's go but some of the moves it looked a little more dynamic I know we didn't see many but it looked a little more dynamic well I'm hoping it continues to get fleshed out you mean double kick isn't I don't know I don't think we saw a double kick so I hope double kick still a joke two little hops in the air jump jump wow it looked like it looked like the attacks actually hit the Pokemon which sometimes some of the attacks look like they do and some don't so like double jump definitely doesn't double kick doesn't look like you're kicking the other Pokemon somebody just go freaking like jump in the air and just go on double double leg kick yeah it should be like like you go over there and you literally see the leg go boom boom that's two kicks or something or drop kicking like physically actually hit the other like in the animated series physically hit the Pokemon yeah like don't just stay in your spot and send an attack way off yeah it's like that's not really how it works like the physical attacks in the animated series they're physical attacks they scratch they scratch the other Pokemon yeah um anyways so we'll see that looked like it might be taking a step in the right direction but we'll see it just a small step though I don't think this is like exactly where we would like it to be I'm trying to think of anything else I mean the missing NPCs I'm not too concerned about that early alpha footage and you know the NPCs are usually probably the last things they put in so I'm not too concerned about the lack of that there was some cool you know some other cool environments we saw like a mine looked like with some crystals different color crystals briefly that looked kinda cool um so that's probably a nice underground area for ground Pokemon or something um we saw there was like a snow village or like it was like winter in a village somewhere with the lights and everything that was really pretty I don't know what you do there but that was really pretty um there were uh the water looks good I don't know how the final water is gonna look but this water you can tell like it wasn't I don't I don't know the water didn't look like it was fully flushed out to me it looked like it had a nice start but I'm hoping that's not the end of it I hope it they make it a little bit more realistic and I'm like oh but this art style so what the Wind Waker had pretty realistic stuff going on they can make it more realistic they can make that um I mean heck if they can do it not to pet traveler come on um I'm trying to think of anything else um that I remember specifically that just I mean the library that looked really cool there was that room where the girl was in with the library uh that might have just been in your home time I didn't even own house I don't know but um I will say like so we've got to see the inside of what I assume Eric kind of always looks generic to be fair um one thing that we can't know that I hope is true like I've always wanted to be able to interact with more things inside buildings I think uh that's kind of always been one thing Pokemon has always done poorly is there's only like set they always interact with the PC or the TV or trash can like but you can't open a drawer why can't I turn on the sink yeah why can't I do the dishes if I want to if I have dishes in the sink why can't I start the dishwasher like it's a dumb I do things but but it's it's part of making the world feel real like you go into a museum and it'll be like oh you better not touch that but I want to touch it yeah what happens if you touch it I don't know the game doesn't let you touch it it's just a sign that says don't touch it's like like I want to be able to interact a bit more with the world I'm not saying like breath of the wild get on top of everything touch everything smash or break everything but like just it just have more things interactive like I don't know I hope that makes sense to people I'm not 100% sure where I was going with that one yeah I did it yeah there are some people that think this is going to be open world because of some things they did like when we saw like the hillside with the legendary cannon and like in a crop circle kind of thing or when we saw like a forest shot that looked very reminiscent of the old Twilight Princess trailer looked like this big expansive forest but it was a very brief sniff that might not even be in the final game what even things from this video are probably not going to be in the game but it's like I look at it and I go yeah but do you really think they're going to let us freely explore they've never let us do it I mean they could but I just I don't think so yeah like even like the hill hillside with like the thing well if you notice in the hillside when you see that you are stuck behind a fence so it looks like it's just background fodder and it's pretty background fodder and background fodder is nice but I want to explore it I want to explore it go run off a cliff and jump on the back of a pokemon and fly it actually around you probably can't even do that in this game well that's what I'm saying just to do that that'd be kind of cool just go run off a cliff and like that would be sick throw one of your legendary like zapdos or something and hop on its back and fly away they'd be sick to jump off a cliff like all breath of the wild style and throw a pokeball and like have have like blastoids come out and you can ride on the back in the water yeah they'd be sick yeah that would be so sick but like we're not going to get that from game freak there's not what they do I want it I want it I want that kind of act like why can't we have that in the game like I I want to hop on the back of my squirtle in right but again there's a lot we don't know I mean we know we don't know as much as we'd like to know but we know we know more than I thought we were going to find out I figured we would get a title in the starters yeah I guess you like the starters they think they're cool they're interesting I think their designs are kind of man this isn't even like a hot take at this point like they're just kind of generic I think I saw somebody on Twitter point out that the reason the designs feel generic because you look at them like they're all unique and different but then someone on Twitter went out and they started circling parts of each of the starters and saying that