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I don’t get why Pokémon doesn’t create a masterpiece of a game. They have every resource to do it and they are the largest media franchise in the world.
Because exactly that. They are so big and massive that doesn't matter what they do. Kids and people who already love POkemon got literally 0 standard and don't care because "haHAAAA !! NEW POKEMON LOOK LIKE A CUTE SHEEP ! HAAAHAAAAAA KAWAI DESU !!!! WE WEEB GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR CUTE POKEMONS !!!!" And that's why Nintendo and GameFreak would NEVER put any effort into their games. They gonna keep reusing assets and reselling the same game year after year. It's a shame and broke my hearts because i love the franchise is a nostalgia trip for me and they just keep ignoring their flaws that had been there for over a decade now
Pokemon doesn't make its money on the games, they make most of the money off merchandise. They have 0 incentive to improve and every incentive to shove the same crap out every year
I typically defend Pokémon games and be as open-minded as possible. But this game’s frame rate and the bugs are downright unacceptable. The game has waaaay too many bugs to have been released.
@@Laughy-Flaaffy I’m pretty sure it’s because they set release dates arbitrarily, they didn’t wait until the game was finished but instead urged the devs to have it finished by the time ash beat Leon in the anime, and urged the animators to finish the anime before Black Friday and holiday spending season because it’s the moment they make the most sales. An executive must have had data suggesting the amount of people buying the game regardless of issues and the revenue made by the merchandise, pogo, etc pushed by the anime as well as the licensing was way better than record breaking sales in a switch game and postponing the rest of the franchise projects, think just how much they make in ctg and licencing for clothing and anime, the coin Pokemon in pogo etc, they don’t care if one product takes an l as long as the entire timeline goes on and they fix the issues around Christmas
It's just insane that the team behind breath of the wild released their game years ago. And this is the best that the pokemon team can do in modern time...
So I have heard this argument a lot. i think the what most people dont consider is just what is being loaded into the game. in this pokemon game there is a maximum of 15 pokemon loaded in at one time that you the player can see and interact with. Every single one of those pokemon are spawned in with a set nature, set IVs and the posiblity of being shiny. So as you are just walking around the world, pokemon are constently being despawned and new ones being spawned in. That is a lot of information that the game has to constently be loading. In comparison to the last pokemon game ledgends arceus, those pokemon spawns are set as soon as you arive in the area you go to, running through the area wont despawn any pokemon to allow new spawns to appear and the only way to get fresh spawns is to go to camp and move the day forward by sleeping or returning back to the vilage. I myself compleatly understand the frustration of playing a vidogame at 10 frams in 2022.
@@djslavin3140 I disagree honestly. The pokemon company does not operate the same way as EA or Take 2 or other heartless gaming companies. For instance, the CEO of the pokemon company is Tsunekazu Ishihara, who is one of the people who directly helped produce and develop the original pokemon games. I made a comment about this a bit in this video pointing out that the largest media franchise has to stick to its release date for the game in order for the other pillars of the franchise to continue. There is nothing else planned in the card game or anime for gen 8 and if they pushed back the release of this game then the card release and anime would get pushed back as well. you could definitely make the argument that postponing the game would still be beneficial for the pokemon company in the long run. This is just how I understand / rationalize such a poorly released game.
@@macnasty8300 i’m just saying that the expectation of a release on this schedule is unreasonable for the actual developers themselves and it’s not their fault they aren’t being given the amount of time they deserve.
I agree. Even Monster Hunter World looks Absolutely mesmerizing, and its 5 years old. However I did buy the game on Steam so my computer GPU can maximize the graphic quality in a higher state but even a switch it looks way better than pokemon. Just wish Pokemon Delayed for a year.
The lack of interiors is so annoying. That was always my favorite part of Pokémon. Going inside random ass people’s homes and buildings and reading and talking to people and objects made the games always feel like a real world.
@@quintessences they do it in all Pokémon titles and games and seasons and shows . It’s a world with fighting monsters that possess unimaginable powers and abilities used as house Pets. Walking into homes is the last thing I’d think is strange lol
Frame drops and tearing are where I draw the line these days. Especially if you're developing for only one platform. This game should run just fine on that hardware given what it looks like.
there is other switch game "Open world" style which run better look better and as well as area doesn't look empty like this game hahaha I feel sad when I saw the game play
Okay, but if TPC continues to give either team less than a year to develop, the Arceus sequel isn't gonna be an improvement over the first. You can't improve something using the same amount of resources.
@@Graphomite what are you even defending lmao? I’m more pointing out that S/V had nearly two years of development and even more over Arceus and still came out worse!
True, but they both had 3 years of development and I still think Arceus looks and plays marginally better than S/V. Also it's a shame they wen't back on the wild encounter formula in S/V. Arceus had finally got it right, you could choose to engange in battle or not, catch it right away or lure them with food, furthermore every Pokemon had some kind of personality as some of them would either run away or turn agressive as they detected you, this time around that was thrown out the window and they all feel the same.
Imagine a Pokemon game where all of the gym leaders were actual threats with high level Pokemon, but with varied tactics and strategies. Would make it a much more interesting challenge to overcome them 🤔
Ive always asked for a hard difficulty settings like gen 5 did but without needing to finish the game first. Just have the setting open from the get-go.
