Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Super Sucks 

The more I retrospect on this game, the more I start to realize that any excitement that I might have had for the future of this franchise is fucking dead and buried deeper than the Mariana Trench.

“The switch can’t run pokemon” meanwhile no crashes or lag in Zelda tears of the kingdom

Ive made the same decision. Pokemons not gonna change, its time to accept that and walk away.

World feels empty for how big it is.

Part of the problem I think is the rushed development. These games should be 3-5 years apart, nothing in between. No spin offs, no holiday bullshit. Release the game when it’s done and there’s no major glitches.

There's no real beta testing. Corporations would rather shit out games that are barely finished to make a few bucks and potentially fix it in post, instead of making a game that's complete. It's really sad to see.

Bro I swear that German accent crafting recipe rant just made my day 💀💀

This aged well after palworld

i haven't found a single reason to come back to Scarlet and Violet after completing the story. i have, however, gone back to play gen 4 and gen 3 since its release. it actually has things to do.

I can’t wait to log in to RU-vid in ten years and see a video like, “Pokémon Fridge and Stove are terrible. Remember how good Scarlet and Violet used to be?”

On the Paradox Pokemon it's also worth pointing out that Violet got shafted, because Scarlet just had better and more unique ones. Iron Jugulis sends it's regards

you're a national treasure stel, thanks for doing what you're doing

Finally a RU-vidr who doesn’t suck this game off. We deserve better. Subbed for the based vid, stayed for the great content

HOW IS THIS A REAL GAME

Kids barely play these games. According to a bunch of surveys, anywhere from 60% to 80% of the player base is at least over 18 years old.

Pokémon truly has been in a downfall after ultra sun/moon the switch games and new generations/Pokémon just blend into each other and don’t feel unique anymore the switch games were supposed to bring Pokémon steps further but seemed to only make it go steps into the wrong direction it just feels like a lot of wasted potential

I pirated the game and still felt like I deserved a refund. I haven't been in love with the series for a very long time. It's over for the series unless they overhaul the whole thing.

Honesty, I wouldn't be surprise if one day Pokemon just fades into obscurity with how it's becoming now. The bigger they are the harder they fall. Also I feel bad for the employees working on this franchise, they're likely being worked to death just to release these games as fast as possible year after year.

When you leave the store menus the camera cuts through the interior of the building. So it’s clear they just forgot to finish the interiors and replaced the code with a call to load a menu and didn’t even hide it well

Sun and Moon meant so much to me. That story hit home for me, and I loved a lot of the characters. Plus, being able to play with just about everything the series had introduced up to that point after things unlocked was some of the most fun I've had in Pokemon. Black and White's story was amazing. I loved so many of the pokemon designs, and the world felt so fun to explore and so... rich. Nothing since gen 7 has felt that way. I still like a good bunch of the pokemon, but the gameplay being so gimmick centered is just exhausting, on top of being separated from all of my years long pokemon partners. None of it feels good. It just feels like they're taking things away to sell them later, be it the battle tower or something as simple as the GTS. I am so tired. I just want to play with my favorite mons and do fun stuff again. I miss contests, and the battle tower/frontier. I just want to be able to have fun with this shit again.

As a pokemon enjoyer who likes the old and new stuff, (GSC, BDSP, RSE, etc.) I dropped this game after 30 minutes.

This game made me appreciate Sword/Shield.

lol imagine every game coming out recently being factually inferior to their predecessors and yet thinking its your mental health causing games to be bad...

Pokemon just sucks now, just rushed, no care & time put into their work. Glhf $$$

now the games have a save deletion bug 💀

Palworld

the last gen i truly enjoyed was gen 6. It was truly a step up from the past technicaly , had megas, great customization and nice cities and towns. Also the pokemon were more appealing to me than gen 9's but whatever.

You can't stop this there are always kids with parents who don't know anything about gaming that are going to get these games.

