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thesnwmn

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The ball throwing feels a bit disconnected from actions to me. Yes I can control direction, speed and timing but there's little subteltly from what I've noticed. I don't feel like it's me throwing. I feel like I'm instructing a throw.

 

Which is actually a bit of a shame when coming from Pokémon Go which is (in my opinion) a lovely system easy enough for anyone to use but with lots of scope to improve with (consistent curved excellents take time, pacience and practice but reward with vastly improved catch rates).

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Well, I'm loving it!

 

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Yes, I know. I also don't care.

 

I caught a wild Bulbasaur in Viridian Forest, which had me really happy , and then

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I was just handed one in Cerulean City 

 so, it's clearly a Yellow remix. Which is cool, because Yellow was the first one I played. (On behalf of my nephew who had traded his starter Pikachu for a Gyarados that wouldn't listen to him, and now he was stuck getting through Mt. Moon so my sister asked if I would help him. About 10 hours later I gave him the game back, and bought my own copy the next day.) I thought I would be too annoyed with the "easy mode" mentality, but there have still been some "Oh, fuck off!" moments in Mt. Moon when there were just so fucking many Zubats flying around! 

 

They've absolutely nailed it. I only caved because I saw 10 of my friends playing it last night, but then put 4 hours into it this afternoon. 

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The ball is a shit controller but it's hilarious taking it for a walk and having it make little Pokemon noises as you trundle around with it, depending on what Pokemon you've got inside it. My other half turned up for a Pogo raid with it earlier and got the piss ripped out of her, but you could tell they were all jealous really.

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Was getting mixed results throwing the ball. You *can* apply spin/aftertouch, but seeing as it’s so delayed and inaccurate, it doesn’t seem to matter. 

 

Using the Switch in handheld feels like cheating though as it’s so easy. 

 

It is great for levelling up Pokémon though. My walk to the gym and back this morning levelled up a Bulbasaur from 4 to 17, it learned two moves and evolved into an Ivysaur. Going to use it to level up Metapod, Magikarp, etc. 

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Spent my first hour on it last night with my six year old, didn’t make much progress beyond reaching the second town. 

 

Woke up this morning to find he had been playing for 80 mins while I was asleep, he’s beaten Brock & is in a cave system somewhere!

 

Still got the same first Pokemon we caught in his party, so Pikachu, two oddish, two Pidgey & a Rattata. Need to teach him about swapping Pokemon around. 

 

He seems to be enjoying it a lot, not sure when I’m actually going to get a look in. 

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16 hours ago, shirubagan said:

Was getting mixed results throwing the ball. You *can* apply spin/aftertouch, but seeing as it’s so delayed and inaccurate, it doesn’t seem to matter. 

 

Using the Switch in handheld feels like cheating though as it’s so easy. 

 

Well, that explains why catching Pokémon seems so perfunctory. It barely feels like a game when you're catching them in handheld, which is the only way I've been playing, but if there's some motion-controlled way of playing on the TV instead, that explains a lot.

 

Despite the rather bland catching mechanics, I'm enjoying this more than any Pokémon game I've played before. :o I am also getting completely fucked up by Misty and her bloody Starmie. I've spent the last couple of hours levelling up my team and I still can't beat her.

 

I also appear to be stuck in the Cerulean City area. I can't go back the way I came (little ledges I can't climb up) and there are shrubs blocking the other routes which I can't seem to cut yet. Bill's house is a dead end. Do I have to beat Misty before I can go anywhere else?

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Nespresso

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Just started playing myself and this TV control scheme is utterly terrible isn't it? I started off with the left joy-con which the game didn't even recognize as it kept giving me the button prompts for the other joy-con. So I switched over but it's just such a bad way to control a game with one thumb having to do all the work. 

 

So now I'm holding the right joy-con vertically between two hands so I can move and interact at the same time, as any fucking game allows you to do these days. What a mess! :lol:

 

Think I'll have to resort to handheld mode when playing this. At home. Wat. 