Honestly, this concept right here is what got me into playing the Shin Megami Tensei games, which is basically Pokemon for adults (or at least adultier kids?).
it still feels like gamefreak are putting love into these in my opinion- it just sucks that the pokemon company won't give more time and resources towards the actual games. I could be wrong but it feels like thats what holding it back more than anything as the ideas are all there, the execution just isn't quite working
It looks more like technical ineptitude than lack of passion. I think they stuck with the 2D/isometric view much longer than they should have. They should have been growing the 3D talent on their teams. These technical issues would've been sorted out 10 years ago.
The Love is in this game, its a Great game easily the BEST pokemon game ever made. If you're not a graphics crazed nut like apparently half the world is now then it really isnt an issue.
@Jack Procter they aren't putting any love into the game its a bug filled fps is horrible its a mess the old gamefreak games were fantastic they are just lazy now
@Raider_ Reaper_ no it's one of the worst games they have made the best would be heartgold and soul silver which are remakes of pokemon yellow came out in 2009 the most fantastic pokemon game of all time
Did anyone even notice that when there are status afflictions (like sleep), the pokemon doesnt even close their eyes? They just stand there, with eyes wide open, just with a sleep condition. Those sort of things are really doing it for me, however loving the game. I can see over the performance issues, but there are a lot of details that ONLY these games overlooked
They needed to wait. They needed to let the dust settle on Arceus and take all the notes on what worked so wonderfully about that game and apply them to this. It's such a step backward from Arceus despite still being fun. But Arceus really breathed life into the now-dessicated lungs of the franchise.
@@preemptivefaceplant5277 there's untextured areas, 2 FPS animation and awful lag whenever anything is on screen, but that's rare since there's rarely anything else on screen until it sees you and inconveniences your Hour by having to wait for the constant freezing to stop. Plus the menu bugs and freezes and crashes constantly, the sound design is horrible, there's still no voice acting. They released it far too early, all of the game breaking bugs and glitches and untextured areas just ruin it. Of course it perfectly fine if you want to enjoy the game it's just completely unplayable as of now, and the fact that it will get better and isn't fully completed right now is just so stupid. Yeah it will get better over time but why couldn't they have waited a few Months so it could be finished and playable with no bugs or crashes or framerate issues?? etc... Because they're lazy and just want money.
Agreed. Arceus was far from perfect but it worked. I kept saying that all I wanted from the next Pokemon was the Arceus formula + the traditional gyms and trainer battles. I would have been completely happy.
@@preemptivefaceplant5277 Constant glitches like falling through the environments and multiple hard crashes is NOT the sign of a game that's "amazing" and I'll bet you wouldn't be saying that if EA had made this.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki its a nintendo problem not a game freak problem. Nintendo needs a stronger console. The game has constant pokemon spawning, what you think would happen? Saying the game is unplayable is a bit much. The framerate doesnt break the turn base system. Unlike having frame rates glitch in a fighting game or a game that has combat combos.
Honestly no it wouldn't. Not unless it was made in the PS2/OG Xbox Era (even then it would be questionable). The problem is the complete lack of quality. Everything about the game just screams "IDGAF". It's not the graphics it's the textures, art, and complete lack of any depth. Indie games are passion projects and dev teams of any size pouring their souls into games and ensuring they achieve the best for what they CAN with their limited budget and size. They also don't rush games out to meet deadlines. Stardew valley was made by one person and it IS impressive because of the thought and passion put into it. It exceeds many AAA titles in terms of depth to character and world building and player experience. The game knew it couldn't offer any insane graphics so it specifically chose an art design that it could make look good. And again that was one person that just cared about the product they made.
I think they mean the game wouldn’t look anything like this. Here’s my interpretation: The game would have been okay tested and the people that made it would have taken years! They would have actually cared about it basically
@@mrtn1566 Though they often take either 10x longer to finish them and also they use already existing frameworks, with already finished Pokemon, finished assets and don't need to worry about ratings and reviews since they aren't being paid to make them.
I love the Let's Go feature, but the fact that your trainer out runs most Pokémon, and how when your Pokémon does return to you, it goes into the Pokéball and not just behind you, making you have to slow down and stop again just to send it back out really takes the fun out of it
I love your honest opinion. You always try to search for good and positive aspects of the game. Even if this game has some flaws you also acknowledge the good things. Thank you!
I've seen other reviews on this game, but you guys showcased it better. I knew there were framerate issues and glitches, but this is far more worse than I originally anticipated. One would think that a developer and publisher would make sure their game is running at its best, especially when it's a flagship title of theirs.
Gamefreak Pokemon games have had tons of optimization issues, and in order to run a stable 30fps they need to make the graphics literal GameCube level. These devs are clearly not very well managed internally, and also not given much time to work these games from the Pokemon Company. Feels like the game is made for as cheap as possible despite making millions of dollars, its so toxic I dont even think a GameFreak game given 5 years of dev time would even be that amazing honestly, their non Pokemon games are also not great. But it would certainly be better than this, especially since these devs are certainly crunching to make these deadlines
Actually, in the Pokemon legends Arceus, our main character have a voice when evading or jumping. I don't really understand why after many years, the Pokemon series still doesn't have any voice or sound in the conversation for just a little bit, but the Pokemon have their own voice in many situation. I hope one day they will have it.