After Sword and Shield I stopped buying new Pokemon Games and started laughing about every shitty game they bring out. Best decision ever. Safed like 200 bucks.

3ds was the last time we got good polished pokemon games.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet was the final straw in supporting Pokemon for me. I got Pokemon Sheild as a Christmas gift on the basis that I had literally nothing else to get for that Christmas, I got Legends Arceus because I heard it was fun and for all intents and purposes, the game was fun. I bought Legends Arceus because while heavily flawed, there was a lot of fun to be had, especially for someone who has grown up with Pokemon since generation 3, specifically Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness. However, Scarlet and Violet didn't excite me, which is exactly how I felt about every pokemon game past Sun and Moon. Unlike Legends Arceus, the more I heard about it, the more I just had this massive distaste for it. Then it comes out and I see the twitter footage, and I just was in awe of how it released in the state it was. People saying this is an issue of the Switch hardware just confuse me. The opposing side isn't saying the Switch's hardware is outdated because it most certainly is, but it's more than a system's hardware. People saying it runs better on an emulator are forgetting that the game was not meant to be played on a $3,000 computer used for bitcoin mining, and should not be judged based on it's performance there. Imagine that defense being used for Sonic 06- Actually this feels very reminiscent of Sonic 06 really. Rushed game that had decent ideas, ultimately ruined by crunch, not enough resources, higher ups wanting the game out before Christmas, but the rest of the ideas that were there weren't even that great, and a poorly optimized game that can have it's frame rate utterly ruined in seconds if you get hit with a lot of rings. But at least with Sonic 06, as someone who has beaten the game...checking notes here, 3-4 times at this point, the glitches that I exploit, I at least have to TRY to get them to work, it's not very hard, but I at least have to try to get what I want done, with the exception of sticking to the walls as Knuckles or Rouge. Here, gameplay glitches just HAPPEN. Only thing that Sonic 06 has that Scarlet and Violet doesn't have is...I guess 30 second load times but from what I heard load times in Scarlet and Violet are still ass. But back to Graphical issues: I remember playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 3 this year, a game that had it's release date set forward because the development team finished the game faster than expected, getting to the hidden area "Forerunner's Tower" and being utterly blown away how you could see the very beginning of that area that you started in, in decent detail to boot. It was a breathtaking moment I will never forget. I also want to point out that I really find it hard to be an issue to take seriously from Pokemon fans when Xenoblade Chronicles X, a game released on the Wii U in 2015, is one of the most impressive and gorgeous looking games on a Nintendo Home Console. Monolith Soft also doesn't suffer from Crunch from what the public knows about. It's not an issue of hardware anymore, it's an issue of properly optimizing your game. Something, Gamefreak has had little to no experience with, and from what I can tell, they have little to no interest in doing that. I'm getting side tracked, Scarlet and Violet only continued to look more and more depressing and you know what, I gave up on the game entirely. I cannot bring myself to buy it as a christmas gift for anyone I know because I cannot support this, nor do I have the time and energy to rip on a game that doesn't deserve my time and energy. If this were any other franchies, this would have killed it, and in all honesty, it should have killed Pokemon. But because it's Pokemon, the only way Gamefreak will learn is if they actually decided to CARE next time around. And in all honesty, I don't see that happening. All it makes me wish for is for Yo-Kai Watch to come back to the states but I sure as hell know that Level-5 won't do that. From a gameplay standpoint, This is just everything wrong with gaming at this point: The utter fascination with open world gaming. I feel like all these studios are looking at Breath of the Wild, thinking what made Breath of the Wild so great, was it the world design, was it the combat system and the fact that the world itself, despite beign so large, truly never really felt that empty? Well the developers of today seemingly don't think so, it was the crafting that everyone is obsessed with! It's what has pushed me away from the number of open world games that are coming out because there's NOTHING to really collect to boost your capabilities in game. Open World Games have just become Tedious Grinding Simulators under a different name. I'm not against open world games, but at least with Sonic Frontiers, a game that I reallly liked that still has a plethora of problems, the little collectables you got to actually meant something (IE: those collectables went towards story progression, opening cyberspapce levels (Which suck but let's ignore that for now), and upgrading your speed, attack, and defense). I'm not saying that a game has to be 100% linear to be fantastic, some openworldness is appreciated, but a truly open world game is really difficult to make right, and developers are learning that the hard way. Point blank: That's what happened here. There is a game here like you said, one that could have been fully fleshed out. There were people who worked on this game who wanted the game to succeed, specifically from the artists because a lot of the new pokemon look cool and the dunsparce evolution is funny, but that work wasn't fully apreciatted by higher ups because they needed to meet their yearly quota. I will still play the older games from time to time, but I know I'll be staying far and away from the newer entries. If I wanted to play an open world Pokemon game with crafting mechanics, I'll play Pixelmon.

