i'm having an extremely awesome time with legends arceus (aside from the graphics, especially the flickering glitches ugh). like it's perfect for someone like me who gets distracted easily and likes doing their own thing but is too much of a coward to play the almost entirely objectively better breath of the wild. (i'm serious i'm legit too scared to play botw even though i own it cause i've got a massive fear of dragons/big lizard monsters and i know it's got 'em)
i literally spent six hours faffing around in the obsidian fieldlands before even talking to the one warden on the bridge and subsequently unlocking another third or so of the map. it took me 12 whole hours to actually go fight the noble kleavor btw, and by the time i did so i was already either rank 5 or 6 and my party was all around level 32-36 even with a few swaps lmao.
i specifically really like catching alpha pokemon because i feel accomplished whenever i snatch one without having to fight it. i think i caught either 10 or 11- excluding the first alpha kricketune the game practically hands you- during my adventure in the fieldlands and only got spotted by two (both times were by respawns of the parasect). i think the total count was 2 real alpha kricketunes, 1 alpha floatzel, 1 alpha graveler, 1 alpha scyther, 1 alpha golbat, 2 alpha parasects, and 2 alpha lopunnies, though i might've forgotten one. i would've definitely tried for the alpha luxio and alpha rapidash too if it weren't for the fact that i was a lot less confident when that third of the map was my main hunting spot.
i absolutely hate how they locked darkrai behind bdsp like please just let me have my spectral edgelord... at least you don't need to catch it to qualify for encountering arceus but still, there's no way i'm spending cash on a junk game just to get a single pokemon.
oh yeah also can i just say a lot of the new regional forms and evolutions look ugly as sin? kleavor, female basculegion, hisuian avalugg, hisuian decidueye, and enamorous (especially its incarnate form) look actively repulsive to me like why'd y'all have to do em like that 💀. ursaluna, overquil, hisuian liligant, and the orgin forms of the legendaries also look kinda awkward but they're nowhere near as bad as the first group. i used to hate sneasler but it's kinda grown on me, even though it shouldn't be fighting poison of all types imo, and the hisuian zorua and hisuian growlithe lines are both cute asf. i really wish they'd just let typhlosion have its flames back in its idle animation though, it looks naked without them.
also fun fact, did you know that gyarados can fly? because i sure didn't and let me tell you, seeing that thing in the sky for the first time nearly gave my a heart attack. i would not feel safe anywhere if i lived in a world where a leviathan like that can freely travel in both the air and water. still caught it using feather balls i got for ranking up, but i was seriously ready to book it at the first sign of aggression jfc. i know i'm gonna have a real hard time once i see stronger pokemon out on the field like garchomp or basically any semi-tough looking pokemon in the water.
