Pokémon Scarlet and Violet - A Scathing Review 

Legend of Arceus is a prime example how lazy Pokemon are towards the main series games.

Did you even play legends arcues. That town was a complete zombie city having soulless NPC's empty design and nothing of value to do in it. I think these games are great comparisons bc it shows that they have stopped caring about making the cities rich in lore and character like they did in the 2D era

@@jessiescholten9119 Did you even play legends arceus? That town was a complete rich city having amazing NPCs that are ancestors to modern day characters, very open area to roam around and full of stuff to do. I think this game shows that they truly know how to make cities rich in lore and character like they did in the 2d era.

@@ivanzoneBR completely missed his point lol

Ryan George - Fan?

Couldn’t have put it better myself

#FuckGamefreak

3rd gen was the same way too

I don't remember that. What I do remember is most areas can't be accessed because of the HMs that have an order. We need "cut" to go to some towns, "surf" to go to Cinnabar and so on

I do miss it

In Johto you can also take on the Steel, Fighting and Ice gym in any order you please. Edit: Not to mention Kanto being completely open afterwards.

I believe you can even pick surf earlier and fight Blaine before Koga and Sabrina

Aw wow thanks so much for this. Really appreciate comments like these makes my day :)

I’d say it’s better than sword and shield but not by much. It’s much more satisfying to play and traverse the world and the final hours of the game are actually really hype…problem is that it’s completely busted on a technical level and many aspects of the game are barebones, just like swsh.

I mean there are aspects that are better than sword and shield, but this game came out 3 years after SWSH so that’s not saying much. I would argue that the towns at least are deffffinitely worse than SWSH no question. Orlando, as far as your boss rush concern I mean yeah that’s sort of this game. There’s a reason Nuzlockers are calling this a great game for Nuzlocking because it’s kind of a boss rush. In between bosses there’s a lot to explore and can be pretty fun. And whether you consider it a boss rush or not I guess depends on how long that sustains you. But after a while I realized how empty the world is without quests or interesting things to do besides just catching Pokémon.

@@leakylou2315 i would of have not minded the state of scarlet and violet if it had some daily repateble side Quests to gain some Extra Lp or abilty changing items.the strange thing about sword and shield that it had a repeatable league battles, star tournament that's repeatable, daily EV training.rematches with the DLC rivals and pokemon trianer mustard.the only thing good scarlet and violet are good for is nuzlocks.the only new pokemon that i enjoyed in the scarlet and violet is Tinkaton,Espartha,Basculibur,Meowscarda,the pawmi line and all of the past paradox pokemon designs and all of the new legedariy pokmeon thtas it.the story line of scarlet and violet is also realy good every thing else by pokemon scarlet and violet their is not so much to do even after 200 hours in game trying to max my Pokémon in scarlet.

They should've wait a year and then release usum as vanilla sm

Thanks so much for watching and commenting! Yeah - whichever of those game developers came up with the original gameplay loop of Pokémon is the biggest genius of all time. Here, even almost 30 years later, it is truly the ultimate cash cow. Not even the MCU can put so little effort into something and still break banks. Their recent projects show that when they don’t try at all, people don’t watch. Not for Pokémon. Not even crawling along at 15 FPS is enough to break that gameplay loop.

and you can't even customize your dorm! we had secret bases/room customization all the way back in gen 3. there's absolutely no excuse for this.

Yup! My only solace in the face of the hopeless state of Pokémon is being able to look around and see that others are equally upset about it. Unfortunately there’s not quite as many of us as I thought… but more than when SWSH dropped so I guess I take this as a win.

ThNks for this. I agree, u had alot of balls to put this out. Pokemon fanboys are the worst.. And i love Pokémon games.. But ill call a turd when i see one and not defend laziness. Imagine a pokemon game with the depth of monster hunter stories 2 and lore. And the world of xenoblade chronicles 3. The relationships u gain with the anime characters. The fact Gamefreak can't pull this off is bullshit. No excuse and the pokemon fan base is all to blame as well since they'll defend anything.... Just leaving a critique i got called every name in thd book😂😭. Arceus was basically the BETA VERSION for these 2 games.... And that game came out earlier this year...this game was rushed. No scaling is inane!

Yeah. Swsh and bdsp are the shittiest pokemon games ever. Swsh sold over 25 millions. Bdsp sold over 14 millions. This is why they get away with releasing shitty pokemon games. They will be one of the best selling games regardless.

