Pokemon Fans Are Mad At Me

Summary

In the video, "Pokemon Fans Are Mad At Me," penguinz0 shares his controversial criticism of the upcoming Pokemon game, "Pokemon Legends Za." Despite being a long-time fan, his candid thoughts have led to being excommunicated from the Pokemon fandom. He believes the series has stagnated, failing to innovate and improve upon past successes. With the new game seemingly taking a step back from "Pokemon Legends: Arceus," fans are unhappy with his views. He argues for higher standards and more creativity, pointing out specific disappointments like the lack of exploration and recycled features. penguinz0 calls for the Pokemon franchise to seize its potential, comparing it unfavorably with other more innovative creature-catching games.

Highlights

• Penguinz0's critique of 'Pokemon Legends Za' faced backlash from the community. 😡
• He argues that mere criticism doesn't equate to being a 'hater.' 🎯
• The new Pokemon game's wild zones feel like a significant step back. 📉
• Disappointment with Game Freak's repetitive formula is palpable. 🎮
• Lack of exploration and innovation in new Pokemon titles disheartens long-time fans. 💔
• Mega Evolutions returning feels more like a nod to nostalgia than innovation. 📼
• Game Freak's lack of advancement feels like missed potential for the Switch's capabilities. ⚙️

Key Takeaways

• Critique isn't always accepted; sometimes it leads to unexpected fandom exile! 🚪
• Expressing desire for improvement isn't hate, it's passion for progress. 🚀
• 'Pokemon Legends Za' feels like a disappointing step back from 'Arceus.' 🐢
• Fans often defend stagnation, but it's vital to push for innovation! ⚡
• Game Freak could do much more with the world's most lucrative franchise. 💸
• Mega Evolutions returning isn't exactly groundbreaking news. 🌟
• Switch limitations shouldn't hold back game creativity; look at Zelda! 🛡️

Overview

Last night, penguinz0 watched the trailer for the new Pokemon game, 'Pokemon Legends Za,' and was less than thrilled with what was shown. Despite his passion for Pokemon, dating back to the late '90s, his critical take on the trailer has landed him in hot water with the fandom. As he dissected the trailer, he expressed a longing for progression rather than repetition, challenging the series to evolve rather than recycle old ideas.

Penguinz0 makes a strong case for moving beyond the familiar patterns of previous games, pointing out how the franchise could explore new territories in both gameplay and design. He highlights specific elements that feel regressive, such as the elimination of exploratory freedom. While discussing the lack of innovation, he stresses that his critique stems from a place of longstanding admiration and not blind disdain.

Ultimately, the video sparks a conversation about creativity in gaming, especially for a powerhouse like Pokemon. Penguinz0 insists that Game Freak should leverage their phenomenal history to create groundbreaking experiences rather than resting on their laurels. He humorously compares Pokemon's current trajectory to innovative creature catching games and hopes for future titles that genuinely surprise and delight players.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 10:00: Pokemon Fans Are Mad At Me The narrator, during a stream, watched the trailer for an upcoming Pokemon game titled 'Pokemon Legends Za,' and expressed a less-than-impressed opinion on it.
• 10:00 - 20:00: Critique of Pokemon Legends Za In this chapter titled 'Critique of Pokemon Legends Za', the author expresses feelings of being ostracized from the Pokemon fandom due to their critical views. They refute the label of being a 'hater' and argue that wanting better quality in games should not be equated to blind negativity. The chapter sets the stage for a detailed critique of the trailer for 'Pokemon Legends Za', focusing on both specific grievances and broader expectations for improvement.
• 20:00 - 30:00: Comparison with Other Games The transcript reflects the speaker's critical comparison of various games, particularly from the Pokemon franchise. The opinion expressed is that the Pokemon Legends game is seen as a step backward from its predecessor, Pokemon Legends Arceus. The speaker expresses a strong dislike for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, describing them as embarrassing and insulting, and indicating a lasting negative impression. Similarly, Sword and Shield are criticized for not meeting the anticipated advancements.