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thesnwmn

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3 minutes ago, VN1X said:

Just started playing myself and this TV control scheme is utterly terrible isn't it? I started off with the left joy-con which the game didn't even recognize as it kept giving me the button prompts for the other joy-con. So I switched over but it's just such a bad way to control a game with one thumb having to do all the work. 

 

So now I'm holding the right joy-con vertically between two hands so I can move and interact at the same time, as any fucking game allows you to do these days. What a mess! :lol:

 

Think I'll have to resort to handheld mode when playing this. At home. Wat. 

 

You can actually use the trigger for interact so that the thumb can stay on the stick )0(or press the stick - urgh). So one hand works... until you need to press ‘B’

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thesnwmn

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14 minutes ago, ann coulter said:

 

Well, that explains why catching Pokémon seems so perfunctory. It barely feels like a game when you're catching them in handheld, which is the only way I've been playing, but if there's some motion-controlled way of playing on the TV instead, that explains a lot.

 

Despite the rather bland catching mechanics, I'm enjoying this more than any Pokémon game I've played before. :o I am also getting completely fucked up by Misty and her bloody Starmie. I've spent the last couple of hours levelling up my team and I still can't beat her.

 

I also appear to be stuck in the Cerulean City area. I can't go back the way I came (little ledges I can't climb up) and there are shrubs blocking the other routes which I can't seem to cut yet. Bill's house is a dead end. Do I have to beat Misty before I can go anywhere else?

 

Im assuming your playing eevee if you are struggling with the water gym.

 

But there is a way to improve your starter’s moves... specifically making it possible to have an electric move on eevee which should trivialise water types a little.

 

location spoilered.

 

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There’s a move trainer in the pokemon center of the same town.

Another appears latter with a few more move types.

 

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Water gym was a fucking walkover with Eevee. Buzzy Buzz one hit kills everything. In fact, the first five hours have been a piece of piss, almost everything being one hit, until I got to Sgt Surge who obliterated everyone as I had no ground types.

 

Daughter is playing with the ball but I’m mainly using the right joycon which is pretty much perfect.

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After asking a few questions here yesterday, I caved and downloaded this last night, and I’m very happy with it.

 

I was concerned with all the reports of a “proper” Pokémon game coming next year, thinking this would be a bastardised and far too light a version. However, it is pretty much what I recall from Black and White and X and Y, but nicely streamlined too. The lack of random battles is a big plus for me, and I love from what I’ve seen so far anyway, that they have got rid of the same repetitive superfluous text to skip through every time you speak to people in certain buildings, etc.

 

I haven’t ventured too far as yet, but I did beat Brock this morning, and I cannot wait to continue with it.

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24 minutes ago, Stejay said:

The lack of random battles is a big plus for me

 

I can’t get more than a minute without having to fight some chancer. There’s loads. Assume you don’t have to fight them twice.

 

I hope.

 

What’s the best way of finding out what’s best attack/type of attack on opponents? Other than cheating on google, I mean. I assume it’s standard Rock Paper Scissors stuff 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Strafe said:

 

I can’t get more than a minute without having to fight some chancer. There’s loads. Assume you don’t have to fight them twice.

 

I hope.

 

 

 

They aren’t random. In previous games you’d end up in loads of random battles in long grass, caves, etc, and it could be a real pain when you just wanted to quickly get to another area.

 

The fights you are on about with rival trainers should just be one off fights if it is the same as the previous games.

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Nespresso

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54 minutes ago, Azrael said:

I don't like the catching in handheld mode can't seem to be able to get excellent/great throws like I can with the ball controller 

What's the point of that btw? 

 

Also how do you level up in this now? Are you supposed to keep catching duplicate Pokémon and then sell/trade them after? 

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2 hours ago, shirubagan said:

That’s Charizard and Ivysaur found. Just need a Squirtle now for the OG three. 

 

Absolutley destroyed the second gym. Starting with Pika makes it kind of unfair :lol: 

 

I've got Let's Go Eevee, and found several pikachu on Route 2 so super early on! :) 

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