Out of curiosity I decided to compare Pokemon Scarlet & Violets Graphics and Performance against Pokemon Let's Go, Sword & Shield, and Legends Arceus. You won't believe what I found.
Yeah, Let's Go had really good lighting and textures. You could like see subsurface light scattering in the player's ears when you first get Pikachu/Eevee. They also fixed the washed-out colours of the transition from 2D to 3D. Idk if any of the future titles kept that.
What was the point of those games anyway? We lost fire red and leaf green content like the Sevi islands. An original story would have sold me on the game. I borrowed it from a friend and couldn't be bothered to finish it.
Let's Go is still impressive nowadays for the level of refinement. I wouldn't say they're superior to SwSh or SV but they don't have too many ups and downs, everything is coherent. And I really love that the Pokémon sizes are so accurate, not to mention the PERFECT IMPLEMENTATION of following Pokémon. That game makes me so angry because it could have been a masterpiece, but it's just a big missed opportunity.
I believe it's gamefreak's fault not the switch itself because there are lots more powerful games that run WAY better than Scarlet and Violet. As a die hard fan, I refuse to buy these games until they fix these performance issues. I ended up buying sword and shield instead.
@King Zoroark my point exactly. Gamefreak are just taking advantage of the Pokémon brand. But serious trainers like myself just ain't having it no more. 60 bucks for games that don't work how they're supposed to just ain't gonna fly. Idc what brand.
@@KingZoroark i mean it's okay a lot of people bought it, but for me they set up the expectations so high for the graphics in lets go so i can't play them anymore if they look like ds games
All this needless complaining about Sword and Shield being too "simplistic" is what has directly caused all the technical issues on Scarlet and Violet, if these games had used the SwSh engine and just dialed back all the unecessary excess geometry like all those mountains and forests that have nothing on them they would have had much better performance; ideally, the areas in Paldea should have been separate maps like in Legends, keep them open, just have loading screens in between them, even Xenoblade understands this, loading the entire world map in one go is just asking for trouble, especially when you're already doing dumb, pointless things like giving every character individual strands of hair. In general, GameFreak once again failed to prioritize the proper elements and instead wasted time and resources on things that don't matter.
IMO Arceus was an ugly game, I'd much rather have clean 2D sprites than this bland-ass 3D. Let's Go eeve/pikachu and BDSP are the only decent looking Pokemon games since the NDS :I
Let's Go has the best graphics in the 3D Pokémon games. Even Legends: Arceus looks really good. The 2D Pokémon games always look great. It would be best if the Pokémon games use 2D anime graphics.
You are telling me the issue of Violet is the dated hardware? While Breath of the wild and Tears of the Kingdom renders an open world with much crispier details and better graphics, colors and textures than Pokemon SV without suffering of popping issues or framedrops? cmon... Lets face it: Gamefreak is LAZY.
Damn, do I LOVE Gen 8's (Shield) graphics and art design! They had the best, smoothest & cleanest IMO. I wish Violet looked JUS LIKE THAT + the overworld freeroam that we have now. It would be the best, IMO. 👌🏾
@Ken T. Yeh. Everything is shiny and smooth. Well rounded. No weird lines or choppy looks. The animations are really clean. This Gen 9 is good too, but 8 was the best so far.
I agree legends of arceus art style is by far the best of all the switch mainline games I just wished they implemented more online functionality into the game
I think what everyone is missing here is SV is an open world game. This is what I envisioned pokemon to always be since my pokemon yellow days. The graphics and performance could have been better or at least similar to legends arceus. At it's current stage, it feels more like a beta version.
personnaly, Pokemon sword and shield were the best games among the 4 presented. Graphics that I know re-used the ancient models of 3DS games but who cares ???? game freak tried to make Pokemon evolve but that's not a goal, I think Pokemon sword and shield had to close the license in term of graphics.
How can it be a hardware problem, the dramatic technical situation of Pokémon scarlet & violet when games like: XenoBlade chronicles 3, Mario Odyssey, breath of the wild, Bayonetta 3 etc come out on the same console?? Obviously Nintendo Switch has obsolete hardware, based on a neutered version of Nvidia's Tegra x1 which is based on Maxwell architecture released in 2014, however the problem is mainly due to Game freaks as they are dogs in programming and this is nothing new. Anyway for me pokemon arceus despite the technical problems is much, much better than the last two chapters, thanks to a less childish story, superior design and graphics in general, let's be clear both suck graphically but Arceus has better textures and design.
So, I'm coming from 1st Gen Pokemon and getting up to date with all the games up to today. And it's pretty awesome to see the amount of games that we have today. Not only for the Switch but with a good modded 3ds, for example. I recently bought and started played Let's Go Pikachu, Sword and Legends Arceus and so far I think because of the graphics and nostalgia factor, Let's Go is my favorite. With Arceus and Sword being close. The only thing I didn't like from Let's Go is the need for me to play it handheld to have some nice control over the pokemon catching mechanics and the lack of pokemon transfer ability with other Pokemon games. Other than that, it's an awesome remake of the old ones. And it's still everything that I wanted Red, Blue and Yellow to be back in the day :)
Scarlet and violet went way too far with the artstyle Like giving several pokemon visible hair does not make them look better it just makes them look dirty
Somebody has to say it that pokemon legends arceus is peak of pokemon series. Till now i have not completed that games, yes am bit late but am just loving it.