the parts are basically just parts taken from other Pokemon when the when the score rabbit score bunny score bunny when that first came up those feet are easily meows easily that's the first thing I thought of him like why is Meowth running that is the swear to God I was like what is up with Meowth is Team Rocket in this game like is this going to be a big thing with like Jesse and James and Meowth too I mean that's pretty cool oh it's it's a new starter why does it have Meowth's legs alright cool I mean so I can see that I can definitely see that the first thing I swear to God was Meowth Peter Peter Alicharns I'm about to make him really mad oh boy he put a comment out there saying what you have to remember is the Lynx Awakening remake in its art style wherever that's going to be 60 bucks just like Pokemon and Pokemon's art style is way better I like Lynx Awakening's art style better I'm sorry I can give you one well two primary reasons one Pokemon's art style that they're using in this game is just the normal anime art style they've been using for 20 years there's nothing newer fresh about it the art style Lynx Awakening is completely different than anything Zelda's ever done before where is that it's new it just by vertically would be new and fresh indifferent that already captures my heart compared to I like this Pokemon game looks this main character of the Pokemon looks like the main character of the last Pokemon the main character of the last Pokemon if you compare the Let's Go characters with the characters in this they look very similar outside of the fact that I think the characters in this one might be a little older because they're a little bit taller and slimmer so I think they're a little older but the fact that you can even compare them it's like it's kind of the same style I'm sorry it looks like a Pokemon game when you look at it oh yeah that looks like a Pokemon there's nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with that but I think the bigger argument for like oh Lynx Awakening is going to be 60 this is going to be 60 this is a new game that's a remake so like that's the argument for which one's worth more money not art style preferences sorry Peter Allicron I can't agree with you on that one and one thing I will say is I didn't come away from the Lynx Awakening and remember I have a big bias to Zelda so you always have to keep that in mind when I talk about Zelda games but I didn't come away from that Lynx Awakening trailer thinking man that's a bad looking texture oh that looks really blurry there that never crossed my mind watching that trailer and I've watched it over and over and over again but when I watch well let's go trailer it's like dude that arm patch those feet that roof that grass like there's something like this sword and shield sorry it just doesn't that there's something that's like I have to go back and rewatch feels lazy and I don't I'm not saying that Game Freaks lazy but it feels like man they could be doing so much better and the only reason that I can even say that is Pokemon is massively a better seller than Zelda's ever been always Pokemon is a multi-billion dollar franchise in the end of itself so like to mean to not expect Game Freak to not have blurry textures like I think it's a pretty basic expectation of a multi-billion dollar franchise well but there is Madden and that and that doesn't really change and there's blurry texture like I think player essence on Twitter about it oh there's blurry textures all over Breath of the Wild sure but it's way back well no and there's even some you can find some up close like certain like cliff faces and stuff like I get it I understand that but there is so much other pretty things going on it distracts you from it right like I don't feel distracted in this game from those textures like when he's walking down the hallway in the stadium with his arm patch there there's nothing pretty happening the distraction of the patch now that arm patch looks like it's from the 90s there is that but the thing also with with Breath of the Wild is I can understand them missing a texture here or there because of how open that world is well sure if they miss a texture there there's a certain there's a certain ambition to that game right I think I think what makes people more figured out Breath of the Wild is the ambition there is such an ambitious nature to what Breath of the Wild is trying to do that Zelda's never done before that ambition's not here that we know if this is a massively open world I can understand a few things not missing a few things here hey we have curved roads I love there were people out there being like oh my god guys can you see the roads are now curved I'm like that's what we're getting excited about that think about that think about how archaic Pokemon has to be if what we're excited about is that there's a curve in the road we were super they were super excited about slopes in Mario Maker 2 yep that's a creative though yes I know because slopes make a difference in how you create things a curvature in the road doesn't change the fact you're going from point A to point B it just makes it more believable right but it's like you're excited about that that should like an S like an actual like C curve or was it a 90 degree angle no no no no no it was a curve it was a curve so I think people got excited about this oh we could finally freely roam like you could freely roam with your character already it's what should the NPCs move like the NPCs have always moved on a grid pattern are they going to stop moving on a grid pattern we have no idea because the only NPC we saw was one that you battled and what did they do you walked by and it's like nothing's changing here anyways I'm not mad about the game in general I think it's going to be really really really good I think it's again potential to be the best Pokemon game ever and it feels weird to talk so negatively about it but I think it's just I is my bar too high is it possible to have a bar too high I don't feel like it is when we're talking about one of the most popular franchises of all time shouldn't everyone's bar be that high yeah like I'm just I'm getting kind of tired of accepting that this is what Pokemon has to be when we've seen glimpses and traces and they're more experimental games of what Pokemon could be to a certain