Area zero is kino

>inb4 sharteens and genwarfags arrive to ruin the thread

>SV thread
Sharty magnet thread

>>57980147 (OP)
True, going through here while a little high was a peak Pokemon experience.

I don't care what YWNBJs say, Toby Fox was a nice addition to the franchise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3n83V4Cz_w

>>57980147 (OP)
Area zero is cringe.
>>57980202
HWNBJ
YWNBJ
Stop bootlicking him.

I've been replaying scarlet this week, and I've been having a pretty fun time. I'm just going around catching everything I can see and it's very pleasant

>>57980217
>HWNBJ
>YWNBJ
and that's a good thing

2025 and people still seething over toby fox's success lol

>>57980147 (OP)
Going into the game, after years of disappointments with this franchise I was mentally prepared for another fluke. I had seem some random paradox closeups and the AI battle, but otherwise I was spoiler free. So I got to this point convinced of three things
>the climax battle vs the AI is going to be at the lab in the entrance
>all we'll see from Area Zero is a fucking corridor like picrel
>a limited number of paradoxes will start appearing in the wild around Paldea afterwards like the UBs in Sun/Moon
It was around 3 AM and I was headphones on. When I realized what really Area Zero was I was awestruck. For a moment I forgot about the technical mess and the sloppy graphics and just contemplated the landscape. And the fucking music. I'll never forget the eargasm it gave me. Man I wish I could experience it again for the first time.

Don't get me wrong, I haven't forgiven TPC for this. If any it makes me angrier at them. SV could have been a goated game for the ages, Pokémon's own BOTW, and they just fumbled it. Still managed to make the best game of the Switch era, and yet it fell so short from what it should have been.

Yeah, Area Zero is kino. Everything from the soundtrack to the visual atmosphere made it feel you were entering a lost place long abandoned for good reason. It's truly an eerie place to explore, especially once you reach the subterranean lab and see the ters crystals have completely overtaken the facility. Why can't we get more shit like this?

I swear, I've seen this exact OP with the exact first two posts on at least two separate occasions

>>57980147 (OP)
Seriously wish I could experience it for the first time again. I never would've thought GF would be capable of making something like this.

ITT: retards that only play Pokémon games

>>57982062
wrong + you're a faggot

>>57980147 (OP)
Place looks ugly just like the rest of the game, why am supposed to be impressed?

>>57980147 (OP)
Now make a legends game that takes place entirely in Area Zero.

>>57982277
It's all about the context and atmosphere, not really the looks. If you haven't played it, you wouldn't get it.

>>57982709
>atmosphere
the atmosphere it tries to go for is that you have reached an alien looking place, an outlandish landscape left almost untainted by the outside world
This shit pales in comparison to Xenoblade though, Area Zero's structure is boring, it just so happens that Paldea it's much worse so it manages to stand out
Also most of the stuff you encounter there is just regular ass Pokemon

>>57980147 (OP)
it's obviously a rip off of made in abyss so it was a let down for me

>>57980217
>person who isn't souless bug man makes the best song in the game
really makes you think.

>>57980147 (OP)
Nice Gamecube game

>thread about area zero
>zero discussion because people here don't play the games
lmfao

>>57983132
>Made in abyss invented holes in the ground

>>57983132
That's exactly why I loved it.

>>57980202
I'll never understand why people hate Toby Fox. Is it envy?

>>57980147 (OP)
Only thing I didnt liked is how random the Pokemon inside were.
Why these Pokemon were chosen?
More Cave Ground Pokemon would make more sense.

Is the kino in the room with us right now?

>>57984145
Everyone I know that blindly hates Toby Fox is a leaky faggot that exclusively listens to old Minecraft music. Not saying that's always the case. but I've definitely noticed a pattern.

>>57984145
part of it is reaction to Toby's cult following which to be fair IS annoying

part of it is weebs pissed off that a gaijin entered the sanctity of a japanese game which is actually thinly veiled envy. See the hate on James Turner

>>57983132
according to the teraleaks, Ohmori said area zero is the dragon palace

>>57984163
>hating something cause it has bad fans
Why don't they hate Pokémon then? Lol.

