How Frequent Releases Ruined Pokémon 

RE-UPLOADED BECAUSE ORIGINAL VIDEO WAS DEMONETIZED! Every F-bomb has been deleted out. Also since I had another chance at uploading, decided to change the title to something more simple so it's not just about Pokemon Scarlet and Violet... 0:00 Intro 1:27 Part 1: Unacceptable Glitches 3:27 Part 2: Unacceptable Graphics 5:36 Part 3: Pokemon’s Greatest Problem 7:41 Part 4: History of Pokemon’s Rushing 10:48 Part 5: Hisui and Paldea, Everywhere at Once 13:01 Part 6: Comparison With Other Franchises 16:12 Conclusion

I'm just tired of this franchise having turned into a huge "What If...?".

Pokémon needs longer development time, at the very least 4 years per generation, the 30th anniversary is in 2026 so if there's any time for a 4 year development, it's now!

Giurem Red : STOP WITH THE ANUAL RELEASES! Pokemon Company : 3 games per year you say?

Even more evidence with Larry. He's forced to work as both a Gym Leader and Elite 4 member. Just like how the Game Freak staff were forced to work on both games simultaneously. If you really want to stretch things, you could say Geeta (His Boss)'s battle being underwhelming and nonsensical (Why wouldn't you lead Glimmora?) Is an analogy for The Pokemon Company and their release schedule being the cause for underwhelming games. Personally, I do think TPC is the root of the problem and have noticed the decline in quality since the transition to 3D. However, I do think it's important to note that Game Freak chooses to keep their studio small and instead of hiring more developers, chose to outsource BDSP to ILCA to deal with crunch. I still think TPC is the problem, but if so, Game Freak should find a way to work within those parameters to prevent games like this from happening. Anyways, great video. Glad that people are finally recognizing TPC as the real problem here.

ABOUT LARRY 12:40 they actually have optional dialogue after becoming champion where he overworks HIMSELF and the champion wants him to take time off work but refuses. Pokemon teams cry for help was silenced 😆😭

I'm surprised gamefreak staff isn't capped at 150

Another point about the annual releases before the 3D-era: most games were released annually, but there was ALWAYS a third game that would just take the game that was done before (GS, RS, DP) and expand on it (Crystal, Emerald, Platinum). When we actually had a new story (BW2), the games were two years apart, because they were working on everything that needed to be new on top of copying and pasting everything BW had already done before. Nowadays, every new release is a brand new release (except for USUM), of course it's gonna be bad! It's not enough time!

Pokemon used to be a series that constantly was evolving and getting better. Now it's an ugly buggy mess that jumps in quality all over the place all because of its rushed deadlines and Gamefreak's refusal to expand to meet the demand

Annual releases always make the games worse, Ubisoft is learning this by the worse way. "A delayed game eventually is good, but a bad game will sell 10 millions copies in 3 days" Shigeru Miyamotoish

I said the exact same thing you said in your video and I tried to say this in the Pokemon Subreddit but man I got brutally attacked. Pokemon Fans are so toxic that they will defend broken games like SV. Its really sad.

At this point in the franchise, do we even need basically two of the same game? Why not just give us a Pokemon Emerald and Platinum type games and call it a day. And if Gamefreak wants to continue the game in the same region, then pull a Black and White 2 and there you have it! Simple. Plus it'd waste less money and give the devs more time to work on other new Pokemon games instead of just making the same game twice, but with slightly different changes to them.

All Pokémon fans will feel relief every time a Direct goes by without announcing a new mainline game

You make some very important points for the Pokemon franchise going forward. Let's hope this video doesn't get demonetized again.

Also I feel really bad for all those employed over at GF. Why they don’t expand their workforce is beyond me, it’s giving Amazon with the way they’re treated

Scarlet and violet need to have a extra year to fix post game and glitches

I noticed how you said Pokemon BECAME a soulless brand and that’s good to keep in mind. There’s a difference between “became” and “always”. The change in management came through the success of Pokemon. Makes sense, when you think about it. Naturally, the goal of any business should be maximizing profit. But, let’s not pretend that maximizing profits should come at the dignity or reputation of the brand or the employees.

