More On Exposing Game Freak

[@GireumRed]

DO NOT MISS LAST VIDEO: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nne6m5ucna99p6c

[@TheChocolatBlanc]

Isn’t this the latest video? xdd Thks for the content!

[@Ferrothorn462]

@@TheChocolatBlanc This is the latest; that is a prequel to this video (part 1 & 2 or something)

[@jngo172]

Why don’t Pokémon fans just quit playing Pokémon games and move to fighting games like Guilty Gear, Skullgirls, or Dragon Ball FighterZ?

[@Ferrothorn462]

@@jngo172 Well, more children keep existing so when the 7 year olds from Johto are grown up, the 7 year olds from Alola are 7 year olds(there's much more of them too), and others have silently moved on Some still play cause rare things are only worth anything when people want it. Because they can't get it or they want it, like a skin in fortnite, it really isn't worth anything. Kids have a dopamine bar like a hunger bar in minecraft Another factor is that "this game was their childhood" but they should probably move on I say all of this as a pokemon fan, I really like it but every game follows the same type of plot and they don't do different things often They also do (actually very smart) stuff like removing a feature from a new game and then adding it back in the next game, easy money for people being robbed of something easily fixable So when shinies have another effect in the next game but not in SV, this is an example Or when they add back set mode, little stuff like that but at the end of the day they are profiting and people are more likely to spend more money to be satisfied in an intentionally bad game than to drop it and feel happy. That's how corporations get big and stay big Think back to math class with Absolute value. Negativity gets more attention which can be used to advertise the good parts. Negativity bias and lower attention spans work well for this. Seeing the psychological factors and potential ones is key to understanding more I don't think most people know these things though, it would be nice if other people knew, but unfortunately 'nice guys finish last' so the people talking about those issues (if there are any) are clouded by the next new nuzlocke challenge (they're all the same)

[@sammyhorace7523]

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[@ClydeJHatbird]

That BDSP reveal trailer screamed, "we're throwing ILCA under the bus." It was so bizarre how the specifically pointed out that some one else would be doing the work, almost as if they were saying, "here's who to blame." I knew from the moment I saw that that something was up. Not to mention, I later learned that they were sabotaged, told to hold back as not to out shine Arceus. Those games were treated like budget titles in a series that is already treated as such. Even worse, when I saw that ILCA was making One Piece Odyssey, I knew something had gone wrong. That game looked amazing and played as such, when I got my hands on the demo. I noticed it looked strikingly similar to Dragon Quest 11 and-- oh, wouldn't you know it, ILCA helped make that game. Those guys got a bad hand and, just as the company intended, they're constantly being blamed for those remakes flopping.

[@ChronoSquare]

I had no idea they were responsible for those other games. :O

[@dse763]

The last time I heard a company sabotage its own game, it was SEGA of Japan trying to sunk Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric from Big Red Button, as it was SEGA of America idea to make this game and SoJ decided to put on the Wii U so BRB will have a hard time to make the game, as it ran on the Crysis Engine and pretty much killed the project at the cost of making another bad Sonic Game (through not as bad as 06).

[@lipika2841]

Even if they're not some major company, they can still do way better than whatever was BDSP.

[@PJNyte]

Wow, the greed is real. Pokemon already pump out a game every damn year and this time they decided to shit out THREE.

[@polocatfan]

​@@lipika2841yeah this. how do you make a calculator not work properly??? I can't defend the devs for this.

[@lnsflare1]

As I'm given to understand it, ILCA had their hands on Nier: Automata, Dragon Quest XI, One Piece Odyssey, etc... so it suggests that Game Freak was probably the one who hamstrung the development of BDSP rather than the other way around.

[@predo5823]

Its really sad to see when an amazing concept or a beloved franchise are turned into passionless projects made only for money with minimal effort, just like Pokemon games. And it hurts because you know that it could have been better

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

And the fans have proven it so. They've made better games part time as a passion then a well funded company does full time as an occupation.

[@Esperchu]

@@The_Phoenix_Saga Thankfully that sentiment seems to be becoming more common.

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

@@Esperchu Hopefully so. Because the more people accept half-baked trash, the more the company will try and get away with doing less and earning more.

[@jiyanmehta7250]

​@@Esperchuunfortunately nothing is going to change.Its still gonna make buck regardless because of a niche dumb fanbase that is there only because of some nostalgia-bait,but the best thing to do is to vote with your wallet,don't buy it,move on and forget about the franchise.

[@atomic_hok]

​@@Esperchuproblem is what's happening with pokemon is happening with every major AAA game being released over the last 4-5 years it's all just half assed content that is nowhere near the potential of said games. All of the AAA companies are only in it for the money instead of making a good game unlike how it used to be. Games stopped being made by gamers and now they're made by corporations, it's very sad what's happening.

[@startheangel9760]

With the quality of the Pokemon games on the Switch and how fast they produce them, the reviews are real

[@be2957]

They’re actually bad quality bc they literally don’t care and refuse to hire new ppl

[@doorbox788]

@@be2957yeah pretty much. Overworked employees who are expected to do the workload of 2 people and make a flawless game, while also being expected to outdo last years release

[@Celis.C]

Despite all the flaws and lack of care from upper management, I do think respect and compliments are in order for the developers at the bottom of the ladder who somehow have to magically make a game happen yearly despite all that. Yes, the bugs and lackluster performance are a real issue, but SV has been amazingly fun regardless. If management cares not, then this is testament to the developers who do still care. I'd be very curious to hear their story.

[@be2957]

@@Celis.C you’re stupid if you think the dev time is only one year

[@acoolcat.]

​@Celis.C it's fun for what it is but stil feels so empty. Like the devs didn't want to make an open world but were forced to. There aren't any minigames or side quests or really anything else to do. I know there's gonna be dlc but those too are more than likely going to be rushed and empty. The solution to the games problems is not add more big empty open areas, it's actually add more things to do. I do agree the devs get way to hard of a time while I do think they are trying the best with what they have, some of the few small details show they care just don't have enough resources to make something truly good.

[@compatriot852]

Reading job reviews is a good way to understand the management and work environment. Valve for example is infamously known for abandoning development of games, and the reviews back it up

[@kstanni87]

And they hate the number 3

[@TheAntlionGuard]

It really sucks how many potentially amazing games have gotten abandoned. I’m still upset about Stars of Blood

[@bradwhite5884]

​@@kstanni87 Pokémon Z comes to mind

[@moonwarrior3342]

Well that explains why it took years for TF2 to recently get a real update.

@@Loner098 I think they were referring to Valve already.

[@SpectreXS]

It's very interesting that the "it will sell anyway" phrase has been an inside meme since 2021. That's where your "love and dedication" as fans, and most importantly, money, is going. This is why I refuse to buy any modern pokémon game, and haven't really missed out on anything for the past several years. At most, retro games from the secondary market.

[@aikou2886]

Me too. I skipped everything between Sun and Violet. Only got Brilliant Diamond and Violet but kinda regretted it.

[@gracefulruffian]

ive been playing rom hacks instead. what the fans make blows modern pokemon out of the water

[@TheAntlionGuard]

For real. I’ve been having so much fun with Emerald Rogue.

[@Generaider]

@@gracefulruffian Ironically enough BDSP are looking to be prime romhack material because they were made in Unity

[@giganticmoon]

@@aikou2886Honestly, Sun’s pretty good, but after that, it’s bad.

