(logo beeps) - [Falcon] What happens
when you take a game, change up the original formula, drop it in an open world, but keep all the stuff that
made the original so great? Well, you get "Pokemon Legends: Arceus," which is a Pokemon game that
goes a long ways into the past, which changes so much of the game up. Hi, folks, it's Falcon,
and today on Gameranx, 10 things "Pokemon Legends:
Arceus" doesn't tell you. Starting off at number 10, don't worry about what starter you pick. In most of these games, the starter Pokemon you pick
is the one you're stuck with. The only way to get the other
two is to trade for them or find them through some
other obscure method, but with "Arceus," you do
not have to worry about that. There's actually two ways to
find these guys in the game. For one thing, they appear
in distortions randomly. Where they appear may depend on the zone, but they definitely will
show up from time to time in these rifts, so if you
want one you're missing, just check out the
distortions when they show up. Another even easier way to get them is to just get them from
the lab and the headquarters after the credits roll. You're not even locked to just one. You can get both from here. It's not something you can do
until after you beat the game, but believe us, there is
a lot to do in this game after the credits roll. Moving on to number nine, there's a way to make a
lot of money pretty easily. Cash is actually pretty
short in supply in "Arceus," and you need it. You gotta use it for a lot of stuff. It's used to give Pokemon new moves. You buy new recipes with it.
You expand your inventory. So you want a lot of it, and actually getting it can be a struggle. The best way to make money that I've seen is to craft this item called a Star Piece, which you can sell for a big drop of cash. The initial investment
is kind of expensive. You gotta spend 20,000 bucks just to get the recipe for this, but it is beyond worth that. What makes this such a
great way to make money is because the key ingredients. You need one bag of stardust
and three red shards, three blue shards, three green shards. Getting these things is pretty easy, especially if you look for them before the Star Piece
recipe becomes available around halfway through the game. Stardust as beyond the easiest to get. Just look for any shiny
thing in the environment that you can harvest resources from. Anytime you throw a
Pokemon at these things, you'll get some stardust. On their own, they're a
pretty good moneymaking tool. You can sell them for a thousand a pop. But if you really want
to make a lot of money, hold onto them for this recipe. The three colored shards
are a little trickier, but not a lot. You can find them in a
time-space distortion, which are something we
mentioned in the last point, but to be clear, they're these things that start appearing at a certain point in the
game randomly around the map. Anytime you get a warning
about one, just go find it. There's rare Pokemon that
spawn inside these things, and there's also shards that
you can find on the ground. Now, these are temporary, so it's important to get
to them before they start and then run around as fast as possible and get as many shards as
you can before it's over. But you get a lot of time and should easily find more than enough to craft a few Star Pieces with what you find in just one distortion. So before you can sell Star Pieces, keep an eye out for shiny
spots and get stardust to get a decent amount of money and go to any time-space
distortions that appear and grab everything that you can. If you do, you will get a
ton of money pretty easily. And at number eight,
research can be tedious, but there are actually
ways to do it faster. The biggest new thing about this game is researching Pokemon. They explain how it all
works pretty thoroughly at the start of the game, so I'm not gonna rehash that here, but the thing to know about
completing research tasks is that there are ways to
make it a lot less tedious, depending on what you do. Now, you need to be completing
research and ranking up 'cause it's the only way you
get higher-level Pokemon, along with other useful tools. You only need to get to rank
five out of the 10 total to actually beat the
game and see the credits, so if you don't wanna spend
too much time on research, you don't have to, but if you want to experience
a lot of the end-game stuff, you will need to focus on
finishing research tasks as efficiently as you possibly can. The main thing you want to be doing is checking every Pokemon you see to find out if it's faster
to simply catch a Pokemon to get 10 research points for
them or just to fight them. And just to be clear,
depending on the tasks, one can be a lot faster than the other. With Pokemon that award you research for catching them
unawares and feeding them, you can quickly finish off their research by just feeding them and catching them right after they start eating. On the other hand,
particularly aggressive Pokemon are generally easier to research
by just beating them up. A lot of these guys get you research by beating them using
a certain type of move, usually their weakness. So just switch to a Pokemon of that type and defeat them for a lot
of easy, fast research. For rare Pokemon, keep in
mind that certain tasks, like view a special move, are rewarded if it's your Pokemon as well, so you don't have to be
fighting for those to count. So maxing out research on
monsters that are hard to find is best done just by
putting them on your team. Basically, always look for
shortcuts with research. There's usually one or two ways you can get multiple points at a time, and remember, the more
Pokemon research you complete, the more you rank up, so even though it can be
tedious, it's worth doing. At number seven, there's things that you need
to know about Alpha Pokemon. Another new thing in the
game are the Alpha Pokemon, real big guys with red eyes who are higher level and the
rest of the others in the area. They generally have better
stats, better moves, and they're all around
tougher than the rest, so they're worth going after. Catching them can be very handy, but killing them gets you
really good rewards as well. So either way, they're worth fighting if you think you're strong
enough to handle them. For a long time, I was worried about killing
them by mistake and missing out, but that's actually not an issue. As long as it's not a story-based battle, Alpha Pokemon will eventually
respawn after you defeat them. On top of that, there's
also a small chance that any Pokemon can appear as an Alpha, so there's always an opportunity
to go after these guys even after you take one out. It seems like Alphas are
more likely to appear after you get through the story of a zone, but that just may be
confirmation bias on my part. It's definitely a thing
that Alphas appear randomly on top of the ones that are scripted to
show up in certain areas. So the main takeaway here is that Alphas are worth hunting down, and if you beat one by
mistake, don't worry. Another will show up. At number six, learning moves works actually
