Detective Pikachu Returns: An Absolute Garbage Pokemon Game
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- Опубликовано: 9 окт 2023
- Please do not buy or play Detective Pikachu Returns. I played the full game here so you never have to. It has no reason to exist, no rewards or payoff for gameplay. This is a genuinely awful Pokemon experience that took 14 hours to complete - just watch the Detective Pikachu movie instead.
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I absolutely hate this game. Ironically we have made this game look better by editing down 14 hours of gameplay into highlights. The 12 hours that were removed contain nothing of note or consequence to the story, and mostly consist of fetch quests where you walk back and forward to help a Pokemon. There is no meaningful reward for any of this.
Please do not buy this game, even for kids it's not worth it. It is genuinely embarassing for the most profitable media franchise on Earth to release a game of this poor quality. I would rather play Minecraft Story Mode again than this
Reminder that the reason for the long development because of the “switching platforms” is *youtube* because they made the game in unity, not a custom game engine.
balls
It it bad i like both?
Tried to watch the stream vods and I usually like seeing people play bad games and rip into it but this game has so much nothing that you seemed bored as hell. Looking forward to these highlights though
I would rather play minecraft story mode then this is a scathing criticism
This gives off STRONG "canceled 3DS game hurriedly repurposed into a new game years too late" vibes.
@@charonthetoaster4159it really is, although sometimes they still come out with bangers like the mystery dungeon remake
Believe it or not, this plays the same as the original
even the graphics look like a wii/3DS game
yeah they clearly made a movie tie-in game and then just forgot about it for some reason. i have no idea why they released this 4 years too late.
Except I remember the FIRST game being equally insulting. I still remember a scene from it where you see the culprit's hand and dark skin color. There's only one black person in the whole building. You still have to play out the entire "mystery" for like another hour. This series is for toddlers.
It's too bad Dan missed the part where Pikachu plants drugs and a gun on an innocent dead person and coerces Tim into lying to the commissioner about it.
Did that really happen or are you joking?
It happened I coded it in
ACAP, All Cops Are Pikachu
I can't believe Dan also missed when Merloch beat up a dude on a motorcycle, and then revealed he had cancer.
@@jeremyrandolph8337it happened i was the gun
The point of the divorce was to keep players like Dan invested. After he realized it, it was too late and sunk cost fallacy took over.
This is now my favorite conspiracy theory
Just long enough to invalidate refunds
@@CatterjeeoBold of you to assume Nintendo would even offer refunds
@@CatterjeeoNintendo doesn't even offer refunds
I thought it was so Game Freak has an excuse for the whole single parent thing "oh the reason why all of our protagonists except for one don't have their fathers around is that they all had a divorce each and every time"
I'm so mad that the divorce went absolutely nowhere. Like, it genuinely feels like something they forgot to cut
thank god they forgot, it's the best part of the game
I wish Doug Doug would play this game to see this
yeah now that end credit scene is super weird. Unless irene and harry are just being super nice and amicable while co-parenting post divorce, I guess
@@Sir_Buckethe doesnt need to suffer
Isn't there one throw-away line from the Wife about how Harry does this whenever he has a particularly dangerous case to try and distance his family from it? Like, did I imagine that in a boredom induced stupor?
I like how Tim doesn't recognize the sound of his dad's voice
hadn't even considered that. it's the voice of someone he's spent his entire life with, why doesn't he recognize it? like, I'd surely recognize my mother's voice somehow coming from a rat...
yeah, it's like Mewtwo did a memory wipe on the whole city, and it worked so well they forgot everything about Harry. Also the mayor must have gotten hit in the head from the accident debris and had amnesia following a severe concussion, which is why he hates pokemon and forgot everything about Unitas
@@Amazonianarya To be fair it was heavily implied no one but the siblings / family could hear Pikachu's human voice.... At least I hope that's what this meant
I personally believe it's because Tim has no personality or emotions to recognize his father's voice with
Like yeah at least the film gave a reason for why he wouldn’t recognise it, with Tim being estranged from his dad since his mum died. Harry being a family man that’s been there practically the entire time before he disappears makes no god damn sense
For the people who may not have watched the stream or twitch vod, the game was so damn boring chat started sending emotes just to entertain each other. Its bad
they made a sequel to a cult beloved spinoff that's somehow worse than minecraft story mode, thats true talent of Chaos and Ruin
@@xxgothicprincessxxat least Minecraft story mode has the excuse of being an old indie game, what excuse does this game have?
@@ythegameritaisthebest At this Pokemon has the quality of an old indie game at this point.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 yeah... Game freak has like 100 employees right?
@@ythegameritaisthebest and billions of dollars of budget
Mewtwo being repeatedly chased by a swarm of bees and asking for help is funnier than any joke in the game
especially when Dioxys fights off lex luthor, pandora, growl boi and the abominable snowman simultaneously at 1:52:00. to my knowledge the 'friendship cubes' don't make the pokemon any stronger, so those beedrills must have been on something else
@@koopatroopa6412beedrils know bug type attacks which are super effective against physic and the team didn’t know any effective attacks
@@LightBikeisokyeah and psychic attacks are effective against poison which beedrill is. Also, Mewtwo literally stopped their attacks (which was twin needle I guess) dead in their tracks through his psychic power to save Tim
@@sgtmaggi think pin missile was the attack, which is a higher power attack (same base power but 2-5 instead of 2 flat attacks) to make it even more unbelievable
@@keno8263 totally possible, i didnt really watch out for the number or type of "missiles" and struggled enough with thinking about one of the names in English :P
"This game is made for kids" is a weird thing to justify a game's existence. Like I don't remember the games I played to be extremely boring when I was a kid
yeah. i understand kids games needing to be easier, but it just makes me sad that people excuse poor quality things when it's for kids. they deserve quality things too!
