This Is the Most Fun I've Had With Pokemon Sword and Shield | Crown Tundra Impressions
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The Crown Tundra, the final chunk of Pokemon Sword and Shield Expansion Pass DLC is here, and it's pretty darn fun I gotta say.
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"This, right here, needs to be the future of pokemon."
He says as Incineroar gets stuck and needs to disappear and reappear next to him.
I'm not even trying to be cynical, that was just funny timing.
Better than just leaving him here
And freezes during every dialogue scene
@@Avvura Didn't notice that my first time watching this, and now that I do see it... Oh dear.
Well uh... On the bright side, at least it's not T-posing... out of what I've seen.
@@Shane-mv3wx "At least it's not T-Posing"
_Darkest Lariat Intensifies_
I hope to see more of the Arlo multiverse in the future.
Yeah, I was about to say that I hope these new Arlos and Barlo become constant characters
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it's just sesame street
Arlo into the Arloverse
They are his other puppets from Fuzzaboom
The legendary birds in the crown tundra was the perfect way to modernize the roaming legendaries. Every game from now on should have roaming legendaries like this, where you follow them and catch them, but you don’t know where they are specifically, you just go into a route and if you hear the cry you look around until you found it.
I agree, this was so cool!
@@jellycore1316 good idea, poorly-executed.
Didn't silver and gold have that with the legendary dogs?
13:50 I love how he simply dismisses the New Regi's.
The New ones that have probably 100x times the power of the old ones that excited him so much loool. Ah; nostalgia is a very cruel mistress to some people!
That type of mechanic can have major flaws, I from experience, wouldn’t recommend it at all.
the whole problem with Sword and Shield is that TPC wants Game Freak to make HD console games on the same schedule as they've made the handheld games for the previous 20 years.
Hopefully they'll be able to continue building on and improving upon what they've created with SwSh.
Man this comment section is way better than the one for arlo's video on the base game
This is basically what GF could have done to base SwSh if they had at least one more year
GameFreak is in charge of TPC not the other way around.
@@edmg7 its confusing. Tcpi is owned by 3 companies. With nintendo being the majority owner and with all rights to pokemon.gamefreak the devs work under thier guidelines and deadlines.its just that nintendo and creatures company can make gamefreak do whatever they what since all management is under thier control.
@@edmg7 no I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. At this point TPC handles the anime, merch, the TCG which still depend on the main series as a base so it's completely possible they rush gamefreak
I never realized there was an interaction between spinning your character and having the Spheals clap for you
There isn't actually, the clapping is just their "I see you" animation, if you look closely they do that even without the spinning
If Arlo actually did all those voices, he’s got a pretty amazing range.
And his Arlo voice isn’t even his real voice!
@@pickledgarf I-it isn't!?
@@InquisitiveRavenclaw It's mostly the accent. Doesn’t sound too different.
those were completely different other monsters though?
Look up the channel Fuzzaboom for all the Arlo voices!
Just gonna point out, you could always create a new save file in the game you have to get the Regi you're missing. So you don't need to pay $90.
i thought you had to buy the DLC for each save file
Yes but you also have to go through the entire game again. The regis are locked behind the post game.
@@icantthinkofagoodname5710 Thats not quite true. You can get the new regi after you got the water riding bike. Thats after the sixth badge but its not post game.
LOL I have like five other profiles in post game and I just get five legendaries for each Pokémon
@@stonefacecollin actually, any Pokémon you catch in Dynamax adventures obey you regardless of badges. Heck, as soon as you get to the wild area, you can travel to the crown tundra, intentionally lose to peony as you don’t gotta win to progress, then do as many max advantures till you got a whole team of 60-70 Pokémon that obey you to sweep the gyms. Only Pokémon that don’t have the same ID as yours will not obey you (I.E trades and transfer Pokémon)
Wait... did Arlo pronounce Suicune “SOO-IH-SOON”?
I’ve never heard it pronounced that way!!
Everyone that I know said it that way when they were kids
@@lt.luxray2570 Maybe kids in my school knew the pronunciation from the anime, but I’ve legit never heard it said like that and it totally confused me 😂
I always pronounced it swee-coon.
@@PikaLink91 I just looked it up on the anime. It is sui-coon, but sui is said so fast that it sounded like swee to me.
Jokingly: "Swick-uh-nee."
If Arlos are being tossed all around the universe, why isn't there one at my house yet? Who do I need to speak to in order to get this fixed?
Wait where is the PewDieArlo?
I got one, his name's yarlo, he keeps eating my food when I'm not looking
@@joaquinsandaal5139 i got parlo
@@joaquinsandaal5139 he’s always taking my switch
I have a Carlo
he's my roomate, and he kills a lot of people. I'm gonna move out, and I can only hope he doesn't start the apocalypse
"I can't believe it;s 2020 and I'm playing a game with a map that's so unhelpful"
*Xenoblade Chronicles 2 intensifies*
"Time for another game of: Figure out what layer it's on!" -- Chuggaaconroy. XD
Yeah I'm replaying it rn and... god those maps lol
But that's something I like in Xenoblade honestly. It really makes you feel like you are exploring a new world.
Better than this game though
"Wait? What elevation is this located?"
@@pit2992 But its so needless
When I look at Galarian Zapdos, only two words come to mind:
"Meep, meep!" Lol!
It reminds me of a Chocobo!
XD
"Kweh!" For me
I named mine "roadrunner" reminded me of the good old days when I was living life on "free trial mode"
Honestly gamefreak's been doing the whole catch every legendary thing since Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire and I kinda never liked it. I mean I love catching legendaries as much as the next guy but doing the same thing a dozen times to get them all rather than them having their own little part of the map dedicated to them just doesn't do it for me. Plus having all of them just inherently makes each individual one feel less special. It's not, "Oh cool Regigigas is in this game" and more so "oh there he is. well, another one to the collection of regigigas' I've been building since gen 4...neat".