That bit about Game Freak not having the ability to give us a game that actually lives up to the potential of the world hits hard. Ever since I was a kid growing up on the OG Pokemon anime, I dreamed of a game that could give us the same sense of adventure. The same depth of battle strategy. The technology is there. It's Game Feak, TPC, and Creatures, Inc. that can't live up to those expectations. But a big part of the blame is on us, too. I originally planned to skip this gen until my mom got me Scarlet for my birthday. And come on, you can't not play something your mom gives you for your birthday, right? Then I fell back into my old habits, bought Violet to complete the dex and bought the DLC for both games. I'm a part of the problem, too.

This video is like a prescription drug that cures my pain.

I love the way you described everything. You spoke to my heart directly. That accent you used on the crafting rant made me lose it xD

I though Sun and Moon was trash, so I didn't bother buying a Pokémon game after that until 2023... imagine my surprise when I found out that I can't bring 70% of my Pokémon I've had since 2003 up to gen 9. Not only can I not use most of my old Pokémon, but the game itself actually has less Pokémon available than Gen 4 in 2007... There's no excuse for this. Absolutely garbage. What exactly is the point of Pokémon if you can't even get 70% of the existing Pokémon? I mean why even make it at that point? Who asked for this?

The main issue is people buying the games no matter what

Great video. I'll be honest: I didn't buy SV because of how jank it looked from the outset, and from everything I saw when it came out, I'm glad that I didn't buy it. You tore down every problem the game has and more. The sad thing is that if this game hadn't been announced not even a month after PLA came out, I would probably consider buying it. I should also note that before the February Pokemon Presents, I had hope that 2023 would have enough interesting content to look forward to and SV would be patched enough for me to consider buying. Well, after that absolute waste of a Presents, I felt not only depressed but fucking empty inside after that. Fucking Sleep was the biggest highlight of it. So now, not only will I not buy SV's vague DLC, but I'm never going to buy SV period now. Unless they make X2Y2/Z or Legends: Kyurem or Zygarde, I think I'm done feeling hyped over what the franchise presents now. The franchise post-2016 feels like an entirely different entity than it was pre-2016, and I just feel done with caring about new releases now. It's personally sad for me to say, but at least I still have other franchises to look forward to, like Zelda, Megaten, Sonic, and Kirby.

They did it. They announced a DLC. ... I'm glad I'm staying with PLA

Pokemon isn't going to change until they have their Resident Evil 6 moment. Despite being the best selling RE game of all time, RE6 did so bad critically that capcom knew they had to change and look how they were able to turn around the franchise.