[@myhairhasamindofitsown]

"it will sell well anyways" is why, unfortunately, a boycot will never fold GF and TPC. Not to mention, in the event of a succesful boycot, the games make but a drop compared to everything they racket on merchandising and licensing. However, with the release of SV and their... interestig graphic shenaningans (as well as turning every Switch into a portable heater), Nintendo had to put out a statement. I don't think they have *ever* in their recent history, to put out an estatement regarding the state of a game on release. And I don't think this is something that Nintendo likes very much, considering how invested they are in the image they project. GF is a company trying to make a 60$ AAA game with the structure and budget of a 40$ handheld, that is going to burst eventually and we're already seeing the craks. Economic preasure might not ever come to be the solution, but perhaps their public presence can tank low enough to force them into changing things.

[@matiasrivas1692]

That does seem like the likeliest reason for things to change. Nintendo cares alot about it's public image, they must know how much a couple of unpolished releases can tarnish a franchise's name even long after they've grown past it. They don't even have to look overseas to observe that phenomenon, they just have to look at Sega. Despite the nature of the three way deal they have with Game Freak and Creatures Inc., Pokemon games have Nintendo's name all over them and have been a regular fixture of their release schedule since at least the early 2000s when the Pokemon Company was formed. And now they see that one of their major franchises has been gaining a reputation for being uninspired, boring and underdeveloped since Gen 8, and now Gen 9 is adding technically unpolished to the list. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo brought up some concerns in a meeting.

[@laggingdragons]

Werster sort of talked about this, actually. The point of a company is growth, that's capitalism in a nutshell. Pokemon is Game Freak's only product, essentially, and while it continues to break records for itself, it grows in revenue less and less each time a new main series game drops. It's to the point where if you chart the growth of game sales for series like Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc. Pokemon comes out with an embarrassingly low curve compared to every single one of its competitors. Yes, Pokemon prints money (as the old memes begging for Gen 3 remakes back in the Gen 5 days said), but the people up at the top of the company can very clearly see that if they keep squeezing the life out of this franchise (the biggest franchise in the world, mind you) that they'll eventually squeeze out all of that life and kill it, and if they value long-term growth and success (as they should if they're trying to be a successful company) then they'll change things to prevent that from happening. I think that's why Legends: Arceus even exists and that the very public blunder that was SV's release showed them that merely changing the formula isn't going to work anymore, that the rot runs deeper than that. I'm not optimistic for Pokemon's future, nor am I hopeful that the games will get better. But if I know anything about the way the world works it's that at the level upon which Pokemon as a franchise operates, money literally makes the world go 'round, and that those people up on that shelf overhead know they need to change things and they need to make sure those changes happen swiftly and that they don't backfire. Pokemon will be very different in a few years, if money says anything about it (and money always talks).

[@ice8erg]

Sad when the $30 games were better 😂

[@myhairhasamindofitsown]

@@ice8erg Well, to an extent. I'd consider G4 and G5 the genuinely good pokemon games. G3 are alright. G1 and G2 not good, they just have nostalgia and the grandfather's clause working for them.

[@zebnemma]

I've been boycotting Pokemon games since I was 15. Cuz I realized 15 years ago that Pokemon has reached it's limit under Gamefreak. They have no passion for the pokemon franchise. None. They could have done sooooo much more with an amazing core idea that Pokemon has. I bought Pokemon Sapphire and pokemon Emerald and Pokemon Green Leaf. And when I bought pokemon Emerald I realized I had been scammed, cuz kid me thought it was a new game, but it was sapphire+ ruby combined... And from that point forward I got a sour taste for Pokemon games. If kid me is smarter than 99% of the pokemon fanbase you guys are such suckers, what can I even say...

[@MrBsosa]

About the false positive reviews, watching the last video some of the positive reviews felt off. Not all of them, but there were a couple of them that gave off a certain vibe. When I was younger I worked at a Dunkin Donuts. At the end of every month our manager would make us write positive reviews for our particular Dunkin location on the company’s review site. Some of the positive Game Freak reviews read like the same generic bullshit my co-workers and I would write at the end of every month to appease our boss.

[@brigittahegarini7162]

True. I think one of the 5 stars review only filled with criticism

[@bandicootsauce4569]

GameFreak knew that they couldn't make a good Diamond & Pearl remake on modern hardware if they actually tried, so they handed the project off to another development team (ILCA) so they could take the inevitable fall in place of GameFreak, making the latter company look like heroes by comparison when they made Legends: Arceus, a game that was only halfway decent, but looked like the second coming of Christ compared to BDSP.

[@haroldnecmann7040]

Gamefreak deserved the backlash, ILCA was done dirty by Gamefreak

[@Te3time]

Legends of arceus is so much uglier than bdsp idgi

[@almond3066]

Thank you for saying that legends wasn't as good as everyone made it out to be when it came out, with how people were praising it you'd think they made the most perfect pokemon game ever Then everyone praising it as the best game ever stopped talking about it after like, two months lol

[@bandicootsauce4569]

Even if GameFreak employees call the company out for its bullsh*t, it doesn't matter. It won't change anything, and Pokémon's online defenders will just make excuses for the company like "These employees were obviously just ungrateful for the jobs they had and should've taken the poor/abusive working conditions in stride" or some such pretentious, dismissive sh*t.

[@NitwitsWorld]

Pokémon fans are clowns so no surprise 😅

[@Te3time]

It doesn't matter what fans think or if they're defending them the only thing that matters is if ppl will keep buying the games or not

[@SMCwasTaken]

​@@Te3timedon't lose hope, GAMERS ARISE

[@alicevioleta3184]

as bad as GF is, i think the core problem is nintendo. it's nintendo that forces pokemon as a franchise to produce product yearly. back when we considered the games to be good, they had multi-year dev cycles. gen 1 had SIX years, and gen 4 had four. these days, games come out yearly.

[@jiyanmehta7250]

@@alicevioleta3184 it's not nintendo.Nintendo is just an affiliate and a co-owner who publishes their games,although to some extent they're at fault too for not stepping in,but they won't coz it's a cash cow.Its mainly GameFreaks fault here...TPC is responsible for marketing,GF gives them a window for release and then they act upon that,the franchise and anime and merch...so the weak link is GameFreak.Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@jpcsdutra]

Thank you for noticing me, Senpai! I don't have much to add in this video, except I've always found the decision on ILCA handling BDSP was always insidious on some level. The only big Pokémon name associated with the project, as far as I know, was Masuda. What is it about ILCA? Is it a matter of game industry nepotism, or is it some kind of managerial 4D Chess? I know that game dev circles, even in Tokyo, were fairly tight. If Masuda wasn't favoring someone he knew, it could mean one of two things that I can think off: A- There was an active effort to undermine mainline Pokémon outside of Gamefreak's hands, by creating a scenario where another small team couldn't do the same with a much anticipated entry and preventing TPC or Nintendo to be enticed into somehow take it from GF's hands. Or B- In the off chance ILCA actually pulled it off, the company could be acquired or bought out and assimilated into doing some heavy lifting in future projects. Either way, it always felt like there was some kind of game at play. This is not a decision that would have been made without an ulterior motive.

[@ericwijaya2119]

After Scarlet and Violet I wasn't all that surprised that "it will sell anyway" is the corporate mindset of Game Freak Thankfully there's just about enough monster taming games for me to migrate towards and forget about wanting the newer Pokémon games

[@kishiberohan7955]

Masuda during generation 9’s development: “it just works”

[@Themasktrooper]

ILCA is probably remaking Gen 5 by now they’re probably going to use the ugly chibi art style and release the game with glitches and game breaking bugs

[@vittoriomassaro8131]

Immagine if they change the story making it more childish💀

[@c0mpu73rguy]

Hence why I would rather have gen 5 just be re-released on the virtual console somehow.