They've actually been doing the catch legendaries thing since Fire Red and Leaf Green, you could catch pretty much every legendary at the time in those games and they've continued that trend with every remake or sequel (BW2 & USUM) since.
Play Pokemon Glazed :)
@@idunno_ they had their own area dedicated to them in most games. the issue is no exclusive area for each now
@@ZentaBon that is true
agree - going to the top of Mt Ember to get Moltres felt a lot better than taking the same repetitive wormhole in the sky
Its relieving to see that people have been liking the second expansion more than the rest of the game generally, but it's still sad how much low effort all of these in general have been...
Fun fact, if you start a new game the crown thundra completely breaks progression, you can go to it right away and get level 60 legendaries before the first gym
Bede acting like he's all that and superior to the player while you whip out a literal God that you captured like two days in.
How would you get through the battle with the good dad though?
Even if you lose to best dad, the game will still let you explore the crown tundra normally. Also, the legendaries are lv. 70.
@@goldkobold6496 he defeats you but, it doesn't matter because after that you can continue as normal
The base game prevented you from throwing balls at pokemon too high of level until you had enough badges, is it different in the dlc?
As surprised as I am to say it, I absolutely agree with you.
I’m loving my time with the Crown Tundra!!
Hi Tim
same here tbh. even though we all agree on the obvious things the developers should be less charlatans on. its a fun experience.
I think the 4 short quests from Peony and the Swords of Justice side quest from Sonia is a lot better than the stretched out Urshifu quest with new rival and company.
The Star Tourney should have been base game.
19:19 are we just gonna pretend that he didn’t just found a shiny?
It’s a glitch he should delete it
Finding shiny pokemon in the new rad adventure thing isn't hard. They shiny chance has increased exponential, so finding one is common place... sadly...
@BlackDot it had a shield so it's not from an adventure.
@@zsombormarcso9033 I take my statement back then
-find-
Man, I jumped back into Pokemon recently to see if I wanted to get the expansion, and good lord. I've been playing a lot of Hades recently, and there is just so much personality and charm in that game. There are 300,000 words of A+ voice acting, and it really pulled me into the story *of a roguelike*. The script is amazing too. It remembers all sorts of stuff, like which gods you've talked to on your run, how your last encounter with somebody went, where you've died in the past, and which weapons you've been using. It zeroes in on dialog relevant to how you personally have been playing, and it must have taken a ton of work to get it performing as well as it does.
It will never stop frustrating me that relatively small operations like Supergiant, with only 20 employees, can put out these fluid, engaging, polished experiences on a limited budget. Meanwhile, The Pokemon Company can slap together a game with hundreds of employees and more money than god, and it still *barely* clears the bar of what would have been acceptable on the first gen 3DS. There's just no way I can play the two games back to back and not think "wow, gamefreak legitimately does not care about the quality of their product."
Yeah, it's honestly kind of depressing, especially since you can feel effort in at least half of every Pokemon game
The art team, sound team, and multiplayer team all kill it while the animation team and story team just drop the ball hard every time.
Honestly, I don't even think gamefreak got lazy in the middle of making the game, remember when they said they split two teams in half? One to focus on Sword and Shield and another to focus on a game noone probably remembers anymore? The deadline for the release of the game didn't help either and they probably couldnt focus on important stuff and all that. I'm pretty confident that the next main line games are gonna be better, they can literally just build up from sword and shield and just add more additional content and shit. Since they even have the files for all the pokemons so far in sword and shield ( i doubt they are gonna even bother recreating the models )
They also recently announced that they were able to hire more people. So that's something.
I have also been playing Hades and i am continually impressed with all the content in the game. Then i go back to swsh and I'm just dumbfounded by the lack of polish.
yeah... hey imagine if they had to give over production to another company? that cared?
@@thatsneakydude5316 Regarding the whole idea of gamefreak splitting its staff, it turns out that isn't the case. Around 200 gamefreak employees worked directly on Sw/Sh while Little Town Hero had about 60 people involved. It should also be pointed out that not all of the LTH crew members were from gamefreak (a lot of them were from other companies like Zaxx Inc). I'm guessing that the biggest issue Sw/Sh had was time (although I've heard a few rumors about them being incompetent programmers).
Maybe the additional 30-40 people might have helped, but I think what gamefreak really needs is a nice, long time to develop one good pokemon game (while still letting their employees take turns working on passion projects).
Bruh. The ads you do are absurdly creative, I honestly always have so much fun watching them
idk what he's talking about when he said the max raid npcs have gotten smarter; i keep seeing a bronzong that just swaps abilities with everyone on our team and literally does more harm than good
@@EdwardSnortin He is, just not with Pokémon. He said himself that the last games he played of Pokémon were Black & White back on 2010's.
What i love about the crown tundra is that if i were actually in a world with these legendary beings, I would 100% spend all my time searchung ruins
Oooh heck, good point
Your THAT npc
This is the problem for me. The fact that the best and the most interesting part about the whole game is the DLC, just shows how bad the main game was.
Makes sense
It's what happens when you don't have enough time to make a fleshed out game
@@tallboiedd2846 but they had enough time, they reused so many assets, be it the 3D models, or animations. The game is poorly optimized, and an embarrassment to the Pokémon brand.
@@jamesalexhowlett most definitely.
Both dlcs should have been part of the base game imo and then maybe sword and sheild would have been worth what the base game cost
Omg I am SO WITH YOU on catching legendaries. That was part of why I loved Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire so much, was just because there were SO MANY LEGENDARIES to catch
I love omega ruby! Soaring was so much fun!
It's a shame that they didnt add that flying feature in gen 7 and sword and shield.
I didn't buy the DLC and after Shield I restarted Alpha Sapphire. I am having so much fun on it!
