Pokémon Violet - An Unsurprising Disappointment 

I have had diarrhea every day for eight years.

I swear the entire region looks like a vrchat world

Paldea is the blandest region ever in Pokemon games history. Looks like a steam early access open world game it has the same performance as one.

To be fair about the camera in battles, if you press R3 the camera resets to the default camera angle and starts doing the usual shot changes and movements. Of course, since you can battle anywhere, this will often cause the camera to break through the geometry and give you a peek at the endless white void.

If anyone called a Pokémon game a "Hidden gem", I'd have to question their understanding of what the word 'Hidden' means.

I'm totally out of the pokemon scarlet and violet loop P.s: to the people that like to say that pokemon fans got what they wanted, don't complain when the waiter brings your food completely burned

literally that unhinged tweet you showed in the beginning broke my brain for most of the video I'm sorry....but a child apparently not having as much "sex appeal" as another is the grossest reason for not liking a game I've ever heard holy shit

at this point im just expecting a downgraded experience with any newer pokemon games, the only thing i look forward too in these games are the new pokemon added. atleast the pokemon design/concept department hasn't fallen into despair unlike basically every other department

I would pay an unhealthy amount of money for a dark and mature pokemon game where you take on the mob in some gritty classic 1920's scenerio filled with pain and loss but an ultimately victorious adventure narrated by a beaten soul like that of Rorschach in the Watchmen .

The next gen pokemon game could be a literally unplayable mess that doesn't even work past the title screen, and it will still sell millions of copies. Why should they ever try to be better when there are MILLIONS of people who will buy no matter what?

I've been playing pokemon since pokemon red on the game boy and for the first time in my life I had to force myself to even launch the game and it hurts so bad, fan games are unironically what keeps this franchise alive right now

A year later and I'm still in disbelief at this release. I think my jaw was perpetually dropped the first few hours just because of how bad everything looked and felt. We had BD/SP in late 2021. They should have saved Legends Arceus for Nov. 2022 so IT could be the big holiday game and developed S/V another year and had it come out this November. What a shame. At least a lot of the character designs rock and the music slaps. I can still count on Pokemon for that much.

That conclusive statement couldn't make me laugh any harder now that Palworld exists.

I have to completely agree. I finished the entire story in Scarlet and while it was OK, it just didn't feel like a "complete" experience. The whole game kind of felt like a tech-demo for a full release. I don't know how this game got the green light to get released in this state. This shows that The Pokémon Company doesn't really care about the game quality. The game was released way too prematurely to get out for the holiday season. I actually feel bad for the developers as I'm sure they worked themselves half to death to meet the deadlines even just to get this build out. I initially was going to skip playing Scarlet/Violet as I had skipped Sword/Shield after hearing how mediocre they were. Looking back, I probably should have saved my $60 and put it towards a much better game. All in all, I didn't hate this game, but it just felt lackluster. Unfortunately, people vote with their wallets, so I agree that I don't see the quality of the games vastly improving in the near future. Pokémon is a merchandising dynamo.

And Game Freak said it themselves, why do more as necessary? It sells anyways. These games will only change if we don't buy them. If you need to buy them just wait until you get them used. I bought them because of the Pokédex, but now that i know that i get them through Pokémon Go, i can wait.

I still use a Pikachu key chain to this day, to remind me of the earliest days of my childhood, specifically Pokémon White 2, Explorers of Time, Conquest and Shadows of Almia. Some of the best childhood memories I have are from this series. Now almost 20 years later, I'm running out of reasons to call myself a Pokémon fan. If those inevitable Unova remakes screw up, that'll seriously be the last straw for me.

Look how they massacred my boy

I do enjoy the game, but it is bittersweet as I feel like it could be so much more and I am enjoying it less than I did back in the DS day (mostly played DS games, as I did not have access to the games until I got enough disposable money). I did not really notice the graphical issues with sword/shield, did not have much of a problem with the graphics in PL:A, but now even I am cringing... With things supposed to be a 'beautiful open world' but have minecraft style textures and 1 fps movement when things are more than a foot away from you... I did like the concept of kinda sorta being able to do the story in the order you want it to (random order is not applicable, as fights do not scale), as I did beeline for the titans when Arven came out with exactly why he wants the herba mystica. Asking nurse Joy for tips on where to go next is not a good idea either: she'll just direct you to the nearest objective, even if it is waaaaaay above your level... I really like the concept of pokemon, but I do not like the 'one step forward, three steps back' which has been going on lately.