Right? Easier does not equal worse 😅
Because you were a kid when you played them....
@@KeihzaruNo duh, but some people like to use it as a reason to excuse these games being bad and boring
"Oh they're just kids games, they won't notice the difference!"
@@squiddu I mean the only reason you think games you played as a kid were fun and engagins is because you were a child when you played them....
fun fact: tryglycerides are what makes up your fat deposits, so the scientist just called Pikachu a fatass
They call him Dyslipidemia Pikachu because he got that abnormal lipid count.
God, no wonder Pikachus as a species underwent such heavy weight loss. People keep body-shaming them lol.
The only good part was the mac-and-cheese induced divorce flashback and I’m so disappointed it went absolutely nowhere.
For a good second I thought she drugged them. How can someone make Mac and Cheese so bad that it reminds you of divorce? She really did outdo herself.
Found this comment EXACTLY as it happened
NOOOOOOO
Do you think the mac and cheese was why he wanted a divorce?
@@Ceber300 OH MY GOD. This is now my headcanon.
“We need a divorce” was so unexpected that I had the most visceral reaction I have EVER had to an RT video. I almost DIED choking on my tea 😂
timestamp for that?
@@dongerydoo573626:51
@@dongerydoo5736 basically around the area of 26:40
@@dongerydoo573626:56
YEAH this really caught me off guard when I was playing through myself! glad to see others had the same whiplash reaction hahaha
The like dawning acceptance about 2/3rds of the way through the video of "oh its not going to get any better is it?" coupled with chat desperately asking for any kind of stimulation was incredible. It felt very much like being stuck in traffic in the backseat of the van on a roadtrip as a kid.
especially if the van is going through central US A, where it's just 300 miles of plains
I started cry laughing when he added the subway surfer and we just got hit with the worst pizza related dialogue ever.
The thing that kept me going was wondering how everything would come together. Like I expected a way more fleshed out version of the movie plot, where it was explained in detail how the research into the cubes would culminate in humans and Pokemon fusing. Nope. It was less well explained in a 12 hour game than it was in a 100 minute movie.
The "I want a divorce" line hit me like a Sucker Punch 💀
The whole game storyline hit me like a Sucker Punch (I was using Swords Dance)
Wait where is that in the vid?
@@Dunryan
26:51
@@lukijezlol
@@lukijez The whole storyline hit me like a Sucker Punch after using Sword Dance and hitting myself in cofnusion.
i’ve never seen RT this pissed in the title and description alone that’s terrifying
Holy shit I just read the description. Damn I knew it was bad but not this bad
It’s like when your dad shouts at you out of nowhere in the mcdonalds drive-through I’m very on edge rn
That's the equivalent of seeing Goku mad. You realise something is off.
He linked the Minecraft Story Mode playlist in the description lmao
Same lol, never seen rt talk like that lmao
I think the most astounding thing about this game is that it makes Deoxys and Mewtwo look lame
It’s the lack of mouth movements on Mewtwo, and his eyes being flat in his skull. Deoxys should’ve changed forms, otherwise he’s animated decently. Although they probably wouldn’t have been able to figure out how to transition from one model to the other for Deoxys’ forms
@@ArcherR135 no it’s because the scientist guy sucks at being deoxys and doesn’t know how to change form
What makes it worse is that we have better examples of that exact matchup to point to in the franchise
@@ArcherR135they should’ve watched the Destiny Deoxys Movie to learn what this amazing legend can do!
@@ArcherR135i think mewtwo uses telepathy to speak though? not disagreeing on how lifeless it and the rest of the game looks lmao
this game had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever: pretend to follow the same plot twist as the 2019 movie (complete with shared voice actor and mannerisms between harry and pikachu) but then just. not do it. have pikachu subconsciously THINK he's harry, or have him take inspiration from harry because of how much he admired him or Something Else
and yet they just did the worst possible thing for everyone involved
With this small comment, it feels like you've put more thought into this than they did. Sad. >
That sounds like an AWESOME twist.
This game had the opportunity to do a Dead Rising 2 Off The Record and just DIDN’T do it.
Please play the first game, it’s way better.
@@jackfakename4851
My dude you are high on copium if you think the first game is worth playing. Yes it's better but it's just as insulting with it's puzzles. I couldn't finish it and I was REALLY giving it a chance, I wanted it to be worth it so bad since I loved the movie.
My comment isn't showing up so I can't edit it, but apparently the Detective Pikachu GAME came first and then a movie was based around that concept?? Kind of wild, but that would also explain why this came out 4 years after the movie. The movie was a game tie in technically, not the other way around.
The Voice Actor for Pikachu genuinely was pouring their soul into those desperate cries for help 10/10
Fun fact, it's the same VA who plays Ichiban Kasuga (from the Yakuza series) and Sub Zero in MK1.
@@SlantedSlapper Yeah, as soon as Iheard that exeggutor line I immediately picked him, love him
@@SlantedSlapper I think they're talking about actual Pikachu after the car crash, not Harry in Pikachu's body.