For what it's worth personally I like the game more without voice acting lol, it's part of the charm. Pokemon is just one of those games that would sound weird with voice acting. Take that from someone who plays all kinds and genres of games all the time.
The picnics are useful. They heal your pokemon, which is honestly useful in gen 9 because you could fight long stretches of similar-level pokemon and trainers before the next pokemon center. Also, that is how you breed eggs.
Yeah! And sandwiches are useful to boost spawn rate of desired type of pokemon. Used it to get charcadet because I couldn't get one to spawn with regular spawn rate.
Picnics are great for really quick friendship. I caught a Riolu, made a few sandwiches, gave it a bath, threw a ball, and not too long it evolved. Plus max friendship helps in battle for nullifying status conditions, free sturdy ability, and bonus Crit chances.
@@houndofculann1793 I don't mean this in a rude way but what was the Drawback In the last sentence? It sounds like an amazing deal that makes your pokemon stronger.
@@BonesofGhostkat Not a rom hack. He obviously just doesn't want an increased crit chance. Don't think i would like it either considering how easy these modern pokemon games have become. I'm keen to give scarlet/violet a shot tho
another big issue I have is the multiplayer. like suddenly your friend turns invisible while you're walking, riding the legendary disconnect everyone from the group (even though their whole big thing in this game was the legendaries) for this very reason we had to ban riding our legendaries and now we have to walk everywhere, which surprisingly isn't the worst but it's still pretty annoying as you could imagine.
The lack is interiors is the biggest draw back for me personally. In any RPG or even open world games I don't like being outside the entire time; I want to go inside and sit down in a chair sometimes.
So, personally I still enjoy the game despite its technical issues, my big two complaints from Sw/Sh were that it was too short and too easy, after 4 hours into S/V At my own enjoyable pace I haven’t even battled a gym or titan, so it doesn’t seem like length is gonna be an issue this time, and depending on how often you want to go to Pokémon centers, traversing the open world can provide enough of a challenge to make it not super easy, though the technical issues are annoying, I can push past them and still enjoy the game, however those issues make it hard to recommend this game to anyone not a die hard Pokémon fan
You bring up a really good point that I've been thinking too...the game is a little hard and has room to be as hard as you want it to be, which is a interesting part of the play experience
I’ve never played nor watched Pokémon this is my first introduction to it and I love the game despite the bugs and frames I’m learning all these new Pokémon I’ve never heard of and watching them evolve as well
I agree I didn't "breeze" through it like sword and shield. So that I'll give them credit for. Other than that, I'm not going to give much credit. Did I enjoy it, yes. One day I'm hoping for the perfect pokemon game, one that looks like this but the story takes part across literally every region. Perhaps maybe it be the last pokemon game? Whenever that may be? Not sure. But I do think it would obviously need to be on a more powerful hardware. It'll never happen, I'm sure. Because I just don't see them stopping. But I remember as a kid while playing gold and silver, that I thought it was so awesome you could go back and fourth between Kanto and Johto. Idk, I'm. Probably asking for too much 9 generations in now. Never thought it'd make it this far lol.
One day I'm hoping for the perfect pokemon game, one that looks like this but the story takes part across literally every region. Perhaps maybe it be the last pokemon game? Whenever that may be? Not sure. But I do think it would obviously need to be on a more powerful hardware. It'll never happen, I'm sure. Because I just don't see them stopping. But I remember as a kid while playing gold and silver, that I thought it was so awesome you could go back and fourth between Kanto and Johto. Idk, I'm. Probably asking for too much 9 generations in now. Never thought it'd make it this far lol.
@@TheBuddha337 me too. On sword shield, I caught Pokémon exclusively on the route before each gym (including E4) instead of training them to challenge myself but even then it was easy
Imagine BOTW, a 5+ year old game for the Wii U looking objectively better and running objectively better than this game, even with 10+ rapidly moving characters on screen at once....
It isn't possible when you have to meet a dead line inside of 3 years. You also have most game developers were trained on game engines so retraining them to code in C and nothing but C for the chips used on the hardware will take a lot of time. It also restricts what chips you can use to chips made to work with C unless you want to teach your developers more than 1 programming language to make a game in. Then you have when a bug happens where in the lines of code is it? C isn't that easy to debug but if you are using another chip that using an entirely different programming language then you will either 1 need an employee that can read then debug in both or have 2 that will work together and not blame 1 another for writing faulty code. The reason why APIs came into existence is how repetitive the code was was. Using a API puts more into RAM but it also reduces how big the code the programmer has to write will be. IDEs are good for programming as they can pick up on coding errors and help you find which line they were in. Thankfully they also don't impact the compile size of the code. Then you have game engines. They make the process of making a game even easier and possible to make 1 inside of 2 years. The main issue with game engines is the bigger size and the put that their run time has to be there. APIs are made to be small enough that they don't interfere with how much time the program will take to run nor take up to many resources to load into RAM. Game engines well it depends as each one seems to handle it in their own way.