@@combatsuperstar Foh. Sword And Shield and Brilliant diamond and Shining pearl are enjoyable games. Scarlet and Violet is worse in every way.

That’s so funny!! When I saw it I thought it was so stupid but figured casual type players wouldn’t really pick up on or care about just how stupid it is because you kind of have to be paying attention to realize how out of place it is in the narrative. The fact that even the kids noticed is honestly really great.

You are 1000000% right about a beta build. That’s a perfect way to put it. We basically are playing a beta build under the title of a full release. That’s how I’m going to describe the game from now on.

@@leakylou2315 Accurate description

Eh… we have been for quite a while now lol

Who are they for then?

@@nswmeeuwes89 kids

@@combatsuperstar Well, hear me out... Kids will also like it if they are good games.

True. I think you're becoming a minority. I've been playing the series since Pkmn Emerald. I admit the latest 3D games haven't been the best. But technical problems aside, this is the most fun I've had since XY.

Aw wow thanks so much! Honestly I’m not sure! As you can probably tell I’m still trying to find my channel identity. Trying to figure out what to do next after this video that feels organic and also speaks to the new folks who’ve found my channel. It’s a good idea though and I’ve been talking over the possibility with a few of my friends. If you have any other suggestions feel free to share!

Aw what! Thank you for this comment. You are way too nice

I have a LOT of issues with Cyberpunk. The biggest disappointment for me in gaming probably even more than this game. But I definitely agree that one thing they did well was level scaling. It does feel very free in terms of exploration because of their hybrid leveled/deleveled system

Thanks for the feedback and the kind words! It really makes a difference to read comments like this

Apparently it's the best selling Nintendo game of all time.

This is such an awesome idea!

Aw wow thank you so much!

I think that’s because you still haven’t gotten to the openworld yet

Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Soul Silver is a GOATed game. The best remakes in the series. I still regularly play through the older games as well (well, I play difficulty hacks like Storm Silver so it’s more engaging after this many years, but the game is still the same in essence). Thanks for your comment! I appreciate you valuing my opinion.

They can't please everyone but I love the older games over the newer, but I quite like this game it's not the best and they can do better, but for me I don't care about picture quality like a lot seem to be more focused on that the gaming quality can be better I will say, I'm not going to say it's the best game in the series or anything because that's a lie, Arceus is better than these 2 games but hopefully there'll be a patch for it soon

Because those other Users/fans haven't just played 40% of the game and are not all saying the same things; looking at this and expecting Halo Infinite grade visuals and performance because ''ricHesT companY''. They're looking at it though honest Pokémon fans through honest observations having almost or actually completing the game. This guy is just in on the ''Woke critic poser'' wave; he's after clicks too. Yes, of course the game isn't Perfect; but do I care? It's smooth enough.

I haven’t seen anyone praising this game. The most positive review I’ve seen was from one of the people at NintendoLife who said they just liked it, which is average at best, but still had MANY negatives that this guy is talking about.

As someone who played HeartGold as my first ever pokemon game, heavily, heavily, heavily disagree. It's great, but your loss. Literally, Legends Arceus was worse imo and you probably bought that. I mean play what you want but it's funny people take reviewers SO seriously. Nooo, there are others like him that don't like the game and there's reviewers praising it? Sounds like every game ever. I hear EVERYONE call Hallow Knight a "masterpiece" but guess what?? REVIEWS EXIST CALLING IT TRASH! OMG, it's almost as if no matter how good a game is, SOME people are gonna hate it!

Thanks so much for the feedback! I’m glad you enjoyed ot

Have you at least played legend arceus? Legend arceus is amazing

Lmaooooo “My name is Leaky and I’m in an abusive relationship with Gamefreak.” In unison: “Hi Leaky.”

It's literally all this game needed. I wish people wouldn't get so mad at Gamefreak. It's the Pokemon Company pressuring them to release the game in time for Christmas, like so many other companies do.

I just really respect that you can acknowledge that you enjoy the game and that it’s unacceptable in this state. A lot of people are conflating the two and I really want people to realize that I’m not saying that this means you won’t necessarily have fun. It’s Pokémon! The only reason they’re able to get away with this is because they know it’s still fun deep down beneath all the crap.

I agree - at least I'm happy fans like you are showing this guy up with actual User experiences that extend beyond just ''patch testing'' the game. So basically; he was treating his test as a technical demo run which should never be used to overall judge a game - especially a Pokémon game. Plus, people like him all make it out to be like some Switch version of Cyberpunk 77. I didn't experience any major performance issues too. There are many good points: the music for one!