I actually miss Gen 7's way to catch legendaries. It made sense in world, and wasn't so tacked on to me. You could just head straight to a legendary with your own pokemon and stuff and now the game limits you. Or maybe it's just because I'm playing solo (in a POKEMON GAME)
@@f.rproductions3118 Isn't ultra warp ride reasonably similar?
15:28 Cinderace using the move "Headbutt" and then proceeding to kick Zapdos is the perfect picture of the lack of polish and care from gamefreak.
here bro you dropped this: L
@@snoppdoog4921 nah, u dropped it
@@mikayel6175 you:🤡
I agree, that just makes my brain facepalm itself.
When Arlo started talking about the game being really cheap, yes I completely agree, I’ve been playing a lot of minecraft and a bit of pokemon lately and so I’m now pretty used to low definition graphics. (No Offence to minecraft definetly wouldn’t want to change minecraft’s design) So when I played the pikmin 3 demo, I was flabbergasted. I know that the graphics were upscaled, but not by much. And pikmin 3 is 7 years old!
Pikmin 3 is incredibly cinematic as well. Feels like a movie
Sword and Shield graphics are about on par with Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. A WII GAME which came out NINE YEARS AGO.
He's not just referring to cheap visuals. The entire game feels cheap. Minecraft isn't cheap, it's dedicated to an aesthetic. Everything about Minecraft is detailed and follows through properly on its aesthetic. Pokemon's just lazy poo-poo.
I love Pikmin so darn much!
It's not necessarily the graphics of the game that look cheap(I think the game looks quite nice personally), but rather the animations. The animations are definitely cheap.
And on top of that, it's more the game feels cheap than looks cheap, so that also extends to the dialogue and story elements. Sword and Shield lack a ton in the animation department.
For me though, they make up for it in the sound design, art design, and competitive multiplayer focused aspects of the game. All of that stuff is pretty spot on if you ask me.
I want to get myself a shiny Yveltal to please my child self, it's been 5 days and 110 raids and I may have lost the notion of pain
I actually hunted mine in Ultra Moon and brought it over to Shield. I wish you the best of luck on your endeavors! 👍
Aww, I wish you all the best, as well!
Did you ever get it?
@@fredit123456789 Nah I only play Pokemon in winter so I fell off the grid of last year, I'll most likely continue this one !
This DLC hurt me. This is what Pokemon should be! Yet they dangle it in front of you as DLC. I felt work put in it, which I didn't feel with the base game.
Hopefully we can take this as a positive sign for the future. With these design philosophies and some more time, we could see a modern Pokemon renaissance with Sinnoh remakes or Gen 9.
@@commentingcommenter1230 lmao yall and sinnoh. I cant wait for the dissapointed fans when it flops.
@@sechabatheletsane9784 We won't know until it actually comes out. Newer Pokemon games have been objectively not so good, but I've still had fun with them, so going back to Sinnoh would be enjoyable no matter what for me.
@@commentingcommenter1230 wont know till it comes out. Swsh had people saying that too. Lol. Don't underestimate these guys. But I've rained on your parade enough.
@@sechabatheletsane9784 All good, still going to remain cautiously optimistic for the future and hope that Gamefreak can surprise us in a good way like they did in the Crown Tundra.
And now with the release of both DLCs, that brings a question: When are they bringing following Pokémon into the much smaller Wild Area? They have the technology to do it, why haven't they done it yet?
Edit: Also, one of my favorite parts of the Crown Tundra is the Max Raid Battles. Not the battles themselves. But the fact that *people actually join and play with you.* Playing with actual people is SO much easier than playing with the braindead bots.
the map is that bad because gamefreak always stays to their roots, a bit too much at times. pokemon red had a simplistic map? same as with sword/shield. pokemon red shows each hit of a 5 hit attack, sluggishly pausing to lower the hp bar each time? swsh does too. pretty annoying for a 2020 game, you wont see this kind of thing in basically any other rpg series
Ah, I remember playing Gen 5, turning off animations and witnessing the INSANE difference it makes on Multi-hit attacks... I never was able to go back afterwards x)
The multi-hit attacks do kinda need to be distinguished because of things like abilities that activate per hit or for items and such
It could be sped up some for sure, but there is a reason it's drawn out more than it could've been
Multi-attacks are supposed to show each hit.
But simply replaying the standard slow animation - that is kind of me indeed.
I miss the Sun and Moon minimap :(
I liked the way multihits looked in Stadium where you would see the Pokémon attacking once and then the opponent would be shown getting hit from different angles as many times as the move landed. Of course there were no abilities like Stamina to take into consideration back then, but it was or at least felt a lot quicker.
Tbh kinda makes me wonder why the whole game wasn't just one big wild area.
The map does really suck and they need to improve it, but personally the only time I got lost was in the caves.
Agreed. I don't need it to be full on open world, but making it feel open in terms of environment would be great for the next game.
I thought people hated that it was so simple to navigate so i just assumed that this was gamerfreak trying to apease the "fans"
@@password4531 It felt like the wild area was just one big park thing, even though it seems like they tried to add seperate "zones" of it it all feels the same, and the Dusty Bowl just shoved in makes it not look good. Why are tbere 12 different types of weather for an area less than the size of Central Park? Why does it have a random desert? Is that supposed to be a forest? There isn't really anything separating the different areas to make them distinct.
@@Tellysayhi Thats because the wild area IS supposed to be on big area. I don't want to be a "gamefreak fanboy" but the wild area despite having problems mainly to do with animation (which doesn't bother me that much) the wild area is pretty good for a pokemon game
The Tundra is a lot easier to navigate when it isn't cloudy/hailing. There are enough landmarks to look around and see where you are when you can actually see a decent distance. Unfortunately the first few days after release had clouds and snow covering most of the Tundra, so early experiences were biased.
