How Legends: Arceus Reviews Compare To Past Pokémon Games On Metacritic
The long-awaited Pokémon action RPG for Nintendo Switch, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, has finally been released and Pokémon fans and critics alike are already comparing its review scores with past Pokémon games. Pokémon Legends: Arceus reviews have been mostly positive so far, with 40 out of 44 critic reviews on Metacritic being positive, and an overall aggregate Metascore of 85. Several critics gave Pokémon Legends: Arceus a perfect score of 100.
Overall the change of direction for the Pokémon franchise has been widely and highly praised by fans and critics alike. Game Freak deviated from tradition with Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and it paid off. Recent Pokémon games have largely been remakes of older games, like 2019’s Pokémon Sword & Shield and 2021’s Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl. A prequel to Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the new setting of Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Hisui region is a bygone era of the Sinnoh region, inspired by Feudal Japan.
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The 4 critic reviews of Pokémon Legends: Arceus on Metacritic, at time of writing, that aren’t more on the positive end fall into the Mixed category instead. Three reviewers, including Digital Trends, gave the game a score of 70, citing Game Freak's new idea as a step in the right direction for the Pokémon franchise, but one that falls short of achieving its ambitions, especially from a technical perspective. Concerns over Pokémon Legends: Arceus’s trees and landscape graphics were the focus of Arceus's lowest review on Metacritic, with IGN Italy giving the game a score of 50.
Despite this, Pokémon Legends: Arceus’s Metascore of 85 makes it the highest-rated game from The Pokémon Company currently on
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