This one moment actually made me feel an emotion
@@magicalgirlnicole ah. I guess that's what I get for commenting before finishing the video.
What I hate is that the Detective Pikachu series is such a great chance to just dive into the everyday lore of Pokemon.
How do people who aren't Trainers live? How do Pokemon who aren't battling live? We could have such a slice of life.
Instead 3/4 of the game is pacing issues.
That's why the movie was so freaking great
Also because the Pokemon in the movie were far better-textured and better-animated than any Pokemon has ever been in the games
@@lachlanmcgowan5712yeah but to be fair alot of the "realistic" looking pokemon came off a bit uncanny to me and alot lost whatever charm they had. it worked well for pokemon with fur but anything scaley or skin like it took me out of the movie.
also side note: movies are allmost allways goona look better then video games as those are rendered a frame at a time and played back as a seris of images. where as video game have to render everything in real time
They wanted to make a detective game but also needed to make sure a four year old could play it. An insane amount of time is spent on repeating information or obviously telegraphing answers for this purpose (not to mention the serious mechanical issues the game has). This isn't an excuse, it just means GameFreak is terrible at making games for young kids. Point and click adventure games like the Putt-Putt series were doing this sort of thing 25+ years ago no problem.
@@Adam-ni6ne This wasn't made by GameFreak.
@@Adam-ni6ne This is on Creatures, not Game Freak
I know this is paltry compared to the more glaring issues this game has, but I can't get over how there's no lighting at all. It makes everything feel so stilted and look like it's made out of plaster.
I was just thinking that, it looks like when you turn shadows to "none" in order to run a game on an old laptop
i cannot get over the fact that tim full on keeps calling his dad pikachu after knowing
Trauma does weird things to you, I'd reckon
because to everyone else around him he'd seem insane if he started calling a pokemon his dad
@@Mini_Squatch fair but like even when they’re alone asdfghjkl
Dude sees a chance to get away with it, he takes it. It's really quite admirable.
@@Mini_Squatchafter thinking about this for 4 months i’ve realized he’s gonna sound crazy regardless when he’s having a full conversation with the pikachu so he might as well go all the way
Amazing how none of the human character models convey half as much emotion as the Pikachu model does. Like genuinely, that almost feels like an accomplishment to make a 14 hour 3D game where no emotions are expressed by a human character, while the imaginary electric mouse has the emotional range of a Shakespearean actor.
It's also the most emotion displayed by a pokemon since the "coliseum" games
I think it helps that Pikachu has no teeth 99% of the time, so it makes him more expressive.
Even then, the pikachu model looks terrible, which really hurts the believability
It's not called Detective Human.
@@jacob99503half of the team is human (2/3 by the end). Half of the game we interact with humans with no expressions, the other half with pokemon that move as little as possible other than the ride mons
You have to understand: Dan LOVES Pokemon, he's even willing to support the series after the state Scarlet and Violet were released in, if he's saying that a game like THIS is bad you better BELIEVE it's trash
He even said SwSh is ok even if only because of the DLC. Crown Tundra carry
@@HazeEmryswsh was great in its own ways, even the brokeness of s&v was fun and entertaining bur Holy hell this games so bad
@@Larrysprincessswsh was pretty fun tbh, just felt a bit empty once everything was done
People who hate scarlet and violet for its glitches are the same people who love original gen 1, possibly the glitchiest games ever
@@TheGodIvyyou mean the games that were released in 1996? If there’s no improvement from then, then that’s just embarrassing.
The greatest questions in the RT Cinematic Universe:
-How did Pikachu survive?
-What happened to their divorce?
-What was Grossberg doing at the boathouse?
-Does this have a fleshy interior?
-Just how is Nepeta's tail attached?
@@J4CKNO1RDon’t you speak of the dark texts here
@@navisakura7374you can't make that decision. You can't fight the Homestuck.
-What does RT actually stand for?
1:28:55
I just want to point out that Pikachu crying in this scene has had more impact than the entire game combined.
LITERALLY
legit had me tearing up which is an objectively ridiculous thing to say abt this game
I'm angry that I clicked the link, because now I am very sad D:
Props towards the VA for that one. Genuinely good.
Yeah no it genuinely had so much emotion in it that I actually started to tear up. Like it was the most emotion to occur in this entire game, and it was so far superior compared to any other "emotional" scene in the game
okay now that I finished watching the video, you gotta hand it to the game, "The mayor isn't actually in on it, he's just THAT dense" was a twist I didn't see coming. It's not a good twist, but it sure subverted my expectations.
might not be a good twist, but unfortunately not *un*realistic.
No. As soon as you hear the recording of the researchers lauding him for wanting to protect his family, you know he did nothing wrong
Here's what annoys me - so apparently Sophie knew all along that Detective Pikachu could talk, yet not only does this go absolutely nowhere, but we never get an explanation for why she brought it up sooner. Heck, Detective Pikachu ponders the latter, but there is no follow-up on this.
the game feels like theres a missing 4 chapters or so between 4 and 5
Even stupider is tha the supposed reason that's been proposed as to why is a familial bond between kids and parent, but that would mean his own wife, who doesn't register Pikachu talking, didn't have a strong enough bond with her own husband to hear detective Pikachu talk
@@hadesciphernius5244The game never provides a real conclusion to the divorce plot line, so the obvious explanation here is that Harry just hates his wife.