One thing that frustrates me is that whenever I try to criticize this game on twitter, a lot of people come after me saying that I'm "complaining over a kids game", and they act like I am a big bad bully. And then of course, they proceed to do the same thing that they tell me to stop with other games (which is fine, but it is hypocritical) I just want this franchise to do better quality wise, and kids deserve better.

Would be nice if they took notes from the fan games who for the most part take mechanics that they(gamefreak) created and build on them. Could just give us options in the game to toggle things in and off and that's just the battle part. It doesn't have to be overly dark and gritty but if a rpg maker game using pixels from gen 3 can feel more alive than a whole ass 3d wannabe breath of the wild rendition then there's some serious problems

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I knew there was a subconcious reason i stopped playing Pokemon after Sun/Moon. Idk if it was cuz Pokemon has not went to home console...that the 3D aspect of it has been taken to a level that is just unappealing to my eyes....Im not sure...but ty for making this video and tacking some of the reasons why

Remember that Nintendo only publishes the game, they don’t develop it. They don’t put on these restrictions, they only allow it. It’s not entirely their fault, it’s multiple companies. (ppl are still gonna get it so it doesn’t really matter.)

I've never complained about graphics in a video game. I have complained a little bit about performance. That was going to be the same case with Gen 9, if it wasn't for the CONSTANT crashing. This game has crashed at least once EVERY TIME I've opened and played it. It crashed when I opened the boxes, opened the PokéPortal, opened the MAP, AND HATCHED A FUCKING EGG AT THE "WRONG CAMERA ANGLE?!" There is a lot of things I love about Scarlet and Violet. For example, the music is so well composed and the transition between the overworld and battle theme for each Province is wonderful. I've noticed little segments of music from past Gens(mostly Gen 8) hidden in the soundtracks and I love it. Not only that, but a lot of the new Pokemon have bursted their way into my all time favorites. The main three being Fuecoco, Koraidon, and Tinkaton. For as long as I can remember, Mewtwo's been my favorite legendary mainly due to his overall personality he's shown in every movie/episode he's been in along with his character motives. But when I saw Koraidon's in-game interactions, I was appalled on how much energy and personality they gave it. Since then, that little lizard friend has started to crawl it's way to my top favorite. In conclusion, when I play a new Pokemon main-line release, I mostly pay attention to two things. The new designs and the soundtrack, and this game delivered. However the performance and graphical issues have gotten so bad, that it starts to scare me.

While I am salty my signature Pokemon Machoke was cut from the game I think many would tell me at least old Machie doesn't have to be involved with a glitchy, sluggish unfinished mess of a game. Even with DLC, I have played Tears of the Kingdom and the quality and performance issues between them are very noticeable, TotK is massively better. Like holy cow, BotW doesn't run like this.

Being spanish and finally having a pokemon game based in Spain is cool and all, but the game wants me to shit my pants, it looks nothing like spain and the game overall is ass. But I have to say, Toby Fox was fucking cooking with the music

pokemon sv officially driven me to give up on new gamefreak games i only play showdown and romhacks these days. Also they should give up on the open world idea while I love open world games gamefreak has shown 3 times in a row now that they are not able to pull it off they should just go back to the old formula

Easily the worst Pokémon game on the switch

Fighting and dragon with kiraidon was certainly original but we definitely could’ve gotten a different typing for miraidon since zekrom was already an electric and dragon type legendary

*grass materializing 3 feet in front of you*

If they completed the Development of this game it could have been my new fav Pokémon game.