honestly, with legends arceus, i thought the games could only get better, but scarlet and violet leads me to think that its gonna take even more time for this to happen, i hope we're able to get more stuff like Legends arceus in the future and that this was only a test to see how everyone liked this style of game, but eh who knows
Seeing what they have done, i think the success of Legends Arceus was a fluke, they honestly don't seem to give a f about producing a decent game, also i bet that Terrestrial (don't know/care spelling) will be removed and replaced in the next game
People also called Sword and Shield a test when it was released. The only pokemon game on the Switch that is fun and interesting to play is Legends Arceus tbh and that game also felt like a test for future generations
Gamefreak have never been masters of optimization. I believe Sword and Shield were originally going to be on the 3DS and were built on an engine for the 3DS. However with Violet and Scarlet there is no excuses. I don't know why Arceus was so much better... It too was developed by Gamefreak. I winder if there's numerous development teams in Gamefreak ?
One day I'm hoping for the perfect pokemon game, one that looks like this but the story takes part across literally every region. Perhaps maybe it be the last pokemon game? Whenever that may be? Not sure. But I do think it would obviously need to be on a more powerful hardware. It'll never happen, I'm sure. Because I just don't see them stopping. But I remember as a kid while playing gold and silver, that I thought it was so awesome you could go back and fourth between Kanto and Johto. Idk, I'm. Probably asking for too much 9 generations in now. Never thought it'd make it this far lol.
As much as I do want a pokemon game that includes every region, how would it be balanced? Would they raise the level cap? Would they drastically reduce the content from the additional regions? Because chances are your entire team would be level 100 or close enough by the time your through 2 region. Would they lock your team away when you enter a new region till you reach a certain point? Idk how it would work. But one can always dream lol
Gold and Silver were 👌, Then we had Ruby and Sapphire which were really good. Everything after that I haven't even liked that much. I need to replay the remakes of the original games.
I think Pokémon Scarlet / Violet singlehandedly will have me, moving forward, watch a Before You Buy, before actually buying. I tend to stay away from spoilers, and currently is having huge buyers remors from this game. I heard about slowdowns and crap graphics, but I thought it couldn't have been THAT bad considering it's a freaking Pokémon IP. But man... a lot of the technical issues really takes me out of the game.
I’m sure they’d patch it up soon they probably couldn’t patch up all the glitches before the release though … I still wanna get the game since it looks fun to me and I had asked a friend who has the game and they said it’s fun
@@Slushii24 Them couldnt patch things up in time is exactly the issue, in which, this title should have no excuses for. The game isn't just filled with bugs, it's unfinished. And I mean that by literal sense. They can patch framerate issues, but some textures on certain areas are borderline non-existent, they'd have to pretty much rebuild models for some of the sceneries to looks normal.
@@Slushii24 Sorry for the necro, but they didn't patch it. The game is still trash, I bought it as my first Switch game and honestly thought I should return the console. Then my buddy recommended Tears of the Kingdom, now I'm in love with it. Gamfreak should be put on trial for this abomination.
Pure laziness. They know they could make a lackluster game and still sell record numbers. It's unfortunate because they are fully capable of making a great game.
@@tnuggyz this is the dumbest take. Lazy doesn’t apply to people who have no control over their deadlines. Management makes these decisions not developers.
@@masonmurphy5402 As the saying goes, you don't need to be a chef to know a steak tastes like sh*t. Go somewhere else with your "game development is hard" BS, that is their job and they make serious money from it. Time for them to start making products that don't insult their customers despite some thanking them for absolute garbage.
Check out Nexomon looks better than this game. Looks like a newer version of older pokemon games. Even the HUD is more interesting. SV where you store your pokemons in your computer is so TRash looking. BDSP had way better background artworks for my lovely pokemons to feel more at home.
Picnic is actually useful, cause if u open your map, you'll see a pokemon u want to catch and u can't see it in the area just make a sandwhich with an "encounter" of the type of the pokemon u want to see and catch.
I could give a pass to the graphical issues but an unstable frame rate is the most irritating thing to try and deal with. There's almost nothing worse than experiencing a nice open world just for things to grind to a halt and move in slo-mo. Hopefully they fix it
@@gamerbeast3616 Garbage argument, as a fan it's fair to ask for a stellar and polished experience from the largest franchise in the entire world. Being an apologist for the trash they've been putting out for the past decade only perpetuates the cycle of mediocrity.
@@gamerbeast3616 A game about exploring a 3D world and catching monsters than have various colors and visual looks... How are graphics NOT important for that? This isn't chess.
when you said the eating animations were bad, i was thinking to myself, "How bad can it be?" When i saw it, i literally laughed out loud! did not expect it to be that bad lol! thanks for the video! confirmed a lot of things for me ^^ thanks for the honest impressions and opinions
Y’all nailed it. I am a little forgiving because the game is HUGE, but I was shocked at the pop in, the textures, the weird glitch that makes the still frame after a cut scene off center exposing a white bar on one side of your screen, the random lighting issues, the horrible frame rate... just to name a few. It’s shocking. Also, I don’t know how I felt about The Pokémon Go speed catching in Arceus, but now that it’s gone... lord I miss it. I really hope they patch this game. It needs more time in the oven.