[@Themasktrooper]

@@c0mpu73rguy I doubt the Pokémon Company would do that because they’re want more money to swim in it

[@mendipodealex8705]

ILCA made One Piece Odyssey. Just Saying

[@Themasktrooper]

@@mendipodealex8705 Bandai Namco gave ILCA more time the Pokémon company didn’t

[@brandonpitre4196]

As someone who loves Pokémon, I’m happy we have you fighting the developers bs

[@Dash123456789Brawl]

Please try to remember, the BS comes from the companies and money people, not the artists working to create the game itself.

[@adroitws1367]

then stop supporting half baked product smh

[@jiyanmehta7250]

​@@Dash123456789Brawlwell it definitely comes from the devs as well

[@TheSpeedfoever]

​@@adroitws1367we gotta support it though even if it's half baked we love it at the end of the day so come on

[@adroitws1367]

@@TheSpeedfoever lol, that mentality is precisely how the big corporation abuse their consumer

[@number3766]

I mean, as a shitty programmer, the pokemon games have felt similar to Baldy's basics. Amazing dev team. Budget of half a Snickers bar. Deadline of 24 hours. I bet most of the programming notes are just "This is a horrible way of doing this, but I don't have time for a clean implementation." "This will cause issues later, but it will work for now" "This will cause a crash and memory leak but I needed this done yesterday" "Engines still fucked, make everything look like shit or the cpu's gonna melt again." "Fuck, the dev kit is two iterations behind. Guess I'm never going home" "I don't know why this tf2 coconut png is here, but when I deleted it the game would not start. Words cannot express my fucking confusion. Valve dosen't even use pngs!"

[@bettyunicorn6132]

amazing

[@PsypherWolf]

TF2 had some cheeky notes like that in its code for a while.

[@Twiddle_things]

Dude's comparing buggy ass Paldea buggy ass Galar to Baldi's Basics 😔 One had passion behind it and was intentionally garbage, the other... wait

[@brigittahegarini7162]

Baldi was on purpose though. Can't say the same for Pokemon

[@laifyalif]

@@Twiddle_things LOL

[@mendipodealex8705]

Remember that Bandai Namco got ILCA to create One Piece Odyssey. A JRPG that looks leagues better than BDSP. So if GF, TPC & Masuda cared, the remakes would have been better

[@UltraBall23]

And Odyssey plays like shit, is clouded with menus, and runs slowly. BDSP looks nice from a graphic standpoint, it’s just the chibi art style they chose we don’t like. Color, reflections, particles, backdrops, lightings, and bloom are doom well. (I wish they used a bit less bloom)

[@aikou2886]

#fuckmasuda Most of the worst decisions in the franchize's history have been masuda's fault (still salty because of the stupid excuse he used to explain why the Battle Frontier was removed) so he obviously doesn't care.

[@mendipodealex8705]

@@UltraBall23 I strongly disagree with your statement. BDSP butcher contest and lacked Platinum content (Story, world aesthetic, dex). Underground was not a good solution because some monsters are random. Also, BDSP copied some glitches from the original and needed to be patched (even tho its a low-effort remake)

[@satanus_369]

@@UltraBall23 BDSP has no Platinum content, it runs like shit with constant glitches left and right and it didn't take 8-way movement into consideration so most puzzles are broken

[@Chaki21]

@@mendipodealex8705 Huh ? He was saying the game looked good, how does this refute his statement ?

[@baelGIGAN]

all the negative press and reviews will eventually catch up to the corporate greed pokemon company upper management and shareholders, or at least it should. but it kinda sucks that most pokemon fans don't play that many other videogames so for a lot of them it doesn't even register how god awful the past few games have been and thus we are in this limbo between gamers complaining and upper management getting their crap together.

[@coolyeh1017]

I think TPC will have an investors meeting in a few months. But what I predict is that sales are high, especially on the TCG and merchandise side while game profits are high they aren't growing. To put some context, in 2022 TPCi increased profits by 123% over the last fiscal year. It might be Gen X or XI till we see any real hits to TPC. TCG products are constantly out of stock even after day one and Pokemon has promised to print to demand. Merchandise sales have been increasing as older fans start earning income, they have also partners with several other companies to make products like baby items, phone accessories, food, etc.

[@SaintMorselGrand]

This is facts, My first game I ever played was Pokemon Pearl, and then Platinum, and the BW2, then XY, to which i got bored and branched off to Minecraft and Ark, and then rom hacks and fangames and i gotta say these games absolutely blow Pokémon outta the water in terms of love and care, game design, and everything. Hell even *Pixelmon* is the best Pokémon experience i have ever gotten, then they striked it, picked up PLA and Scarlett, seeing aspects from Pixelmon in that game and realising every striked game has had some of their concepts introduced into new games as "NEW INNOVATIONS" and thus I've sold my Gen7, 8, and 9 copies because jesus they are god awful rip offs of fan games. Wish they could come with more originality but knowing their budget i know they cant afford that. 😔

[@NitwitsWorld]

@@SaintMorselGrandhope WW3 happens in our lifetime

[@SaintMorselGrand]

@@NitwitsWorld dawg what the hell

[@NitwitsWorld]

@@SaintMorselGrand given alien disclosure happening why not? 😂

[@faimynth6030]

Ive been questioning this for a while on how Gamefreak's treatment towards their own employees is after seeing the horrid drop in quality. There is such a painful proof of evidence we a lack of passion in gamefreak compared to other nintendo projects where if you look into their developer notes and artbooks even if the game isnt as great you can see genuine passion and love for what they're doing... Ive never really felt that for pokemon in recent years and ive been an avid fan for so long

[@robertdowney85]

The three generations behind comment still makes me 😂😂😂

[@coolyeh1017]

Out of curosity I also looked at Pokemon Company International. On glassdoor they have a 4.4 with 100 reviews, while on Indeed they have 17 reviews with an average of 3.9. Generally the pros are that, you work with Pokemon, work culture is very easy going and inclusive, above average benefits and salaries. Also friendly environment, clean and large offices. The cons is that management is very hands off (since they wait for commands from TPC before doing anything) so there are periods of no direction, lack of independence, below average policies for work from home policies during COVID. There are also a few extreme reviews on how HR is very corrupt and that everyone plays office politics (since work only ramps up during the marketing cycle) but if you don't play then you are left alone. Also that because they take orders from TPC things are very slow to change or implement.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

There needs to be skill and passion making the games.

[@youropinionsareshitandsoar1954]

​@@LuigiTheMetal64they're literally a shell of what they used to be

[@Gigachad-hb7ji]

Hold on babe,new Gireum video just dropped.

[@MowseChao]

This lines up pretty well with everything else I know about their situation. I believe even in a GameFreak interview, there was a statement along the lines of "we're really hoping to find more people who specialize in specific technical fields." I wish I knew the exact interview but I'm struggling to find it. It was for Scarlet/Violet though.

[@MrEntinen]

Well there are 2 options. That gamefreaks quality is suberb and everyone is just being silly. Or the quality sucks and gamefreak is being silly. Generally Id go with the option where there is lesser amount of individuals needed to be silly...

[@ktvx.94]

Japanese workers considering whether to work at Game Freak: "It's free real estate!"

[@henry2168]

My impressions were the reviews are trustworthy but they are also a time capsule so it sounds like a lot of the old people holding things back have retired, and some previous problems have gotten better to some degree, but we're still not really seeing results, other than them actually trying new things I guess? but they need to about double their staff with just developers, and then organize better.