Honestly my biggest dissapointment was how this doesn't feel like a spanish region. Like if they wanna just keep makin japanese regions I wish they would instead of half assing a country and adding several japanese based parts after

Great video! Thank you for making this video. Production and writing is good too

I almost feel like Nintendo should stop making their own consoles and just make games for the other consoles, the hardware of the switch is soo poor to allow mobile gaming that it really held this game back from being bearable

Paldea is the epitome of "Crocodile Street" from Bruno schulz, where everything trying to copy something bizarre and amazing, but feels empty and fake

This made me think "what changes would I make if I had to fix the games?" I've plenty of things I could say, but I want to just tackle one issue: the battle speed. (I wrote a Google Doc like I was going to make a video about it, but that's unlikely to happen so just ignore that, or hey, maybe steal it for yourself, Idc!) 「"Well, let’s look at the complaint that inspired this video: stat change messages! In this review of Scarlet and Violet, he comments how it gives you a message for each stat change and that this takes forever so I took inspiration from something I saw in my Sword playthrough: the messages when abilities are triggered such as Oblivious cancelling Intimidate. Except…I think we could simplify this even further, so let’s display all of the changes at once and redesign the notification to not require any reading. We can colour code buffs with red, and debuffs as blue but we’ll also have an arrow pointing up or down for those suffering from colour blindness…I am assuming Gamefreak designs around disability, but as I do not have any that hinders my gameplay experience, I can’t point out any failings on their part at this moment in time. Anyway, defence buffs can be a shield, if it is physical defence then it’ll have the icon for physical attack in it and the ripple that is used for special attack. Physical attack changes are a sword which is either red or blue, again with an accompanying arrow whilst special attack would be a brain. Speed, we can go pretty simple and have a foot, accuracy would be an eye and evasion would be a man performing double team. If this seems too vague, I guess we can add the text below the icon but I think these are pretty clear on their own. Any time this pops up, it will show for as long as the ability activation messages, those seem pretty fast but with enough time to read them despite being on the opposite sides of the screen. Multi-hit moves are another fan hated snail: so why don’t we have it so when a Pokémon gets its attack split into three animations, one is when it approaches, another for the attack which can be looped and the final for when it returns to its original position. Whilst it is attacking, mid-animation, the damage will be calculated with the bar moving at whatever speed will keep it synced for when the attack will end and FINALLY the message for the number of times it hit will display, this should cut the time down quite a bit. Whenever a critical hit occurs, the super effective sound should play alongside a message like the previously mentioned “activated ability” just saying “critical hit” and if it happens multiple times in the same attack, add “x” then number. Do NOT interrupt the attacking for any reason other than the fact it concluded!"」

I don’t like the mechanics of this game nor the lag nor the artstyle. Swsh was much more my style

I played Pokémon scarlet and I have to say it is the most boring game I've ever played. The people who say it is the best are either Pokémon stans who will say anything with a Pokémon logo on it is best thing ever, or are just people who has an entire career base around Pokémon, so they obviously wouldn't say it is bad.

Is the pokemon company...Apple?

I don't why but to me it's like they wanted to compete with Half-Life 1 in the texture area but everything else falls flat....

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The fan disappointment has never been so widespread and exigent as it was this time. And yet, they won't course correct at all. The next game will STILL just be a bit further on the downward slope they've been on. They're laughing, cuz they're serving us crap and know that we'll keep paying for it.

You deserve more attention than what you currently have! Love your edits, the way you talk, and how well you dissect the topics you choose to discuss. Looking forward to what you'll do in 2023!

What gets me the most is that Arceus Legends just felt like such an awesome step up, and then this one looks and runs like it was made by a completely different team. I still enjoy the game, and I hope that it can be patched to look and run better, but it shouldn't have to be.

There are some good jokes in your script, nice job on this.

I never liked Terastylizing. The Gyms never seem to make good use of it and, even if it changes up battling, I’d rather something more awesome like Dynamaxing than simply crystallizing my Pokémon and slap a crown on them. I never used it because story mode doesn’t take any great usage of that. It made the already annoying online raids a slog to go through when the transformation takes up time. The raids of Sword and Shield were structured better Paldea is also the lamest region of all (It’s a ghost town literally everywhere.) The only people I’ll really remember that well going forward are Iono (the only MEMORABLE Gym leader) and Miriam (the school nurse.)

