Games like this rilly make me wish steam had a inbetween thingy istead of just ''yes i recomend'' or ''No i dont recomend"
IMPORTANT : as of making this review im only on the 4th region of the game, so this will definetly be updated in the future
Anyway, brass tax, so gamefreak made a game other than pokemon and as somebody who played and somehow enjoyed scarlet and violet despite thier meny problems i was very interested to see gamefreak tackling what the community says is a souls like....it rilly aint, its more sekiro, lets get into that
I will say this here and i will say this now, with how pokemon is treated you may expect the absolute worst of this game witch, ay, fair but this is not a bad game, nor is it a amazing one, its a perfectly ''fine to spend some time with'' game, You will definetly notice its meny flaws but there is plenty to stay for mainly the combat
As said this game is more sekiro like than souls like, having a massive emphasis on performing parrys and perfect dodges, and here comes one of the big selling points of the game, Your dog friend, Parrying charges a bar that allows you to do various special attacks with your dogs witch can rilly help with fights especialy if the enemy is weak to the attack, performing a QtE perfectly with the attacks also heals you a bit, so you definetly wanne make those parrys and make your dog attack as mutch as possible, you can also equip items on the dog witch he will automaticaly use in battle witch is very nice, Combat in of itself though is very fluid and satisfying, a good verity of combos witch you unlock from defeating the games bosses give a good bit of depth to it while letting you end fights with very satisfying executions,
The enemy verity so far leaves something to be desired though, The humanoid robots are very fun to parry and they definetly have a good amount of them at the start but very quickly they just start getting samey, but the animals definetly suffer as it seems you only get like, 1 new animal enemy per region, its a shame rilly
The story is Definetly the weakest part of this game, its the avradge "big apocalyptic event happens and you gotta stop it, get the meguffins to beat it" type story, Its not offensivly bad, but it also aint good, its just there and can definetly drag on at times (luckly i heard gamefreak is planning on updating this)
And look ik you may have come here from pokemon so ik what you are gonne ask ''How are the graphics" and well, they are definetly not awfull, hell ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ leagues ahead of scarlet and violet...But there are definetly a lot of short comings, the amount of times i saw see through objects, Wierdly modeld satilites or the grass having a rave party that hurts my eyes is....more than i whould like,
And well yea thats pretty mutch what i whould describe this game as in every sense, Not offensivly bad, but not great with its meny shortcomings, ESPECIALY NOT FOR ITS PRICE POINT, The combat is rilly great, everything else is middling at best so i whould say, get it on sale and when you have nothing else better to do, its a perfect ''just to pass the time'' game, witch ay, if you ask me, gamefreak is rilly good at making those and that aint even rilly a critique,
I am most definetly curious at the updates this game will get and hell if gamefreak may potenticaly cook up some DLC for it, All in all, You did good gamefreak, it aint at all perfect, but you did good
