Pokemon's
official Twitter page just released a Tweet about Vivid Voltage and added a page for it on
the main site. Key details are sparse but here's what I noticed...
Yknow? These gargantuan sets might be half the reason I'm tired of the modern TCG. Rainbows and bland-looking Ultra Rares aside, there's just
too much going on. It's not surprising anymore but it sure has to be exhausting after three years of this mess. I dunno, PCL in Japan should really quit the whole Monthly Set with 5000 different Secret Rares thing. I don't mind special sets, something like the Concept Packs from XY were great! But it still kept it so mainsets felt actually...Achievable without having to break your back over finding a million different things.
And yeah, you could say that "big sets always existed, look at Aquapolis and Skyridge!" The thing is, those sets had the same issues we do now. They released a ton of sets in Japan and Wizards kinda had to lump them all together (of course since they were about to lose their license too). But then after that, you look at the
big sets of BW/XY (Boundaries Crossed for example) and now those are all on the small side of things compared to 200+ card sets. They were always going to happen but those, unlike these weren't littered with 50000 Secret Rares.
At least to me it also kinda makes everything feel a little bit more forgettable. Like if you asked me what's in something like a random BW or XY set, I could tell you. It's more focused and what
is featured in it feels more memorable and special because of it. (Even the huge sets like Boundaries Crossed had only a
handful of Ultra Rares). Again that's just me, I'm sure some people out there love the gigantic new sets and all the millions of different things in them. It's just not for me and I'm really turned off to collecting most of the last three years of this game because of it.
But that's enough of my obligatory
Grumpy Old Man type complaining, at the end of the day I still have 6 entire generations worth to collect so I'm not complaining about that.