I see it as a persistent world like World of Warcraft." That's because I don't see Pokemon as a typical RPG like Final Fantasy. "When Pokemon Sun and Moon came out a couple years ago, I stubbornly waited until Pokemon Bank was updated before I seriously engaged with the endgame content. The random Pokemon I catch in that time are only a means to an end," Bailey says. "I've long treated the main story as a sideshow-an extended tutorial that must be endured to get to the good stuff.
But other fans, like our own Editor-in-Chief Kat Bailey, feel very strongly about keeping old friends close. They don't use the Pokemon bank, and they rarely look back on their old rosters. Some visit a new Region intent on filling up their PokeDex with native specimens. The Pokemon series' famous tagline, "Gotta Catch 'em All," rings hollow if the Galar region puts a permanent quarantine on some Pokemon.
The prospect of Game Freak slamming the door on their favorites is understandably upsetting. Many Pokemon fans like to import their childhood favorites into new games. With a few exceptions, Pokemon from older generations usually make the move from game to game with the aid of The Pokemon Bank (though importing Pokemon to the Bank from your original Red and Blue cartridges also requires some old-fashioned link cable wizardry). The Pokemon franchise is over 20 years old. And for better or worse, it's decided to "rip off the bandage" with Pokemon's first mainline console game.
In other words, Game Freak knows it can't keep adding, animating, and balancing a roster of nearly 1,000 Pokemon.
#POKEMON SWORD AND SHIELD POKEDEX SEREBII SERIES#
I might not like the direction the series is taking, but I hope you do! #dexit #pokemon /vT6Xdem9E7- Festus Flare (Commissions Open) June 16, 2019 I hope the game lives up to the hype either way. Losing a lot of Pokemon for Sword and Shield is a huge disappointment for a lot of people, me included. "We knew at some point we weren't going to be able to indefinitely keep supporting all of the Pokemon, and we just found that Sword and Shield would probably be a good point to go back and reevaluate what would be the best selection of Pokemon that appeal to the widest audience while keeping into consideration the balance of the battle system." "We're making sure we can keep everything balanced and give all the Pokemon that appear in the games a chance to shine," Masuda says. It's difficult to balance nearly a thousand Pokemon in a manner that keeps the experience challenging and fun. "And now that they're on the Nintendo Switch, we're creating with much higher fidelity with higher quality animations."īalance is also a problem. "We already have well over 800 Pokemon species, and there's going to be more added in these games," says Masuda. Masuda cited a few reasons when he talked to us at E3 2019, but it all comes down to one point: There are over 800 Pokemon now, and it's a lot of work to wrangle all those critters into the HD era. What are Game Freak's reasons for restricting the Galar region PokeDex? There are myriad complaints about said demo looking rough, though there is still considerable time to polish the game before its November 15 release. Since the news about Galar's restricted PokeDex hit during E3, angry fans have also come down hard on the Sword and Shield demo Pokemon developer Game Freak showed during the show. Though Dexit is primarily referenced in discussions about Game Freak's restrictions on the Galar region's PokeDex, searching for the term on social media also yields general complaints about Sword and Shield. Since the Galar region is based around the United Kingdom, the opportune term stuck fast. It splices the words "PokeDex" and " Brexit"-Britain's controversial movement to separate from the rest of Europe. "Dexit" is the catch-all term for the controversy that's erupted around Game Freak's decision to limit the number of Pokemon allowed into Galar region. Disgruntled fans have coined a term for this exclusion: "Dexit." What is Dexit, exactly? At the time of this writing, there are no plans to bring the cut Pokemon into Pokemon Sword and Shield.
We are, for example, inching closer to Pokemon's first mainline entry on the Nintendo Switch-Pokemon Sword and Shield-and some fans are very unhappy about their favorite Pokemon potentially not making the cut.Īt E3 2019, Pokemon producer Junichi Masuda confirmed that only a limited number of old Pokemon will be allowed into the new Galar region. Behind Pikachu's perpetually grinning face, there's a fandom that bubbles with passion, energy, and opinions. Pokemon has been a very popular franchise for a very long time, so it's not surprising its inner politics can kick off a lot of heated buzz.
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