When Pokémon Legends: Arceus came out a couple years ago, I heard a lot about it. It seemed primitive, without all the quality of life updates that have come to the Pokémon games over the decades. The screen shots seemed low poly. People were throwing around words like “MMO-like” and “open world”, but that was said about Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, too, and those were very much like open world MMOs.
I came across the game at a used game store. It was affordable, I’d been working through the other Gen 8 games, and I figured I’d give it a shot.
Arceus might be the best of its generation, actually.