And so many, too! I realise this is a sequel, but from what I understand there aren’t many that were in the first game, so that speaks well of the developers to me. I’m not sure so many of them needed to be three stages, but there was enough variety here to keep me happy, and I wish I could have used more than six. Plenty I was indifferent to, sure, but the starters were all very appealing, the Tyrants and Dragons looked the part, and I didn’t get a sense of deja vu…except for Enercer, which is just a less threatening Vikavolt. Nexomon designs themselves surprised me, as I didn’t find many I actually hated. The locations are vibrant and pack in a surprising amount of detail, the Nexomon themselves are very smoothly animated, and attack animations are minimalistic, but considering the budget this game had to work with, they definitely focused on the right areas.
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This is, again, the way that Pokemon should have gone, rather than with the shitty polygonal models that the series has been using since Gen VI. It’s clever writing and it’s quite humourous, and yet it somehow doesn’t detract from the game’s more serious moments.Īlso, it’s worth saying that the visuals are perfect. I can respect and even admire this – no doubt this was on a tight budget, and rather than throw a lot of one-note characters at you (the way that Pokemon has) the game gives you Coco who just points out the absurdity of it all and just how bad it really is. To make up for making you a silent protagonist the game gives you Coco, a talking cat who throws shade at you, everyone else, the tropes the plot relies on, and even the writers, at every opportunity. It’s not great, but it is definitely above average, and what really sells it is the dialogue. The main reason I say this is because Extinction has a narrative, and it’s GOOD.
If we had gotten THIS instead of the trash they served us up with SnS, I guarantee everyone would have been much happier. It’s what the fans like to pretend Generation V is, and what the delusional like to pretend Generation VIII is. The short version of this is that Nexomon: Extinction is what SHOULD have been released by Game Freak instead of Pokemon Sword and Shield. Yes, you read that right.Īnyway, let’s talk about Nexomon. I harbour no delusions that Pokemon owns the monster-catching genre, or that the genre even originated with it (that dubious honour actually belongs to Dragon Quest V, a fact that the Pokemon fandom would do well to remember whenever the word “Pokeclone” escapes their collective lips…) but I will acknowledge that it is very difficult for any franchise to compete with it…even if there hasn’t been a good Pokemon game since Platinum.
Like what I imagine to be the vast majority of milennials who still play video games – and a fair few who don’t, or even those who never did – I grew up with Pokemon. At the time of writing this, I am 30 years old.
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