>>57984191
>Why don't they hate Pokémon then
I mean, have you seen this board?

>>57984203
>obsessed retards who can't stop posting about a thing they hate instead of just letting go and doing something fun
Yeah, that explains a lot.

>>57982095
You wish.

>>57984163
>the hate on James Turner
It's because 50% of his contributions are awful.

>>57986024
And? Have you looked at Ken Sugimori's contributions? Everyone has shitty designs
At least Turner did some really cool shit like Trevenant a d Golurk

>>57980147 (OP)
it's the only memorable area in the entire game

>>57980147 (OP)
Is SV good? Gen 7 put me off the games entirely and Gen 8 didn’t look much better.

>>57987800
Depends, what do you like the most about Pokemon? What do you like about your fav gen?

>>57987800
>Is SV good?
Yeah it just looks ugly
But if you can play it on Switch 2

>>57987800
Currently playing it, and it's decent enough it's enjoyable. No level scaling and empty cities and routes are two big flaws, however.

>>57989601
Level scaling sucks ass. I don't know why people want it so bad. It just makes every area feel the same and means you have to make no choices.

>>57987800
No. I started a new playthrough after dropping it shortly after launch.

It still looks ugly and cheap, performs poorly, has the same weird physics and modeling issues in the open world, and the same rendering/lightning problems as launch.
>scene changes and I get a frame or two of having all the characters T-posing in the middle of the screen before they're snapped into their intended places along with the lighting
On top of that, its still got all the gameplay issues that have building up for a decade. People are welcome to enjoy it, but it's baaaad.

>make map that consists of a spiraling vomit green grass texture with t-posing pop-in out of place mons and nier ripoff music
>this impresses the pokesöy, who has never played an RPG in xe/xir's life
not surprised

>>57990023
What the fuck? Are you playing in emulator? There is no way you have these issues on native hardware.

>>57990109
He is, the issues he's describing are common emulator issues, especially when the hardware isn't good enough to run it
The t-posing characters thing is basically impossible to see on the Switch

>>57980147 (OP)
The music is really the only saving grace, otherwise it's a big hole with some rehashed mon designs everywhere.

>>57983132
dumb zoomers and weebs...

>>57990350
I mean it definitely has elements of that, since SV is heavily themed after the Age of Discovery.
But visually, Area Zero is 100% inspired by Made in Abyss.

>>57980147 (OP)
they haven't figured out how to make 3D towns with the same kind of charm as the 2D ones, the Ogerpon one was a step in the right direction, but you had to shell out for it, they kind of look empty,
but Area Zero was great because it didn't try to be a ghost town. NPCs with lots of unique dialogue goes a long way, they wouldn't even need to make 40 ghost towns, just 4 with lots of interesting people.

>>57990109
>>57990136
I'm not playing on emulator. This has been on a normal Switch. I'll post pics if necessary, but don't assume lies to try and discredit me.

The Switch is honestly one of the only consoles I've never tried to emulate

>>57990762
Yeah, post pictures, I don't believe you.

>>57990775
Sure. I'll see if I can get a video of the t-pose thing too. I'm currently at work but I'll be home in a couple hours.

To be quite honest, I hate lying in general, and even on imageboards I try to never tell lies.

>>57990780
All right. Actually curious to see cause I know of that bug but I've never actually seen it on my Switch despite looking for it. I only saw it once by slowing down a video I recorded, on the last frame just before it completely faded to black.

>>57984145
I just didn't like his music, the games didn't click with me either, still finished one route though.
That's enough to brand me a heretic apparently

>>57990804
You didn't like ANY of his music?

>>57990109
>>57990136
>>57990775
>>57990798
Apolgies for the delay, had to downsize the clip to get it under 4MB, look closely at Quaxly and the scene change.

>>57980456
>visual atmosphere
LOL

>>57991759
That's crazy. I played it myself twice and watched like 3 other play it and I've never seen anything this bad before.
You don't happen to play version 1.0 on a hacked Switch, do you?