Bro pokemon coliseum is the best Pokemon game too me

Definitely something I’ve been wanting to do! I have a new upload coming soon and after that that might be next.

Use lower level mons try some others out?

This is a super valid opinion. You are the customer that Gamefreak made this game for, and as expected, turns out the vast vast majority of Pokémon’s players agree with you. Casual gamers are always going to be the majority in Pokémon. And that’s something the rest of us just have to deal with. I appreciate you commenting and sharing your opinion. And I’m happy for you that you’re enjoying the game!

You sound like you have a lot of money on your hands and have no discretion as to who you will give it to. That’s not purposeful negativity, that’s an objective and astute observation. People in this category are single handedly crippling the potential evolution of gaming.

@@jzd272 exactly …excuseforce is in full effect on youtube I mean just look at all the reviews of people apologizing for this game … it’s redunkulous

@@kcidd12 they think they work for Nintendo or something 🤣 Idk if this speaks on gamers or society in general at this point

@@jzd272 @jzd272 They just explained why they bought the game though. Your observation makes it seem like they're just buying the game without thinking. The game looks like a complete mess to me, but at least they're enjoying what they bought. Buying something without even thinking about it is a different story. For me though, I think all my hope for Pokemon is gone.

PLA was NOT more buggy than Violet...idk what swtich you were playing it on but i had a consistent smooth framerate throughout my entire playthrough with no bugs

Day one switch and I haven’t had any frame rate issues or hair pulling bugs, in either.

There are still skiddish Pokémon that will back away from you without wanting battle so my head cannon is that baby pokemon fear nothing and don’t care that you nearly ran them over with your super bike.

I've noticed that some Pokémon will run away from you and other types come looking for a fight.

Nagol I’m going to take your claim at face value (I’m trusting that you’re not lying) and say that maybe your game isn’t lagging that much. But you are in the tiny, tiny minority here my dude. Go look at any RU-vidr, reviewer, anything. They might not be as salty as me but they allllll are talking about how bad the game lags and how buggy it is. It’s much much worse than PLA for almost everyone You have no leg to stand on on this one bud. Glad we could agree on the Poke ball mechanics from PLA though.

Truuuuu. Crystal Clear is the blueprint for this. That’s a really great game. I’ve never understood how Gamefreak consistently puts the highest levels in the game to be like mid 60s in so many titles. It’s like they are actively punching the people who play their games the MOST in the face lol. The worst offender is Isle of Armor, DLC that came out well after the main game released where the highest levels were still in their 60s. Meaning the only people who could possibly enjoy it were the people who played their games the LEAST (aka the ones who quit after beating the main game) while the dedicated ones who played every day paid $15 to vastly over level the entire experience.Once they did that I knew there was no hope lol

I somewhat agree - you at least for one have leveled sensible observations on here. The thing is We all know the game would never be technically Perfect; but this guy clearly hasn't played through the game to discover what it really is. He's just dropped in and in his mind, thinking this should look & run like Eldin Ring basically. It's ridiculous on all levels, lol.

That’s really interesting! I’ll have to keep playing through the art classes because what I’ve seen was only of passing interest. I’m glad you’re enjoying the game! But I have to say I don’t think attributing the problem to the game being too “big” is fair. There are a lot of games that have disappointed me because of that reason - too many people want too many different things. I don’t think this is one of them. I mean soooo many of the things the game sets out to do just blatantly don’t work. This is a game that had an extremely rushed development, and it’s okay to admit that and admit the game can still be fun

@@netweed09 Cmon man. You clearly didn’t watch the video. I never said anything like and and I don’t even like Elden Ring. I’ve been a Pokémon fan since I got my very first video game at 5 years old. It’s my favorite franchise of all time and Ive played every game. Don’t be unfair. I know what to expect from Gamefreak.

@@leakylou2315 I second this. Pokemon is literally the top grossing franchise on the planet. Expectations regarding how polished a game is understandably go up in cases like Pokemon. Fans can be patient and wait an extra year if need be in order to get a better experience, and it's not as though the Pokemon company can't get the raw talent and man power to meet people's expectations regarding polish.