I didn't play after the first 2 days, I figured it was permanent hail lol
Hunting Articuno on release day in foggy weather wasn't exactly the easiest thing the DLC had to offer....
Loved the DLC, but yeah about the houses... They're not only copy pasted to be identical to each other, they're copied from the main game! Ballonlea at least. Other than that, very fun. Looking forward to what comes next!
I mean, it's not like Pokemon or other games haven't done that before.
@@blanks8851 Yeah but up to this extent though...?
@@blanks8851 I actually think the houses all having the same structure is pretty smart. The area is inhabited by very few people, so the buildings are probably just simple copy-and-paste designs made by a company for cheap construction. Now having all the same decour inside, that's pretty stupid.
@@edmg7 I honestly didn't even notice the houses were all the same considering how little time to spend in them.
Then also be mad at breath of the wild for the stables.. fair?
I feel like legends are starting to become meaningful again
With the Calyrex , Ultra Beasts, and the Regis and espically the Swords of Justice
+ Keldeo and victini being catchable
Learning that Arlo is an Enya fan made my day.
On that note, what is Enya's favourite garden pest repellent? Snail Away, Snail Away, Snail Away!
Sorry...
I liked it
Happy Birthday tomorrow Arlo! I hope you enjoy Pikmin 3 Deluxe and I really appreciate the quality content you have been giving us
It's his birthday tomorrow? Maybe I should just suck it up and do some watching.
It looks like a major improvement over the base game and Isle of Armor. Hopefully they improve upon this for the next game.
My only complaint: Hunting for post-game legendaries still isn't as cool or interesting as it was in some of the older games, except for with the Regis and birds (though I miss the braille).
I like dynamax adventures, especially as there's a good chance for other pokemon to be shiny.
It’s honestly pretty fun with friends.
I mean in others you had like 15 legendaries and now the amount is more than double, not all,of them would habe their own special thing
Arlo catching galarian zapdos in a premier ball: I see you are a man of culture as well.
I quite enjoyed getting lost and trying to figure out how to navigate in the Tundra. It felt like going on a proper adventure now that I had no idea where to go and having to figure it out myself.
That's all I wanted with the base game, that's what every other game has except this one
@@squill4883 I think that trend was already there the moment they switched to 3D. XY and SM felt even more linear.
I haven't played them yet, but I feel like that would be my thoughts on it too.
Same! Like the Tunnel to the Top! I got all turned around and lost in there, first time in a cave in forever.
@@jafd239 That cave was great! I was stuck taking the wrong turns for twenty minutes, and I usually have a really good sense of direction in games!
I have to agree it's a shame we had to pay for pokemon to be put back in and people treat it like a "wow" instead of something that should have been expected.
I just think if they waited a couple more years and didn't commit to the "yearly holiday cash rush." It could have been great, it's still a fun game but I wish ti wasn't given to us with low quantity and care at a 60 dollar price tag and then an additional 30 if you want the pokemon you like back in.
As for the DLc I'm enjoying it, I just wish it was in the base game, I think it's beautiful I'd live there. I only wish we got more interactions with Peonia
@@Maxusdadream yeah, but it’s hard as heck to obtain them if you don’t have the dlc
@@raycraft001 every Pokemon game has Pokemon like that even the first generation
@@Maxusdadream You don't "HAVE" to pay to get any pokemon in the game, but the odds and trials needed to get the ones you want are so heavily stacked against players who haven't paid that it incentivizes them to do so. At the very least, you need to have Nintendo Online to even trade for these pokemon in the first place.
The release schedule is the real problem here, and it's likely the pokemon company demanding a pokemon game to be released every year.
@@Maxiz60 I know but the only way to get the newly added old mons is to transfer or trade. I wish they spawned everynow and then in the wild area
11:50 - adorable clip, not gonna lie
Sphealclap
edit:
13:10 "legendary pokemon which I will not spoil" -- and then 13:17 bottom left corner -- whoops
Never change, Arlo :D
That isn't the pokemon he was referring to.
@@colemin2 it is tho
@@ronnycrawf2441 He's referring to the birds.
@@colemin2 You're also wrong. He's referring to the footprints of the Musketeers/Swords of Justice.
Kane's fault.
Honestly. I started up the game after 3 months and stopped playing after an hour or 2. Just got so boring so quickly. I think Pokemon are awesome but if the games are cheap and rushed then it hurts my overall outlook on Pokemon as a whole.
I bought sword a month ago, played until fighting Hop and getting the dynamax band or whatever it's called. Itt boring, uninspired.
I recently played a new copy of Ultra Sun on 3DS I played at least 2 hours on my flight and got more entertainment from it than Sword, the music, the characters, the colors it all just pops a lot more than... Whatever Sword was going for
Also Crown Tundra is just a barren wasteland like 76
@@RodaMoonknight well to be fair ultra sun/moon were made to get every last thing that the 3ds could hold.
Hope they also do that for the switch with the next generation, but I have faith they will do that.
Also I don't really agree with you on the music and characters, because sword and shield nailed those in my opinion.
@@magnus5747 Im 99.999% sure gen 9 will be another let down. The way the Pokemon company look at things is "If we can get people to buy an unfinished, ugly looking, boring waste of time of a game then why make it good". Mario and Zelda games get so much love and passion put into them but Pokemon is just a cash grab.
@@thebikerrex5010 well only time will tell.
I nuzloche every game when it comes out, and it was pretty nice to wipe 3 or 4 times on sword before beating it. That being said I haven't enjoyed a pokemon game fully since gen 4 lol and i just play platinum and hgss mostly now. Gen 4 remakes when pokemon company.
13:17
I love how he's talking about not spoiling the pokemon that you're tracking down but then the footage spoils it anyway
Bottom left corner
Most people wouldn't have noticed...
@@quazar3640 yeah i just thought it was funny
Lol the QC process
I dunno, even if someone noticed, I’m pretty sure they’d just think it’s from Dynamax Adventures since you can get all the past legendaries (minus some mythical Pokémon) through it.