The end bit where Tim tells his sister she gets bored too quickly to be a detective is so funny because it's basically the devs saying "you didn't like this game because it was boring and repetitive? You just aren't cut out to be a detective that's all."
Bold of them to reuse the plot and twist of a 4 year old movie for their new video game, love the ingenuity!
Do they actually reuse the plot or are you just saying that because it’s called detective pikachu.
@@steveqi9309it is the same story.
@@steveqi9309yes it is the same thing
You know for a fact Game freak was jealous that there received a whole year to make the game
Detective Pikachu is actually the first Pokemon content I saw. Never played any games and never watched any of the cartoons, so Ryan Reynolds is the version I know the best actually 😂
Man, I think one of the saddest parts of this is the voice acting. Pikachu's VA is clearly putting his all into it and having a blast, but everyone else is just so... flat and lifeless, ESPECIALLY Tim, which is awful for a character you're spending the entire game with. Listening to Tim explain the first mystery was just PAINFUL.
dude, khoi dao is an amazing voice actor-you gotta see his other stuff before you judge him like that. blame the voice direction, not the voice.
@@aardwoof_ That's Khoi Dao?? I can't believe I couldn't tell. Yeah, I'll absolutely chalk it up to bad directing then. He just sounds so not into it, poor guy :c
@@grimbobagman4133 Heh, "chalk it up", that's brilliant
@@napstaperd8824I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't comment this, goddammit
@@aardwoof_ Alright buddy, he's not that good
Remember how Bill accidentally made a human-pokemon fusion machine in the literal first game? Really undermines Merloch's achievements here...
not to mention the invention of mewtwo itself, that can apparently just do that on a whim, also happens in the first game lmao(hell, not even in the game, it's in the game's backstory)
They truly went out of their way to ignore the first game's story & lore completely.
@@D0MiN0ChAnThey practically retcon things they're already retconned almost every single time.
I gotta give the game that, when Harry started chanting "Pee Pee" I completely lost it. That was some grade A shitposting material.
He’s really putting his all into it.
Holy shit I'm losing my mind it's so fucking funny. Or maybe it isn't and I've just been underwhelmed by the game for the near 2 hours of watching, and that scene was just a jolt to my system. Whatever, I'm laughing myself to tears at it.
Just saying pikachu in such a deep voice 😂😂😂
I suffer from recurring panic attacks and often don't fall asleep very fast or wake up multiple times at night with pure fear.
Last night I took upon myself the task of watching this whole video in bed. I made it to 01:20:46, and then I realized, I'm really fucking sleepy.
I slept like a baby and even missed 5 alarms, waking up a whole 65 minutes late.
Thank you, Detective Pikachu Returns, for being so boring that my panic attacks were like "meh".
Truly the only good that this game can bring. Glad to hear that this vid helped you out.
Gives off the same energy as comic sans is so bad dyslexia doesn't touch it.
I hope life becomes easier for you.
Ive already used this video to fall asleep through my anxiety and i have a feeling ill be using it a lot more
@@potatodragon0981
Wait, really? Can dyslexic people read Comic Sans without issue?
I feel bad for the VA's in this. They're all immensely talented, but you can only do so much for a bad script and (probably) bad directing.
Pikachu crying for help in the flashback was actually making me sad ngl
so much of the delivery is trashed by the three second pauses between each line and it's so gd frustrating. these actors mostly did perfectly well but dear god they got kneecapped.
I say mostly bc whichever director told tim's va to constantly talk like an asmr youtuber needs to never work in the industry again. it's honestly so off putting to listen to.
@@PugandOwn It's so funny to me and gives me such secondhand embarrassment. Like are they supposed to be conveying that he's shy???
Awful mixing too. Whenever there's an unnatural gap between two sentences in a video game, it's a sign that whoever was running the voice direction was not paying attention to the mix.
Yeah Kaiji Tang the voice of harry is a genuinely talented guy. He’s the voice of Gojo, guncle from P5 and a ton of others
The best part is how everyone was joking about Pikachu going through divorce, only for the game to immediately thrust an actual divorce moment on us and just do absolutely nothing with it
God if this is the condensed version of the whole game, it must've been awful, cause I'm having a really hard time stomaching this as is
The full game was 14 hours. There's no plot missing from this highlights. The fast forward scene with the text on screen was 10000× or 1000× speed, no joke
How did they manage to take an awesome concept like "mad scientist fuses himself with Deoxys and fights Mewtwo" and make it so dull and uninteresting
And it's not even a full on fusion, it just pulled a Mystery Dungeon and made a human's mind in a Pokémon's body.
Bill and Lusamine walked and flew so that this game's villain could trip down the stairs
@@yoshitheorbit1118I wouldn't say lusamine flew given she has one battle and fights you like a normal trainer before unfusing, but I agree with your overall point
They really copied Insurgence smh
@@Pihsrosnecshe flew in the literal sense
@@Taypokemon my bad lol
The only good part is when the original Pikachu cried for help. That was legitimately heartbreaking. 😢
Ikue ohtani gave her fucking all
Timestamp?
@@blueflare38481:28:56
1:28:55
That scene was probably written when the first game was made.
I just find it funny how NO ONE sees the cubes on the Pokemon at all
I had an idea in my head of buying this game for my boyfriend for his birthday. Thank you for stopping me and saving my relationship!
Going through with it might be considered a warcrime
26:50 The following conversation
@@Vulnresatithat just made me laugh the hardest I’ve laughed for a while.