@21:26 OMG! I hadn't noticed.. but that PKMN's mouth goes from round to polygonal when opened! I loved this series for years, but dropped it since I saw Sword and Shield being developed.. glad to know I'm not missing anything, sad to know people are dumb to support this disaster further.

"The problem is the vista looks like straight up fucking shit". I got a lol out of that. I didn't buy these because even the trailers looked bad to me. I do like Legends, but I'm glad I did not waste my money on these. This might just be how the new games are from now on.

i dislike the school uniform shit and also i hate it how you get the “legendary “ pokemon at the start of the game. just ruins the mysteriousness of legendary pokemon

It's worse than that. There's not just 800+ Pokemon. There are well over 1000 different species now, the majority of which you cannot access because fuck you we need that sweet, sweet Pokemon Home money!

Such an underrated channel. Found you on your disco Elysium video and have been a fan ever since. Great video as usual, and I hope this new year gives your channel the attention it deserves

I think Arceus is the best pokemon game will get for a while, they are too concerned about keeping the cycle of money to give the team enough time to polish a game to BotW levels, and the problem is fans haven't set the right expectations, instead you still have people buying the two version packs, next time we should only let RU-vidrs buy the game first, and wait for the full review and playthrough too see if it's worth a damn before spending money. If we do that with a single generation I shit you not GF will change how they do shit and give us a really good game

Go play PokeMMO and you gonna find back all the fun you had in your childhood with more features and a whole complete world

4:24 they can just change the world building to pretend this type of thing dont happen between pokemon...

Wonderful video better than others

I will give it one definite upside on the last gen's rival - I detested Hop. Hop was pathetic, so pathetic my guts churned with sympathy every time I beat him. Nemona is far better, so much so I'd rate her #3 in my rival charts. #1 Silver #2 Blue #3 Nemona She really isn't a rival so much as a goal because she's playing you with kiddie gloves and you want to get her to take them off by beating her but like Blue and Silver she's still miles ahead of any of the other pathetic offerings Pokémon has called your 'rival'.

I agree while Scarlet and violet is a step up from other titles it also took 2 steps back the time and sales are destroying this game, i think that they are tired and running out of ideas for this Franchise and they have this weird if its not broken dont fix it, but forget that it could be improved upon, nostalgia wont last i think this was made not to kick out older audiences cuz most people especially YT'ers were going to quit if it sucked worse than it did, their are things that i like about Scarlet and violet but i uave to agree, this games seems to cater to competition's/competitive play and i stop doing only battles because of this the raids are fun for catching pokemon and for me catching them in certain pokeballs as a cosmetic, i dont think that they progressed at all its like taking 2 steps forward and 2 steps back only for fans to get mad because all their other games( since 3ds to switch) sucked at this was a step up from those games, and notice only those games people are saying that legends arceus is still better and they abandoned it for Scarlet and violet which is true cuz the dlc is lack luster, and i don't think they can do better than scarlet and violet, the next gen will be like scarlet and violet with a few tweaks and thats it

Us klawf enjoyers really had it rough in this game

Yo the writing in this vid is hilarious 😂 you need more subs man! Also rip pokemon but at least the legends games seem to be in better shape than the main series (hoping the new legends game is as good as or better than arceus)

LITERALLY right before you said it, I was thinking my favorite gimmick was the mega evolutions. I EVEN admitted how simple it was and nothing crazy. But I’ll be darned if I didn’t get a cool new evolution of my favorite Pokémon

The Pokémon games should have been 2D anime graphical video games.

I would LOVE if they made an HD2D style game (like Octopath Traveler and Live A Live for example) with the 3D buildings and 2D Pokemon. Imagine the shadows and how beautiful that would look!

I adore pokemon, played every single ducking game.... but I can't stop feeling disappointed over and over again. Legends Arceus showed us they can do better but they've turned their MAIN franchise into a JOKE. Should've stayed 2D on the switch.