I was going to mention how he spoiled that Calyrex talks at around 10:41, which is what I think he was referring to enjoying about Calyrex's story (that or the form change he gets).
Tbh they need more quests. Like 50 quests in a game would be cool. Go hunt a specific Pokémon, catch/defeat a certain amount. Go find specific characters, get an item to move forward with the story, help npcs with moving things with strength or something. Gain exp, rare items, clothes, gift pokemon, etc. maybe every other town has their own legendary that you need to catch to unlock something in the town. They can expand so much in Pokémon. They just havent
I didn’t know arlo would ever say Pokémon sword and shield and fun in the same sentence.
Pokemon Sword and Shield are NOT fun
Boom
@@THGMR-ox7sd Not really, games do not have to be fun, they just have to be games.
@@baron4718 I had so much fucking fun with sword and shield despite the issues it has.
@@homiesobble6578 Me too. I'm just disappointed that it wasn't more. I wanted the big, first home console gen to be the grandest one yet.
@@jello_sauce your joking right? Lmao. Are you an EA bot or something? Reggie literally said "if it's not fun why bother?" And has been proven in Nintendo's philosophy in games they've produced since. Although swsh doesn't hold that reprised title too well.
I had a lot of issues with sword and shield as someone who once called Pokémon their favorite franchise, but there was at least a base level of fun just from it being Pokémon despite the missing mons, awful story, and general low quality of the game. Both of the dlcs are definitely steps in the right direction and I had fun with both. I really wish the 200+ mons that are still missing were in the game, but if gamefreak and the Pokémon company learn from what worked and what didn’t and come back with a new polished game hopefully for gen 9 with the full dex I will consider it a lesson learned and worth it. Unfortunately I feel they will continue to release games or dlc every year and rush out bare minimum efforts with a cut dex. I hope they prove me wrong but I’m worried for the future.
I like how Arlo's pokemon is named Eren Yaeger
Interesting, I thought he didn’t like anime
"Soo-eh-soon" killed me
That triggered me.
I lost brain cells
I know this is a tired and overdone comment.. but holy shit that Suicune pronunciation 😂😂 I had literally no idea what you were talking about for a sec there 😂
"NPCs aren't as dumb"
My NPCs "haha Acupressure and Speed Swap go brrr"
😂
"I'm going to keep spamming helping hand despite having a super effective move that could do a lot of damage"
They're still dumb, just not AS dumb as the one in the base game.
Oh don't get me started, I had a Comfey that insisted on using draining kiss every turn on a Tsareena
It was awful!
@@diode_wow nah, they're just as dumb
They just have better moves to choose from since we also have to use what they have lol
Crown Tundra to Sword and Shield:
"Let's talk about this plan of yours. I think it's good, except, it sucks. So let me do the plan, and that way it might be really good."
I get that reference.
@@Magobey1115 Avengers, I'm pretty sure. Star-Lord says the same thing.
@@frostplushtrapfan5695 can confirm, avengers reference
@@livingbeast...i_think Thank you, I thought it was but didn't know if I was thinking of a different film or not.
You can tell they put more time into the DLC than the *ACTUAL GAME.*
or like, they started dev of the DLC while the main game was still in the making, so they had 2 to 3 years for the dlc and 1 to 2 years for the main game... basically, pokemon company only need to let them have that one more year...
@@charlestrudel8308 not quite crown tundra itselfstarted developing last year, they had the main game ready and modder/dlc friendly making it easier to expand the game
@@nechocat1234 probably also true.
Does other worldly Arlo have a mustache and goatee? That's how we can know for sure that he is evil.
But if that's accompanied with a monocle then he could just be an archeologist.
@@markthomaskiec2453 you forget the possibility that he could be an evil archeologist....
@@cordasolis LE GASP!! THAT CLEVER FIEND!!!
@@markthomaskiec2453 Not only does he have a degree in archeology from a prestigious college, but he’s also a true professional in the art of deception....
Love the references to your earlier work.
Barlo - Bolie
Georlo - Georgie
Marklo - Marko
About the identical houses- they're not just copies of each other, they are copy and pasted just with a different colour palate as the houses in Balonlea (5th gym, fairy... Opal)
So it's still lazy
@@RodaMoonknight yes, very
Hi Barlo, Jarlo, and Marclo welcome to the family
Unfortunately you can’t catch every legendary. There are a lot that you can’t get in either version of the game (I.e Arceus, darkrai, magearna, etc).
Edit: ok those are mythical Pokémon, not legendary’s, my bad
Those are mythicals
@@ilyashuster3447 ooooooohhhhhhh! That makes sense now, thanks! The difference between mythical and legendary always confused me.
@@moonray0108 yeah me too. I only understood them a few months back
@@moonray0108 That's because the difference is silly and arbitrary.
Legendary = Catchable in-game, but only one per save file
Mythical = Event distributed/downloaded
There's no real lore difference between the two, no meaningful distinction under the hood.
Also, at least in gens 1 and 2 there was no distinction between the two: "mythicals" like Mew, Celebi, and Mewtwo were _also_ called legendaries. I don't even know when this distinction officially started.
@@RoninCatholic legendary Pokémon are supposed to be “known” to exist, legends of their feats exist
Mythical Pokémon are entirely a myth , their existence is not 100% accepted
So mew is mythical because it is a myth that a first Pokémon existed , arceus is a myth because well he’s god
Genesect is the only mythical I don’t get , he was manufactured so he is known
11:56 omg the Spheal clapping as the player spins around 🥺🥺🥺
I'm glad it's good, and I hope that they use the formula they've got here and improve on it for the next game. I won't buy them, though, because of how the base game was. Here's to hoping that the next games are better without needing DLC to improve them dramatically.
