Pokémon players are generally fans of their games enough not to want to leave them even when they are finished. Possessing in general a good post-game and the goal is to complete the Pokédex, the average lifespan of these games is therefore quite correct. However, this is not enough for a large part of the community, which prefers to play the game by setting its own rules and creating new constraints. to spice up the adventure.
This is the case for all classic Pokémon games, and of course LPokemon Legends: Arceus does not escape this phenomenon despite its large differences with the other versions.
A Shiny Pokédex is good, but Alpha is better!
If you go over the Reddit from Pokémon Legends: Arceus, you’ll see a good number of players stepping through their collection of chromatic pokemon. Among the players who progress slowly, some followers of the try hard particularly stand out.
The user Theboulder027 is, for example, almost at the end of its collection since it lacks more than 13 shiny to have the complete pokédex. In front of this achievement, a number of comments ask him how he managed to obtain some of the rarest pokémons in their chromatic version so easily. He explains that he took advantage of the introduction of Megaapparitions for the hard reset on a loop, giving him more of a chance of getting what he was looking for. According to the player, the technique is no longer possible since the last DLC would have patched this phenomenon. Shame.
Is it possible to go even further? Obviously, we are talking about the Pokémon community, anyway! If Theboulder027 is almost at the end of his shiny-dex after about 220 hours of play, another user of the site, casscaytonmeanwhile completed this feat and also captured all possible alpha pokemon in just over 400h. The two players explain that the accumulated hours are those taken into account by the game and that therefore in reality, the time spent completing these challenges is much higher. A great test of patience!
Always more constraints?
Beyond the challenges of pure collection which above all require patience, some players are more fond of technical challenges. For example, we can see that the user RatedC4Ascending has made it his mission to make the adventure a success using only one type of Pokemon, and this for the eighteen existing types. He just finished his run Water and intends not to stop there. He seems particularly eager to test the adventure with only the type Dragon and specifies that According to him, the Evolutions will be the key to his successespecially for the type Fairy.
Another player decided to face the endgame with a team composed only of evolutions of Rotom (which it has in a chromatic version of course) to add to the difficulty.
In short, the list is long and proves that even on a game with a gameplay different from traditional versions, the Pokémon community competes in imagination to figure out how to make the game more interesting and extend its lifespan. These challenges also make for great entertainment, because watching a streamer run Nuzlocke is still much more engaging than just a basic game playthrough !
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