I regret buying BDSP and Pokemon Scarlet. Modern Pokemon is honestly the most disappointing thing ever to happen to gaming, for me. Long rant incoming: -Where are the imaginative environments? The old games had haunted houses, cruise ships, cryptic underwater caves, clinical looking hideouts, towns laden with volcanic ash, the distortion world etc... Now, we have GRASS. TOWN. CAVE. MOUNTAIN. WATER. -Same with the NPCs/regular overworld trainers... the old games had ninjas, circus clowns, creepy Poke-Collectors, lovey-dovey couples, flower girls, idols, sailors etc. Now, the character designs of most NPCs are bland, normal and basic looking now. Another consequence of trying to bring the Pokemon world into ours, instead of bringing the player into the Pokemon world. Works for Pokemon GO. Not for your core games. It's sad how soulless this games are, dude. -The jump to 3D (specifically trashy 3D) made it impossible to emulate the "virtual monster" vibe that the pixel games had. I loved looking at the pixel beasts that I slowly raised over hours and hours. The magic of that has been long gone. Pixel art is also a very unique art style, which as the advantage of forcing you to use your imagination. Trashy 3D gets rid of all of that nonsense for you :) -Lying to your paying customers about how the National Dex was removed to focus on graphics, is something I have never really forgiven GF for. I think filling the National Dex, is a post-game treat! - *Lying to your paying customers* for any reason at all. What the hell are you doing?! -Overworld encounters. The time of day & other lighting effects, make shiny hunting even more frustrating -The music. The adventurous feel that the various Routes gave in the old games, are all gone. Some tracks are good, but only about 3 or 4. Yikes. -Performance issues are worse than any of the classics. I thought sequels were supposed to outdo themselves -The graphics are so bad that it’s almost evil. I can’t believe how bad SV looks. Especially coming from a company that is basically Disney for video games. -A8using patches & updates so that you can justify releasing unfinished games. Seriously! It’s $60 for a game that stays under development, after you’ve completed the main story rofl. -Mandatory EXP. Share. A common argument that’s been run into the ground but I don’t care. Why are they so weird about toggle-able EXP. Share? lol -No Battle Frontier. Possibly the most challenging part of the post game, even if you EV/IV train. And they got rid of it. So wtf do they want me to do after the main story? No Nat. Dex, no Frontier, no imaginative environments that keep you engaged, no reason to IV/EV train for the post game...! -Biggest offender though: These games are boring, man. They removed too much of what I liked about the old ones So, I’m done with Pokemon too. The Gen 3-5 (including the Gen 1&2 remakes) are the peak of Pokemon. Anyway, great video, Stel. Glad I'm not the only one who has seen the fall from grace, and then the even steeper fall from _that._

What is worst about how the open world was realized is that Pokemon already has a perfect formula to deal with an open world: Competitive battles. When you enter a competitive battle the level is fixed at 50, 100 or free. Use the fixed at lvl 50 for Gym battles, fixed at 100 for the Elite Four and Champion battle and the free level for the villain team. Give the Leaders some real teams and have the player take the challenger seriously.

Great video, man! You summed up how I feel about SV very well! Also... that Blazblue CF menu music I hear near the end of the vid, great choice. 👀

I was hugely disappointed with Sun/Moon and the Ultra Games which weren't even sequels, but Scarlet/Violet are genuinely horrible games. It is the most by the numbers, "the kids these days love open worlds and crafting", poorly made dripping with corporate goo Pokemon game they've ever made, and I shudder at how bad it gets from here. And then they're trying to sell us a DLC too, fuck off with that.

Ten months later and yeah this game got absolutely no improvements. I'm done with mainline Pokemon games. I'm not doing this anymore.

*CD Project Red:* Wie hart wollt ihr auch reinsсhеissеn? *Game Freak:* Ja

Hey guys, I actually got a refund for scarlet, the nintendo contact us support chat bot said that my switch lite isn't optimized to play the title so I've been refunded 83$ CAD lol

13:00 bro just described minecraft

pokemon makes me sad

"The ending of Despicable Me" That glitch got me rolling ngl

Honestly, bizarre to say, but I wish Pokémon was a live service so they could stick with one game and just introduce new regions as content. That way the insane production cycles could actually make some sense.

I'd only want to be able to enter building again.

This video aged like fine wine. No substantial bug fixes in the DLC.