[@connordarvall8482]

JPC's comment highlights something for me. A focus on art without taking care of the technical side sounds very much like most RPGmaker games end up being made. Gamefreak is trying to stay an indie studio while the market is forcing them to move on. There's a lesson in this that all indie devs could learn as well as their playerbase.

[@TayoEXE]

Also, as a dev (programmer) myself working in game development, this is the thing I kept urging people to look at. The blame kept going toward devs, but we see them getting the short end of the stick by the higherups and other design decisions that are impossible to develop in a set time with no delays.

[@zjzr08]

To be fair I think most blame goes to the higher ups when talking about stuff like this, people just think it's understood that "development team" mostly means those who do have the power from development. That being said it begs the question, that why do we praise developers when they did something right, and yet seemingly excuse them when things go wrong, rather than making a nuanced look at it (i.e. highers ups could still be bad, but it isn't impossible developers aren't just skilled enough)?

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

The devs should have listened to the fans, and ignore the critics.

[@CesarTorres61296]

There's a reason why I only play PMD games now. At least PMD hasn't been ruined.

[@SMCwasTaken]

Play other RPGs too like the Mario and Luigi RPG series and Earthbound

[@CesarTorres61296]

@@SMCwasTaken I've played all of the Mario & Luigi games and loved them! I also played Mother 3, but I wasn't really a fan of it (still beat the game though).

[@morewi]

I mean you can look at the games and see they are behind technology wise

[@wh6411]

This is a trend you see in the whole product market at the moment. Where product managers live by the mantra of it will sell anyway. As soon as qa or the devs start complaining they are seen as infantile and will be treated as kids from there on, because "they do not understand what we are doing". As a product manager I have been let go before for challenging this and that eventually having a good quality product will not only create initial sells, but will create continuous revenue (for future products). On top of that keeping up with qa related stuff will reduce future development time, which non technical product managers seem to be unable to understand. So yeah really sad to see this happening.

[@shaunallahrakha6126]

I refuse to play BDSP. Sinnoh was my first region, and ILCA damn near killed it

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

The odds that all of those reviews are false is very low.

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

I thought some of these are fake

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

​@@xlbthedemigod5662The pure fact that it's paywalled means they're almost all likely real

[@mega_ferret6359]

Let's face It. Their game's are just turning out worse. Like, come on. I'm not pre ordering Pokémon anymore, unless they can actually make a game with some fucking heart and soul. I'm still waiting for a Pokémon game that can ACTUALLY blow my mind. I have dreamed of truly being able to bond with my Pokémon outside of battle. Now, they just feel like husks with stat blocks more than ever.

[@youropinionsareshitandsoar1954]

Too much money wasted on low quality garbage

[@jonathanchen4987]

I think it would take GF a Sonic 06 version of Pokemon to get a wake up call

[@iantaakalla8180]

Game Freak is at Sonic Team’s level. If this is the Sonic 06, we will have to wait until 2042 at best for a good Pokémon game without any glitches and stuff and that assumes Pokémon will trundle along for that long. This also assumes that this is the Sonic 06 equivalent.

[@Reggie21]

ILCA is founded by some Bandai Namco staff that made the Ace Combat series. They also helped in Ace combat 7 development. For Ace combat 8, ILCA is promoted to be co-developer. They even made a new studio together: Bandai Namco Aces

[@Kevbotomy]

The brand cycle: 1: build trust with a quality initial product 2: cut corners and f***ing milk it 3: run elaborate HR campaigns when consumers complain 4: gtfo before you have to face real consequences 5: yay money

[@TheDwarvenDefender]

HR campaigns? Not PR campaigns?

[@Kevbotomy]

@TheDwarvenDefender lol yeah my bad

[@BlueAizu_]

The saddest thing is that, as lackluster as the games were, BDSP is actually fairly well made for what it is and is one of the most technically sound mainline Pokémon games on the Switch. It's not a great-looking game, but the graphics did improve between the initial trailer and the final release, something Game Freak's games never, ever do. It's locked at 30 frames, but it very rarely drops below that, if it ever does. They basically recreated the entire Pokémon engine in Unity, impressive considering how little time they had to make the game. The Grand Underground was hands down the best part of the game, and that was all ILCA. The Elite Four and postgame battles were 90% brand new and definitely designed by hardcore Pokémon fans. Seriously, Cynthia's Milotic used Ice Beam on my already buffed Thick Fat CurseLax for no other reason besides _going for the 10% chance of freezing the move has._ That's just... I could not believe an NPC trainer thought of something that smart after an entire game's worth of pushover battles. ILCA is not a bad developer. In fact, I'd say they're _leagues_ above Game Freak!

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Even I can say that Inti Creates, M2, Arika, and Code Mystics are better than Game Freak as well.

[@Ferrothorn462]

I'm glad someone is calling them out, thank you 🙃

[@bigshaxx2446]

I think that as long as Pokemon runs on these tight development cycles without having the team size to accommodate it, there's always going to be significant issues with new Pokemom games. Of all of their IPs I don't understand how Nintendo lets Pokemom fall to the wayside like this. They put so much more effort into much smaller IPs. They need multiple large teams working on the different games so that each game has at least a 5 year development cycle. But I guess if it sells so well regardless then why would they invest more time and money into the games? It just doesn't seem like nintendo to do that but they have and its been sad to see Pokemon get worse and worse over the last decade and a half.

[@zjzr08]

There is a Masuda statement somewhere (ironically I got it from a seeming Masuda defender) that TPC and Nintendo doesn't force GF to do what they don't like in developing the games so I assume they have to be hands off with GF. There's also a more official interview where Masuda and Ohmori said they don't necessarily need yearly releases, but they want to because "they want to introduce as many people to Pokemon as possible". Either it's just an excuse for their profit model or they have a horrible fan quantity vs fan quality mentality. As some say here the concept of Pokemon is the best thing about it. Regardless of product that attachment is what players and fans are having to keep the rose-tinted glasses in IMO.

[@bigshaxx2446]

@zjzr08 I mean besides trying to introduce new fans, Pokemon is the largest multi-media franchise in the world. To get there and maintain it nintendo has followed the same formula year after year for the last two and a half decades and its worked better than anything else in the world. The frequent release of new games leads the development of the card game, TV show, movies, merchandise, and more. Delaying games or making their release less frequent affects everything in the Pokemon brand and would significantly impact their profit margins, more than anything else they work on. But then why doesn’t nintendo higher more skilled and larger teams to work on their pokemon games? It's already apperant that nintendo is willing to look to other game studios to develop their games beside game freak but even then it still looks like they are cutting corners when investing in their games which is bizarre to me. It dates back as far as then contracting Genius Sonority to make the gamecube spinoffs. Why won't Nintendo invest more into the development of pokemon games? I couldn't imagine that an extra couple hundred million in game development wouldn't turn a proportionally sizable increase in profit. The only way I can rationalize them cheaping out is if the games are small drop in the bucket for the pokemon companies earnings but that still seems short sighted as I think better games would drive a massive increase in profits from all other forms of pokemon media. I feel like people, especially in my generation who grew up with gens 1-3 are dying to get back into pokemon but the games are so mediocre that few people in my age group are. Even though it is the biggest mutli-media franchise in the world, there is a huge untapped market that pokemon is still missing and it blows my mind that nintendo seemingly doesn't see it.