@@Wiifan5551 I don't, thats why it's called rumors. I've seen the talk in many youtube videos and it was brought up in a live stream I was watching. I'm just gonna believe the rumor because there is am Eevee event Thursday so that's when it's supposed patch is also coming. We I'll know Thursday
Confused at the fact that they didn’t adopt more from arceus, even if they just mimicked the art style, also I find when you start a battle with a wild mon it seems to be a bit slow before the battle starts
I think (much like Disney did with Beauty and the Beast back in the day) Game Freak didn't think Legends would do well, so outsourced it to their B team. That's why much of the good stuff is missing here. They were also partly developed in tandem. I'm still enjoying casually playing Legends, but refuse to buy either of these games. Much as I want my wee buddies running around beside me in 3D, Violet and Scarlet are horrible unfinished
Its not really that confusing when you understand the timeline of game development and how dysfunctional GameFreak likely is internally (partially, but not entirely due to, the release schedule)
Agreed. Feels like they took a big step forward with Arceus just to take a gigantic step backward with this...thing. It's hard to even call this a game.
What are the pokemon like? Do they include plenty from the old ganes? Ive been skipping the games. Well i played sun, ruby and the first eith megas...white and black? Just cant decide if i want to play this one. I literally returned a copy today.
it boggles the mind how they didn't use what Arceus changed, like easily and quickly changing Pokemon and cycling to items. i love that feature. it's sad that it's become the norm to not run and buy the new game of the franchise as soon as it's out because of glitches, price or gameplay in general.
It boggles my mind how people make comments like this without researching the games. Game play is amazing and really enjoying it. Im glad i can battle which you couldnt do in PLA, other then the texture issues this feels like a real pokemon game.
Makes you really think what the developers can do if they are not limited to nintendo consoles. Like, imagine an open world pokemon using pc or playstation/xbox.
Picnic adds a lot to the game. Sandwiches change the pokemon you encounter, how fast you level, I believe the strength of certain types, breeding, how fast you get eggs and you can get more than one egg for the first time in ever, you can also increase your rate of shiny pokemon with the picnic sandwich making feature.
@@mylespando5192 If you find it annoying I guess. Idk if you call yourself a fan of the games but if you don't like it i'm gonna call you and the others that don't like it weird because breeding is way better and faster with it as it is. Ya'll just don't like change and it really shows when you criticize something that is objectively better. Outside of breeding you don't have to use it if you don't want. I only did like twice for my first playthrough
@@fakenamerealchungus9851 Because people that are complaining more than likely don't give a fuck or actually play them long term and if game freak sees it and is like "Well they hate it never do this again" then it hurts the people that actually love it. All the people that I know that play the games are loving the game and agree the games are the best games they've made in a long time. The performance is the only issue. Graphics don't mean shit and it looks pretty good of you're on an OLED. Game also runs better when you play in handheld instead of docked. So yeah I'll happily type out my essay defending the game because every aspect of it that isn't performance or graphics depending on who you ask is good.
I really do like the concept of the world. I would've given it a chance if not for these glaring performance issues. And the graphics despite being the most basic of any Switch game, still causes performance issues? How did they manage that? Gamefreak REALLY needs to hire someone who has experience making and optimizing an open world. Maybe then will the graphics improve as the performance improves.
This is exactly it. If an ambitious game comes out using Unreal 5 and RTX but has bugs, its understandable, but GF have been making these basic, cartoony, super unambitious games for like 5yrs now since the Switch came out and they have this many bugs and performance issues?! Especially when Arceus ran better which is nearly a year old
@@HDGaminTutorials the tech isn't the problem here. if a game as simplistic looking as Violet and Scarlet still causes frame problems, no amount of tech will solve it if the game is just so poorly optimized.
Man, this game's graphics takes me back to the Nintendo 64 days. Somehow though I could run Banjo and Kazooie at a consistent framerate on a 24 year old console unlike this game running on a 5 year old console
@@Saroku1000 No it's not. Breath of the wild, super mario odyssey, witcher, monster hunter are within siwtch realms. Stop making excuses for gamefreak fanboy.
I wish people would just be honest and tell people not to buy the game so fast, and just wait for it to get a patch, if they don't care about the glitches then go right ahead but stop making it seem like the glitches are easily ignored when do care the same way some don't, the game isn't going anywhere it would get better as time goes on
I'm just a little disappointed that they haven't added any sort of level scaling system for the gym leaders. The only incentive to actually do the gym challenge is because it makes Pokemon a little easier to catch, that's it. I spent so much time running around, doing Tera Battles, and just a bunch of other stuff that my Pokemon got super over leveled and the gym challenge was extremely easy. There's been lots of criticism over the years of "oh, Pokemon is so easy now" but in this game's case, it rings true. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a ton of fun, but the pacing is totally off, and it really is quite easy.
It's really telling that SV is probably the first time where even the 'defenders' in these forum wars are acknowledging that the problems are real. Like there's really just no getting around that SV runs terribly. And you can hear the pain in some of these messages from people who're ready to (even blindly) love these games like they always do with Pokemon, but even they're pausing and hesitating here. Really feels like a new low has been reached to cause both sides to be united like this.