Very nice video, I enjoyed the editing and script a lot! Voice and audio levels very comfortable as well! How the fuck is this channel so small still?

A game so boring that they make you go to class in school to have fun

I was so happy when I found out that I can rejoin the failed raids just by spamming the join button again... ...until I realized it still doesn't work, sometimes not even after 8x tries. I'm sitting here, trying to get into Tera Raids, sometimes it take 10 minutes to get into one. Restarted the game, system clock is fine, it's such a dogshit thing. I thought Sword and Shield online could not be worse but once again I am surprised

The mountains have notable stitch lines. The landscape is somehow more barren than BOTW and BOTW had an excuse because it was in a post-apocalyptic era. For some reason too, it stutters with rendering with BOTW doesn’t. Zelda set the bar for switch possibilities, yet gamefreak just lazily threw something together like the passion was all gone. Even the designs are discouraging and I didn’t enjoy any of them

9 month later, they simply gave up on fixing this and admitted this in their interview. I am curious what they will do in the next one. If they keep doing this, I will only buy remakes of older Pokemon games or Spin-offs. And what I mean is not delivering trash, what I mean is driving the Dex-it course. The Trash delivery is just the cherry on top. If Sword and Shield would have sold like trash, we would not be here. I briefly finished the main story, and after learning that my favorite pokemon won't be in the game, even after the Expansion pass, I am really upset. Also the april patch almost bricked my switch, so there was a caution anyway. There is no words to describe how disappointed I am. Seriously, I am really going to buy only Remakes and Spin offs. The main series has kind of died for me, when 8th Generation hit. Yet, the 8th generation was real fun. 9th generation music is not really great, the Paldean music drives me insane, you can't even enter houses, or interact with some NPCs. Well and then the Dex-it. It is really enough...I just hope, that I am not alone with this. If the trash sells like this abominations, they get supported with their greed. Idk who gave them the idea to cut Pokemon out of the code, to make more money with people, that never bought remakes and the third version of one generation.

I'm in the mindset that Pokemon hates their own IP, they're trying to make a new franchise and all the while putting less and less in the Pokemon so people slowly stop caring about them. I don't care what Game Freak makes next, whatever shit pile they pump out next won't have the quality to keep them going!

I don't know exactly what goes on at Game Freak like how many teams they have or whatever, but to me it seems like EVERYTHING went into Legends Arceus, and then this game was rushed out half finished. My personal opinion is that they should take quite a bit more time on each individual main game instead of trying to force them out as quickly as possible as this game is the obvious result. I did still have a lot of fun playing the game, and both this and Legends Arceus are getting VERY close to the type of Poke game that I always dreamed of as a child, but yeah the game is very embarrassing for me though the core "fun" is enough that I enjoyed playing through it despite how bad it was.

I haven't played a new Pokemon game since the disappointment of 🌞 and 🌙

I havent bought a Pokemon game from Nintendo themselves since Pokemon Moon, and even then it took a while to consider it with my financial situation because it wasnt as exciting as it could be. Everything since I've either skipped or bought secondhand for no more than like $30 USD. I have to admit, gen 9 is the most fun I've had with the series for a while, Legends Arceus was brilliantly innovative, and SV really feels like an attempt to just get something interesting out for us through all the irresponsible dev decisions, at the cost of it being wonky and glitchy. This really does all come down to; they clearly need more than 3 years to develop a 3d Pokemon game. It's so obvious, and they are not churning out complete projects. They have their hands on a concept that can be made into something that will last with us for even 5 years at a time before we need a new addition, and they should treat it like that. They aren't going to lose fans in that waiting period, many of us are not ready for a new gen by the time one is out and WANT to enjoy the current one longer.

The battle animations needed to be set because of how the raids are time sensitive, instead of knock out sensitive in sword and shield. Helping arven with his dog was actually really emotional and felt good to help the two of them out. Also, penny is honestly my favorite character, I find her to be the most relatable n any game I have played

good video mr dr

Those higher quality animations man

Area zero is different. What is the same, is the quality of graphics and textures and the poor performance. But, it is a different place shrouded and mysteries and is still the most interesting part of the game and overall one of the best parts of the franchise. The problem is that the game tried good stuff, but technically is a trash. Also, friendly rivals aren't bad. That's just your opinion but it's not necessarily a fault of them.