@netweed09 Wow. So now it's wrong for someone to have standards for the highest grossing multimedia franchise in the world? Please. You can't tell me we shouldn't expect more from pokemon at this point. If you've played anything other than pokemon in the last 10 years, you'd realize that gamefreak is leagues behind the competition when it comes to game development. I mean, there are pokemon fan games that completely blow some of the mainline games out of the water. That's just sad.

I agree with you about deleveled vs leveled worlds in SOME games. In the Witcher 3 I mentioned that was an option. I didn’t use that option because in a game like that I agree that I want to feel like I’m getting stronger. In Pokémon though, disagree.

Thanks for the comment! And yeah those technical issues most people are experiencing are even so much worse than they were for me when I made this video lol.

As I said at the end, I don’t even think people shouldn’t get it if they want to. I mean it’s Pokémon you’re still probably going to have fun even if the game is completely terrible. I hope you enjoy it!

@@leakylou2315 so far I like it but there is lag there's some clipping there's a lot of graphical errors feels like I'm playing a game that doesn't have a day one patch even though it has a day one patch but it feels like the game is like almost there it just needs good optimization it's like it never got to hit the final fine-tuning stage but they have to make their quota like they have to release it at a certain time which is pretty dumb if you ask me . The new anime just came to a close they could have waited a whole year but they don't want to wait there are other games they tried to release failed like that Town Hero game they tried to release other games other than Pokémon but we didn't let them we kept buying Pokemon it's our fault🤣🤣🤣 but for real if they would have just waited and let this year be the year of Legends Arceus and go one more year for the release of scarlet and violet they would have had much more hype and a higher quality title

@@leakylou2315 as a lifelong pokéfan, despite some of the game's positive aspects this is the first game in the series that I am legit constantly putting away - the others I couldn't stop playing at release, even the mid-tier as hell Sword/Shield. it is THAT rushed and performs THAT bad. and whenever I enter a city I immediately get triggered by how ABSOLUTELY EMPTY it is.

@@charliez077 I'm a bit the opposite I'm so excited about this game even with its problems I can only blame the Pokemon company for crunching the developers at game freak. Legends Arceus could have been released in November instead of January and then we could have waited until November next year for scarlet and violet and they would have been better but with that being said I love these games and I can't put them down I'm addicted now to Scarlett I love the Auto Battle feature I'm just killing all the Pokemon everywhere

Greed. The best word to describe the pokemon company and why they do the things they do is greed.

Lol this is really interesting I had no idea! I’m gonna look into this

truuuu. and the main reason why I don’t wanna hear anyone talking about switch hardware lol

Lol wow the fact that there are multiple places where this happened… Remember in Gen 4 when you had to go to a specific spot in post-game with exactly one mon knowing one exact move and trade with an NPC and then save your game to get stuck? Aka you had to actively try to do it. Good times (I mean not that that was acceptable but I mean it’s an honest mistake and they clearly put a ton of effort into making sure it didn’t happen and slipped up in one obscure spot)

I mean yeah the fact that it’s been two games in a row now I’d have to agree with you. However two caveats 1.) I don’t think it’s fair to call them “background” animations. I mean they literally look like that until you get right up close. It’s TECHNICALLY background maaaaybe but that’s being very generous. I would call the ones in PLA background because they only happened far in the distance 2.) other switch games don’t have that issue so while i agree it’s intentional i don’t think it’s an excuse

@@leakylou2315 I didn’t what else to call it besides background animation but true. I play XB3 and it looks and feels great I also agree it isn’t an excuse I think the towns and cities don’t help the frames either. I mean when you’re close the game it loading the city and all it’s models and things while also loading all the Pokémon around you. No loading screens is cool and all but maybe in this case towns and cities should all do what the school does. Block stuff off by a loading screen so the game can focus on one thing at a time Sorry for any grammar problems and such