Y'know whenever I think of modern pokemon and with every new entry into the series, plus with The Pokemon Company/Game Freak's cheapness and how much they love to cut corners, all I'm reminded of is Arlo's quote from his Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Review. It perfectly encapsulates all my issues with modern pokemon as a whole. "I'm not going to give it credit for being at least as fun as any other Pokemon game, because how far can that excuse go? How far can they push this cheapness? How many corners can they cut? How far down can they trim the production process before even that core formula stops being enough? Because it feels like there's no end to this. I thought we had already reached the bottom, but Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are down at a whole new level."

Employee: Sensei Masuda, we can't make 2 games and release them at the same year. There's only 169 of us working here at Game Freak. Junichi Masuda: OMG I see the problem. We have too many workers and only need 151 employees.

I watched the original but I think I'll rewatch it to help with the views and audience retention

No way Girum has done a dual release with this video

Ever since Pokemon Go, the franchise was on a Downward Spiral. When was the last time we got Rumble Blast, Mystery Dungeon and Rangers? 🤔

Modern games need 4-5 year development minimum! 3 years is just way too short and it’s really showing since Swsh.

They do need to stop this mess cause all they are doing is failing and until the head of Pokemon Company steps down then it will keep this up.

I think that even the new pokemon designs are suffering from this rushed schedule. There is no time to “metabolize” new characters and designs, they have no time to become iconic and be burned into people mind, resulting in pokemon often seen as gimmicky and forgettable. This cause people seeking easy nostalgic fan service (Kanto original 151, Johto..) or a new whole pokedex to blindly consume and toss away, in a very unhealthy loop of mediocrity. Also I note a worrisome trend of furry-humanoid evolutions and recycled design, but I understand this is controversial and a different story.

I only played pokemon red and pokemon go. Back then i felt bad for not buying any other games. Now i thank myself for not falling into the rabbit hole.

I know everyone trying to defend game freak and the pokemon company say " ooooooh but they can't delay the games because, merchandise, card game, and the anime!!!".......yah......soooo 1 merchandise.: they currently have a thousand DIFFERENT pokemon to make merchandise of and 75% of new merchandise ANYWAY will always be Pikachu, Eevee, and the starters plus a few fan faves which means no new game needed every year. 2. The card game: they can do what they did for pokemon's 25 anniversary and just re print an older set as a special edition or again...make a set off of the LITERAL THOUSAND unique creatures they have already....it can wait a year. 3 the Anime: they can do what literally every other anime based on another property mostly mangas do when the writers haven't gotten to the new story yet make a filler Arc like the orange Islands even use it to tease a few new finished gen 10 mons like they normally do so again dosn't need a yearly game release. 4 pokemon fans are RABBID and if the state of modern pokemon games shows will buy ANYTHING with the pokemon logo and will be slightly disappointed BUT like most Nintendo fans will be willing to wait a year if the pokemon company said "we are delaying the new generation to make sure the game is done right " and most fans would praise them for it! 5 they can get other companies to make spin offs like how they recently remake pokemon mystery dungeon and pokemon snap. Hell I would love a new pokemon stadium to battle my friends with a team of pokemon from any save data on my switch or play dumb mini games with them! They can also bring back the pokemon ranger series! Again using other companies while game freak takes their time. In summary there are plenty of solutions for the issue of rush corner cutting yearly releases and they just won't do it because that would take time and money aperently the BIGEST GROSSING MEDIA FRANCHISE won't spend (not can't, WON'T) and from a business point of view I see why they're doing this because it gets them huge profits with less effort and cost and that's what investors want to see sadly not quality products.

Breath of the wild Mario Odyssey Luigi's Mansion are all examples of great looking games that run perfectly fine on the switch. The switch is Hardware is not a problem for these games these games were rushed and not optimized or finished at all they were released in a early beta stage at best. For the games they are trying to make it is absolutely unacceptable for the Pokemon company to put this heart of a time restraint on Game Freak. It is also extremely poor decision making on the heads of game freaks behalf that they stubbornly insist on keeping their development team small (which means all the employees must be EXTREMELY burned out) while running the main games for the biggest grossing media franchise in the world.

The Nintendo seal of quality was actually just the mark of a non bootleg, not some kind of signifier of overall quality

Yes. Yes we can wait. We need a dexit type hastag # or Day to organize to start campaigning for Pokemon Games to be given more time.