I’ve never played this game but it surprises me that no review mentions anything about the stupid bike dog thing. That alone makes it much more difficult to relate to your environment in any immersive or believable way. It’s just so stupid and inconsiderate with how it traverses the space and obstacles of the world.

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Underrated

I like violet/scarlet enough but the game really struggles to load if you are on the water in casseroya lake

I hate the "they don't have time" excuse, it's BS, they don't have the man power to put out games within the time given to work it, they have the money to expand their team but Gamefreak stubbornly refuses to do so. Their current team lacks the skills required to make good games, and anyone defending them is so badly conned they deserved to be getting conned. "oh TPC is just as responsible" TPC aren't the ones with the power to develop games. Gamefreak literally thought up a very rough draft, spent zero time brain storming ways to make it better, and lacked the drive and passion for making games to make Scarlet and Violet. Gamefreak are the Kings of Conartists trying to make you think they took 5 steps forward when in reality they took 10 steps back. Anyone who's played tons of games, especially open world games as well as other Monster Tamer games can see how bad their skills are. It's not a time thing, cause if they actually fixed the underline issues, hey games would still look leagues better than they do now and then and only then could a time constraint excuse pass and be forgiven. But no we throw billions of dollars at them cause it's pokemon. if this were any other franchise Gamefreak wouldn't exist anymore, that is how outdated they are.

I gave the game an honest try and it’s probably the worst Pokémon game I’ve ever played honestly. Legends arceus and Pokémon sword were way better

Can you tag the song from oddessy at the beginning, please? Love the song but forget the name.

Gamefreak suffers from the same thing EA does, their fans. They will buy the game no matter what. Why would the company try to innovate or improve something they can copy/paste each year. Not excusing the evil greed of these companies but fans need to unite and boycott or you'll get more of the same.

This game literally looks like a fucking Unity engine asset flip that you would find on Steam for $15. The repeating textures and the ugly and unrealistically flat lighting especially.

I enjoyed this video. It's a shame you are quitting RU-vid. I'll give you a sub out of respect. Cheers!

im surprised you showed the cave exiting scene but didnt play the audio watching nemona yell at you in complete *silence* followed by HD sound of hands clapping in a cave matching her hands, gave me the worst lack of voice acting whiplash ive ever had

4:15 Y'know someone drew a pic of this exact scenario lol

Terrible, TERRIBLE game. The pokemon magic is definitely gone.

Reasons why Legends, even if it's a smaller game (and still VERY green in world visuals), feels way better to play than SV, they at least thought of making the battles fast, flashy and interesting. I keep coming back to Legends bc SV is just so damn ugly, slow and boring imo

What's with all the f3tish references throughout the video 😂 anyways, you just gained another fan, love the humor!

That rdr 1 switch port looks better than this.

Dude, I just want a new battle system

well said

I don't care anymore about Pokemon after this Gen. We already have the Gems like Gen 2, 3 and 5. Pokémon Stadium, Colosseum, Snap and the Mystery Dungeon series 🧡

I havent played a single pkm game for switch yet. Dont feel like im missing out anything.

5:51 you think the hardware could handle the problem that gamefreak and Pokémon company could not solve… they are sadly still doing most of this on their own. If they had outside help… maybe, but that is neither here or there… I see this game a step in the right direction. Scarlet and violet are one half of a test for a grander game. The other half? Pokémon Legends Arceus. Since I see these game as test games. I am letting alot slide. Though, I still deeply enjoy the heck out of the games.

How many games have outright Bad music? Pretty much none. Most games with a big budget will have good music and Pokémons isn't particularly special.

The slop never stops! Seriously, SV would have been a mediocre PS2 game. It's ridiculous how horrible the entire game looks. Go play Pokemon Insurgence or something

If you enjoyed this game you either never played any good pokemon game or you’re a PokeTuber that made a ton a money with videos/stream