Thanks for the thoughtful response! This is why I talked about how multiple games (in fact, the vast majority of open world rpgs) have hybrid systems. I think level ceilings and floors would have been a perfect way to do something like this. As you sort of said, they could have made whichever gym you fight third have a minimum level that the Pokémon would never scale below and a maximum level that the Pokémon would never scale above. The important factor here that I think your comment overlooks slightly is that this would apply to whichever gym you fought third, not the gym they deemed to be the third gym, which allows freedom. Also I think making you unable to bring Pokémon above a certain level would be overkill. You CAN in any open world game just grind in the overworld forever if you really want to, but that means you are making an active choice to be overleveled. Whereas anyone progressing relatively normally throughout the game would find a very balanced gameplay loop. Also to be clear: I definitely don’t think Wild Pokémon should scale to level, and with catchig giving exp and so many wild Pokémon + just general forward thinking game design (like handling trainers in a unique way) I don’t think being consistently under leveled would be a big problem. I’m sure the system I’ve laid out might need a few kinks ironed out here and there. But I just made it up on this spot. Overall I think the main point here, which we agree on, is that there is definitely a way to do this right. The point where we disagree though is where you commend them for trying something new. If they were an indie dev doing their best I would agree. But I think given the overall state of this game and the fact that they are the biggest media company in the world shows that this is not a problem of “doing our best and not fully succeeding.” This is a problem of “doing our best with the extremely short time window we have” which is unacceptable from the suits at Gamefreak. We deserve better than this! I’m not unreasonable. I game them sooo much credit for trying new things in PLA and am willing to overlook basically any negatives about that game. I can’t give them credit for doing their best when the central system of the game and the main selling point( the open world) fundamentally just doesn’t work.

@@leakylou2315 It would appear that there is some confusion though in your idea of the actual company. We all know that Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were ported/developed by a 3rd party, ILCA, but for Sword&Shield, Legends Arceus and Scarlet&Violet, they're all marked as being developed by Game Freaks. While I have no doubt about this, I'm really not sure that it's the same team within Game Freaks that developed all 3 games, let alone had proper and complete communication between the projects. SwSh was released in 2019, with its DLC in 2020. Then PLA and SV in 2022. That doesn't leave much time for development, when you consider that (usually) there's around a 2-3 year gap between mainline games. I'd argue that maybe even the revision games, like USUM, may not be developed by the same team, or perhaps the full team. So in my opinion, what could've happened is SwSh has finished development, a (small) portion of the team stayed to work on the DLC while the rest started working on SV. Another team might've come around to help development of the DLC from SwSh, then move on to work on PLA. Clearly there's a big disparity in looks between PLA and SV, and they wouldn't have had the time to work on 2 different engines within those 2 years. As far as communication between both projects, the most we really know at the moment is that there were communication as to which new variants were appearing in PLA, and make sure that their regular form would be available in SV. Higher ups may have pitched some ideas about how some systems would work regarding the overworld, but there's still multiple differences between both games, like how PLA has a sound prompt to indicate that a shiny appeared nearby, but SV doesn't. And that is why I say that I'm glad that they are trying new things. They could've opted to stay in the classic style before they made Sun & Moon, and there was a lot of people who didn't like the direction those game took because of it, but right now people want better looking games, even though that was never really the point of Pokemon games. It seems that whenever a company decides to make a change, it's celebrated if it works well and ridiculed if there's issues with it, but at least Game Freak is trying to give us what we ask for, unlike some other companies that dish out the exact same game every year and expect players to buy them over and over again. Did they succeed completely? No. Should they stop trying? Hell no. They why are people giving them shit because the system wasn't perfect on the first try? Pokemon is in a period of change, they're listening to what was asked and they went out of their comfort zone to try and develop an open world experience while trying to remain true to the Pokemon experience.

@@Kyduk Alright this might sound harsh but I don’t mean it that way. I appreciate this discussion! ​ I mean we could go back and forth about the stuff regarding the different teams all day but IMO it’s largely irrelevant. I know that games have different teams, but to that I say: get bigger teams, make less games at once, or give the teams more time. Nowhere in your analysis do you account for, or even acknowledge the existence of, one of the biggest corporate machines in the world that demands strict deadlines in accordance with a tv show, toys, cards, etc etc etc. This is the machine that runs GF and makes decisions on Pokémon games and everyone knows it. As I said in the video, I’m not shitting on the game devs here. I’m shitting on the people who sit behind them and run the company like a soulless machine. Why should I give them credit for releasing a broken game with broken mechanics? Because their lust for profit is understandable? I’m sorry I don’t really get your point.