extent I do understand why because when they went kind of sort of extreme with Pokemon Go and Pokemon Let's Go there was quite a bit of backlash of people not liking it Pokemon yeah but the opposite is that Pokemon Go is the most popular Pokemon's ever been yeah it's played right now by more players than any individual Pokemon game has ever been played yeah like Pokemon Go is in its own category Pokemon Let's Go moved over 10 million units so it's like yeah people complain but still bought it people still enjoyed it you know and those aren't even that far think about it those are like forget Pokemon Go okay that's a side game you know so you have like your Pokemon Mystery Dungeons your Detective Pikachu your you know those are all side stories right that's all like on the side like Pokemon Stadium Snap stuff like that's all that's not core okay those are side games but what feels weird is in those side games why are we seeing so much more ambition yeah like why have we not had a new Pokemon Stadium or Coliseum gamecube why I don't know why haven't I had a Pokemon Snap another Pokemon Snap I mean seriously especially on Wii U it makes so much sense on Wii U I don't know what it makes a whole lot of sense to switch to I mean like there was an actual camera on the Wii U like what 3DS yeah because I had Pokemon like yeah but that's the thing and yeah I understand they kind of brought the Pokemon Snap functionality back a little bit like Sun and Moon but I just well aren't they aren't they doing something in uh Pokemon Go that's kind of Pokemon Snap-ish yeah I think if I remember right I don't remember I don't know they're doing a lot of things they're doing a lot of things in Pokemon Go but I don't know that's kind of all I really have to say I guess on on Pokemon I think it's going to be great things will be fantastic I think there's some good things going on um uh I I want to share the story of what I told you so I was able to watch for the most part I was able to kind of watch his stream this morning when he live streamed the Pokemon Direct I was I took a shower during it but um I got out and was able to watch the Pokemon Direct part of it and it got to the end and the guy goes and we have a whole bunch of other stuff in the works for Pokemon for this year and then it ended and both Nate and I at the exact same time went and you're going to show us something right no okay sure thank you why that kind of peeved me in a way oh I bet you can't just say oh we have a ton of stuff that's it bye I mean that's like us just saying we have a podcast bye I mean bye so it's just annoying it irked me a little bit oh sure so I saw someone say that like the reason we haven't gotten like new stadiums or new like Pokemon Snap is because of sales or whatever now obviously no one expects a spin-off game to sell like what the core series does a Pokemon Colosseum sold almost 3 million copies if that's not enough that's not terrible if that's not for a spin-off game if that's not enough to get a new one then nothing I mean Metroid exists and it only ever sells like 2 million yeah Pokemon Snap sales we're almost at 4 I'm sorry is 4 million not enough I know we're talking about Pokemon but we're talking about spin-offs yeah yeah we keep getting mystery dungeons that don't even sell that much granted I guess maybe they're cheaper to make I don't know we're like when you say oh so suddenly 3.7 million is not enough to get a new one well I guess Zelda should have been done ages ago huh? yeah where is that like yeah that is a weak excuse that's a weak excuse I hear ya anyways alright I don't think I have anything else I don't think so either hey uh I mean we do know one other game coming from Game Freak this year it's just not Pokemon town town maybe all their ambition is put in town I don't know maybe that's maybe yeah I don't know well that's saying it's still town cause wasn't that a just it was a 10 out of 10 it's town yeah yeah so probably will be the final title more likely but we'll see I don't really know a whole lot about that game either so yeah hopefully we'll see a little bit more about it anyways that's it that's episode 98 Tenor Prime podcast yeah excuse me I'm picking up where can they find the podcast here oh good god I'm going to do this to me again iTunes Google through the Google Play podcast app YouTube obviously hello Nintendo Prime.net I know I'm missing one Podbean there it is I feel like I'm still missing one more I feel like I'm missing one more just like copyright strike for that yeah your turn to take over Patreon oh yeah there you go you know the most important one the one where they can get it a whole day early the audio version for $5 a month also if you're a $5 backer on Patreon you get mentioned in one podcast per month at the beginning of the podcast like we did during this episode for I don't know was it 20 or 30 people we did that for I want to thank all of you guys for tuning in thank you so much for your support on Patreon your continued support throughout this month or throughout the past month especially in spite of the lack of content I promise that things are going to be getting better because I don't think this winter weather is going to continue all year I hope not I don't know it's still happening we'll see but anyways regular content should start coming out in this new month of March so cool stuff I guess that's it you can follow me on Twitter at Ninty Prime you can follow Eric on Twitter at Emo8790 awesome you have any closing hold on let's close with this tell them a joke just pull one right out of the brain don't want me you know how many jokes you've told me in your life yeah how many of them are inappropriate it can be inappropriate just pick your least inappropriate joke so no dead baby jokes two guys walk into a bar another one ducks you go with the lame classic I mean I don't know I love putting Eric on the spot like this it's so funny I don't do this for a living I can't come up with a joke right away I'm just like you know what I haven't heard one of them in a while I was waiting for you to say one that was like that was so inappropriate gotta cut I know my jokes my jokes live in the gutter I can't do you want this video to be able to go up at all it's already up for an hour live Ninety Prime thank you guys for tuning in and we'll catch you in the next one