You can finally transfer Pokemon from your old games to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Scarlet & Violet, over six months after the controversial Gen 9 games were released. Except, don’t send over your smallest Pokemon, because they’re broken. And exclusive moves like Orig📖in Pulse have generic animations. Oh, and your Pokemon’s moves will all change, inclu🐲ding those incredibly rare ones from limited events that you’ve taken care to transfer from game to game for generations so that you don’t lose them.
Pokemon can’t do anything right. This isn’t like Assassin’s Creed, which is actually d💞oing something right but people are still complain෴ing, this is like Game Freak consistently and seriously messing up on a regular basis. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Home is a subscription service that allows you to transfer Pokemon between incompatible games. No, not Pokemon Bank, that’s Game Freak’s other subscription service that allows you to transfer Pokemon between incompatible games. Any🏅way, it’s broken.
I’ll go through those points I mentioned earlier. Extra large and extra small Pokemon were recently introduced to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Go,🌸 an idea that also appears in Scarlet & Violet, albeit on a less dramatic scale. If you transfer your Pokemon from Go to Home, the cloud stores that data until you transfer it to a main s♐eries game. There, your Pokemon’s height and weight will be high or low depending on its original size. This is largely just flavour, although affects some moves like Heavy Slam, and in Gen 9, the monster’s overworld sprite. Only that last part doesn’t work.
Big Pokemon are big post-transfer, but some kind 🐎of oversight or bug means that your extra small Pokemon are regular-sized. What’s more, if Game Freak is working on a fix for this, we don’t know if it will be retroactive. Your Pokemon may have grown irreversibly while stuck in the ether. This won’t matter to millions of players, but some people prioritise aesthetics over anything else, they may want a tinꦫy team to take on Miraidon for the bants, or they may just have a particularly tiddly pal who means a lot to them. And that may have all been taken away from them.
Tওhis is indicative of a wider issue with Pokemon. People expected Home compatibility at launch, but it wasn’t ready. With the state of Scarlet & Violet, are you surprised? Six months down the line, Home to Gen 9 transfers have been unlocked, and they’re broken too. It’s letdown after letdown from the company, and it gets worse when it comes to movesets.
Some Pokemon can learn moves exclusively when obtained at special events. Stuff like surfing Pikachu has been distributed on many an occasion, but there are far rarer monsters, too. Victini with its signature move V-Create could only be caught by getting a code from a cinema ticket for its movie. Some moves were available from in-person evenꦚts at Pokemon Centres. Put simply: they’re hard work to obtain, and if th🌺at move isn’t available for that Pokemon in Scarlet & Violet, it’s wiped off.
There’s some good news here, as transferring it ཧback to Home will revert the change so your move isn’t lost for good, but it seems like an oversight that will worry players. That’s before you enter a battle and the updated animations for these exclusive, powerful moves (the ones that did transfer over) are often just palette-swaps of other strong moves. Origin Pulse and Dragon Energy for Kyogre and Regidrago respectively is the most egregious change.
I’m sure the developers have worked hard on integrating all-new Pokemon to Scarlet & Violet, but the slew of errors and bugs is indicative of a few things. Firstly, Pokemon developers are overworked. The sheer number of huge games they need to produce at such a high rate is more than any other triple-A studio. This is because the Pokemon franchise has outgrown the games, and their efforts need to keep up with the anime, TCG, new merch opportunities, and goodness knows what else. As development times across the industry bloom, Pokemon’s is sta▨ying exactly the same, while the scope of the games is growing year on year.
I also wonder if Home was a good idea at all, or if it shows hubris from The Pokemon Company. Being able to transfer any Pokemon to (nearly) any game sounds like a 🎶great idea, but is it worth the pressure it puts on devs to get monsters that were caught in Red & Blue frolicking around the plains of Paldea? I like having my OG Johtonian squad available in Home, and I like transferring all my shinies to the latest game, but I could live without it. That goes double when some Pokemon are trapped in Home limbo after Dexit – a move I think was necessary for the series – means they can’t be transferred to the latest title. I’m paying £15 a year to keep a shiny Fennekin on my phone?
That’s another thing about this process: it’s expensive. While you don’t need Nintendo Switch Online to use Ho𒁏me with your Pokemon games, and Pokemon Bank’s subscription fee was annulled with the closure of the eShop (sorry if you hadn’t already downloaded it), you’re still paying a lot of money for 🌄a service that most people will only use once per new game. Unless you’re someone who’s using Home itself, rather than a main series game, as the place to showcase your living ‘dex, the fee seems extortionate.
There’s no easy answer to this. I will once aga൩in call for Pokemon devs to be given more time between releases, so that they can release finished, polished games that match their ambition. I will call for Pokemon to have more consistency between games – why do movesets change anyway, especially exclusive ones? And I will call for Game Freak to rethink Cresselia’s Paldean model, because that monster definitely shouldn’t be furry and it’s freaking me out.