I dropped the whole school thing the minute i was able to explore😅

"Craft more of zee teee ehms!" Honestly I laughed so hard at this one. Friendly greetings from Germany (⁠｡⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠｡⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♡

this might be an hot take but Black/White 2 and Ultra Sun/Moon was peak pokemon to me

I wish pokemon had an online future... similar to Genshin. Imagine the quality animation and graphics of a PC, open world game with an ever expanding universe that gets bigger and progresses the story with each update. Not to say Genshin doesn't have it's faults... but the concept of an ever expanding pokemon universe on a players account with PC graphics... what a dream.

the ugc and lighting always gets me bro- its terrible

Betcha there is a ROMhack done by a single person in a single week that fixes the entire game and adds at least 2 regions

Why doesn’t this video have more likes!? Nintendo needs to see this asap!

I agree. I'm also DONE with pokemon going forward.

I stopped playing after Sun and Moon. The last time good Pokémon games imo are Black 2 & White 2.

I posted my 1/10 on Reddit and the mods locked it after 14 hours. Reddit is circle jerking the poorly written game so hard they cope.

They won’t sell merchandise if they don’t release a new game…even though the TCG for this generation just release and Ash’s journey ended on March 2023 in the anime…how does that work? They delayed everything else, why not the games? I went back now to Sword and shield because I’m terrified about the rare yet unpredictable corrupt and unreadable save data bug…. Again it’s super rare but since no one knows what’s triggering it ( conflicting stories of the cause being Pokémon go connection for the Vivilon and DLC download) I’ve switched to gen 8 for now…

Aw come on, Fire Emblem Three Houses wasn't that bad. Anyway, I was already turned off from buying Scarlet and Violet, because I heard about them having worse bug issues than Skyrim. But now I am _definitely_ refusing to get these.

I watched this video again get to hear the accent.

I wish they stuck with the let's go artstyle because it was pretty

I stopped after USUM.I saw the 💩 show that was sword and shield coming a mile away. Pokemon is dead to me.

My first Pokémon game was White, Sun was kind of Neat, very frustrating in my memory, and Sword broke me tbh. I swore off the series for SMT and will probably never return unless they make another rumble game. Those games were fantastic.

Well, u guys now have a 1.2.O update patch; which is just another patch that doesn't bring u a performance fix, but does bring u a message from GAME FREAK saying: "Here, quick, buy our $35 DLC!"

When the world needed him most, he arrived 🙏🏾🙏🏾

I had fun with this game. I also completed the pokedex for the first time. Don't know if this is a hot take after all this time, but I'm also ready to see what we have for the dlc.😅

lmao the crafting bit

The 2018 comment was so real like theirs been games that I I’ve enjoyed but it’s felt off

I started to die at “robo-bitch” 😂😂

It's funny that some fans can make better and more engaging pokemon games while working alone, in their tiny rooms, wearing only a pair of briefs while having little to no budget, when a multi-billion company can't do it.

Even Roblox got better graphics on my iPod 💀💀

Long-time watcher, first-time commenter. Thanks for the informative PSAs on modern Pokémon games. It's hard to understand what each new game entails when the playerbase continuously downplays problems or ignores mentioning them, altogether. The last one I bought was Sun, and it was just too boring... What don't you like about New Pokémon Snap? I haven't heard anything bad about it.

Everything Toby Fox touches it gets rotten, beware.

thats why i never bought when i saw the trailer

Pokemon S/V is the "Sonic 06" of the franchise, and you can't change my mind. Great ideas, but it is glitchy, unfinished, and rushed. At least 06 didn't crash on me, unlike S/V (6 times it crashed; unacceptable). Plus, a banger soundtrack. I barely remembered S/V's soundtrack.

As European I won’t stand for soda Aldi being insulted. Soda Aldi is the backbone of the continent.

eyyyy shout out to AI Somnium Files 🔥🔥

This is the BEST review i have seen of this game!! Good work

Just as you were talking about how hard shiny Pokémon are to spot I spotted a fricking shiny Scatterbug. What are the odds.