I am one of those guys, i really really love pokemon games, all of them.I even enjoyed Pokémon sword and shield which everyone hated. But this, this is just sad. A full priced switch game looking like a Gameboy color game in 2022, when we already have titles like BOTW, Crysis, doom, skyrime, witcher 3, persona etc all high quality games running at a reasonable fps. And here we have a shit looking game running like shit. Its just sad, i am just sad.
@@naqibfarhan4356 agreed. If they knew it would have a terrible framerate and look like something out of the 90s (which I am sure game testers would have told them about) then they should have downscaled the map and added a more in-depth story and/or at least added some detailed interiors
@@Trex10100 No, it's a software problem. These games aren't releasing on any platform other than Switch. There are games that've been *ported* to the Switch that run better than this. If those games can run better, is the excuse for Pokemon really that the Switch isn't 'powerful enough' to run it? I don't think so. They simply didn't prioritize getting the game to run well on the platform it was designed for, and/or didn't have enough development time to achieve it. Plenty of other games have managed to do it, including games that are open-world like these are.
@@qactustick You people no nothing about tech. Glitches are a software problem, framerate drops is a hardware problem. The software can only run if the hardware is up-to-date. You're talking about ported open-world games that doesn't spawn multiple enemies in and out with varied differences. There's at least 10-16 pokemon spawning on screen at a time(different sizes, natures, stat spreads, ect) per biodome(lakes and grasslands while in the same area have sperate spawns) compared to a game like neir automa. Where you fight like 6 robots with no shields with the same health bars that don't respawn until you comeback to the area. Then when you progress in the story they'll be replaced with 3 of the tall robots and 4 flying ones.
It's really unfortunate the Pokemon games are going downhill. I hope they pick up again and start getting better. It really can be a great series if they put a lot more effort into it. It's like the company has all these great ingredients, but they don't know how to cook.
I work at GameStop, I was shocked at how many people came in yesterday to pick up their pre order or just to buy the game in general. I didn't realize so many adults were so into Pokemon still. I guess I just get the appeal but to each their own
It has been down hill since the shift to 3d in gen 6 ppl really are satisfied with getting the same half baked shit they have been getting for the past 10 years
Doubtful as with each game ppl still buy it & overall it has good ratings (yes they are lower than past gens/games) but also as they mentioned it is a daring game with limitations from the console.
There's actually a lot of caves in this game... but yeah, not a lot of inside areas for buildings. For voices, i'm sure they'll add them... in Pokemon Masters instead.
for real though besides the game being unfinished in terms of optimization and performance, is it at least finished content-wise? Is there a surplus of things to do? For reference I thought Legends Arceus was alright but felt it had next to nothing to do/no reason to revisit any of the locations I’m hoping to hear the opposite before I try this one
I’m 30 and started my Pokémon journey with Pokémon Blue. Played up till Ruby and Saphire then stopped. Got back in a little bit with Sword and Shield but never finished it. I had so much hype for Scarlet and Violet but unfortunately it falls short performance wise. Really wish we could get a big budget Pokémon game on a current gen console such as series x or ps5
You should try arceus. I've been playing since pokemon red and haven't had as much fun with a pokemon game since the original gold and sliver. Arceus is something else. It really nails the sense of wonder the early games had
...In other words you only played like 3 main entries if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, you should at least play Emerald and HG/SS. I feel like those are the best Pokemon games ever made, the rest range from being decent to being bad due to questionable changes (looking at you, X/Y). Also check out the Mystery Dungeon games, those are fun spin offs based on the Pokemon series that everyone should try.
As good of a game it is, you just can't help but be impressed at how huge yet empty this game looks. You'd think they'd improved upon Arceus but this still feel like an experimental "new-gen" Pokemon game at best. Still, we can only hope that succeeding updates make this play smoothly as intended.
ANY open world game world would feel empty if it got Pokémon in it. Skyrim would feel as empty as Paldea if all monsters and npc fighters would be replaced with Pokémon, because you dont fight yourself in the game and all you can do is to walk arround to catch and fight Pokémon and trainers. The concept of Pokémon is what makes an open world feel empty.
@@Saroku1000 Skyrim would never feel like Paldea. The landscape and environment design in Skyrim is far superior, so even if you removed all NPCs and made the world feel dead it would still have better exploration.
This is literally why I skipped Arceus caus eit was just a tech demo of the next game which surprise surprise it's another tech demo. I was surprised they added swim animations for Pikachu and Pikachu clone but not the gen starters
I’d love a real time battling system. The four buttons are tied to your Pokémon’s moves. You can mount and fight with your Pokémon during wild battles. Wild Pokémon can attack you directly. Can set a nature for your Pokémon, aggressive/cautious/etc. Real sizes for Pokémon. There are a ton of examples I mean damn.
I feel like the performance issues will be patched out pretty quick. I'm more worried about why they released it with those issues though, aren't they testing their own games before they are are released to the public?
They probably thought they could patch all the glitches before the release of the game but ended up not being able to do it before the release but yeah I do think they are gonna work on that soon and patch it up I don’t think that they’d let this crap graphics stay for too long especially with all the glitches I agree with you tho
A common issue with lots of companies atm, they do not have or invest enough in QC. People are still going to buy the game regardless of bugs because the franchise is big and popular enough, so they invest less money in quality assurance to make bigger profits.