It’s absolutely baffling how this game released in the state it’s in, and yet people are still trying to defend its quality by blaming the console it’s on. Xenoblade 3 was released months prior, and it’s one of the best-looking Switch games of all time. That game had clear passion from its developers, and I hope TPC decides to hire Monolith Soft to help design the next Pokémon game’s world, just like they did with BOTW.

They could do the annual releases, only if they actually expanded. Which we know the people in charge of GF does not want to. SV has been the most fun in years since ORAS for me too, but you can clearly see the ideas were there, but not the resources. Whats most disappointing is how unmemorable even the towns are, the landscapes. There is nothing but blank.

I do really feel a mixture of what scarlet and violet could have been and legends arceus could make an amazing structure for a game gameplay-wise. One focusing on catching and the other on battling (S/V did refine a lot of battle features and add new bettle items).

Pokémon might be the only brand that can release a bare minimum game with horrible graphics that sells 10m+ copies, I wish Pokémon could just take their time and hire other people to work on their games, just imagine a Pokémon game given as much time as botw with a big team.

Love your videos and I completely agree as a game developer. This shouldn't have happened

They need to stop with it in general and just take 5 years to make the games and not cut corners

Seriously. They should spend the next year or so at minimum just doing patchwork and DLC for not only SV, but Legends Arceus as well since that game had almost no events or anything compared to SwSh which has been disappointing. I doubt it will happen at this point but it would be nice.

Yeah, for real. A Generation used to be impactful and last for a while. Now it's just a two-year gig until we get yet another announcement for whatever new starter trio.

The 4 kids Edition of the video has arrived!

NO MORE DEX CUT IN ALL THE FUTURE POKEMON GAMES!

I'm sharing this on Pokemon's Twitter posts.

I blame the TGC and anime for the games needing a yearly release

As much as I loved SV, it really feels rushed in a lot of ways, even beyond performance and visuals. As one example, Starfall Street feels very half-baked, as the areas are large with scaffolding and such, yet the Star Barrages/auto-battle portions are easy and braindead the whole game as you just fire your team out like attack dogs to reach a random-a** number that never increases. If they had implemented overworld attacks like in PL:A, though, they could've been pretty tough and engaging as you dodge beams and punches like a ninja, and it feels like they were supposed to be there, but they lacked the time to implement the feature! I've heard rumors that working at Game Freak is horrible, with way too many old-timers relying on an outdated engine and their own traditions/ideas of what Pokémon ″should″ be, lots of crunch and poor communication, constant contract workers working on small parts of the game and leaving without anyone knowing how to continue with it or replicate their knowledge, and more horrible things like that, and I honestly believe it. ″Annual triple-A JRPG″ is dystopian, there's no way the studio would be a good work environment.

The problem is greedy bastards and money. Money for them is not like money for you and me. For them it's like vampires and blood. It's a mental illness. They could have all the money in the world and it still wouldn't be enough. They will never be happy, they will always want more, it'll always be the most important factor above all else, and they'll always want it immediately. A dollar today is better than two dollars tomorrow. A 1/10 game that makes a billion dollars is better than a 10/10 game that makes 800 million. Integrity, artistry, and pride are concepts they're fundamentally incapable of understanding. All they understand is their lust for money, even as it becomes increasingly meaningless the more they have.

Most likely impossible since the brand needs the games to sell the new merchandise

This guy is the AVGN of Pokemon.

From my personal experience, being a Pokémon fan ontop of a fan of literally any other Nintendo series just makes talking about Pokémon just a constant expression of depression. You know how good they *could* get because whatever other Nintendo (or, as long as they're on Nintendo's consoles, even *any* thirdparty) franchise already show how capable their consoles can get, so even if you HADN'T grown in the times where they made passion projects to enhance their older games (through remakes like FRLG/HGSS or third versions or even full-on sequels once), you can tell they're not doing as much as they can and are instead releasing as many games as possible, even if it means the end project has to cut a TON of corners ever since XY. And every party involved is somehow all in the wrong; you have Game Freak not hiring more people for any goddamn reason (and even when they do they can't teach them properly because they DON'T KEEP PAST DATA), you have TPC which profits off this normally now-unsustainable business model because it's sustainable literally only out of Pokémon's brand name, you have Nintendo not giving their usual quality oversight because it's not developed by them (even though as publishers their name is literally all over it; seriously this is a *godawful* look for Nintendo to bear), and even the fandom to some extent were once the ones to over-eagerly demand that SM be released faster (which in turn led to the lategame of those games being rushed as hell) and to this day a bunch of them still standing by said entries (not that I blame them since it's them being attached to the IP; but that's every reason to want the best for it imo, and not want its name dragged through the mud by a technical disaster that rivals Sonic 06).