If he cheats on you though, it’s the perfect gift!
@@VulnresatiNAH, THAT IS *FOUL!* 💀
This game really had the whole city evacuated due to a pigeon getting a slight bruise
No it was the GIANT METAL BIRD coming and ATTACKING THE AWARD CEREMONY! How would you react if an armored vulture tried attacking people around you?
@@kingmatthewlegoi mean, the Corviknight swooped down once and then fucked off
it's a bit scary, but i don't think it's cause for a whole city evacuation
Meanwhile 11 year olds having pokemons battle to the death on the street
@@MorningStar012 we saw it was still around after. Plus it was a safety PRECAUTION. If a mountain lion makes its way into a town people in the nearby areas are still instructed to stay indoors. It’s realistic.
@@kingmatthewlegomf really just said realistic in Pokémon lmao
28:53 is the Pokemon equivalent of "guns don't kill people, people kill people"
Yes.
The ending dialogue when Harry explains that Tim‘s sister gets bored too easily to be a detective is actually a clever reference to how this game is boring as RUclips
Love how the villain's end goal was literally what was done as a gag way back in Red and Blue. This mad scientist needed an entire shadowy organisation to accomplish what Bill was able to do in his own bedroom.
in fairness, at least this guy made a good choice of Pokemon to become because he actually knew what he was getting into
@@misirtere9836 I mean... To be fair to Bill, in most iterations, him getting stuck in a Pokemon's body happened by accident. He just wanted to see if teleportation technology was possible when a Pokemon ran into the other chamber. And so he got The Fly-ed! Bill knew what he was doing and getting into! He just didn't factor in other critters getting involved in his experiments... Which like... HUGE oversight, but hey! We all have off days!
BILL MADE HIMSELF INTO A POKEMON IN A SHACK. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
@@quillquickcard8824good referebce
It’s astounding how much BETTER the movie was at telling the same story
"The game is bad and the movie is good HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!"
The movie wasn’t good either, the only good thing about it was the visuals/ animation
@@vaya-dragon1998 Why? It my opinion it was really good, not something otherworldly but yeah
@@vaya-dragon1998 The movie was fun. It's not aimed at me, I could feel that as I watched it, but the fanservice let me enjoy it for what it is, a kids film.
It would've been good if everyone was permanently Pokémon at the end 😔
+ there wasn't any blaziken
fun fact: Rachel and Tim's voice actors are together. Their names are Laura Stahl and Khoi Dao respectively, and very talented. Unfortunate they had to voice in a game like this...
Edit: 6:11 is Kayli Mills btw.
LAURA AND KHOI VOICED THEM? WTF. I know they're VAs and all but I didn't recognise their voice. No one in chat said anything too and there are quite a few genshin players in there
Wait, what? Was the voice direction just really terrible? Tim showed pretty much no emotion the entire game, and Khoi can absolutely do a lot better than that.
@@Alex-yd2dy It says a lot when Khoi is more expressive as Albedo than he was as Tim
LAURA WAS VOICING RACHEL??? OMFG, the voice directors need to be fired because they screwed her over *so* hard, I didn't recognize her voice at ALL ✋🏾😭
fire emblem engage has these two killing it as alear and kagetsu respectively, so this was definitely a lack of voice direction
This felt like an Ai generated story that anytime you try to give it creativity liberty on what to happen next, it just keeps asking questions then answers.
Literally the best part of this game is just seeing all the random Pokémon do normal stuff instead of battling. It’s just wholesome
Oh, definitely!
and the “i want a divorce”
Definitely the main highlight, though, it’s definitely not reason enough to get the game especially when new Pokémon snap did that while not being a terrible game.
@@scootermcpeanuts6699 >pokemon snap
>not being terrible
these are opposite statements. Like they're bad BECAUSE they're just picture games. I can take better photos of Pokémon in GO. And it doesn't cost me sixty fucking dollars to do it.
@@SnoFitzroy Speak for yourself, I found it really fun. It felt almost like a collectethon where, once you thought you saw everything, there was always another neat thing you were missing.
Worlds most profitable media franchise and they still put less budget into their games than a flash games creator
They have no reason to.
@@Pyxis10This. Why put effort when kids and brainless consumers always buy the product, no matter the quality?
FR, it looks like they used default sprites and the world looks lifeless compared to their other games
Papa *RUclips* ing LOUIE HAS BETTER GAMEPLAY AND STORY SIGNIFICANCE THAN THIS
It’s gotten to the point where the Pokémon THEMSELVES are the selling point. That’s why the designs are still actually good- these are the things people will get attached to, and buy cards and plushies of. Nobody’s gonna buy the game strictly for grass that escaped the PS2 era, but Pokémon designs can sell ANYTHING.
It makes me all the more convinced that Dexit was a ploy to inflate this method of money-squeezing. Seriously, Pokemon feels hollow without Crobat.
1:43:26 what's astonishing is that the random more exciting music Dan put on unironically made the scene better?? Like, at least there was some energy
1:57:44 I think it really says a lot that even Tim acknowledges that this game was boring.
He's like RT trying to save us from playing this game ourselves. He doesn't want Sophia to suffer the way he did
Pokemon and Creatures Inc. have done the impossible and have actually made a game that's worse than Minecraft Story Mode. It takes real skill and talent to pull something like that off and all it took was a divorce.
Is Minecraft Story Mode like a meme or was it a horrible experience or something? I vaguely remember being somewhat letdown since it came after The Wolf Among Us (great game), but I don't really remember anything horrible.
