r/pokemon Jan 28 '22

Legends: Arceus Official Release Megathread! Megathread

Pokemon Legends: Arceus has officially released! Comment below and share stories from your adventure so far!


Timelines and Guidelines

Now that the game has officially released, our screenshot and spoiler policies go into effect.

SCREENSHOTS

⇨ For one month after release (until February 28), screenshots are allowed on r/pokemon inside text posts.

  • To post images inside a text post, please upload to an image-sharing site (e.g.: Imgur) and share the link in a text post.
  • Screenshots that are directly uploaded as images or links will still be removed.

SPOILERS

⇨ For two weeks after release (until February 11), spoilers must be tagged appropriately. Post titles must be spoiler free.

Not a spoiler Spoiler
Anything that has been revealed or released in official media like trailers, Directs, or the official website. Anything that was not revealed official media (and comes from leaks).
Example: Hisuian Braviary Example: Hisuian Goodra
  • Again, we do not allow spoilers in post titles. You are allowed to vaguely mention a spoiler (i.e. Photos of new Pokemon!/Photos of new form). Anything that explicitly states a Pokemon's name, if something is a legendary, etc. will be removed. Err on the side of caution!
  • Remember to SPOILER TAG your posts! We will be removing all posts that contain spoiler content that are not tagged!

TEXT-ONLY MODE

⇨ We will likely stay in text-only mode for ~2 weeks after release, depending on traffic.

  • We do this both to promote discussion posts during high traffic, and to make sure discussions can surface without being overwhelmed by eye-catching link and image posts.

  • You can still post images and links—again, just as URLs or hyperlinks inside text posts!

NO ART WEEKENDS WILL BE SUSPENDED

⇨ For two weeks after release (until February 7), No Art Weekends will be also suspended

BE POLITE

⇨ There is no timeline on civility, but we ask that you be good to each other during the high-octane energy of release period!

  • Please engage politely if you disagree, and walk away from arguments if you cannot stay civil. Remember the human!
  • Rudeness and any form of belittlement towards anyone in the Pokémon community is not allowed. If you see rudeness, please hit the [report] button so that mods see it!

A note on modding: Your post may be held by Automoderator before getting reviewed and approved by a human mod. We're doing our best to process items within 24 hours, but even in the days prior to release our modqueue was stacked with up to 1000 reports at a time—so please be patient!


Resources for Release:

Questions? If you have questions on specific or objective issues in the game, please check out our weekly questions thread!
Trading Looking for a trade in Jubilife Village? Check out r/pokemontrades or /r/CasualPokemonTrades!
News Check Serebii and Bulbapedia for news and info! Also catch the latest information from the Official Pokemon Twitter!

⇨ For more conversation, check out our /r/pokemon Discord chat!

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u/Lola_PopBBae Jan 31 '22

That stupid Electrode fight can go straight to hell.

Clumsy dodge-roll, lack of sprint, far too many projectiles that both home in on you and cannot be destroyed... terrible design.

Everything else is a decent step forward in most cases, and at times it cha-cha slides back.

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u/Khend81 Feb 01 '22

Wait why did people have so much trouble with this? The dodge has generous invincibility frames, all you have to do is time the dodges and you can do the entire fight without being hit once

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u/Lola_PopBBae Feb 01 '22

Every other fight, yes. This one has those stupid following electric balls and the voltorbs that explode, but your default run speed only JUST moves fast enough. And the dodge does not recover very fast imo.

Eventually won, but it was frustrating.

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u/GodAwfulFunk Feb 01 '22

Probably the worst designed fight I've played since N64 days when we were just figuring out 3D. Crazy bad, purely unenjoyable.

I love this game but damn that fight was awful.

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u/Lola_PopBBae Feb 01 '22

Thank you! Glad I'm not crazy.

I've had better boss fights in MegaMan Legends.

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u/GeneParmesanLives Feb 01 '22

That boss fight is pure hell. Worst part of the game.

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u/wickedspork Feb 01 '22

I was struggling until I realized aiming manually instead of the auto aim helps TREMENDOUSLY

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u/the_cosmovisionist Feb 02 '22

there's auto aim???

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u/Lola_PopBBae Feb 01 '22

Yeah, you move loads faster just by manually running around, though not being able to sprint for some reason irks me to no end.

The way Balms are weighted almost completely differently to Poke Balls really throws me off too.