POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD, but explained with Hot Pockets

today I'm gonna review Pokemon sword and shield entirely with food but before I start I have not played a Pokemon game since red-and-blue 20 years ago so you gotta understand in my head Pokemon means this [Music] and now 20 years later I booted up sword and shield and said oh my god the Pokemon are 3d now you can run through a field you could just see the Pokemon hanging around this new game is blowing child Doug's brain but then I read on the internet that apparently the games used to be way better it feels like I'm eating at a restaurant and going oh this food is so good but then someone walked up to my table and said you know this place has actually gone downhill the food used to taste way better here and I say okay well I haven't eaten food in 20 years I am starving and I have very low standards right now why are you even eating here this is a Chuckie Cheese it's for children so as a disclaimer I am reviewing this as a new Pokemon fan rather than knowing the entire history of the series but with that out of the way let me tell you about this dope-ass Chucky Cheese the core gameplay loop of catching lots of Pokemon and using the right type of moves in battle is still so fun after 20 years and the 3d world makes this even more fun and oh my god this game is so easy now most video games are like cooking a complex dinner where there's lots of different ingredients and decisions and you have to use the right timing and strategy to get the right result but Pokemon is like cooking a hot pocket to cook a hot pocket you literally put it in the microwave and you press a button that's it you put the right type Pokemon into battle and you press one button that's it now obviously part of the appeal of Hot Pockets is how easy they are to make it is a quick stress-free meal but hot pockets don't provide that satisfying payoff that cooking your own meal does because there are no difficult decisions to make when you cook a hot pocket and Pokemon battles just never felt particularly rewarding to me because I am just using the same strong type Pokemon move every turn [Music] this is best demonstrated in the gyms they are the most climactic moment of the game and the atmosphere is fantastic it's like you've been cooking hot pockets out on some road but now you're in a stadium it's iron chef there's a crowd there's epic music you're pumped up and you say I'm ready to show the world my cooking skills and the gym chef says well you'll have to cook better than me and I'm the best Cajun chef in the whole world then I'll have to do the best cooking of my life no how could I have been defeated I just used the microwave you show great spirit in this fat literally just press one button so the gym battles pretty much still play out exactly the same as any other and Dynomax looks cool but it doesn't matter how big your hot pocket is if you still just press one button on the microwave to cook it now does it really matter if the game is easy no not really they're clearly targeting a more casual audience and it's not like hot pockets are trying to be a five-star restaurant that's just not their target audience but even so it's bizarre to me that at the most climactic moments of the game you are still just putting out the right Pokemon and pressing one button instead of mixing up your strategy later in the game the hot pockets do get harder now they're gonna like burn if they're in the microwave too long or you use the wrong type of plate or something but I still never felt like the game presented me with any real situation that requires critical thinking because you still just do the correct play and press the button to compensate for this some people play the game with weaker Pokemon or with the Nuzlocke challenge to add artificial difficulty and I tried Nuzlocke and it's super fun but I do wish that the core gameplay loop had this depth built in I really wish that the battles weren't entirely decided by what type the two Pokemon are I wish I had a reason to use all of those cool weird utility and debuff moves I wish the hot pockets didn't burn the roof of my mouth but ultimately I just have to accept that pokemons creative vision is to be all about tight matchups and I have to accept that hot pockets creative vision is to burn the roof of my mouth now the story is where Pokemon gets really intense it starts very upbeat you're in this happy little British setting but you slowly uncover that Chairman Rose who owns all the corporations and gal R has begun running a totalitarian regime using alien Pokemon to oppress humanity and you have to travel to the Pokemon Citadel to destroy his link to the combine oh wait no that's half life 2 pokemons story is pretty boring bol guy is like trying to eat food when you're on a date with a really sexy lady or a guy like you're trying to focus on the food but how can I focus on eating when I'm so horny how can I focus on Pokemon when ball guy is dancing right in front of me now this game really does shine when you reach the wild area the wild area feels like you're going to an all-you-can-eat buffet there's like a billion exciting foods to try but then mom says honey sit down and eat your vegetables first and you say come on mom no buts eat these vegetables and water and hot sauce and then you can have dessert so the game forces you to eat a bunch of boring crap at the beginning but then you get to eat at the wild buffet full of all these different exotic foods like ice cream and honey and literal garbage and you have the actual freedom to eat how you want when I play a game like breath of the wild it resonates with me because I'm the one deciding where the adventure goes and so the experience feels deeply personal and my favorite moment in this game was when I got lost in the wild area and I had to forge my own path back to society it was a dinner that I got to design that myself instead of just being spoon-fed from my mom unfortunately after I had gone through the full wild area just a single time I was starting to get this sneaking suspicion that there is not actually very much to discover here until I realized this game has cafe you can feed them and play with them and it's so charming and the premise is fantastic and wow there's just not much replayability here like once you've played with the toys one time it's really all the same and the camp kind of encapsulates my feeling on this entire game every feature and zone uses with charm and flavor on the surface there's so many different ingredients to try but then you realize there's just not much depth to any of them I mean look at all the ingredients in a hot pocket Wow they've got methylcellulose that is so cute but then you take a bite and you realize that hey this methylcellulose is programmed to taste exactly the same every single time and you're not gonna have a new experience the tenth time you go to Pokemon camp as for some people that's fine right they want to know that their favorite restaurant is going to taste exactly the same every single time but for me the ingredients getting so repetitive so fast in this game means I'm gonna go eat at a different restaurant pretty quick methyl cellulose is a laxative which means it helps you take healthy consistent poops just like how a Pokemon camp gives you the same [ __ ] every time that I've complained about a whole bunch of things in this video but at the end of the day this game is really fun the world and the Pokemon are delightful the music is fantastic and yes there is absolutely a ton of stuff they could improve about Hot Pockets it's frankly shocking that Hot Pockets are still successful even though they are absolutely disgusting and have not improved in 20 years but if your core flavor is this goddamn tasty they can jam literally anything into a baked croissant and I'm gonna eat it I love video games I love hot pockets and I get pokemon 4d shield two Michelin balls out of three hey would you like me to do more food gaming reviews on this channel then let me know because as you can probably tell I don't know what I'm doing [Music] [Music]

Channel: DougDoug

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Rating: 4.9619074 out of 5

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Length: 7min 29sec (449 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 17 2019