[@zjzr08]

@@bigshaxx2446 The thing is the 3 year cycles WEREN'T always there. Gen 3 and Gen 4 have 4 years each and interestingly had the most spin-off games. Also they sadly also cannot fully take away GF's license to make mainline games due to GF part-owning TPC. They can however ask some other developers to make something to complement their games like what happened in Colsseum, XD and BDSP. Nintendo was more hands on when Iwata was alive but I think GF had more of a say there. Maybe the other branches of Nintendo development had their hands full already. It has to start with GF IMO seeing they themselves have very few equipped people in development. They may ask people like from Monolith Soft to help but they probably need co-crediting like what Smash Ultimate did with Bandai Namco.

[@bigshaxx2446]

@zjzr08 And it was also during that time that the quality of Pokemon was at its peak, but the profits weren't as high. Quantity over quality here has benefitted pokemon's profits, but given how large the brand is now, it's completely realistic that they can do both. It would be nice if the motivation for change came internally from Game Freak, but they also have the least to gain. TPCs' profits would explode if game appeal broadened as it would affect the entirety of the pokemon brand. Even if game freak have to be involved, why wouldn't people higher up at TPC and Nintendo not realize that investing more money into Game Freak would probably yield significantly greater profits? Unless... they have and it didn't pan out? There's no point in guessing but even still, why not invest in more reputable companies to create better spinoffs then? I get that PLA made sense for game freak to develop since they were moving in that direction with SV but then why not have another company work on a game with a similar scope who can actually execute it well? There are just too many things here that don't make sense to me.

[@cannabishornliu6119]

Without Pokémon Game Freak would be nothing and already forgotten. It's a shame such disappointing and technically bad games are such money making machines.

[@ulawan5]

THRILLED to hear that my understanding of the situation was right all along I wish I could buy all the devs and artists a drink and a fruit bouquet or something, they deserve to be able to punt the corporate guys into the sun for what they've put the actual workers through for the sake of short term gain

[@Yipper64]

12:07 yeah that's the long and short of it. The designs and everything that they use to advertise the game and make the merch and all, fantastic work, love it. The games themselves are buggy messes. And you can clearly see that Gamefreak's priorities lie in giving all the time to the pokemon designs and all that, not the gameplay itself.

[@Some_Dude062]

exposing gamefreak? SUBSCRIBED

[@ChaosDarkLight]

Is this Korean man exposing Japanese corporate corruption gonna be a series now?

[@1992holycrap]

I hope so...

[@VegaPhil]

You were harsh on ILCA. They actually had amazing plans for the gen 4 remakes but for some reason they were stopped from going in thst direction and were told to make the disappointment we got

[@Scatterbrained_and_Lost]

It's gotten to the point where even though one of my first games was a pokemon game and that I've played them for about a decade or so, I've been losing my faith in Game Freaks ability to make a decent game. I sold my copy of Violet to my friend a while back cause I was considering switching to Scarlet, but after a bit of waiting I realised I wasn't really feeling the urge to play the games anymore. I think SV were a few steps in the right direction, but the problem is they are trying to walk on stilts and keep taking steps to the side and backwards as well. I will likely still play some of the games I already own, but I don't think I'll be buying a new pokemon game for some time(except if they do a great job at remaking gen 6 cause XY *really* needs a do-over).

[@Naruku2121]

Can sort of feel that, ironically after the S&S controversy, in which I had my own concerns about, actively bought it used it was the last Pokemon game I played in full. Despite its flaws which were a lot I'd be lying if I said I didn't have fun at points. Though it was the first switch title I played so I gave it the benefit of the doubt, but then came legends arcesus and BDSP came and well the issues I had with S&S persisted, and well BDSP wasn't offensive just didn't have to ambition HGSS or ORAS had that it didn't really hold my attention, didn't even bother finishing it. Legends Arcesus was more Ambitious, had some experimental features, slowdowns in some areas which was indicative of the future...Still couldn't be bothered to finish that. Then Scarlet and Violet came around, continues the issues from other games, but has it's own host of issues I can't even be bother to justify buying in ANY capacity. To this day I still haven't, even the flak S&S had it was at the bare minimum functional but those games weren't even that at the time. Plus I just don't see any great innovations in the series worth the purchase besides the next 'Gimmick of the Gen'. Maybe I'll check out Gen 10, but the fact that I would actively not want to buy a Pokemon game is sad from a fan's perspective but they really need to improve.

[@cyberdrache8416]