Pokemon Fans Are Mad At Me Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 last night on stream I watched the trailer for the new Pokemon game coming out this year Pokemon Legends Za and I wasn't super impressed with what was presented I wasn't sugarcoating it or pulling any punches and my criticism of it drew the eye of many Pokemon fans and as tempers flared and milk spilt juice boxes thrown to the floor in Rage unfortunately something tragic unfolded I was EX communicado from the
• 00:30 - 01:00 Pokemon fandom they dubbed me not a fan of Pokemon any longer thus it's not a game made for me as I was just a hater they cast me out from the Continental of the Pokemon fandom which is so [ __ ] stupid I I like how just expressing that these games could and should be much better is all of a sudden just blindly hating on it just to be a scrooge I'm going to go over my thoughts on the trailer and talk about the things I
• 01:00 - 01:30 think could be improved because from everything I've seen in the Pokemon Legend Za extended look it is a step backwards from the last Pokemon Legends arus which I was actually very positive and optimistic on I hated Scarlet Violet I like I still hate scarlet and violet like there's no amount of revisionism there that can convince me that the game was actually good cuz it wasn't that [ __ ] was insulting it was embarrassing and I stand by that I also hated sword and shield that game should have been one of their biggest leaps with the
• 01:30 - 02:00 Pokémon franchise and instead it was its most watered down and most Barren somehow they go backwards pretty often game freak I've said for a while is just extremely lazy they have what I believe to be one of the easiest jobs in the world where all they need to do is just copy and paste and fans will just clap for it most of the time and yet somehow they'll still find ways to [ __ ] that up like with sword and shield where they just get rid of like half of the roster anyway I'm getting off on a tangent point is
• 02:00 - 02:30 there are a lot of blunders here that to me make no sense because Pokemon is the most lucrative property ever like on the planet so why aren't the games amazing and why do the games often times just feel exactly the same without any moving forward rcus was the first time in a long time I had actual optimism for Game Freak delivering a highquality Pokémon experience and back when I reviewed it I actually caught a lot of [ __ ] for being so positive on it cuz it did have flaws
• 02:30 - 03:00 but I thought all of the DNA and all of the groundwork laid a great foundation for what could be an amazing Pokemon formula going forward and with Pokemon Legend Za I was expecting that to be improved upon built upon and be really impressive but in this trailer it feels like they just went backwards somehow again which they've done before so I was pretty disappointed me critiquing these games and wanting them to be better doesn't mean that I just blindly hate Pokemon I have been playing playing
• 03:00 - 03:30 Pokémon games since the late '90s well before the majority of you were even embarking on your zygotic adventure into this world in the first place I am the furthest thing from just a blind Pokemon hater I am just someone who wants the games to be as good as they could and absolutely should be and I don't know why we have this extremely low standard we're just doing the very bare minimum with this IP is all of a sudden serviceable and should be you know celebrated like oh look game freak did
• 03:30 - 04:00 the same thing again yes anyway though let me play you a clip from what I believe to be the laziest thing game freak has done ever from this trailer and it's their wild zones to help people and Pokémon coexist the city has set up wild zones these areas located throughout lumos give wild Pokemon habitats where they can Thrive to catch one of these wild
• 04:00 - 04:30 Pokémon aim carefully then throw a Pokeball this to me is a massive step backwards because now you don't even just have exploration going to different zones and biomes to find Pokemon now you just go into a city go through a hologram and you just see a couple Pokemon on the street like that one next to a car what like how can you possibly defend that that is beyond lazy so now
• 04:30 - 05:00 you just have the same [ __ ] copy and pasted jpeg buildings and you'll just go through and then you'll see a couple Pokemon spawn and that's it you don't even have the exploration now I'm sure the game won't just be lumos at least fingers crossed it won't [ __ ] me in the face turns out I was wrong it's set entirely within lumio City wow that makes me significantly more disappointed here how your interaction with Pokemon in this game is exclusively through these wild zones it seems that is
• 05:00 - 05:30 mind-numbing I I really think that is terrible in my opinion sucks major ass I would even go as far up the food chain as saying it sucks Colonel and maybe even General ass it I it's just it is watering down one of the most core features of Pokemon which is going around exploring going to different regions of the map and finding different Pokemon there here you just go through the city and just hit different wild
• 05:30 - 06:00 zones that just put them in [ __ ] parking spots like that Fletchling that was just posting up next to the car or there was I there was another Pokemon I couldn't quite tell what it was that was just next to an umbrella and one of the complaints I had in Pokemon Legends arus was you would be exploring and then there wouldn't be many Pokemon that you could see because the draw distance was really bad and they couldn't spawn a lot on the screen at any one time so it felt a little empty well here it has that same problem but now you don't even have the exploration now just still have two
• 06:00 - 06:30 Pokémon on screen but they're just standing around in a really boring looking City it'd be a lot better if you could leave lumos and I don't know maybe you can even though what I read says it takes place entirely in there so it doesn't seem like you can but it'd be better if you could and like go out into the world and this would just be like the Hub that also had the wild zones that would be a lot better but it doesn't seem like that's the direction at all so definitely not a fan of that and I really don't know how you can mental gymnastics an explanation for how
• 06:30 - 07:00 getting rid of exploration in different biomes in order to just strip it down to just a couple of well couple I'm sure there's going to be tons of wild zones that are just again the city landscape with a couple of Pokemon sprinkled in there just Tiddly Winks of Pokemon placed around is somehow better than the exploration elements I think it is just a massive downgrade if you're having a hard time catching