I had the same idea that GF is Larry like its not even funny but sad :(

We needed someone like you thanks

I said this before but if they want to have an annual release, DLC and spin-offs are the best option. Especially if they did DLC for games of previous gens like Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee, BDSP, Legends Arceus, and Scarlet and Violet

Ngl the only positive thing I can say about the game is that it has a decent story (nothing groundbreaking, and suffers from the protagonist not really being the protagonist and just being a self insert, just like Sun and Moon and Sword and Shield.)

Sonic Team learned this the hard way since 06 Sonic Forces happened after the teams behind Unleashed, Colors, and Generations all left.........reducing their team size (currently 60+). As a result of the disappointment of that game, they took one more year to work on Sonic Frontiers, resulting in the 5 year gap between Forces and Frontiers...........with little to nothing in between (with only 1 remaster done by them) Whiling Sonic Frontiers is not perfect and the world may be a bit empty (beside enemies and Big fishing), all those 5 years must've been worth it since it is the most fun people had with a Sonic game made by them since Generations (Mania was fanmade). Hell it even lead to the point where Sonic fans had a war over Genshin Impact and their fans over TGA 2022 Player's Choice, only for the website to eventually crashed 2 days before the event. Granted, at the end of the day Sonic Frontiers lost to Genshin Impact but it still, Sonic Team might've finally redeemed themselves.

I'm with you on this! Annual Releases need to stop at all costs!

We shouldn’t have an all new main series game for at least 2 and a half years Scarlet and violet will undoubtedly get dlc but game freak need to take their time Also maybe have another developer make new pokemon games Just look at pokken

i’m honestly just sad, i love pokémon so much, but gf puts out shitty games every year, even though i’ve heard it’s really fun. unless it’s fixed, i don’t think i’ll be getting new pokémon games until they release good games again

the npc vision when you go away is dissapear it looks like similar to Minecraft aspect .

That! One hundred millions times that! Take a freaking break Game Freak (or rather, let Game Freak take a freaking bread TPC!). This game could have literally be the best pokemon game ever made if it wasn't for all the glitches and unfinished... Everything. It had the content, it had the passion, it just lacked time to polish everything! (still my second favourite pokemon game behind Emerald now, finally, a modern pokemon game managed to beat pokemon White).

Underneath all the problems these games have lies a good game. The bad graphics, poor performance, glitches and lack of a level scaling system are holding these games back from being great or downright amazing.

If stopping annual releases made them more money they would

Video so good, I had to watch it twice.

If they don't fix the games up next gen I'll stop buying the games until they stop making them, or they fix it up.

They don’t even need to make a new engine. Nintendo has an in house engine that they use for zelda and stuff, they could use that, or even unity or unreal engine