13 reasons why BDSP are the WORST remakes of all time: 1. Faithfulness: Unlike other remakes, BDSP literally copy/pastes 90% of diamond/pearl(2006). You cannot copy almost everything from a 2006 game.. (Remember its a remake not a remaster!). Almost everything is copied: All dialogs, the storyline, the chibi art style, the national dex, old pokemon encounters and even the Poketch were copy & pasted to this game. Pokemon games have been improved in the past years and had many quality of life changes like 3D art style, overworld Pokemon encounters and reusable TMs. None of these changes were adapted to the game which is just sad. This game is too faithful and faithful sounds more like a excuse for lazyness. 2. Not-Platinum-Based: So they copy & pasted 90% from the old Sinnoh game but not based on Platinum? Diamond & Pearl had several weaknesses and Platinum fixed many of them and included many Quality of Life changes. Here are some Platinum improvements over Diamond/Pearl: It extends the storyline with additional content, new dialogs, new characters like Charon and a new map Distortion world (loved it). The rival was a bit too weak in Diamond/Pearl which was fixed in Plat. The Poketch has a reverse Button. It has the battle frontier. And finally: the Sinnoh dex which was baaad in Dia/Pearl was fixed. The bad sinnoh dex in dia/pearl has only very few Fire Pokemon (very weird). Gym leaders were forced to use weird mons in the main game like Electric gym leader using Octillery or IceType gym leader using Medicham (WTF? Despite Sinnoh having enough Ice/Electric mons) and also many sinnoh mons were restricted to the postgame. Thats means many of the favourite sinnoh mons cannot be used in your team for the main story. But Platinum fixed this issue and created a NEW sinnoh dex which fixed all these issues which made the main story like a sinnoh game. ALL of these great changes of Platinum where NOT included in BDSP. This means BDSP uses the OLD sinnoh dex, OLD dialogs, OLD storyline, NO new character like Charon, NO distortion world and NO battle frontier. That makes BDSP a worse Sinnoh remake than Platinum which was released in 2008. (Imagine a 2008 DS game of the same Region beats you in ALL aspects. WTF) 3. EXP-Share & Friendship-System: One of the most hated features is the EXP-Share system which often leads to WAY more exp than in the past games. In my opinion, the EXP-Share is not too bad. BUT diamond/pearl were not designed to be played with the new EXP-Share system. So if you include an EXP-Share system, you have to increase all levels of the pokemon (from opponent). But they didnt which makes the difficulty of this game too easy.Basically, my whole team was too oveleveled. And the friendship-system is the worst luck-based system i ever saw. A feature that increases the Critical hit-chance,removes paralysis, lets me dodge 100% accurate moves and even lets me survive moves with 1HP. WTF did you smoke gamefreak? And the worst is that, you cannot make any of these optional. Because of that many players who love to do a nuzzlock in Sinnoh, prefer the old DS games. 4. No Innovation: This game not only copy & pastes the majority of its content, it adds nothing new to the game. Lets review some good remakes: HeartGold/SoulSilver (HG/SS) were Gen 2 remakes and included some storyline from Crystal and added many new stuff like the pokeathlon, battle frontier (from sinnoh), gen 1 map/storyline, a complete national dex and the pokewalker. HG/SS were not copy & pasted, but actually remade the game and added good new stuff. Also Alpha ruby&omega saphire (ORAS) have new changes like new art-style , new designs for Team magma/aqua, new Mega-forms, new Primal forms, changes to dialogs and storyline and the complete national dex. BDSP on the other hand does not provide any kind of major change in the game which makes this game really boring. It does have a new Underground which has overworld pokemon, but that is nothing special for 2022 and the ramanas park was neat but nothing too exciting. 5. Underground/Super-Contest: The old underground allowed to create your own living room with furnitures and set traps to troll friends online. Both were removed for a statue system which is really boring. Collecting statues and the effects of the statues are really disapointing. The Super-Contest used to be a fun-mode where you had many different options had to have good reflexes to do the correct moves at the correct time. Now all you have to do is Press A at the correct time and use 1 attack. That makes this mode so boring and disapointing. I mean, was it really that hard to let the player press like 4 different buttons instead of just 'A'?? 6. Art-Style: Many of us expected a modern review of Sinnoh in a 3D human like Art-style. But they decided to go for the Chibi-Art-Style. Everyone has different tastes but in my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style ruins many serious moments of the story line of this game, especially vs team galactic. It feels like all the emotions of the characters were removed. The reason why it was used in Diamond/Pearl was because of the limited hardware. In my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style waas the wrong decision and does not suit a switch game at all. 7. Only Gen 4: BDSP has a national dex which includes the pokemon from Gen 1-4 which is basically the same as Diamond. As a player who would have loved to see Pokemon from Gen 5-8 in Sinnoh, i am disappointed. At least some Pokemon post Gen4, or some new forms or at least add Sylveon in this game. Not even mega-forms were included in this game. The fact that 95% of the megas are from Gen1-4 and the underground being the perfect place to grind the mega-stones, makes this decision even more disapointing. The biggest joke is that dialga and palkia got new forms but not in included BDSP.. The reason why diamond/pearl was limited to Gen 1-4 was because there werent any other new pokemon. The reason why BDSP limited the game to Gen 1-4 is because of lazyness.. 8. PVP: On of the worst things in this game is everything arround PVP. The worst disrespect a main series pokemon game can get, is when GameFreak calls that all the competitive tournaments including the world championship will not take place in BDSP (WTF?). Unlike Sword/Shield, you have no option to search for PVP matches which makes it way harder to find battles. But the worst thing is the grind for a PvP team: TMs are not reusable (WHY?!). For some important TMs like Earthquake, you have to grind for 80BP (WTF). Also you cannot catch pokemon with hidden abilities except those from poke radar. To get the hidden ability you have to grind for the ability patch for 200BP (WTF. Grind competitive to create a competitive. Nice system). By putting important PVP items behind such high grind walls, it makes creating a PVP team disgusting. 9. Events: The events were also copy & pasted from Diamond/Pearl. Same Shaymin event, same Darkrai event. And other events are only accesible if you bought other main series pokemon game (Why..). And finally some garbage "events" which include some useless statues. Meanwhile, the 3 year old SW/SH getting better and innovative events like new PVP cups/tournaments and some legendary shinies. In my opinion the events in BDSP are disapointing. 10. Bugs/Glitches: Holy Moly! This game had so many bugs/glitches! You dont even need hacks, when the game itself has to many glitches. Many of them where completely op. Pokemon clone glitches, item dupe glitches ruined the game. You could even get infinite money, create shinies (WTF), make pokemon 6IV and let Pokemon learn any move. I used to be in a discord for trading in BDSP and because of the glitches, the trade market was only about getting shiny 6IVs etc. Not to forget to mention the soft locks which made you restart the whole game which can happen for example in the ice gym. Usually every games has a few bugs. But this one had too many and too many game breaking glitches. A very hyped game like this shouldnt be developed by a 3rd party company.. But Gamefreak had other plans.. 11. Controls: The controls of this game feel weird and uncomfortable. Characters move in a grid which looks so weird during the storyline. The pokemon who follow me often block me in a bad way. The underground has many inivisible walls which makes moving in some rooms horrible. And finally the control with the cycle are the worst. The cycle in pokemon games are a beloved feature but in this game.. It feels so uncomfortable moving with the cycle, I sometimes even prefer walking. 12. Standards: A 2021 game should adapt the standards from the latest games (Sword 2019). The BDSP-standard isnt nearly as good as Sword/Shield. Many items, many attack moves, renewable TMs, dynamax, new pokemon, old moves without heart scales, more customization,max Raids or ranked battle stadium. None of the mentioned were adapted into this game -> BIG Downgrade for 2021 pokemon standards! 13. Price: Dia/pearl/Platinum: 40$ and Copy/Paste BDSP with Bugs:60$ -> Bruh.. Conclusion: It feels like GameFreak didnt want to do a Sinnoh remake but wanted to milk some money by releasing the highly demanded Sinnoh remake. The fact that, they hired a 3rd party company who never developed a major game, only supports this theory. Not forget to mention that, BDSP had a giant day one patch which was essential to enjoy the game. The fact that they released Legends Arceus almost 1-2 months after BDSP release also supports the theory, that they didnt care at all for this remake. Because of the release of Legends Arceus, the hiring of ILCA, the amount of glitches, the boring events, the exclusion of VGC, the 0 Innovation in this game and the fact that the majority of the game is copy & paste of a 2006 game (Dia/Pearl) which is worse than a 2008 Game (Platinum), makes this game the worst remake of all time in my opinion.

[@SMCwasTaken]

TPC gave gamefreak too little time

[@SMCwasTaken]

They don't look bad but they could've been better

[@BananaR777]

If the leadership is poor and the management is poor then quality will suffer.

[@Nagatem]

Bdsp was a poison, the good it did was a free mew/jirachi from save data and bonuses in legends

[@Archdornan9001]

I have little optimism for Gen 10. Rumor is going around we'll get some kind of remake or Legends game for Johto and Unova. I just hope those are decent.

[@lol-ih1tl]

Gen. 10 will realistically come out 2 years after Switch 2 meaning that it'll take a bit longer however it'll just be a step in the right direction kind of game.

[@Niijishima]

Great addition for the last video. Would be cool to see more videos like them. Off topic: I like your room with the DC Comics on the closest. Really neat.

[@TheStickCollector]

If I ever garnered a trillion dollars or so to buy the series outright I would make some massive changes.

[@lol-ih1tl]

As in make the devs do games made specifically towards you and treat workers like garbage.

[@Gh0st_0723]

Its crazy, remember the jump from gen 1 to gen 2, it was such a major improvement, now they basically reskin the same nonsense and throw it out there, knowing people will inevitably buy it. Not to mention the DLCs that they charge for while releasing unfinished games.

[@coolyeh1017]

Also they got former president I was (RIP) to help them out to compress and also figure out Pokemon Stadium (as Gamefreak at the time lost their code and notes from Red and Blue).

[@iantaakalla8180]

Iwata pretty is the reason Pokemon exists as a franchise and did not peter out in Gen 2.

[@burtburtist]

it will sell well anyways reminds me of the "you'l buy it anyways" meme there will always be avid defenders of the steep decline in quality by pointing out record sales as though that somehow makes it ok.

[@jakisrandom1]

Pokemon Sword and Shiels only got record sales because it was on Switch. Every Nintendo game, a good new game or a shitty remake, hits a record number of sales simply because it's another Switch game...

[@MikeCrain]

The fact is incredibly sad that people heavily criticized the credibility of this, probably without doing any research, just because it spoke bad of their beloved companies that make games they love. As if they can do no wrong, despite workplaces in the US for game development are toxic as fuck, and Japan work culture can probably be a lot worse in some ways.

