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soreyJr

I love their art direction


Straw_Hat_Puffy

A step in the right direction


railjack

ironic that the reflections face the wrong direction lmao


IBiteTheArbiter

minimalism


Goatee_McGee

It’s the new revolutionary method that allows such graphics on the switch. They got a guy named Ray to trace all the textures


railjack

poor Ray is starving so much he forgot how reflections work


No_Breadfruit7951

Be grateful u entitled brat


julsmanbr

Guy named RTX: 👁️👄👁️


JodGaming

Bruh it just takes the image from the screen and doesn’t even think about actually reflecting? Honestly great Idea from gamefreak I never would have thought of doing this, nice job!!


porkcylinders

It allowed them extra time to work on adding a second texture to the game


bellehook

primitive version of screenspace reflections, last time I saw this was mario galaxy, at least then it wasn't laughably low resolution


SeduceMeMentlegen

In a game that was made for pc, so they didn't have as many hardware limitations? Some games, but they never reflect the character so it doesn't look weird. But already as early as (I'm probably wrong, otherwise it's Arkham Asylum out of what I've played) Splinter cell maybe. (Didn't source engine do background reflections as well, just not of characters?)


DoomedDragon766

Did you just say that Mario galaxy was made for pc or am I misunderstanding this. Wii has better graphics than pc


SeduceMeMentlegen

Just realised it's satire almost gave a whole paragraph holy fuck


JodGaming

Wrong sub bruv 😭


No_Breadfruit7951

Gamefreak now: Gamefreak 10 years before: https://www.google.com/search?q=pokemon+xy+reflection+cave&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv69bUsPb7AhXZglwKHbb3DawQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=360&bih=621&dpr=3#imgrc=bmJe_nTqjl_LKM&imgdii=WoJlImzBqjP4UM


railjack

reflections are impossible to be accurate in open world settings, everyone knows that


Claudioamb

tbf, that was probably just duplicating the player model


No_Breadfruit7951

It was


loliduck__

Game freak on the gba with gen 3 had better reflections


porkcylinders

I've just hurled my 4090 into a lake and bought 283,000 Switches instead 🗿


bob0979

You're actually coming out up a whole 5% processing power so not a bad deal there.


Gabario

BuT tHe GaMePlAy. (worst meta in years, barely functioning raid battles, bland open world 🤤🤤🤤)


Supersnow845

Does Tera type play well into the meta or is it just “if you see x Pokémon you know they will be y Tera type”


GauPanda

It's like playing American football only you're not allowed to see the opponent's play until they've run 10 yards in a direction so if you get lucky you can counter it, but considering the number of directions they can go you'd be hard pressed to prepare for it in any meaningful way.


gsoddy

Nah tera is surprisingly pretty decent. Obviously not perfect, but way better than dynamax. Smogon has no plans to ban it outright, and may only do minor changes like letting you see tera types in team preview or banning tera blast specifically. No idea about VGC though It’s the actual Pokémon that are unbalanced. But it’s the best meta since toxapex is now shit


Supersnow845

Which Pokémon are excessively unbalanced, I’d imagine maybe some of the paradox Pokémon but it more seems to be moves that are excessively strong on Pokémon that are just okay (like torch song and flower trick)


Greald-of-trashland

Murkrow


ElderGoose4

Palafin is just too strong


Regular_Ship2073

I think the rules are open teams now do you can see what tera type the opponent’s pokemon are before the battle, also there are at most a couple viable tera types for each pokemon


A-NI95

Pressing A a lot of times


Pugduck77

> worst meta in years, It's a game for babies. If you care about the Pokemon 'meta,' you aren't the target market.


Bananaphonelel

(All the reviews be complaining about the technical problems ain't no one bout the rest of the game. They gonna get away with SV being called the best Pokemon games in years)


Morzun

I actually prefer this over real ray tracing, it looks better on the OLED Switch


Bananaphonelel

The brightness


DrEskimo

This is a joke right


wadsplay

There are no jokes here


DrEskimo

you prefer mirrors that don’t work properly? Why? Seems like a fabricated concession. Why would you PREFER that they work this way? I understand not caring, but PREFERRING this? Why? Edit: Thought this was the Pokémon subreddit


bubblesthebubble

It's okay I still love you


OHaiUsername

This is the tomorrow!


Animefanx111

I could deal with the poor graphics as long the game is fun but my god Playing the Tera raids is so frustrating. I don’t know how gamefreak made it more worse than Dynamax raid but they sure did it.


Acousmetre78

It’s literally a guy named ray tracing her reflection


Piorn

Is this a JoJo reference?!?


se7enfists

I'm really baffled as to why they even needed SSR on that crystal. On just one of the surfaces of the crystal, from that screenshot. It looks like something they left in by accident.


[deleted]

Pokémon graphics bad hyuck hyuck hyuck


nejn111

It's not much about the graphics but it's that the fucking reflection is not mirrored and not even facing the right direction


railjack

yep very much this lmao


Cute-Before

Reverse Rene Magritte


ThiccGeneralX

![gif](giphy|c6uW2WDlbeR3uiSvfG|downsized) They got Roy Tracing