Current Events > Apparently Pokemon S/V has the opposite of the series' grinding problem

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Not really spoilery. The games got dumped and a lot of people have been playing them.

If you're unfamiliar, S/V has traditional open world gameplay with battling somewhat similar to Pokemon Legends Arceus. While in previous games it felt like constant grinding getting into random battles and being time consuming, in SV, some people have been reporting that everything from battling to catching Pokemon to leveling them up is so fast and seamless that you just breeze through the game with minimal effort, not really needing to pay attention to much at all.

...so hardcore nuzlockes will become more a challenge of avoiding exp as much as possible, then. Also means a blind hardcore is basically impossible.

in other words, business as usual?

Come on Pokemon. The difficulty in Arceus was great. Why you gotta fuck it up again?

NeonTentacles posted...

Come on Pokemon. The difficulty in Arceus was great. Why you gotta fuck it up again?

Arceus wasn't even hard, it was just tedious because they threw the entire world at you and didn't have enough side quests to justify the area available when you first get to a new map. And then the end was just "okay time for you to use 1 thing against multiple other things at once for several fights then final boss" and just. Tedious. Tons of healing items. But not what I'd call difficult.

you havent had to grind in a Pokemon game for two decades

The thing is you don't have to actually manually battle in S/V is what TC is saying. There's an auto-battle thing where your Pokemon just goes and kills any pokemon in the area without any commands from you. It's completely seamless. No transition to battle. In fact, you are completely free to move around and continue what you were doing. You can even go collect random items on the ground while your pokemon kill shit. And the animation is so that even if the pokemon is the same level as you, it 1 taps it instead of actually fighting. So you could kill 5 pokemon in like 5 seconds. Without you ever doing anything except hitting the button to tell your Pokemon "DESTROY."