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Pokémon has always just been cock fighting with a kid friendly coat of paint. That is part of what makes Pal World entertaining. It removes the facade and shows the genre for what it is.

Aaron People actually did complain about the loading screen patent. Maybe you are too young or just don’t remember, but I saw it quite a bit over the years. It’s just been so long now that that idea is sort of lost to time and we never got to see what others might have done with that idea.

Impybots I’d argue the Nemesis system is example of why patents on game mechanics shouldn’t be allowed. WB has the patent and is now doing nothing with it. It was going to be used in a Wonder Woman game, but that was cancelled and the studio closed. And that studio, Monolith, was whom also made the Middle-Earth games. So now what? Chances are we will simply be denied the ability to see the system in another game for the next decade or two.

You literally brought console war nonsense into an article about a 3rd party controller. So, again, you don’t have any grounds to be calling out others for “propaganda” or claiming they are “bots”.

Hold on. You can't claim there is no way for a game to be "too long" and then also claim pacing isn't part of the discussion. That's absurd.

There have been quite a few games where people will say something like, "the game really gets good about 10 hours in". That IS a problem for a lot of people. Not everyone is willing to grind X boring hours for the hope that it gets better some time later. Pacing matters A LOT especially in games that are very long.

It looks better than I expected. I'd wager the frame rate might be janky at times, but it looks good enough that I think Switch owners will still enjoy the game. Plus, if the Switch 2 is close-ish and backwards compatible you'll almost certainly get a better experience there when that system launches.