Video: So, About That Pokémon Legends: Arceus Post Game

I'm just glad you don't need to complete every single research task to see/get all the things that matter.

Post-game was so tedious that I don't really want to touch the game for a long time.

It's a shame because I otherwise really enjoyed it.

A problem I had with the game is it just sort of fizzles out. Catching certain Pokemon can be extremely tedious - took me absolutely forever to get a second Shieldon for its Pokedex requirements - so a lot of the postgame is kind of just running around in circles waiting for something to happen and it feels like when you do finally catch Arceus the game just sort of stops with no fanfare and a lot of plot points still up in the air. Haven't really seen any reason to return to it since then even with the new stuff they patched in.

Actually rather wish it were getting a paid expansion adding new Pokemon and areas and the like and Gen 9 were being given more time to simmer. Think both games would benefit from it.

I simply refuse to accept the conditions required to evolve a Basculin. How are you supposed to know that in order to complete the Pokédex without looking it up?

Loved the end game. Didn't want it to end.

I got my shiny charm, then went hunting after Misdreavus.

I've loved every step of this game!

I hated the noble battles so much that after Avalugg I put the game down and haven’t revisited it in weeks. Should I try and get back in?

Ended up skipping Arceus entirely because that core goal/mechanic of catching Pokemon? Not for me.

I genuinely hate the act of catching Pokemon; I play the games for the adventuring and my small but loyal party of five or six critters. But when most of the game is about catching Pokemon, and multiples of the same kind? Miss me with that.

there's a lot to do post game, but the opportunities devs lost for post game are still way beyond that.
Back on black 2 white 2 there were a feature where the player was set to build and manage a mall, Breath of The Wild the player can build a home and a city, but legends arceus has nothing like that, despite have space and plot supporting some kind of development.

@PessitheMystic Pokémon has had some pretty specific requirements like that for awhile now...

I ended up quitting after I "beat" the game. I tried catching the rest, but weirdly specific evolution requirements, low spawn rates for certain 'mons, and the general frustration of having to look almost everything up online, completely turned me off towards completion. I still have around 65 Pokemon left to catch... which equals out to around 30 extra hours of confused wandering.

Overall it's all good, I'm playing once in a while to complete pokedex, just having a little hard time to find post game space distortions. I know you have to wait around in the area for like 40 min (meanwhile you fight, level up, wander around) but just got them two times. Hopefully they'll update it with another round of pokemons, but I don't think they will, as all their attention is put on the next pokemons games.

Volo was the easiest postgame boss in the franchise, and I’m very disappointed with PLA as a whole.

The game good ideas and atrocious execution

@BrazillianCara You do for shiny charm.

Just not perfect everything.

Post game was tedious, it took about as long as any 100% game and theres... kinda nothing to do when you complete it (unless running around the map getting the same shiny is your thing.. i have 2 boxes of shinies already and most of them are duplicates.. i have 3 shiny machops, 3 of the oshawott, 2 or 3 onix... shinies are a little too free i basically get one to spawn every time i run a circle around the map. Before charm they were pretty common, after charm its literally free shinies everywhere.

Finished Pokédex with 70 hours, nothing meaningful to do anymore. Usually I reach the credits at 100 hour mark, then play PvP/Battle Facilities/catch 'em all for some 100 hours more.

There actually are some hints to the things you were complaining about. It's just that the Manaphy quest was only hinted at in BDSP, not in LA. Also, Qwilfish's (and Stantler's) evolution methods are actually sort of hinted at in their research tasks (although the evolution method involves completing two research tasks at the same time), which is kind of a clever hint. So if you are completing those research tasks, there's a good chance you'll eventually evolve them on your own.

@Screen This comment is literally bait. I'm sure even people who hate Legends: Arceus wouldn't consider Volo + Giratina easy.

@AtlusIsDumb

I had multiple overleveled alphas and Legendary Pokémon that you get for free, if anyone found this fight hard, they were playing with a handicap on purpose

I literally won in one attempt with 0 grinding.

Closing in on 140 hours now. Registering all Pokémon was easy enough and then I burned through the research tasks over a week. Now I'm onto my third box of shinies. I've decided that Espeon and Umbreon are not enough, I must have shinies of all the Eeveelutions now.

The Volo twist was so cool and creative but it made me so mad because I was in love with him whyyyy😭

@PessitheMystic Almost it's all initals moves are with recoils, so eventually will envolve, just have to figure that ... But you can say that for Ursaluna ?

I agree about the characters. I don't think I liked a single one. Seems like they tried too hard in places, with people like Prof Laventon.

I spend quite a bit of time in each zone before moving on so I haven’t completed the story. I couldn’t even tell you what it’s about other than I dropped from the sky, and maybe other people did at on point, and some Pokémon are frenzied and I have to help them.

It’s okay. I’m waiting for the wall when I’ll put it down for something else.

No but RPGs after this for me for a while.

@PessitheMystic They tend to hint at them with the research requirements. They hint at it with Baculin by having two of the tasks involve using self-damage moves

I think I have like 20 hours of playtime, and 5 of them are post game.

@Screen Alpha Pokemon especially high-level ones are not necessarily easy to catch. That is unless you're like rather skilled at sneaking up on them or using a tactical smoke bomb. The game is also not really designed to grind levels easily. Also, the combat of the game is designed around revenge kills so unless you had some good revives on you... you grinded in some way. If that be do every side quest or basically had a complete Pokedex and a number of research tasks completed.

I will call BS on this one. You might have done it on your first try, but unless you knew his team ahead of time (with the two-phased Giratina) you probably struggled a bit unless you stocked up on restoratives.

@Wexter

At the absolute most the only grinding you could say I did was grinding for materials to make the pokeballs I used to catch the alphas, but with enough patience you can do it without any stealth items, I used none.

I had read NL's article on it being an 8 v 6, but with a level 78 rhyperior, a level 85 Garchomp, a dialga, a palkia, and my starter which I had been pouring most of the organically obtanied experience into the whole game. As long as he doesn't revenge kill you twice (again the game gives you a level 85 garchomp for free) there's no threat.

my team wasn't designed to counter him, beyond using the strongest pokemon availbable to me.

I think I used one revive, becuase my 6th pokemon was just a random vespiquen that was only like level 68.

@Screen So you had foreknowledge and was able to prepare a bit before the battle. Does not make Volo easy though. A guide or being able to prepare for a boss knowing it be an unfair matchup kinda gives you a bit of an edge. Half the fun of the Volo battle is the surprise of it.

@Wexter

I suppose you aren’t objectively wrong, but having the knowledge ahead of time didn’t affect what the strongest Pokémon were available to me, my team wasn’t even all that balanced; I had multiple ground and dragon Pokémon.

This was my first Pokémon since Ruby/Sapphire and I loved every moment of my 110+ hour playthrough. Maybe not being a long time fan is a benefit because the people in this video sounded miserable.