very differently now. One interesting change is that when a Pokemon learns a new move, they aren't automatically
added to the move set. Instead, they have more like
a pool or a library of moves that you can swap into at any time, just by going to the menu
and selecting the Moves tab. So this is great because a Pokemon will
never lose any of its moves, which is awesome, but it can also be easy to
forget to replace old moves with the new ones after a while. That's the important thing. It's not always the case,
but a lot of the time, moves Pokemon learn while leveling up are just straight upgrades
over their old moves, so it makes the game a lot
easier for you to swap them when they become available. Another useful thing about this is you could always swap
out a different move if you run out of PP. You can't do it in a
battle, but any other time, you are free to swap one
attack out for a different one, so you'll always have a fire
attack to use, for instance. Currently, if you swap
a move out with no PP with a different move and then swap back, the original attack has restored PP. It's probably going to
get patched out eventually 'cause it's quite an oversight, but for now, it basically
makes ethers useless or rather more useless
than they already are. At number five, you gotta
know how friendship works. It's one of those vague mechanics that Pokemon games really love. Certain Pokemon need high
friendship to evolve, though, so while it doesn't
matter 90% of the time, that 10% where it does
can be really frustrating trying to figure out how to
make a Pokemon more friendly. At least it's fairly basic
in this game, though. Pretty much any action seems to make a Pokemon more friendly with you, like battling with them, using
them to collect resources. Even just letting them out of their ball and letting them follow you around, that increases friendship. Interestingly, it doesn't
really seem to matter how difficult the battle actually is in terms of what kind of increase you get. If you want to do it quickly,
probably the easiest way is go back to the starting zone and attack everything
you see with the Pokemon you want to increase
friendship levels with. The battles are over in seconds, and you increase friendship
with every single one. And at number four, you need to know the
purpose of outbreak events. If you've played enough of this game, you may start to notice
these little markers on certain regions which indicate that a species of Pokemon
is experiencing an outbreak in that area. If you go to that map, you can find a spot where there's like five
or six of the same Pokemon in one spot, usually in areas where they would normally spawn. It might seem kind of pointless, but there's a huge reason why
these outbreak events happen. Apparently, the likelihood
of finding a shiny in them is significantly greater. First, yes, you can find
shiny Pokemon in this game, and as usual, they are incredibly rare. However, at least you can
see them in the overworld before fighting them, so they're at least a
little easier to spot. According to users on
the Pokeleaks Reddit, like Pat-Man15 who created entire guide for finding shinies in
"Pokemon Legends: Arceus," the chances of getting a
shiny Pokemon is much higher during one of these outbreaks. The tips they offer are
to save in the village if you see an outbreak with a
Pokemon you want a shiny of, and then head into that region. Apparently, once that area is loaded, the encounters are set, so if you actually manage to find a shiny, but you're worried about catching it, then making the save
while you're in the area will lock it in, so you can reload and
try again if you mess up. What's good about these outbreaks is the Pokemon keeps spawning in them, no matter how many you beat or capture. Eventually, the event ends
and you get a message, but before that, you can
continue taking them out to see if a shiny spawns. Remember, these things literally sparkle and make a noise in the game,
so they're pretty obvious. You know if you're getting a shiny or not. And at number three is the actual reason for finding all the wisps. Now, there's a very involved side-quest that opens up early in the game where a mysterious little girl wants you to find a whole bunch of wisps. She gives you this odd vessel that allows you to see
purple ghostly spirits in the environment. And while these things
can be a pain to find, it is worth finding 108 of them, because that allows
you to get a Spiritomb. Thankfully, there are
already maps online , like this one created by user MajinCoby, because even with the ability to fly, finding all these things is
still a challenging task. It's also what you have to do if you want to complete the Pokedex, so if you were curious what the point of this little
machine was, there it is. Here's a pretty interesting thing about the Spiritomb as well. It was one of the two Pokemon who originally had no weaknesses until the fairy type was invented, so this guy doesn't mess around. And at number two, how to get Darkrai. One of the coolest legendary
Pokemon has to be this one, the pitch-black Pokemon. Normally, he's impossible
to get an "Arceus," which kind of sucks, but
there is a way to get him. So to gain access to Darkrai, you need a "Pokemon Brilliant Diamond" or "Shining Pearl" save
file on your Switch. Now, that's a bit of a
drag, but the good news is you don't actually have to make
any progress in those games for it to count. You just need to save file, any save file. So if you do have one, a new quest appears on the request board, which will allow you to catch Darkrai. But it only appears
after the credits roll, so only in the post-game
can you actually catch it. It's basically just a promotional thing, but Darkrai is so cool that we thought it'd be worth explaining exactly how this whole thing works. At least it's pretty straightforward. And finally, at number one, this end-game choice actually matters. We saved this one for last 'cause it's kind of a big
spoiler, just so you know. We'll give you the spoiler-light version before the spoiler-filled version, but basically near the end of the game, you're given a choice of who you want to bring along with you for the end-game quest, either the leader of the Diamond Clan or the leader of the Pearl Clan. Seems like a pointless
choice, but it's really not. It makes a big difference for the end-game and affects which legendary
Pokemon are available to you. That's the main takeaway. Think hard about who you choose, because it does make a difference. So you'll want to stop here 'cause this is where we're
going to the spoiler version. If you choose the Pearl Clan leader, then at the end of the
game, you catch Palkia, and you have to fight the
origin form of Dialga. If you pick the Diamond
Clan leader instead, that gets reversed. You catch Dialga and find
the origin form of Palkia. So if you want a specific
legendary Pokemon at the end, choose the clan that you
want to come with you, again, very carefully. It makes a big difference
regarding how the game ends. And that's all for today. Leave us a comment. Let
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