The reason there is no shiny noise is sadder than you think. It's because they couldn't figure out how to stop pokemon from spawning out of bounds in most areas so the sound would frequently just alert you to a shiny pokemon behind the a wall or above the ceiling.

Ultra Moon is a masterpiece next to this game

Pokémon is literally my favorite game franchise ever, but I'm so tired of the low quality content we are getting from the latest Pokémon game for a ridiculous $60, I quit ahead as soon as they announced Scarlet/Violet, and what do you know the games do suck. I really feel bad for Nintendo because they have to sit through this embarrasement, and I feel bad for GameFreak because they never get more time and a higher budget to smooth out the game and make it better because of tight schedules, I have a very low opinion of The Pokémon Company right now. They are not getting my money anymore.

That crafting segment was an instant sub

My head canon is that the School let Penny dress how she wants because they were scared she was going to shoot the place up 🤷‍♂️

Watching this while the dlc is coming out, it really feels hopeless watching everyone eat up half-baked soulless content just padding gamefreaks overflowing pockets

I can't get over the fact that the world looks like it was made from Kinetic Sand lol Also don't think I didn't notice the UDG ost at 3:48

Hey, some of the best games of all time have come out in the last few years. The Outer Wilds, Hades, Disco Elysium...

I’ll still be a fan of Pokémon, but I’m never getting the newer games. I stopped after gen 7 and for good reason. I’ll keep enjoying the older content and fanmade stuff but the new Pokémon games are actual DOGSHIT.

I agree with Stel Key, pokemon Scarlet and Violet are super lame and boring games ever created.

This game embodies Nintendo in general now. Half-baked and cheap, and always 10 years behind in everything

Gamefreak employees: Boss? We should probably put effort this time. Gamefreak boss: No time for that. Make rate! Make rate! 🤣

I usually have fun with Pokémon games even when people say they suck But not this one

I'm here watching this video the DLC for the game just came out and I thought maybe I'd pick it up again I never got past choosing my starter didn't really like the feel of the game and also couldn't make a decision what I wanted for my starter. Even with all the updates I can't believe how bad it still looks. Feels like I'm not wearing glasses or something

The cheese ALDI and Sods ALDI skit took me the fuck out lmfao

I’m been a Pokemon fan since day 0. Before America even knew what it was, I was hype for the anime and writing fanfic about the future journey I would take through the GB originals. I fell off in the DS era because I was busy with college and the series wasn’t evolving. I came back in the 3DS because it looked like they were trying again, and I’ve played and enjoyed the series since well ENOUGH, with Legends Arceus being more fun I’ve had with a mainline Pokemon since Gen 2. But SV is literally incomplete and unfinished. So I rented it, realized how bad it was, and didn’t finish other (why bother if GF themselves couldn’t be bothered?). But despite its surface level plot and bare bones PS2 era presentation, the main characters STUCK with me, because I could tell someone CARED, someone put in effort, and Toby Fox’s tunes helped carry those headcanons a tier higher. Now I’m looking up what I can of the game’s story because Nemona and her ADHD hyperfixating ass remind me of who I was at her age, just as obsessed with Pokemon. I adore Penny and Arven, too. I’m writing fanfic, putting my older-than-most heart into it. But this game is ASS. These characters deserved better. GameFreak’s employees putting in the work deserve more time and resources. This franchise and its fans deserve better. And like you said, with profits like these, they have no incentive to improve. So I’m done with the mainline games until they prove that management gives a shit. Forcing people to wait works just fine for Animal Crossing, Mario, and Zelda, fans will still be just as eager if we have to wait a couple extra years,p. GF needs to hire more people with more experience, and be giving more time and resources, and actually DESIGN within their means and with care and thought. We’ll see if that happens, but I ain’t optimistic at the moment.