@@leakylou2315 I didn't see your comment as being harsh in any way, and likewise, I do not mean any disrespect with my answers. But let's look at things this way. I personally work in the video game industry, as a 3rd party support (the company I work for is basically hired to assist in any way shape or form a game company would need assistance, from testers to player support and even going to translation and various other tasks). I'm not at all related to Game Freaks or The Pokemon Company, so I can't say exactly how it works inside their company, but I've seen other companies that are widely known in the industry and release AAA games. I've seen communication problems between departments. I've seen developers who work as a group to program various things in a game, but refuse to go in detail and explain to other department what is the point of what they're doing, or how it works. I've seen video game reps (who are supposed to know all the details of their game in order to discuss it with various teams and explain details) get information wrong because they themselves were told wrong information. If you want an example of what I mean, you can look back to Goldeneye 64, whose Multiplayer mode wasn't even supposed to be a thing. It was added by the developers at the last minute, while the game was already late for release... and unbeknownst to management. --- So I don't see how blaming the executives of the companies would solve anything in that regard. They have board meetings early on in development to figure out the general route the game will take, and how long they expect the game to be in production and whatnot, but then it falls on the developers to make everything a possibility. And if something doesn't work right, there might be delays. But something we do know, is that a non-linear open world is not something that the developers team is used to make, even the 3D modeling and asset management for the loading calibration is relatively new to them, so they have to do what they can. The team is trying what they can, and it's not just a matter of hiring externally if they don't have the expertise for 3D modeling and asset management, because that is a skillset that the team has to develop, not something that you can fit in a new employee or 2 to fiddle with, because you need consistency in the team.

It’s totally unacceptable

Playing on Ryujinx with the 1.5 speed code has been heaven. It runs great, it’s upscale, and the game is faster than normal even (that’s not a bug that’s a feature Pokémon is slow as shit!) But that only works if you have good hardware. Crazy how much this game needs to run like that lol

That’s only the minimap. Not the actual map itself. And orienting yourself on your minimap in the context of the larger world is a constant pain. And I’ve seen other streamers have trouble with this too.

Thank god for Austin John turns out you can press a button to fix the map so your facing north and it’s a lot easier to navigate

Thanks so much! Yeah haha when the first benchmarks were coming out before I got a chance to play it I literally didn’t believe it. Unbelievable they would release this lol

@@leakylou2315 No problem! The big streamers I’ve seen playing it so far have been trashing the graphics. I hope fan reviews are really bad so Gamefreak/Pokémon Company get the message!

Thats good news. They probably won’t actually change anything until it affects sales. BUT fan reviews and a major narrative shift around Pokémon because of this could actually affect sales if the narrative gets big enough. So I’m keeping hope alive as well.

Why are you asking nurse joy what to do when you know what to do because at the beginning of the game they told you and just like all the other Pokémon games they ever go catch and train and beat them all you are a sad man

It jarring that a 2022 game look and plays worse than a pokemon game on the gamecube.

Not a huge fan personally! I only played Elden Ring and it wasn’t for me. I want games to be difficult - but not THAT difficult lol. I suspect I’ll feel the same about other From Software titles. But interesting perspective nonetheless

@@leakylou2315 It's a matter of perspective. All I expect from a game is that it respects the time I'm willing to spend on its content. That being said, the content should be relatively valuable. We are adults now. So far it's Bloodborne taking lead in this criterion for me. I recommend you give it a try.

Let me clarify. I agree with you. I was more saying that I wouldn’t mind that if that were the ONLY issue. Aside from being able to buy things, Pokémon shops have always been basically the least interesting place in any given city. Shops are just there to be functional so that we can buy things and nothing else. Because of that, streamlining the process in itself isn’t the worst thing in the world. (Of course they could have actually fixed this issue but that ain’t happening) Because of that, IF this were an incredible game with love put into it, but they kept the shops as just menus - I wouldn’t mind. It could be an interesting design choice. But because of the rest of the state of the game, it’s clear they did that to the shops to cut corners - which, yes I agree makes it lazy and stupid.

@@leakylou2315 Yeah, I think it's a good game but that's it, those issues all stop it being a truly great game. Insides of buildings add more deph and encourage exploration. Such as the Free Eevee in Celedon Department store, All battle cafés, etc.

Bruh, do you even played legends archesu? Is nit their first open world game, and this game is asbad as sword and shield, even worst thow, and this is not an excuse

You make a good point and my response is that I did actually expect it! In fact, I wish I had recorded some prerelease convos with my friends because I know that the leveling “open world” would be done horribly from the moment they announced it because it’s GF and that’s what they do is half ass things lol. I mean I thought it would be better than this for sure overall as a game. But somehow I think you’re using this to defend the game while I’m using it to say this is typical BS from this studio. Either way I’m glad you seemed to enjoy it!