I have only played sword and shield when it comes to the 3D pokemon games, but I can already say that I still prefer Pokemon in its 2D format when it comes to exploration. I think what they did with X and Y and the more recent Diamon/Pearl remakes are the top examples of blending 3D with the original 2D base game the right way.
It just shows how hollow the games actually are. Tile based movement and totally invisible items had you mashing the action button on every corner of the map of those classic games.
Seriously. They've did this open world thing with Arceus, wasn't a fan cause it looks like dog poo, I'd much rather them go back to X/Y or Sh/Sw grpahics
Agreed. ORAS was really good with this as well IMO, the difference is thought that the devs knew the limitations of the hardware they had available and made the games as well as they could. man i miss my DS and 3DS
I have hope that they will be able to smooth out framerate some hopefully somehow, they somehow managed to fix the horrible framerate and stabilize that in elden ring here's hoping they put in the effort because they can do better
Great video, this was the pokemon game that I was really excited for after Arceus, and I was originally going to get it on day one after seeing all the trailers, then the review came out, follow by videos of various glitches and so on, that when I decided , ok may be I should just get Persona 5 Royal or Nier Automata for the switch instead, which I have held off because of Bayonetta 3 . Hopefully these issues will be resolved in the future updates, and as a game developer myself, I am aware of the difficulty in game development, but still quite shocked to see Nintendo and Game Freak release the product at this stat, I think it would have worked out better if they had more time to refine the overall experience, right now it just all over the place.
The picnic is great because you can use it to not only bond fast with your pokemon but can refill all their health bars instead of heading to a center or using items. He may have missed that part. With the game being this big and the pokedex grind it's perfect for prolonged exploration.
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@@detroitsin5250 I was wondering about that. I've only gotten a single potion out of that basket. I'm guessing there's no daycare in this. I havent come across one and usually don't do my Google searching until I head towards the elite four.
@@Inhale_Burrito I just beat the 2nd gym so I havent messed around with it myself but they were sayin the eggs can auto deposit in your pc box too or some shit
Looks like the game has some kind of backup save system in case it crashes. Press X + B + Up (D-pad) in the main menu to access secret auto-saves. It does these saves even if you have auto-save off.
I don’t understand how Pokémon is so popular and the company has so much money and time. I bet if they took a long break in between Pokémon games and poured their heart and soul made one major insanely high quality Pokémon game with like all the Pokémon and just a ton of story that takes more than a day to beat we would all love it
I feel like at this point In time they are capable of making a Pokémon game where we can travel from each of the 9 regions and battle the leaders from each one with Pokémon we’ve caught from all regions. That would be a great game.
These games are very fun to play, being able to play through the whole game co-op is the best added feature since sliced bread. Just don't turn auto-save off. The performance issues lend to infrequent crashes. My gf learned the hard way by losing 8 hrs of play and essentially has to start the game over now
I lost only like 2 hrs thankfully cause I played a day before the physical release but turned auto save off right before talking to Mom and when I got the the 1st town I talked to all npcs and the Tauros owner froze my game so I lost my female kitty
For days I've been on the fence about buying this one and watching reviews all over RU-vid; your take convinced me to hold off on purchasing this. If a "Before You Buy" vid is giving off these kinda vibes, to me, that's a HUGE red flag.
People overexegerate, especially with Gen 9. It goes as far as people saying that it looks like a NES/N64 game or that sword and shield, which are clearly graphically inferior to SV, have better graphics
@@Saroku1000 I just don't feel comfortable throwing $60 at a game company that has the money and power to make something amazing, and then produce something like this.
@@DTHAI17 not too familiar with nintendo? Their games never get deeply discounted. It will be $60 for a loooooong time. You might get luck and there be a 10% off black Friday deal, but that's a huge stretch
Thank you for making this video I wanted to get this game but not after seeing this video. Definitely opened up my eyes to what would have been a crappy present for Christmas
I love the real time battles and not having to wait for the weird circular dimension to load up. I love that Pokémon are in the world itself, but how can this game be worse than LoA that launched earlier ? This is a main Pokémon game for Nintendo of all companies , not a side project yet it feels emptier than past games. We all want Pokémon games to be better open world games, that’s what we’ve always wanted. I was very excited for this game and I want to love it and ignore its problems, I really hope Nintendo/GameFreak will patch this game for the better. Heck, games like Pokémon XD looked amazing for it’s time, Sword/Shield looked amazing, Pokémon games now should be almost perfection.
I lost 2 of my pets in the last 3 days. One died suddenly and the other got put down this morning. Video games especially today have been a great way for me to take time away from balling my eyes out to sort of concentrate on something else, whether I'm beating up bad guys as batman or racing cars in hot wheels. I just want to put this here because although everyone has tough days if we take some time off to play video games that isn't something we should feel guilty about. I felt like if I stopped crying and played something then that would mean I stopped caring but it's ok and people may insult me for writing this I'm just doing it because at the moment typing this is relieving some of that stress and pain
Sorry for your extreme loss but that doesn't excuse bad games. You shouldn't feel bad playing them if you feel like it, any backlash or heated comments are towards the developers not you. I hope you feel better real soon.
