Month: July 2026

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Year: 2022 Rating: E Time Played: 3,312 minutes / 55.20 hours For decades, the Pokémon franchise has continued to use the same turn-based formula for their games. But with the rise of more open-world games, it was time for a change in how the monster training/battling gameplay could (for lack of a better term) evolve. Enter Pokémon Legends: Arceus, a pseudo-open-world adventure that plays to the strengths of a 3D space that had been long overdue. Unfortunately, as was also the case for Pokémon Violet/Scarlet that came shortly afterward, the truly limited graphical considerations thwarted the effectiveness of the game. Growing up with the Pokémon franchise, and especially the early years of the anime, there was this conceptual idea that battles were a much more fluid and challenging experience than the one-at-a-time battles that mostly boiled down to knowing the most type-effective move to use. Legends: Arceus still has turn-based combat, but with the twist being that you can sacrifice speed for...