They will be, the reason that these features were added as dlc was probably because of 2 reasons:
1. The Pokemon Company was giving Gamefreak a harsh schedule
-2. Gamefreak is lazy but obviously that's not right-
Oh, I haven't even watched more than a couple seconds in & I can already agree. This DLC is what Sword and Sheild NEEDED. In fact, it should've been in the game to begin with instead of being a $30 DLC, but whatever.
@@THGMR-ox7sd they would
@@THGMR-ox7sd Good question. My bet is no. I can't speak for everyone, but I know that at least I would've been a little less dissapointed in SWSH if the Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra had been Post-Game. Because at least then the Post-Game would've been good.
Eh, still not enough to win me over on Sword and Shield. Far too little far too late.
@@Nintendotron64 That's fair. Though, if there's anything postiive to take away from the Crown Tundra, it's that is sets a fantastic precident for what the future of Pokémon could be like. At least in my opinion.
Personally I feel isle of armor should have been base game, and crown tundra should have been 15$ at most.
Those Legendary birds look really cool. I hope they make an effort to up the number of regional variants with the next game. That way even familiar faces are brand new.
I love this DLC, the Dynamax Adventures are really good. I like that it actually requires and ALLOWS you to use strategy in the raids as opposed to the normal way of "spam your strongest attacking move until the boss is done!"
Ten legendary‘s in one game, that’s so cool
Me who’s fakemon region has a regi for every type: are you challenging me?
The ship has sailed for me, I see everyone having fun but I already paid $60 to have fun in the base game and didn't, it feels like diminishing returns at this point. Especially since none of the new Pokémon really excite me and I've already caught every legendary.
It's kind of depressing how often they resell that specific feature actually... We could catch every legendary to date in Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon, but somehow this is still a feature to ask an extra $30 with. Same with follow Pokémon, but every game with it prior did a more consistent job with it.
Oh yeah, and the co op feature only works for friends who pay for NSO and also bought the DLC, non DLC players can't join on the Dynamax Adventures with their base game unlike before with the dens. I wasn't expecting it to be, but it's worth pointing out before someone says "they aren't specifically selling Dynamax Adventures only in the DLC" because yeah they kind of are otherwise they would have patched that. It's a paid feature, and it's a big core of the DLC.
Additionally unsettling, Pokémon Go compatibility with Home and thus Sword and Shield hinges on Sword and Shield already having the Pokémon in the pokedex. So if you caught Darkrai this week in Go and thought you'd transfer it, sorry, unless you paid for Home premium to transfer from paid Bank from paid other games, or pay to have DLC to recatch the legendaries at least once, you're SOL. Though, not sure if Darkrai is included in the DLC? Even more chance you're SOL in that case.
... Yikes, truly I didn't mean to go off here. I'm happy they've produced better content that is making all of my friends happy. I just have the sinking feeling that the little nefarious "devil in the details" is ruining my enjoyment of my favorite franchise, because I morally don't want to stand by a company with bad consumer practices, and TPC is not being forthright with us or our investments. I don't see anything about what they've done since launch that leads to any self reflection on how they handled 2019's PR disaster and the decisions that lead up to it.
@Death Embrace lmao. How do you know he isnt?
Well written sir. TPC are only gonna get worse with their decision making. It's only when the sinnoh remakes come and dissapoint that the spell will be broken. But by then it will be too late.
@Death Embrace wow can you just chill out
@Death Embrace Imagine being so offended by a comment giving an opinion that you post this
Honestly, GameFreak are all geniuses. They’ve released so much bad Pokémon content that when they release a 15 dollar dlc with a mediocre story, confusing world, and decent legendary hunting everyone loves it.
They set the bar so low that they only need to hit “meh” out of ten for our praise
so sad but true
Well when Arlo talked about three pokemon... There is actually four of them but last one is hidden a bit more.
Also, you can get Regigigas but you need all five Regis for that in your party. I swear, if they put as much effort into main story as they did in that DLC, no-one would complain.
He shows footage of him battling Regigigas in the video, which means he probably knows about the 4th pokemon, but that would actually be a spoilder.
To be honest both 4th pokemon and Gigas's puzzles are not as obvious as rest of the game and I love that
The thing that has me loving this is the challenge of max raid dungeons. Yes there are only so many Pokémon, but the kind of strategy you have to do to build your team without dying, and then chipping down the HP of the legend? So fun, especially since the legends are really hard. Especially the box ones. I play with my friends, and we had a Palkia fight be decided by 7 points of HP. If that person died, we would have lost as we were out of lives. The feeling of 4 friends, 2 with sword and 2 with shield, and slowly grinding them all out where each new move feels like the difference between life and death, it’s absolutely thrilling. And I love that the shiny rate is higher too. Shiny legends should be special, yes, but there is a joy of having your girlfriend ask “why is Lugia pink” after a tough fought battle. It’s not absurdly rare, but it’s still rare enough for it to be special. It’s genuinely given me the most joy with this game, and I hope this kind of dungeon crawling makes a return in future installments. It’s a great idea, and their best method to grandfather in legends to date. It’s not a chore. It’s an absolute blast. Play it with friends if you can. You won’t be disappointed
This time on the laziest game ever which still made too much money...
As someone who has rather obscure games among his favorites... Pokémon pisses me off so much x)
FIFA 2020
It's time to put ur opinion in the trash!
@@VonFirflirch same lol.
@@morgankundrick8289 totally sick burn bro.
When there are other Arlo puppets:
*There are Impostors among us*
Thank you @Kim Jong-un, very cool!
How are you everywhere, supreme leader?
Me: Nice! Another Arlo video! What a treat! *clicks*
Arlo: I FINALLY FOUND A SOO-IH-SOON!
Me: *closes the video*
Remember how incredible Metal Gear Solid 3's cut scenes were? On the PS2? In 2004? And Modern Day Pokemon can't even bother to have characters animate to interact with each other when their franchise just churns out money like Niagara Falls?