I do love these games a lot, but they clearly focus way too much on quantity over quality. I mean, I am getting way too sick of games being released annually ever since 2016 with Sun and Moon, the Ultra games being the same song and dance with not that many huge changes, the Let’s go games being Pokémon Go Cash grabs, SWSH literally being a drop from controversy and the point where I got tired of the annual releases especially with the DLC which is just a pay to play post game that lacks on so much with two parts that felt bare bone, BDSP basically being a lazy mess, and legends feeling empty and devoid of life for a game that still has a great and unique formula for Pokémon with something new but ruined for me with how empty it felt and with how sun and moon it felt with tutorials. I mean scarlet and violet are still good but the bugs and glitches are a clear example that the development team really needs a break and that more quality needs to be put in over the quantity we see from today’s Pokémon games. I mean I know this sounds unfair to compare Pokémon to Zelda or Mario. But both Mario and Zelda at least have breaks with major releases and at least keep up some releases with spin offs or rereleases of past games with actual good remakes unlike BDSP, and that both Mario and Zelda still have that love and care put into their games unlike Pokémon with too much annual releases that focus more on money unlike Mario or Zelda which at least have time and know when to have a break with spin offs or remakes. Even Metroid does not have a similar problem because unlike Pokémon we only had one recently in dread, which is an amazing 2D Metroid and to save up for Prime 4 (maybe one day) Is great to see that they put so much of an emphasis to their franchise unlike Pokémon which suffers with yearly releases that have way more glitches than COD or even Big Riggs which sounds unfair to compare to. I do love Pokémon, but I really would like a 3 or 4 year break for them at least, but seeing how Pokémon is, maybe not. And the fact that SV have a lower rating or review score than BDSP is also really sad and depressing too.

Apparently acrroding to a website called Growjo, Treyarch now had 595 employees, whiling Infinity Ward now has 622.

8:44 The gen 4 overworld is in 3D

Can't think of a single product where a yearly release is good

17:17 Yo, for once, can somebody please actually find some proof of this. “TPC dictates the deadlines” originated from nowhere, people just keep parroting it cause they want it to be true. Guys, gamefreak have ALWAYS been bad at game development. Red/Green/Blue was a glitchy broken mess that we look fondly on its bugs/mistakes. Satoru Iwata (head of Nintendo at the time) famously stepped in to fix gen 2, removed so much bad coding that he was able to add all of Kanto in G/S. His last credited Pokémon game was B2/W2 before he passed away. Gamefreak would never be able to catch up with evolving technologies, even with more time. With X/Y, gamefreak had to learn new software (without Nintendo holding their hand) and what they learned at that time has been their default knowledge of development that they still haven’t upgraded from. They 100 percent SHOULD expand their team and knowledge of new technologies, but they straight up don’t want to. So basically, I think Gamefreak’s bad decisions are their own mistakes. The Sw/Sd gym outfit was a conscious decision they made and I think that should tell you enough about their decision making.

Love or hate legends arceus, it was a more complete experience than these games for what they advertised- all they necessarily needed was a little more polish (and imo a more diverse gameplay loop, just more unique requirements to complete the pokedex- not just "use x move this amount of times" for EVERY pokemon). It's ironic how instead of Scarlet and Violet being seen as the defacto best switch games, there is still valid arguments for whether that's even true.

don't forget bljs in scarlet and violet allowing you to climb up nearly everything

gonna comment again for the algorithm i didn't mind any of the bugs/bad graphics (i am a sucker for pokemon i know i know), all the new additions and improvements to make the game faster paced are amazing, and so is exploring but the low fps really kills the joy of running and looking around at the world, would give this game a 6/10, with constant or almost constant high fps it'd prolly be an 8 or even 9

I want Legends Zygarde, but I can wait 5 years.

I think they should have a second small team to make dlc constantly for years we don’t have a game so that the competitive scene could feel fresh adding new Pokémon in but delay a game and make it better

Maybe someday.....we can only dream for now.

People always make fun of the Gen 1 games saying that they are glitchy buggy mess held together by duct tape and dreams. Compared to Scarlett and violet I want to ask them what the hell were they playing those games on where they playing a hacked ROM that they downloaded from a shady website because when I originally played red blue and yellow when they came out back in the day I didn't experience anything nearly as bad glitch wise when doing a general playthrough. The games didn't crash characters and Sprites didn't pop in and out of existence and any major glitches that would damage the game or corrupt your save file you had to go out of your way to do. Sure there were a lot of glitches and exploits and there is a glitch with the Pokemon badges affecting the stats of your Pokemon but it is not nearly as noticeable or gameplay affecting as scarlet and violet

love the MJ reference.

Imma watch the reupload like its a new video

Scarlet Violet is worse than Sword Shield. Worse music Less clothing options Unacceptable glitches You can’t even enter people’s homes, the Pokémon centre isn’t a building you enter either, even shops and restaurants are just menus…. We’ve been going into buildings since red and bore they can’t be bothered to make the inside of buildings

9:40 that joke always makes me laugh 😂

Your content is funny especially with the memes mixed in it

Idk the graphics look pretty nice, desert aside. It only looks bad when it zooms in on the Poké ball for catching them.