@@leithaziz2716oh it was bad, but as Dan has said it’s so bad it’s fun to laugh that considering how absurd the game is.
This game is just fucking boring, like they didn’t even try to make care for anyone from this game
What do You Mean ? Minecraft Story Mode was Really Fun, Idk what your Talking about.
@@darkstar_xdyou're also one of those morons that clicks the shift key for every word you type. You was probably born in 2011 😂
The main thing that (sort of) saved Story Mode was the Wither Storm imo.
1:52:00 This is a minor thing amongst the rancid sludge that is this game, but Pangoro is immune to psychic attacks. They literally couldn't have given less of a fuck about this.
Also I love how there are no Gen 9 Pokemon because this game was clearly meant to come out fucking years ago.
Lmao
Yep I was shouting at the screen when that happened "It doesn't affect Pangoro, it doesn't affect him!" etc. (mostly out of boredom because nothing else happens in this game haha!) I'd have just had him throw the other Pokemon into Pangoro, it achieves the same outcome but actually makes sense. XD
The penguin pokemon is from gen 9 though
@@khalifahallah713 Eiscue? It was Gen 8
Normally I'd handwave it and say they're just going off anime logic, BUT THEY LITERALLY USED IN-GAME LOGIC FOR THE ENTIRE GAME UP UNTIL THAT LAST PART
I'll never understand the argument for games like this being bad as "Oh well it's a children's game". That's very insulting to children, who are a lot more discerning and intelligent than we give them credit for. Just because you have a "funny" talking Pikachu on screen doesn't mean they will enjoy the game. and the fact this game is so slow-paced and doesn't provide you anything only adds to the insults.
Counter argument: Skibidi toilet.
I think part of what makes the game boring is that there is 0 challenge and 0 chance to fail even at the end. The game doesn’t penalise you for getting the solution wrong like phoenix wright nor does it let you work everything out for yourself like return of the obra dinn, even the quick time events are often impossible to fail. This makes the game boring because if there is no threat and no chance of failure then essentially the gameplay is little more than an intractable cutscene to the player.
...Kinda like what GameFreak's been doing with taking away the little thinking and difficulty required to beat the main series Pokemon games, huh? I guess this is a trend with the whole Pokemon franchise now!
This genuinely sounds like it was written by an AI, like it was made during the writers strike and they pushed it through anyway
It was made right after the 3ds game and then delayed for some reason. Notice how there aren’t any Paldean Pokémon?
Considering it was probably written years ago (based on there being no gen 9 pokemon) it's likely just a first draft that they didn't bother rewriting or improving on
@@Vampirecryptthe only thing that they added was the audience wink about a movie being made it seems like
Nah. You can tell this was a Gen 8 game because of how bad the writing is
@@ninjapotatolorf6237You’re the one true detective with that assessment
Dan's "Oh shut the fuck up!" is probably the most genuinely upset I've ever heard him in a video
Timestamp?
@@socksinsoda9517 1:50:16
@@Ivy-jq6di thank you fellow RUclips 🙏
it was so important that he didn't even [RUclips.] it, he felt it was worth the gamble to get the point across
It wasn't even RUclipsd
1:04:45 pikachu getting the cube off was the most anticlimactic sequence I've ever seen 😭 he just slowly wriggled on the floor and it fell off?? Did they stick it on with pva glue??
they blew through the adhesive budget on all the Beedrills, had to resort to Elmer's School Glue
The divorce made more sense in the movie when the dad was about to unreaval some neferious plot while ingame it was random and he just... visited a city for no real reason
What happens when you just badly copy paste the movie
Applying reality to this, Imagine a seagull stealing fries so they put it in prison
A bird once got arrested for shoplifting. The police involved had an absolute blast with the arresting process.
@@genericname2747 odd bit of history
@@breeze2082Based on true story lmao
This game is actually an allegory for divorce, with the gameplay representing the paper work and the inhuman characters representing how the family becomes emotionally distent. 😊
Vravo Bince!
This would literally be better than the truth IMO. At least they'd have tried to do something
1:55:05 IMAGINE being that voice actor in the booth.
With how boring and expository the rest pf the dialogue was, probably the funniest day on the job for the guy. He was putting his whole ass into that One scene istg
I really wanna know how they managed to take a plot that was handled better and more interestingly in 1 hr 40 min and somehow stretch it out to 14 hours
Because RT did not find the 151 digletts in the first chapter, a sinkhole formed underneath a apartment complex and ate 50 people. This is why you don't skip the side quests
okay wait. this game existing kinda give me hope as an aspiring game dev. because, if an AAA games company can confidently make this shit heap, i can surely never make anything worse.
honestly you go at it, I feel like indie games are carrying the industry at the moment
You can probably make something worse, just not such a massive heap of crap.
I could definitely hit up RPG maker right now and make a disgusting game, it'd just not be a turd of this grand scale.
@@bup6340what?
@@madre6970basically, they could make something worse if they intentionally did so, and even then it could probably be better than detective Pikachu return s
@@madre6970
Anyone could make a worse game, but not of this scale since we lack the money to pay for all the shitty 3D models and stuff.
It's the fact that at 7:46 you can see the guys model being still for 0.5 seconds and then his animation plays as if he ran a marathon
omg you can
This game was 4+ years in development BTW
the best voice performance in this out of all these talented VAs being from the person that only says “pikachu” is deeply sad and deeply hilarious
I thought the first one was pretty solid, and I got 3 hours into this one before realizing "why am I wasting my time with this"
What did you hate about the game the most?