I actually love how it seems like Pokémon company is actually starting to listen more makes me even more excited for the next game
It seems more to me like a ploy to get extra money for content that should have already been there. I don't really mean the story stuff exactly, but these DLC's came out long after they made it sound like it was just impossible to include so many pokemon into this game only to release paid dlc to include them. Sure you don't have to buy the games to get access to those pokemon down the line, but it's still something to incentivize people to make that purchase.
@@KalinTheZola Honestly it's too soon say whether or not Pokemon is actually listening to its fans. Remember, everyone was doing just fine with SwSh right up until the Dexit controversy started during E3 2019, which by then the game has gone too far into development to make big changes. Since this is a Nintendo franchise, I'm praying that future games will take more time to polish. I know that the games aren't developed by Nintendo in-house, but hopefully pressure from the core company will ensure better quality.
@@guardmaster9620 Yeah I'm pretty conflicted about whether or not I'm optimistic about the next game. I enjoyed Sword and Shield but thought it was a big step down from Alola (one of my favorite gens), yet I also thought Alola was big step up from Kalos (which I liked but it wasn't one of my favorites) so I'm hoping gen 9 will be a similar case where the next installment really feels like a step up. I'm just kind of confused on why and how Sword and Shield seemed to arguably dial back the scope of the series in certain areas despite being on so much more powerful hardware, but I'm hoping gen 9 pushes the hardware a lot more like Alola did. Honestly I'm probably in the "wait and see" position.
@@guardmaster9620 i actually wasn't even that bothered by the dexit thing until the dlcs actually.
Same! ^_^
Crown Tundra when compared to sword and shield main game: its actually a pretty great fun. crown tundra when compared to older gen pokemon experiences: lacking in almost every important aspect
like?
@@Whispernyan HGSS? BW2? emerald?
Pretty much agree with all of this tbh. Isle of Armor had the world design and music, Crown Tundra had the story and Legendaries. They both have their strength and weaknesses.
13:10 : “I won’t spoil it because the game treats it secret, I won’t say who they are”
13:20 : *one of the exact legendarys you were talking about appears in the bottom left corner*
The light circle is mainly for shiny hunting the Regis
Arlo’s optimism is growing and it frightens me...
so fun fact, the shiny odds in Max Lairs is 1/300 or 1/100 with shiny charm. pokemon do not appear shiny until the screen where you select one to take back, and even though you can only catch one of each legendary, you can choose not to take it until you get a shiny one. So basically, the crown tundra is a dlc that is especially good for shiny hunters.
That Suicune pronunciation wasn’t as bad as that time I heard a Pokkén commentator call Decidueye “Dekkydooey” 😆
Huh guess I should boot up Pokemon sword again sometime, but honestly I really did not enjoy the game, nor the first DLC, but I'll give this a shot, maybe I'll wait a bit to get into the winter mood first.
Being honest, I was sad that they took mons but at the same time the idea of them bringing them back made them feel new and I kinda loved that, it was really exciting
About the Regis comparison with the old and new forms of obtaining them, it they did bring back the braille, tell me with a straight face that no one would have just searched up how to do the puzzles. This half step ensures that there is effort (albeit very minimal amount of course) that has to be put to get the legendries and I am happy that Gamefreak is straying away from Event Pokémon. This is emphasized more since a special Pokémon was made to be found in the wild (I am not specifying to avoid spoiling the games for everyone). It is the second time if I recall correctly that a mythical Pokémon could be caught by the trainer.
I feel the secret winning formula it’s actually doing a living breathing Pokémon world, with actual open world elements and more interactions with Pokémon, showcase the new ones, that they do, how they act, their place in the region, etc.
Personally, I don't regret skipping Sword and Shield. I saw all the red flags during the development like the whole National Dex fiasco and how poorly the staff at Game Freak tried to justify it, so I waited and watched a Let's Play to see what the whole package had to offer before making my decision. Long story short, I thought it was barely an improvement over Sun & Moon, a game I already had a few problems with structurally, and the most it got from the transition to the Switch were Wild Areas and Dynamaxing, the former being woefully undercooked, and the latter being all flash and no substance. Even if both DLC improved on those areas and offer a more fulfilling experience, it doesn't matter if the base game it's attached to is mediocre at best. I've said it before, but Pokémon has become stale; more than any other Nintendo property, it needs its own Breath of the Wild to reinject life into it.
I've had even dumber experiences with the AI this DLC. They'll spam skill swap, power swap, set up terrain every time I do it with my max moves, and the most frustrating thing is when I want them to swap pokemon for one that will be more effective against the legendary, they won't. Or, when they already have one that is effective against the legendary, they will swap for a dunsparce or something. Everything else in the DLC was great though.
my personal head cannon for the naming of Freezington is a group of explorers who first discovered the crown tundra was like "Man, this place i freezing a ton!" and another was like "wait a minute..."
imagine a full pokemon game like crown tundra. you still have your big main plot, but it's set up like a big open sandbox with plenty of sidequests and mini plot arcs. you can actually render pokemon from afar to scout out where you want to go so you can get the pokemon you want. you could even have triggers in the world that activate the first time you enter a town or after you complete a certain gym so you can still have your evil team presence and rival subplots. depending on how they did it, it could even be treated like a sidequest, so you don't have to explore it if you don't want to.
honestly I am mildy interested in the game now thanks to this expansion pass, maybe I will get it by the end of the year
Seriously don't. this is not worth the 90$ price tag that the main game and the expansion pass total to. If you want the magnum opus of pokemon, buy/emulate Black or White + Black or White 2. I guarantee you'll have a good time with those, or I'll eat my shorts.
