I’m sorry but what the hell happened to this game!? This is not the game people were expecting at all. I mean just look at this trailer from a couple of weeks ago.
You cannot tell me that this trailer is the same game that hit retail. Almost everything shown is way better than we got. The resolution is better, the shadows are better, the frame rate on distant objects and NPCs are better. The MENU SPEED is better.
Don’t believe me? Go to 7:37 in the video and watch the Sunflora moving at the correct animation rate. This scene is absolutely not the same in the main game. The Sunflora animate like garbage and this part of the game is a slide show.
Among other things, the battle against team star the NPCs all look better. All those characters on screen and the game isn’t hitching or dropping frames. The infamous windmill from that digital foundry video isn’t refreshing at 2 fps at long distances.
Again, I ask what the hell happened to this game. Was Gamefreak intentionally lying about this games performance in this trailer? Did some game breaking bug tied to the CPU crop up that they could never fix, so their solution was to just cut as much CPU overload as they could. Is all of this related to that so called memory leak.
The game shown in that trailer is what I was expecting at release. I feel completely duped as a fan. This is not ok.