@@bestgames64Pikachu rampant cigarette addiction
Same! The weirdest part to me is that I don’t think this game is worse than the first one by any means (at least from what I played of the sequel), but it felt like a waste of time for whatever reason.
@@spongytrout7462 nah that's the best part
@@Bloombius there wasnt a movie of the first one before it came out
It really feels like it should have been more like Ace Attorney. Don't need the court room, but give an evidence list and witness list, and let the player make connections themselves instead of giving 3 options with no failure possibility. Like, I get that this is a kid's game, but even children can handle a bit of challenge.
If I remember right, the first game at least made you connect the correct evidence instead of giving you the answer right away
Miles Edgeworth Investigations style
@@agent_8167they took the 3 hour long hallway scene from the last case and went "what if we made the entire game that tedious?"
Besides, ace attorney can be solved by trial an error, you can reload saves, it’s just that there’s stakes technically.
The last thing this Pikachu needs is a badge that shows he’s a lawyer
A funny story for you actually, I've just begun the process of recovery from a pretty serious surgery and falling asleep is the hardest part. This video was actually the first efficient and effective way i've found to fall asleep, really shows how awful this game is.
I am actually speechless at how bad this game is, if it wasn't for Dan's commentary and this being exclusively highlights I genuinely couldn't finish this. it's actually unbelievable omg. Great video like always Dan but don't make us suffer again please
the fact that the devs while working on the 2019 movie "we'll make it a completely original and different ending compared to the movie in the sequel" then did the EXACT ending as the movie is fucking hilarious
I mean it technically was the same ending as the original, it just spelled it out at the end. This new game put too much emphasis on what people who played the first game already knew, that being pikachu was tims dad. They just didnt do much with it.
Im sorry, but I couldn’t understand your comment
All this time watching the video I had the nagging feeling that TPC/Gamefreak had previously said "we're making an original ending, it's not gonna be the same as the movie", but I can't recall where or when the interview was done...
Major 'Can I copy your homework vibes'
Pokemon has such interesting character designs in every other game. Tim is the most basic, bland background NPC they could've designed for a main character
But what about his ICONIC red hoodie?
@@cameronweaver2013 Truly a trendsetter
@@cameronweaver2013i came here to comment that
Excuse me
@@cameronweaver2013tord is quaking right now
holy shit the divorce jumpscare has me absolutely reeling, what an insane cutscene
I like how 90 mins in, they just give up censoring swears because it doesn't matter. I think I dissociated during the final battle, and given the post-credit scene, so did the developers
This game really nails the "mobile game ad" art style, it's impressive how lifeless and covered in vomit everyone is!
what really gets me is how godawful the shaders are, it almost looks like they didnt use them at all in most places
It feels like they developed this for the GameCube, but was in development hell for so long that it finally released on the Switch
It would make sense because the shaders are very on-par with the first game
It looks like either A) a shitty fanmade game in Unity that was only meant as a tech demo but somehow managed to scam enough people to create 14h of "content"
or B) A poor DS game remake where the only difference is a higher resolution/framerate and the fact that all models have a few more polygons in them, but completely ignoring shaders, camera work, story/plot changes, actual animation for the models and a lack of game/environment design
@@Dr.Jelly22 Pretty sure it WAS made in Unity
i love how pikachu will announce some bad one liner to a room of people who don’t understand him
It truly baffles me that they made a mystery solving detective game where plot revelations are shown to you in a series of voice recordings like are you serious???
this isn't a game, it's a tax write off
it really does feel like it
Im sure that this game's devs had a very healthy work environment
were in* a healthy work environment
If yall say "this is for children", I implore you to PLEASE watch Dan's playthrough of PMD Explorers of Sky. That was also a kid's game. Go compare for yourself. Same franchise. God this hurts. I've made like 3 comments now, I'll stop
You're doing the lord's work here, friend
i honestly don't know how anyone can think it's for young children, there's SO much dialogue
well, you see, kids are dumber now, which is also why we got the Sun and Moon anime series after XY&Z.
@@genesisera8364Did you go back to the Sun and Moon series, or did you get annoyed during the first episode and leave? Because I completely understand being annoyed by the first episode, but it picks up in quality _quick,_ and episode 8 might be one of the best episodes the show ever had. I left after the first episode, and only came back when I heard good things about it, and ended up enjoying it a lot.
Also, kids aren’t getting stupider, adults are forgetting that they can be smart.
@@genesisera8364 excuse you the Sun and Moon was great. Wet Altaria, Litten and Stoutland story, jojo ref during the introduction of Pallosand, TR actually beating the twerps in an episode fair and square... And while I did stop watching around the time they became like power rangers or wtv with a base and ride pokemon, I only stopped because I had life things to do and other anime to watch (which I still procrastinate on cause life). Sure it's not as plot heavy from what I've seen (I haven't even got to the part with Lusamine) but sometimes that's not needed. Some shows are just fun and enjoyable.
This game though? I slept through most of the vod, rewinded, still slept. Boring af. The keys were legit more entertaining
the comedic timing at 26:54 is so perfect, i actually lost my shit. i had to actually pause to catch my breath and finish laughing
at 01:52:00 Deoxys catches every Pokemon midair. the only way for him to do this would be with some form of psychic energy. Pangoro, being a dark type, should have, under no circumstance relevant to the scene, not been affected by this action.
