Pokemon Legends Arceus Review Scored

Pokemon Legends: Arceus Review: ‘My rose-tinted glasses are fogging up’

By Jason Faulkner

It doesn’t matter how good Pokemon Legends: Arceus is. Let’s get that out of the way first. It will inevitably be one of the highest-selling games on the Switch, and it will be lauded and praised because it didn’t recycle the same formula the franchise has used for over two decades. It’ll be touted as a “flawed but firm foundation for the…

  • Much improved UI.
  • Many quality-of-life improvements.
  • Interesting premise.
  • Decent core gameplay loop.
  • Looks like a PS2 game.
  • Performance issues.
  • Can get grind.
  • Open-world feels underutilized.

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Jason Faulkner
Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner is Evolve Media's Evergreen SEO Manager. On a typical day, you can find him working desperately trying to get late-1990s/early-2000s PC games working at 4K and 16:9 ratio without crashing.

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