Legends: Arceus Still Lacks Pokémon: Let’s Go’s Best Innovation

Legends: Arceus Still Lacks Pokémon: Let’s Go’s Best Innovation

With its large, open-world style environments, and less linear progression through them, it is arguable that Legends: Arceus is the most replayable Pokémon game to date. Unless a future update adds in the key auto-sort feature from Pokémon: Let’s Go, each playthrough will unfortunately have the added tedium of manually sorting Pokémon housed in the pastures of Jubilife Village. Some veteran players might argue that manually sorting Pokémon is part of the charm of the series. Nothing prohibits anyone from doing so, and ignoring the feature, as with any quality-of-life improvements in games. With auto-sorting available for items and crafting parts in Legends: Arceus, the lack of auto-sort for Pokémon themselves remains an inexplicable omission. More time spent sorting Pokémon means less time catching and battling them. It causes players to spend more of their time in Jubilife village, essentially performing tedious clerical work, instead of exploring the vast wild areas beyond the village’s gates.
The Pokémon franchise marches on as strong as ever, as fans have shifted to scouring the Pokemon: Scarlet and Violet trailer for secrets. The duo will make up the fifth traditional Pokémon game for the Switch, and while there is reason to be excited for Scarlet and Violet, it remains to be seen if they will bring back the best feature of the Switch’s first JRPG Pokémon adventure. The motion controls of Pokémon: Let’s Go were divisive, but its auto-sort option put it ahead of Pokemon Legends: Arceus, at least in that respect. Game Freak would be wise to add this crucial quality-of-life feature to the new games, so players can spend more time interacting with their Pokémon and less time sorting them. As the series’ overall list of Pokémon grows, and Pokémon Home functionality improves, being able to quickly organize a Pokémon collection will only become more crucial. This makes the auto-sort from the Let’s Go games becomes less of a nice perk, and more of a near-mandatory feature, with each installment.
Each Pokémon game has its own fan-favorite features that some would like to see return. Some feel Pokémon Go needs Sword and Shield’s Dynamax mechanics, while others hope Legends: Arceus’ new capturing mechanics return for the next mainline entries, Scarlet and Violet. In truth, a new Pokémon game introducing an original gimmick to set one region apart from another is fine. If the Dynamax phenomenon remains a unique aspect of the Galar region that helps gives give the region character and distinctiveness. A basic bit of game functionality is another matter. No Pokémon game following Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee should have omitted Pokémon auto-sorting, yet this key feature seems to have been cast aside. It is surprising it took so long for the franchise to introduce an auto-sort mechanic for collected Pokémon, but even more surprising that after it was introduced it did not remain an ever-present option in subsequent titles.
Legends: Arceus Went Back In Time From Pokémon Let’s Go’s Sorting Feature

The earlier time period featured in Legends: Arceus showcased a more primitive era when it comes to collecting Pokémon. The first Pokéballs are introduced as more steampunk than super-science. A few Pokémon aiding with field work foreshadowed the Pokémon job system of other games. The pastures and training areas of Jubilife precede the future Pokémon Centers. Showing this formative period in the world of Pokémon was a clever bit of storytelling in Legends: Arceus, accomplished with the narrative device of time travel.
From the player side of things, it is not the advancement of the computerized Pokédex or the presence of the Poké Mart that makes the Hisui-era game appear primitive. Rather, it is the fact that Pokémon Legends: Arceus omitted the best feature from Pokémon: Let’s Go, the simple ability to quickly sort a Pokémon collection, that makes the newest Pokémon title seem to have moved backward in time, in terms of game design.

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Legends: Arceus Still Lacks Pokémon: Let’s Go’s Best Innovation

With its large, open-world style environments, and less linear progression through them, it is arguable that Legends: Arceus is the most replayable Pokémon game to date. Unless a future update adds in the key auto-sort feature from Pokémon: Let’s Go, each playthrough will unfortunately have the added tedium of manually sorting Pokémon housed in the pastures of Jubilife Village. Some veteran players might argue that manually sorting Pokémon is part of the charm of the series. Nothing prohibits anyone from doing so, and ignoring the feature, as with any quality-of-life improvements in games. With auto-sorting available for items and crafting parts in Legends: Arceus, the lack of auto-sort for Pokémon themselves remains an inexplicable omission. More time spent sorting Pokémon means less time catching and battling them. It causes players to spend more of their time in Jubilife village, essentially performing tedious clerical work, instead of exploring the vast wild areas beyond the village’s gates.
The Pokémon franchise marches on as strong as ever, as fans have shifted to scouring the Pokemon: Scarlet and Violet trailer for secrets. The duo will make up the fifth traditional Pokémon game for the Switch, and while there is reason to be excited for Scarlet and Violet, it remains to be seen if they will bring back the best feature of the Switch’s first JRPG Pokémon adventure. The motion controls of Pokémon: Let’s Go were divisive, but its auto-sort option put it ahead of Pokemon Legends: Arceus, at least in that respect. Game Freak would be wise to add this crucial quality-of-life feature to the new games, so players can spend more time interacting with their Pokémon and less time sorting them. As the series’ overall list of Pokémon grows, and Pokémon Home functionality improves, being able to quickly organize a Pokémon collection will only become more crucial. This makes the auto-sort from the Let’s Go games becomes less of a nice perk, and more of a near-mandatory feature, with each installment.
Each Pokémon game has its own fan-favorite features that some would like to see return. Some feel Pokémon Go needs Sword and Shield’s Dynamax mechanics, while others hope Legends: Arceus’ new capturing mechanics return for the next mainline entries, Scarlet and Violet. In truth, a new Pokémon game introducing an original gimmick to set one region apart from another is fine. If the Dynamax phenomenon remains a unique aspect of the Galar region that helps gives give the region character and distinctiveness. A basic bit of game functionality is another matter. No Pokémon game following Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee should have omitted Pokémon auto-sorting, yet this key feature seems to have been cast aside. It is surprising it took so long for the franchise to introduce an auto-sort mechanic for collected Pokémon, but even more surprising that after it was introduced it did not remain an ever-present option in subsequent titles.
Legends: Arceus Went Back In Time From Pokémon Let’s Go’s Sorting Feature

The earlier time period featured in Legends: Arceus showcased a more primitive era when it comes to collecting Pokémon. The first Pokéballs are introduced as more steampunk than super-science. A few Pokémon aiding with field work foreshadowed the Pokémon job system of other games. The pastures and training areas of Jubilife precede the future Pokémon Centers. Showing this formative period in the world of Pokémon was a clever bit of storytelling in Legends: Arceus, accomplished with the narrative device of time travel.
From the player side of things, it is not the advancement of the computerized Pokédex or the presence of the Poké Mart that makes the Hisui-era game appear primitive. Rather, it is the fact that Pokémon Legends: Arceus omitted the best feature from Pokémon: Let’s Go, the simple ability to quickly sort a Pokémon collection, that makes the newest Pokémon title seem to have moved backward in time, in terms of game design.

#Legends #Arceus #Lacks #Pokémon #Lets #Gos #Innovation