(It’s also so many little things that would have been picked up through usability testing, like no overworld shiny sparkles, or things like not being able to swap items between Pokémon). They’re small things but they represent I think a huge part of what happens if games are rushed.

I also think not having level scaling *is* why I enjoyed it so much, I essentially did it anti clockwise and made it thrilling until I got to the star at the top. I then did the other side with an entirely new team of Pokémon. I don’t think that’s what you’re supposed to do, but I really do think that thrill made it so enjoyable. I 100% agree with all your solutions however, or at least warning. Again it’s 100% would have probably been solved with play testing and extra time

You’ve given a lot of great examples and highlighted the point I was trying to make very well. I’m not saying people won’t enjoy the game, but everywhere you look it is SO obvious where corners are being cut lol. That’s the kind of objective analysis that it pains me that I’m not seeing more of in the community. People that are saying it’s the best Pokémon game of all time and 10/10 (or if they don’t they say it would be if not for the bugs and glitches) are missing this! It’s not just the bugs and glitches. It might even be the most FUN pkmn game of all time to someone despite all this stuff, but I really wish people would acknowledge that comparing this to a game like BW2 which was filled to the brim with love, care, and extra features is just crazy. Again it can be more fun, but like take a look at the game you’re talking about before making claims like that. Idk very frustrating that these things go largely untalked about.

And yeah me complaining about people calling this game best of all time when i called it worst of all time is a bit pot calling kettle black. but i do really believe it lol. this game might be “the most fun you’ve ever had” but i’ve never seen a pokémon game so obviously breaking apart at the seams and that matters to me. i dunno, maybe over time i’ll adjust this opinion. part of it is just me being upset while i was playing i’m sure. time will tell if it’s worse than ORAS, XY, and SWSH.

@@leakylou2315 I definitely agree with it taking you out of the immersion! I was talking about this to a friend- it’s fun like Skyrim was when it was first released. Like you’re going somewhere your not supposed to by moving a horse up a mountain, or some of the npcs are hilarious! But at the same time…it’s maybe not what people want out of Pokémon. I also think it’s almost in a limbo zone of Skyrim being utterly hilarious with just some of the weird exploits; or like- you’re not mad when you get flung into the air by a giant because it’s just so funny; whereas here it does feel that the bugs more less painful (having to reset bc you got knocked underneath the map). Overall I really appreciate your nuance and word choices!! I think you summed up so many feelings; where it’s like on the one hand I had such a great experience; but I also know with more polish it could have been say, wind waker tier of favourite. I really hope they make a definitive version of this. BW2, even ultra sun moon you had to admire the cutscenes and polish! Black and white was such a weird one for me because…it felt like a fan fiction / rom hack; you could tell it was made with love but there was something quirky and almost “fan made” about it vs other series and I definitely found myself now longing for that vs let’s go (shiny but not a lot of personality). Honestly just as a note I would LOVE if monolith remade black and white 2 open world cause I feel like they could capture that emo tone / personality. Way back there was a game called Baten Kaidos which they collaborated on and it very much felt similar in tone! So it’ll never happen but that’s my hope hahah!

Yup. It’s seeped into almost every gaming company and also applies to a lot of other media right now too. There are some great exceptions but it sort of feels like we’re in a Dark Age of gaming right now. I guess that depends on what kind of games you like - and it’s tough because at the same time there are SO many games that you can often find something you like. But sooo many of these old favorites are ruining their products

Glad we can come to an agreement on this! Thanks for watching and commenting. Never gonna have an issue with people disagreeing with me (although I might have to pull out a fact checker on you lol)

@@leakylou2315 definitely gonna check out more of your videos I love when people are willing to debate and not just yell and I feel I got more heated than I’d like to admit and I’m sorry for that but I appreciate your responses

One thousand percent agree. And it’s another reason it’s obvious this is a quick cash grab of a game. Because we can look at the rest of the gaming industry. How many shit-tier open world/player choice games have been released in the past 5 or so years? Like soooooo many. Because some really incredible games had them and the next move became copy the idea of the open world but don’t copy the actual “good game” part of it. Pokémon vs BOTW is the Nintendo version of this. If BOTW didn’t have the love and care for the franchise poured into it that it had, it would’ve been nothing. Completely agree that the draw of Pokémon has always been the isekai feel. So upping interactivity should totally be a direction for the series

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Haha whaaat thank you I really appreciate that. Definitely looking for any and all feedback about what people want to see next so if you have any more ideas would love to hear them too!