[@Clownieo]

It probably was trustworthy until you exposed it to ravenous Pokemon fans. Like a Pokemon version of the "Reddit Hug of Death".

[@lol-ih1tl]

That website removes unprofessional criticism and you can even get sued if you make such unprofessional negative reviews. So you won't find any reviews calling a company "lazy" or "greedy".

[@NagisaP]

aaa, thank you so much for leaving the original japanese reviews at the end!! I was going to pay anyway cause I was curious to read reviews for other companies too haha, but that was really nice of you 😊💖

[@NagisaP]

also, about people working at Pokémon Centers, I have a really nice story that happened to me last week at a Pokémon Center! they made a mistake with my payment and I had to wait there, but then my phone battery died and I needed it to take the trains… thankfully a very nice employee stayed with me and helped me find a way to charge it so I could get home safely 🥹💖 I’m going back today to give him a present to express my gratitude😊💖

[@laifyalif]

@@NagisaP ooo thats cool :3

[@jaysundj]

GameFreak is lazy and The Pokemon Company are money-hungry, but the real problem lies with us - the consumer. We keep buying there products and we need to stop. I personally have not yet ordered the DLC for SV and probably won't - the first time I've missed a game since Gen 3 (2002). Imagine if all the big Poketubers did this as well. Some of them have millions of subscribers - imagine if they could organise a protest of some sort. It might give GF and TPCi the wake-up call they need. But the solution begins with us.

[@SpectreXS]

Couldn't agree more. Behind every review that points out how much the quality of their products has been plummeting, there are thousands of people who can't resist nintendo teasing them with the next shiny object of the next pokemon game. It's all big talk, but they'll keep consuming like sheep.

[@aikou2886]

I wouldn't count On it. The Pokemon fanbase is one of the most toxic communities out there. That and Poketubers are pretty much only able to make an income because of Pokemon so I don't seem them doing anything about it.

[@razrafz]

yeah and people need to stop preordering and buying games on launch. its not a limited product. what happened to waiting for reviews before dumping your hard earned money? people who buy both versions for their own use also has to be some kind of special needs person

[@captain_buggles]

I still don't see a realistic way to stop the waves of people getting it as a gift and not knowing better though, and typically for younger kids who don't know better either. This isn't to be a debbie downer, and my point isn't really "and therefore, we shouldn't even try". My point is more like "realistically, we'll probably also need to think of something else in conjunction with this" Especially because nothing that approximates the niche is really the same. This isn't always bad, but it's pretty much why I always stick to Pokemon fangames/hacks rather than other monster collectors. Every time I try breaking away completely, there's just sort of something missing to me.

[@DeadAugur]

I wouldn't really call the Pokemon fanbase a community with how large this franchise is. Literally every time I see a community talked about there is this kind of comment about how toxic the fans are. I will say though, on a smaller scale GAME FREAK fans can be incredibly toxic and are enabling these awful products by defending them and blaming the game's quality on "hardware limitations"

[@mrluthfians01]

i mean i gotta love gamefreak, they have sheeps and they know it so gf just do a minimal amount of work and sell their game and both us and gf know it will still sell well no matter what, doesn't matter if it's already gen 15 or 100

[@positivea9111]

7:42 I wanna know what’s that translated, because it look Yo-Kai holding the Pokémon fans hostage, causing him to cried.

[@Infindox]

Not sure why anyone would accuse you of trying to slander GF when all you have to do is look at the Switch. Look at the other games on the system from other Nintendo franchises. Almost all of them are great. (some I think got abandoned too soon like Odyssey, Super Mario Maker 2 and the like, but they are still good) Then you look at Pokemon and the difference is night and day.

[@sera-chan8194]

Can we not "do" anything? :( I mean with the amount of parents blindly buying the games for their children I am not talking about just boycott. I mean like, can we start a petition or write letters or sth "active"?

[@iantaakalla8180]

Honestly, no. Pokémon is recognized as the video game. Pokémon has a loyal fanbase. Pokémon has a bad work culture that went as far as to throw ILCA under the bus to advertise Legends Arceus. All we have left is to watch Pokémon die.

[@ByoKora775]

Junichi Masuda is the worst person at game freak and the man himself said he’d rather work with a 20 man team for better communication if he wants that small of a team Pokémon will only get worse as he isn’t working with 2D sprites anymore or on handheld devices like the GameBoy, he is slowly ruining a beloved series of many but not enough people are outraged about it and Pokémon literally sells well anyways which is even more disheartening I haven’t bought the latest 4 entries in Pokémon cuz it’s not worth it anymore I’ve been looking for alternative games such as Nexomon or just going back to the older games or playing romhacks since they are more interesting anyways, honestly my favourite Pokémon games have to be og Gen II and colosseum. Final note I’ve been playing ultra sun for awhile now and I can appreciate it more then the current games heck I’ve almost completed the Pokédex too I’m just missing certain legendaries and Zeraora.

[@zjzr08]

It's a good thing he's out of Game Freak now to be in TPC but I do wonder if he still has great influence there - I do hope other directors can direct the next games though cause Ohmori has been not only been IMO incompetent but also kinda repetitive with his tropes.

[@ByoKora775]

@@zjzr08 Ohmori is Masuda’s lap dog bro game freak won’t be great again until everyone associated with Masuda is out or gone

[@matthasch847]

True Ohmori and Masuda destroyed Pokemon. It seems Iwao who did Legends and Tani who did SWSH dlc have potential. Sadly, the old dinasours will not let young blood to take over.

[@SMCwasTaken]

​@@matthasch847but Masuda makes great music

[@iantaakalla8180]

Which means he should have remained a composer.

[@The90sDoggo]

Its sad to see that this is the state of the main Pokemon games, but after seeing how Game Freak is as a company its not surprising.

[@JustJulyo]

Even if these people were treated like kings these games are still atrocious for a multi-billion yen business

[@extremmefan7305]

Of course the suits and the merch vendors would be doing well, they're the ones most profiting off the rush they put on the devs. '>_>

[@legendzero9000]

I honestly amazed with your videos. Literally like we have the same opinions and visions about what is going on and what they should do moving forward. This is the most legit channel out in the pokemon community in my eyes. Keep up the great work amigo.

[@couchrpg6282]

Hey for all the haters that doubt it youre fighting your own allies We are pokemon fans and want the games to be better wich only happens if the games sell less anyway so he just wants to spread the information that gamefreak really just doesnt care about the fans

[@nobleskywalker4639]

Yes but the problem is the quality of the games have not affected Pokemon's bottom line. Scarlet and Violet are number 4 all time in sales about to be number 3 with BDSP being the highest selling remakes of all time in the franchise.( I wish I was joking about those facts)

[@simonw.1223]

13:33 like look in scarlet and violet how the effects form the crystal stuff look... they look really amazing but than the rest

[@bhirawamaylana466]

I be honest that crystal thing is more dumb gimmick than dynamax and Alola dance things, for competitive sure its useful and make game look competitive, but in my opinion Crystal thing is just their answer for my question about why not Mega Evolution? by make Lazy Power Up Hat coz its much cheaper, easy and fast by making Pokemon wear shiny dumb hat than design new and cool look for Pokemon.