The new raid den and ability to get tons of legendaries feels great. Until you realize that you get none of the story or build up them. First den I got Suicune, second den I got a rayquaza that got absolutely wrecked by two ice Pokémon in two vollies. Not only that but there’s no struggle to catch them or stop them from fainting. You just beat them and catch them, the new raid dungeon doesn’t seem to have any chance at failure to catch.
It doesn’t have any failed catches. Every ball thrown is a guaranteed catch. The challenge is in surviving, which is why you can’t use your own probably OP team. Which is fun. I like using weird Pokémon in rental systems
@@aerowalker3 Agreed, with Gen 7 and Gen 6 both just throwing a ton of Legendary Pokemon at you with the standard way of catching, it's refreshing to really have a challenging encounter, Honestly even if Dynamaxing goes away next gen I hope things like Legendary Encounters are similar to Regigagas in this game.
15:10 in regards to the regi thing, you can have multiple save files on one copy of the game thanks to each switch profile getting its own save. So if you want both the Regis, you can do so by starting up a second save file on a different profile. And thanks to Pokémon home, you can transfer your Pokémon between the save files if you want them all on one save. It is inconvenient having to play the game multiple times just so you can get all the legendaries, but at least you don’t have to pay extra for a second game or find someone else to trade with if you don’t want to.
The Crown Tundra environmental design is more what I would expect from an overworld for the main game. Freezington being nestled in the middle of this open world felt good and it was nice to have more seemless areas. If pokemon goes this direction with the design, I will be very impressed with it.
the dlc was originally announced, they said the crown tundra's theme was exploration. so i think they wanted you to get a little bit lost. it made it exciting to me, never knowing if there is going to be a rare pokemon spawn around the corner or a cool item, instead of seeing a little divit in the map and going to that exact point knowing they hid something there.
And to this day he's still looking for the napkins
Why are you looking through my subscriptions
@@Izz7879 wha
@@yeetusdefeetus he comments on every video I watch
I've seen it everywhere on RUclips for years.
Having to use rental pokemon for the max den, the risk of losing and the absence of the shields is what truly makes that game mode fun. One time you go all-out attack, the next you are the status saboteur, the next you are the support. You actually have to strategize for a change, which makes it super fun.
For example: one time I saw my team was primarily offensively based, so I decided to choose the more support-oriented Togetic, a pokemon I would normally never use. I basically spammed Life Dew whenever somebody received damage, since my own attacks weren't going to do much anyways and my teammates had low defenses. In doing so I had saved a teammate from fainting on 4 seperate occasions. I also saved a low teammate from a strong dragon attack with a well-timed Follow Me.
Then the final boss arrived: Groudon. Two of my teammates were weak to ground thanks to terrible pokemon luck, so I suspected a ground attack to come. So I decided to use Follow Me to lure in the attack. First round: teammates either increase offensive power or deal damage. Groudon uses Max Quake. Does nothing on Togetic. Second round Groudon gets to 20% of his health. Uses a ground move AGAIN. Does absolutely nothing. Next round Groudon lies defeated.
And this is but one of the instances where I felt my choice actually mattered. Sometimes I chose well, sometimes I chose poorly (FE: used Glare twice when a teammate wanted to use Will-o-Wisp, wasting a chance to attack). It's waaaay more fun than the base game could ever have given me.
(Oh, and the increased shiny rate helps too)
If Arlo went back and played/reviewed the pokemon games he missed, I'd be so content
This should have been a part of the base game.... and the game still would have been lacking
I cared SO little about the base game that I refused to get any dlc after buying it. I'll admit some of this looks cool. I just hope they learn the right lessons from this game so the next one is better.
I think there's a good shot that next one is the one we've REALLY been waiting for. If they mess up the next game as well, then I'm no longer interested in the series and franchise is dead for me. SW;SH had a lot of good ideas and bad execution. All they have to do is hold onto those good ideas and execute them WELL next time and we got us a winner.
I want the next gen to take full advantage of the hardware. Alola pushed the 3DS a lot.
I could be pessimistic, but considering how well Sw/Sh sold I think the lesson they're gonna take away from this generation is they don't have to try very hard for a Pokemon game to sell well. Also they can take things away, reintroduce them in DLC, and get away with it with the majority of the player base content/happy about it.
@@logan2642 The taking away content thing is debatable but hopefully the effort thing is just a repeat of the 3DS, where the first gen takes advantage of the hardware more than the previous.
@@logan2642 That's pokemon in general, every third game or sequel introduced more pokemon that weren't available in the region originally
I really liked Pokémon sword and shield- I’m sure part of that is due to Pokémon sword being my 3rd ever traditional Pokémon game so it was really fresh and fun for me. 40 hours in and still haven’t finished the main story but excited to play the dlc once I do- thank you for the review!
The world design in crown tundra is exactly what we players of old wanted. It's like secrets everywhere - twists and turns, up and downs - we have to navigate through the game like we once did on Mt. Moon back in RBY up to the Dungeons in DPP.
It's great to have that exploration thing back instead of a straight line and one small room to the side ... nah fam - it's great that way.
"I won't say who they are"
Pokemon IMMEDIATELY appears on screen
This DLC shoud have been free for how luckluster the main game was.
It would make Sw/Sh from 3/10 to 6/10
I find it funny that he calls them "legendary dogs" when just last year it was confirmed they were based off of a Lion, Tiger, and Leopard respectively.
Last year?? Did people just not know for the past 20 years??
@@Fungo4 people have been arguing about it since they first appeared. However a recent interview had the debate of what they were was mentioned to the artist who designed them. They Re called the "Legendary Beasts" in official media but English speaking fans kept onsostng they were based on wolves or something. The artist who designed them were like "I based them off of a Lion, tiger, and black leopard." And so it finally ended the "debate" over what they were.
If you want to get both of the new Regis, you can make a second profile on your Switch, catch them, and deposit them into Pokémon Home, then move them to your main save file. Obviously this also works for the other legendary in the DLC too