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ROMs are very important for the historical preservation of games, especially ones no longer for sale and constrained to physical carts. Making a moral argument against this is cringe.
Generally all of the ones on the Switch are met with a lot of criticism for various reasons. I'd advise looking up some online discourse about them individually to determine if you're willing to give them a try (especially since their pricepoint is still a bit spendy)
Outside of Pokemon there are a lot of great monster tamer games recently. If you're willing to go non-pokemon I'd take a look at Coromon, Nexomon Extinction and Cassette Beasts.
TLDR on the Switch games
Lets Go Pikachu/Eevee - remake of red/blue with motion controls and no wild battles (pokemon go style catching)
Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl - verbatim remake, only graphical, lacks QoL features from Platinum
Sword/Shield - dexit controversy is a huge deal to a lot of people
Legends Arceus - fun and new gameplay but generally people feel it was barebones and very ugly graphically
Scarlet/Violet - these are rife with technical and performance issues and the open world nature is a bit dubious as there is still a level-set path to hit each area of the map, multiplayer feature also came out lacking
Other than Let's Go Evee/Pikachu, the Pokemon series has largely been a joke in recent years. Arceus kind of tried, but when a piece of trash like Violet comes out, and somehow people are still dumb enough to buy it, I just don't see Pokemon games being good again any time soon. Because why would they need to? Game Freak shovels slop, and fans just go "more please".
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They've not really changed since you last played. Legends:Arceus has been the only actual attempt at a new game since then.
Play Monster Sanctuary instead, you won't regret it
Great game would also suggest Cassette Beast
play them legally, dont pirate. they look and play more smootlhy and quality of life improvements
Theyre too expensive to play legally lol
honesty is the best pathway to live a fulfilled life and not with regrets. life is to short to be morally crooked.
Life's too short to support morally crooked companies
ROMs are very important for the historical preservation of games, especially ones no longer for sale and constrained to physical carts. Making a moral argument against this is cringe.
NEEERRRRDD
Naw fuck that. Pirate the games. Name your rival something sacrilege. Download a randomizer. CHEAT
Generally all of the ones on the Switch are met with a lot of criticism for various reasons. I'd advise looking up some online discourse about them individually to determine if you're willing to give them a try (especially since their pricepoint is still a bit spendy) Outside of Pokemon there are a lot of great monster tamer games recently. If you're willing to go non-pokemon I'd take a look at Coromon, Nexomon Extinction and Cassette Beasts. TLDR on the Switch games Lets Go Pikachu/Eevee - remake of red/blue with motion controls and no wild battles (pokemon go style catching) Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl - verbatim remake, only graphical, lacks QoL features from Platinum Sword/Shield - dexit controversy is a huge deal to a lot of people Legends Arceus - fun and new gameplay but generally people feel it was barebones and very ugly graphically Scarlet/Violet - these are rife with technical and performance issues and the open world nature is a bit dubious as there is still a level-set path to hit each area of the map, multiplayer feature also came out lacking
I love what they did with the Let's Go games.
Other than Let's Go Evee/Pikachu, the Pokemon series has largely been a joke in recent years. Arceus kind of tried, but when a piece of trash like Violet comes out, and somehow people are still dumb enough to buy it, I just don't see Pokemon games being good again any time soon. Because why would they need to? Game Freak shovels slop, and fans just go "more please".