As someone called Tim, I didn't expect to spend 2 hours being insulted by RT, but such is Detective Pikachu Returns
How could you, Tim? How could you?
Truly a Tim moment of all time
Tim WTF dude why are you acting like a Real Tim right now geez !
What a Jack- I mean Tim moment
"The plot's not just gonna be the movie, is it?" *Dan would come to regret those very words.*
'We can't let them control pokémon, they're not a real threat.'
There are pokémon species who specifically kidnap children.
You have to realize that if Tim walks in the tall grass, Professor Oak will come out of nowhere, give him a starter and send him on a journey around the region collecting gym badges.
And actually make the game somewhat interesting? We can't have that
I think we need to start deducing how this game managed to turn out so bad
The Pokemon Company is to blame because they're the ones who constantly pressure Gamefreak to pump up games to promote the anime
@@Whitesnake273 game freak is the Pokémon company since it’s a 3 way split between Nintendo game freak and creatures Inc
Im sorry to say but thats just not true first off game freak is not a subsidiary of the pokemon company on the contrary the pokemon company is mainly owned by gamefreak nintendo and creatures so the other way around secondly this game was developed by creatures not gamefreak and it was also seriously delaied and not rushed at all. I think it was supposed to release on the 3ds as a direct sequel but then was scrapped partway into development just to be dug up again after the success of the film with a miniscule budget probably tighter than the 3ds sequel and well then problems probably arose it being the first switch game creatues developed and all. I think this game is also just supposed to be a shovelware title meant for a quick buck like pokepark pokechannel etc. Low budged low quality
It's directly made by Game Freak, That's why
The good spinoffs are made by other developers
@@jesusramirezromo2037 Well there's also other developers here, precisely the ones who helped with both Pokeparks
Harry was more agile as a human than as a freaking Pikachu.
A little chonker ain't he.
To be fair, he's not used to being a Pikachu.
to be fair even the actual pikachu acts like he's fat with heart disease, maybe pikachus just arent that athletic in this game💀 lil chublords
@@JubioHDXnah not chublord lmao
@@JubioHDXPOV: 0 Speed IV
I love Mewtwo’s blank stare in every scene. That final battle sure was legendary lol💀 Thank you for playing this game so no one else ever needs to bother.
I can tell that a lotta the voicework being bad is just pure voice direction because when khoi dao (mc’s va) actually has emotion lines or roles in other franchises they sound good
Ah, Detective Pikachu. The only game where the movie adaptation isn't just good, but better than the source material.
The movie wasn’t that good either. The animation was amazing but the writing was subpar. The TCG cards based on the movie were great though as they used the movie’s visuals.
@@vaya-dragon1998for me @ least it goes in that category of not life changing, but is a decent rewatch if I want something mindless. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but nothing insanely amazing either.
@@vaya-dragon1998 I thought it was _just_ above average. Nothing incredible, but nothing awful.
At the very least, you can say it's better than most video game movies.
1:43:27 it’s funny because the added music genuinely makes this whole dialogue SO much more interesting and makes the voice acting sound more insane
And all from a typing game too!
it’s genuinely so much better and the music’s not even synced lmaooo
It gives it a more campy evil feel. So much more fun and enjoyable. I
you...?
absolutely
"Pokemon can't use Self-Destruct if there's too much moisture in the air."
This is actually in reference to the ability Damp, which specifically prevents explosion moves while a pokemon with the ability is out on the field.
One day Tim's father awoke to find himself turned into a talking Pikachu...
A pokemon story by Franz Kafka
Watching paint dry is more amusing than the dialogue in this game. Mad props to Daniel and the editor for making this game bearable.
And Millie Parfait's hat stream for that matter
1:52:00 does it deeply frustrate anyone else that Pangoro, the DARK TYPE POKÉMON, just got rag-dolled by a clearly psychic type move? It just shows that the game writers clearly haven’t played a mainline Pokémon game before.
Also, Pangoro, Liepard, Sableye, Impidimp are all dark types and it looks to be blatant typoe profiling. That being said, LUXRAY is their leader who is an electric type that most people want to be part dark. TPC knows this but I guess they don't want to make that happen. Didn't even get a mega to address this unlike you-know-who
larion fainting to a single thunderbolt 💀
@@moonprison4681I mean at least Lairon isn’t completely immune to it
@@moonprison4681Could have had Rock Head instead of Sturdy?
@@moonprison4681what! You mean, the pokemon with a 60/50 special bulk got one shot by a special move?!? That’s so unrealistic!
Let’s take a moment to appreciate Chloe editing this, and making it more interesting than the actual game
Everyone in this game is dead, and nanobots have possessed their bodies to try and act out the human thing. I can think of no other reason for the people to all be as stiff as a board.
Imagine this playthrough but every time Pikachu says "OK! Let's start deducing!" the video gets faster
Make it so that any repeated phrase increments the speed, and it’ll be 5 minutes long MAX
@@donovanjoseph737yeah I wrote that comment before I realized the true "every time" is Tim's "Excuse me" and the one note piano
I thought this was a Morbius meme for a second there, God the internet has poisoned my brain
Love your reviews RR!
@@KWBR1123
Yeah I was sitting here like "Honestly this game would probably be more fun if he said ‘it’s deducing time'" before realising that’s not what it was saying at all.