Gamefreak - we have a new game for each year! Bethesda - My Grandchildren may live to see the next Elder Scrolls, God willing

I don't play Pokemon main games since GBA. But since none of the new games have all pokemons (even tho Pokémon is probably the best franchise in the world and could easily manage to do it), i just don't feel like playing it. I rather just go to Pokémon Go and play for a while since they update with new generations so we can have the full content

So... we getting Legends Unova/Kalos/Johto next year? 💀

You´re missing the fact that incompetence can not be comprehended by time tho

And to add insult to injury, the DLCs are upon us and they have yet to fix any bug or framedrop... Oh, my bad, they actually fixed ONE bug, the one that let you duplicate items and pokemons of course 😂

Given more time, pokemon can create a fun game without obnoxious cut corners and glitches. They can create a community around a game, and the game can sustain itself in that field. I am STILL playing tears of the kingdom to the point where it's wrecking havoc on my schedule and getting entertained by it. Meanwhile, gamefreak needs to give scarlet and violet life support in the form of raids and, for some, competitive events to keep anyone logging back into the game. Once you actually beat the game, there is NOTHING to do, except training up pokemon and the same ace academy tournament over and over again, which only gets you gold. Gamefreak cannot keep relying on the competitive drive for a "postgame." Of course, the DLC is going to come out, but based on sword and shield, we are just going to do the yarn thread of a story, catch a couple of legends and returning pokemon, and call it a day. Sword and shield didn't add anything but the legendary raid den, which is mostly for the enjoyment of hardcore fans. P.S, seeing the pokemon logo next to the call of duty logo made me laugh, like the two game series are having a crossover XD

This is the best review I ever seen

Just watch. The pokemon company is gonna go ahead and make gen 10 a big ass gacha game on the level of Genshin impact featuring Kanto to pander to gen 1 nostalgia again as a region, the whole story wrote in Chat GPT and replacing the pokemon catching mechanic with microtransactions and loot boxes. Also add a 6 month development window as well

We are going to be in gen 20 by tomorrow

I'm just tired of this franchise, and I've decided to not support Pokémon on Switch at all! (And next Nintendo consoles if the expected quality is not met). There are hundreds of alternatives of Turn-Based RPGs that just wash the floor with Pokémon in quality: SMT, Persona, Disgaea, Fire Emblem... Just have self love and respect, and spent your money with joy, not frustration guys! ^^

I don't mind if a game have graphics that looks old or have a difficulty that often switch between normal and really hard, but I refuse to play a game that is full of glitches.

I guess we all disagree about what was the best Pokémon for the switch, sword, sword, sword, sword, sword, sword

The thing about graphical fidelity is that Gamefreak has no excuse. It is literally the most successful gaming franchise IN THE WORLD. The only game I think that rivals it especially in terms of dollar to dollar is Call of Duty and/or Fortnite and Pokemon has been out the longest. When SWSH came out the internet lost it when people talked about graphics. And the people who claimed as such were 100% right. Why are we getting trash when you can look at any other Nintendo property and see that the graphical quality is up to current year standards

Why was this video objective facts

This man is speaking for all pokemon fans. Speaking straight FACTS… and people feel this way because we love and care about the pokemon franchise

Even though I like Scarlet and Violet, they desperately needed more development time. And as for Game Freak, fix the game, delay the DLC, no more yearly releases, and hire more people, or GET OUT!

Hey Gireum :) I don't know if you find the time (or are even interested in it) but I would love if you would make a "perfect Pokémon game" video. This is of course a very subjective topic, as everyone has different taste (for example for me a perfect Pokémon would include [ruby/ sapphires'] contests as I love them, but I know the majority of fans don't care about them) What would your personal "perfect Pokémon game include? :) I would really love to watch a video like that

Why was there no sequel to X and Y I really loved it despite the hiccups it had

I think what they should do is postpone a game, and in the meantime release ports of their classic games to the Switch. Instead of running 1 retro title, why not just rerelease like 4 of the already existing games for more profit and barely any labour

I can hear girem rant about Pokémon forever