[@default9314]

​@@bhirawamaylana466Because, whilst casually, Megas are cool, competitively, the were super over-centralising, to the point that if you werent playing a mega, you had basically no chance. You might say that they shouldn't care about competitive, but they clearly do, with their many attempts at making getting into competitive pokemon easier

[@simonw.1223]

@@bhirawamaylana466 these crowns look dumb but the crystal effect

[@razrafz]

tera is good concept but excecuted terribly visually

[@simonw.1223]

@@razrafz like I dont know how it is executed but like the crowns are pretty ugly but the crystal effect is nice

[@GodKido]

Thank you for the source text!!!! Much appreciated Read some of the reviews, will come back on them later - Google was generally quite accurate. I will definitely have to check again since in some reviews the pros and cons looked kinda "swapped" to me?! (Something like "pro: behind their times, con: good environment filled with capable people")

[@zidkins]

I love you the realest KZbinr and just found your good retrospective videos of old games

[@thechugg4372]

So according to this site rules, you can't upload a review that will severely harm the company, then what even is the point of this website? We can't even warn workers of horrible conditions...

[@GamersXnostalgia]

Sweet! More Gamefreak reviews. 😁

[@dennjis9321]

I‘m here from Germany because of OG DNZ‘s video. Great video, thanks for covering that topic. I love to imagine a top tier Pokémon game some day😭

[@HezrouDhiaga]

I stopped liking pokemon when GameFreak does little to zero effort to make the game fun or interesting anymore. It's literally the concept "It prints money! Why bother? lmao"

[@thebestworst8002]

I’d love it if you’d make a video giving every Pokémon game a burger analogy like you did in most of your reviews

[@just_meezu]

Unfortunately even if many people riot and see this video and agree with you, it will still sell and ishihara will be bathing in money either way :(

[@shinyrayquaza2729]

i'm going to work for game freak after watching this video

[@UnwantedGhost1]

Why is the Pokémon Company & Game Freak very committed to annual releases along with new generation every three years?

[@MustacheDLuffy]

Maximize profits

[@e94youtube]

Pokemon doesn't need a time/place to sell well,merch and games both included.The merch doesn't get re-stocked anyways, so I don't know why are they rushing the games. Let's be honest if the games are well polished they will sell even better, we have seen this with Zelda who takes more time and a bigger dev team

[@rickahan7352]

So my main takeaway from this videos are: creativity is very high, but technologically is flawed. Game Freak NEEDS help especially from bigger companies and not just helping them make the map layout

[@hudiegudi8354]

Really nice video, even though I did my research about the site, it is always good to inform people.

[@Seinsmelled]

You Are Gay.

[@TayoEXE]

I want clarify the "it will sell anyway" point from the original Japanese text in your last video (yes, I went into the website and found the review haha). 「気になること・改善した方がいい点」上はクオリティが低くても売れると思っているのでコストをとけない。タイトルをよくしようと頑張っても評価されない。 "Concerns and points that need improvement: The higher-ups think that it will sell even if the quality is low, so they won't invest in the cost. Even if you work hard to improve the title, it won't be appreciated." The keyword here being "higherups". This reviewer never said "I." In fact, he said 上, meaning up. The leaders and management thought this, not him, the employee.

[@stellarkym]

I can assure that these reviews are real. Just look at their games. Just use common sense.

[@GreatRaijin]

Pokemon fans are just in denial lol, they refuse to see the drop in quality the games have been getting

[@stellarkym]

@@GreatRaijin I mean it's their childhood and all. They gotta hold on to it lol.

[@GreatRaijin]

@stellarkym ive played pokemon since gen 1 all the way till Ultra moon and even i saw the quality dropping 😭, they gotta learn to accept it and stop supporting it

[@stellarkym]

@@GreatRaijin Yes, that's exactly the solution we players must do. Stop supporting their crappy games so they'll do it better, eventually.

[@haroldnecmann7040]

@@stellarkym agreed, fuck gamefreak and their scummy practice

[@MG-mh8xp]

I just want people to stop blaming the developers and artists. I wish they'd start blaming the management and ceo's more. I hope you address this some? because it's getting annoying seeing people blame the developers and claiming they're they lazy ones.

[@RenoKyrie]

Honestly, i do think its a Gamefreak fault because If its Pokémon Co fault, why Pokkén, Mystery Dungeon, Conquest, and the entire Colloseum series exist Dont forget Arceus had more effort than Scarlet Violet

[@Blue_XIII]

Because the games you mentioned aren't the main series games, so there's no need to meet a deadline. Also Game Freak, along with Nintendo and Creatures inc are a part of The Pokemon Company

[@zjzr08]

​@@Blue_XIIII'm not sure if that's necessarily true, like in Gen 3 and 4 a lot of the spin-offs got incorporated into the franchise like the anime and merch at times, and I rarely hear stories of the spin-offs being delayed (meanwhile we had DP said to have been delayed by a year I think than expected).

[@zjzr08]

PLA is made by GF too though (probably a Team B that also made games like USUM) but even that had many game design issues.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

I support video games being made with anime graphics, even in 2D. Japanese content should stay as Japanese content, and only accurately translated. Japanese fans support the idea too since they know SV are bad for being broken and ugly.

[@AS34N]

Another video, another very valid list of points. I laugh too hard at these videos

[@copter2000]

Can't believe you don't have a Jerry can for head irl.

[@CounterfeitRed]

We need to boycott gf and tpc so that they can make better games

[@SMCwasTaken]

Aren't you going to get bored playing Gen 3-5 over and over again?

[@jiyanmehta7250]

@@SMCwasTaken or a better solution is,to not play Pokemon at all and move on to better games.Simple.

[@iantaakalla8180]

Boycotting is impossible. We need literal unplayable trash plus a poor response. Luckily, it seems like Gen 10 will provide us that if the tensions reported here are meaningful.

[@jiyanmehta7250]

@@iantaakalla8180 you already had that with Scarlet and Violet.Yet here we are...

[@rga8895]

Imagine if the remakes were made by Monolith... wtf... what we could have gotten...

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Maybe just make the graphics.

[@coolchannelize15]

It Would have been 🔥

[@simonw.1223]

Really nice video you made there

[@janina3879]

You can get in legal trouble for defamation in Japan. It's in their best interest to moderate the site well.

[@excalibur493]

Perfect timing! Just woke up.

[@UltraBall23]

Nah, imma still blame Ohmori. Waiting to see him replaced for Gen 10

[@zjzr08]

While Ohmori also holds back Pokemon, there are so many info here from the employees themselves, that even someone like Unno or Morimoto are unlikely gonna be happy with these conditions (while Masuda happily bailed out of GF to get that sweet TPC licensing money, hehe), and you seemingly so bent defending Masuda's handle in particular regardless.

[@UltraBall23]

@@zjzr08 SwSh and SV really suffered because of Ohmori’s direction. His ideas are too big for what he can manage, and he’s shown he’s okay with releasing subpar and shaky products.

[@christianmckee2116]

​@@UltraBall23SM too. SM has the same problems as the other games Ohmori directed (handholding, bad region design, lackluster postgame, too many interruptions, etc.) I can only assume the reason that ORAS still ended up amazing despite Ohmori directing it was because RSE's framework was used as a base and people like Iwata were still on board.

[@necromancermareful481]

it just will sell is Gamefreak version of it just works from Bethesda

[@autobotstarscream765]

Except Bugthesda at least graciously bestows the privilege of fixing their crap for them, Game FrEAk demands you love whatever Pokémadden does whenever it does it or be destroyed by the Japanese legal system.

[@apt_get]

ILCA isn’t exactly a nobody company- they have a good resume and have made popular games like IDOLM@STER.

[@BeefCake_97]

I like this alot more then ur reviews ur so much more relaxed

[@ezzkillz4717]

As one of the higher ups this is perfect for us we are getting bank