I think one of the worst issues is when your game stays on for too long and becomes progressively worse in frame rate (I saw someone refer to the issue has memory leak somewhere). Like game goes from already low frames to less than normal making it even more unplayable. And to fix that problem you have to reset the game. I think the game in concept is very fun but having my character go 2 frames a second to then having lighting glitches is so hard to enjoy. They definitely need to fix that issue with a new update. I think overall this is a good step for Pokémon if they can execute it better and I think half the battle is having a better performance console which we’ll hopefully get soon. Like I REALLY want to like the game because it’s fun to play but the performance and visual glitches are so off putting imo.
the pokemon company is not the same as other gaming companies. A delay in the release means that everything has to be delayed. that includes both the anime and the card game. Gen 8 anime is over, and there are no more card sets releasing for gen 8. The release schedule for the mainline pokemon games coinsides with the rest of the media produced by the company, therefore games cant be set back.
This is a laughable excuse for such a profitable company. If they wanted to change the way things work they could, but I wouldn't because why fix what still makes fuck tons of money
While I agree, I just wish it didn't ruin every Pokemon by giving them a stupid hat. Just give us the crystal skin. I'm sick of sending out a badass Mon and it getting a clown hat
@@MrEverisforever plenty of people are battling each other already or using the vgc format on the smogon battle simulator. if u have to wait for daddy game freak to figure out this mechanic is good or not that’s on you
I personally am having the most fun with a main entry since a loooong time. The only things I dislike A LOT are the technical issues and some missing features, otherwise it's a blast imo. I loved Arceus but I hadn't had gun with a main game since X/Y I think
I played Arceus and hadn't played a different one since Moon and I'm having a lot of fun too. It's got its issues but running around exploring and fighting is fun.
Isn't picnicking the only way you can breed pokemon? I find it pretty fun and significant, especially if you are trying the masuda method of shiny breeding, you can have clutches of eggs at a time
I dislike that i have to set down the swotch or ignore the game for a few minutes while i breed eggs....i cant even open my box. Minor annoyance but an annoyance none the less.
@Naomi Border i do. It takes more than a few seconds to get 10. For some reason breeding a domdozo with eggpower took about 1-2 minutes PER EGG. I just sat my switch down and dis some house chores. Whoch i like that it can be passive like that. I just wish i could also walk around and DO SOMETHING while the basket fills up yall know?
This game is looking rough for a modern day game this popular. I still enjoy playing the Red version on my clear purple Gameboy color every now and then.
I just replayed Pokemon Yellow and it was still a pleasant experience. It's missing pretty much all the quality of life stuff from Gen 2 onwards, but it was a good game at its core.
It also lets you breed your Pokemon and the sandwiches can do all sorts of things like increase the spawn rates of shinies or specific types of Pokemon, give your team stat buffs and even increase egg spawn rates.
I really enjoy the game but the performance definitely needs some work. Hopefully more updates will come soon. Also the picnics are also used for breeding.
Been playing since Gen 1. After S/S I was done. Seeing this only confirms that yes Pokémon is an over the hill franchise without any inspiration or soul anymore. I am playing Gen 3 atm, going to trade to Gen 4, and complete my journey in Gen 5 completing the nat pokedex. I got R/S/E, D/P/P, HG/SS, B/W. & B2/W2. I still keep my Gen 1 and 2 cartridges as well but don't play them, and I own all the Gen 6 and 7 titles. Past that there's no point. New pokemon is just awful and bland. I'm done with it and since it was the reason I even bought Nintendo I'm done with the whole brand now. I'll just stick to PC and Xbox for now on
@@juancarlosalonso5664 it's not redundant when you get back and tailbone pain from hours of sitting on computer chairs. At some point you just need to get on a recliner and play on the big screen
as a gen 1 player who also agrees that pokémon has greatly declined, I think you should play legends arceus. It’s an amazing game that switches up the usual style in a good way, and it’s praised by a lot of people for being a great game. you should check it out, it’s well worth it
@@CurtySucks I'm hesitant to throw another dime at GF till they get their act together. I'm going to boycott till I see quality come back. If not, oh well. I got WOTLK classic atm and I'm super addicted all over again
It kinda feels like a fan made game sometimes. Lack of insides/dungeons and the towns/gyms being lack luster is a real knock on the game imo. I got through three gyms and then took to just exploring because the weird gym task are just so pointless, especially for the electric gym. The visuals go from fine to a blocky mess often. The new art direction isn't for me either. Like the way characters and mons look is off. Its a shame because the new gen of mon I think is very strong and the concepts are all there.
TBH it wouldve looked cool if the the crystals attached to their head are floating around the pokemon with elemental particle effects from their typings and made it look like an aura. Instead we got the worst gimmick in pokemon games. The best powerup would probably be the Mega forms, they should've expanded that instead.
Graphical and performance issues aside, I’m so baffled by Game Freak boasting about the “Three different storylines!!” It’s the same things you do in a Pokémon game anyway. They just let you go out of order now. I remember when I first played Skyrim in 2011, I felt that each faction’s storyline could be a main quest in itself. I remember thinking, “This is what the stories of open world games are going to become from now on!” …I was wrong.
I'm calling it first because I bet we will probably get some form of upgraded form for their next console be it a remaster or something like blank scarlet and blank violet