• 07:00 - 07:30 one have one of your Pokemon use its moves to weaken the target making it easier to catch I just don't see how that looks like an exciting change I maybe I maybe I'm crazy maybe I'm on the the stupid pills here but fighting a Pokemon on a rooftop cool one time but not when all you have is Battle a Pokemon on a rooftop or some streets or like an Alleyway that's lame like I I just don't I don't see that is a positive thing at
• 07:30 - 08:00 all this game offers a style of Pokémon battling not seen in previous titles moves can have a longer or shorter reach or different areas of effect so choose your timing and positioning carefully to gain the upper [Music] hand lead your partner Pokémon through battles and Dodge incoming attacks now this was a big change that people thought was very hype I am of The Firm
• 08:00 - 08:30 Stance it's not that hype I'm sorry to say yes the introduction of being able to move during the battles is nice because you can dodge attacks and it seems like it's not just traditional turn-based even though I like turn-based it is a change for sure but I I think I'm a little more lukewarm on it than most people seem to be this isn't like a you know call your grandma up just [ __ ] you know hyperventilating over how huge this is to me this is what I
• 08:30 - 09:00 would have expected more of because this is an extension of something rcus introduced us to dipping its toes in there with the boss fights in Pokemon Legends RCS you might remember during the boss fights you can move around during the actual encounter you can dodge then you're [ __ ] throwing Tomatoes at it you're not actually throwing Tomatoes but you yourself are engaging with the boss fight and you're moving while doing so and they took that mechanic and they're introducing it to normal B normal Pokemon battles it seems not just boss battles which I think is a solid direction to go and I imagine
• 09:00 - 09:30 it'll probably feel like a good quality of life change but it doesn't feel like a completely new combat system for Pokemon that game freak has really went into the lab and they worked tirelessly night and day to reinvent Pokemon you know combat from the ground up the gameplay has totally changed it just seems like it's a nice quality of life feature that they probably should have had a long long time ago and it does feel like a tweak from Legends arus which I think is good and I wish they had done more of it but feels like instead of like building on Rus or
• 09:30 - 10:00 tweaking things from Rus it was more like stepping back from what they were exploring there and this to me is a good change but not super new like it doesn't beat the allegations of same freak just doing the same [ __ ] every time it seems like they introduced something that will feel better but I don't think it's going to be all that different or feel all that new now in the trailer you might have also noticed that that the moves
• 10:00 - 10:30 appear to go on cool down that's also different and it's what I meant when I said that it doesn't feel like it or it doesn't seem like it goes like in a traditional turn-based system but I don't know if that's necessarily even going to change it being pseudo turn-based Because unless I'm misremembering I didn't see any battle that was presented there that had two moves on coold down at the same time so it feels like you can use a move it'll go on coold down but then you'll have to use another move or wait for that one to
• 10:30 - 11:00 come off cool down I don't think you can go like this move then this move and they both go on cool down at least I didn't see that in the trailer so it feels like it'll probably still end up being somewhat turn-based but I guess we'll have to wait to see more to see how that uh cooldown feature actually plays into all of this and then another thing people were super excited for is they're bringing Mega Evolutions back if you really liked Mega Evolutions I'm sure you were probably you know stars in your eyes over the moon about that but to me again it's not new and
• 11:00 - 11:30 it's not pushing it forward it's just bringing back something a lot of fans probably would like to see be brought back with mega evolutions but to me again this is still not like a massive leap for Pokemon games to me it feels like a step back from what rcus was trying to push and me saying that on stream people were not super pleased with but I I just really think it's kind of inarguable there still no voice
• 11:30 - 12:00 acting which I think is going to be a complaint we'll be having for the next 50 years I think at this point it's just spite I just feel like they're just doing it out of spite we're not adding voice acting we're not improving the visuals we're not adding you know more Pokemon on stream we're not on screen we're not improving draw distance suck our dick like to me it feels like it's just out of spite at this point and I know people always point to Hardware limitations and yes the switch is very underpowered hopefully the switch 2 fixes that the specs that have released for the switch 2 seem like it's going to be pretty powerful but for the current
• 12:00 - 12:30 switch Yeah it's barely more powerful than a calculator but that doesn't mean that the games have to be like this look at Zelda look at Xenoblade like come on there is still so much you can squeeze out of a switch that for some reason game freak doesn't for Pokemon the most profitable franchise on the planet doesn't make sense to me these games should be better they could be better people didn't like when I brought up this comparison but I'm going to do it again power world has proven that this
• 12:30 - 13:00 formula of creature catching has so much room for Innovation and that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what's possible with this genre and Pokemon is just really content just cruising going through the motions on idle mode doing less than the bare minimum in many circumstances with this property so yes I know power world and Pokemon they don't play the same they are very different games but they do share very similar traits and power
• 13:00 - 13:30 world did all of it better than Pokemon just I think full stop power world did everything better and ate Pokemon's lunch and I just really hope at some point Pokemon puts real effort into delivering a genuinely great game again cuz it's been a while rcus has been their best attempt people disagree with me when I say that but I really do believe that arus was their best attemp attempt at trying new things and
• 13:30 - 14:00 actually trying to deliver a new experience with Pokémon and with what we've just seen with Pokemon Za I feel as though they have now just abandoned that and are just going back to cruise control so yes I was not a huge fan of Pokemon Legend Za extended look hopefully as more comes out maybe it looks better and better and I'm looking like a real fool cuz the game's stunning it's actually amazing with so many cool new things at it to it but from what I've seen right now doesn't appear to be
• 14:00 - 14:30 the case that doesn't mean that I'm not a fan of Pokemon or and just a a hater of it or anything so yeah that's really about it see yeah