Culture Journal 2022 (English)

This is the most ambitious Pokemon game that there's ever been, and it achieves everything it sets itself to. Not only it is the most ambitous Pokemon that there had been upon it's release, but the most ambitious there's been since, and even when I have a couple of games left to play, just based on what I superficially know about them I can assure without a doubt that none of them reach the levels of ambition and vision that this game has. With 16 years from the first game in the franchise and 4 entire generations behind, with already 493 pokemon that had been introduced by that point, being the second generation to appear in a console that was not on its popularity peak anymore, even with all of that, Junichi Masuda and all of the team behind this game decided to give a 180 degrees twist to the franchise whilst trying to mantain all of the features that have made the saga the titan it was when it released, with 156 completely new pokemon and a region chockfull only of the,...

I think this is the definitive Pokemon game (or at least it has the potential to be). From the very first moments I had with this game, looking at how the day/night cycle came back in all of its glory and its vibrant spaces brought to life with that kind of rudimentary 3D from the DS I knew I was going to love it. After looking at how it already incorporated my favorite characteristics from previous games there was very little left to ask for this game, and even with my favour practically won, it delivers a really decent product. As I said in the beginning, it feels like the culmination of all the succesful ideas of previous games. It has the immersive and alive world of the Gen 2, besides bringing a couple Pokemon guests from the same gen and giving them evolutions, in general it kind of feels like a more direct succesor of everything explored in Gen 2, but with the visual and techinc advantages from Gen 3, making it a delight to cross its world in all aspects. It feels like the best ...