Just started SW after finishing Violet and I prefer SW so far in most ways. The graphics and sound effects are better, I prefer the linear routes more than the open world, I prefer the setting (I live in the UK so I’m bias with that one) as well. Honestly, open worlds aren’t all that anymore. If anything it hinders the game a bit. It’s TOO open.
Awesome video man, thank you. I'm enjoying Scarlet, I just wish it was as smooth graphically and UI wise as Shield was. Hopefully Nintendo acknowledging it's failings means they'l improve it
I'm just waiting for sv to be over! I love the fact that it was an open world game but they completely destroyed the battle and moves animation! We love Pokémon for battling, right? In this game that wasn't even the case. For me SwSh were even better!!
Sword and shield was not very good looking but it was still à good game and runned ok but scarlet and violet is just unplayable it's really a shame cause the game is so good but the performance and bugs are really annoying but I think they can fix most of it and upgrade de performance for sure because most of it is due to the game being rushed
this might sound weird i have all the pokemon games on switch my pokemon violet runs very smoothly and ive only hd 1 glitch out of 200 hours of gameplay
I dont understand why they didnt kept either pla or sa graphic setting? Theyr alrdy good enough for a switch game. Sv tried to be realistic which didnt work
I think pokemon let's go has good optimization there were no bugs and good graphics. As for scarlet and violet there are so many bugs, glitches, bad graphics and frame drops it's looks like a downgrade from pokemon legends and swsh
Pokemon was never about graphics but gameplay. For Switch games, they’ve missed with gameplay so much trying to upgrade their graphics. Funny enough, if they just kept doing something simple and clean like Let’s Go, we would get amazing games with endless content. Instead, we have GameFreak trying to stimulate Zelda games that have years of development and huge teams dedicated to developing their games. Now, we have ugly looking games with bare minimum content that don’t even run at 30FPS.
Nice comparison. I know that a lot of people say that the games should have been delayed, but that's not possible. In Japan, there's too much stuff going around those games that can't be easily delayed. Since the release of it, if you go out in Tokyo you're likely to come across some Pokemon SV commercials, promotional stuff etc. And that's in convenience stores, other various shops, trains, and so on. There are Pokemon SV commercials even in the official streams of the FIFA World Cup that's been going on in the past weeks. Delaying the games would mean breaking this enormous chain of promotion around it. And that's not mentioning things like Pokemon TCG and the anime whose release is also tied to the games. I've really enjoyed playing Pokemon Violet and I'd really appreciate if the performance was better for even better overall experience, but I understand that once the release date of a new Pokemon game, particularly a new one of the main series, it must be extremely difficult to postpone it.
Legends Arceus hands down best art style and HUD. Even battle and Pokémon contact. Pokémon feel alive there. Sword and Shield has a visually pleasing cartoon style. Scarlet and Violet idk where to put because the models look ok for old Pokémon but not some of the newer Pokémon for some reason. Battles in SS also just feel the worst and raids are the worst thing introduced in this. Leave it to Pokémon Go. The characters look very cartoony in SS but the Pokémon look like they wanted to be realistic looking. The world looks like clay 50% of the time. Though the 3 stories are enjoyable. PLA definitely had it going and then they took 3 steps back Sword and Shield’s DLC maps are what the game should’ve been. Pokémon in SS can sometimes be way way too small and you just constantly run into Pokémon. I also hate that you can’t run away from Pokémon even if over leveled which makes 0 sense. And battles look horrendous but it’s enjoyable
I feel like 100% the only 2 good mainseries games on switch are legends arceus, and lets go. Quite honestly the reason being is their more spinnoff approach to the mainseries. Quite honestly, I don't think we're ever going to have a good full 3d true mainseries game, because the mainseries games weren't designed for 3d. Legends arceus works because its not just trying to be "pokemon but in 3d", it tries to be its own thing. Scarlet/Violet don't work as well, because they are trying too hard to be something that they just can't be.
I think going forward, instead of having a full open world game, I'd much rather have a sort of segmented open world game like legends arceus. I think it would allow for a more fleshed out map and towns. Pretty much legends arceus with a few more towns and areas, but they are sort of interconnected.
Amazing video, under 10 minutes unlike other Greedy content Influencers - and actually a rare as an Oasis factual & level-headed take on the whole matter! 💯 I mean look, no one is saying Scarlet/Violet are 'amazing' or near Perfect but the opinions that blame the graphics/performance and vilify the entire 3D line in general are just laughable. Sure, We cannot enter Buildings, customise characters and NPCs don't nearly have enough side-Quests and that's not good - but for the sake of transforming the World's best selling series into a whole new format (on a Breath of the wild scale level of change) , some risks/sacrifices had to be made and I do hope they put these oldskool features back in (pretty easy to.) And, the people have spoken. If it was genuinely bad, and a wrong turn for the series, sales would dip as why would people buy it? The game's $60, more expensive than ever before, so naysayers or blind haters cannot use the ''oh but it's Pokémon, it'll sell'' 'argument' (which was a laughably weak retort in itself anyways and counter-intuitive!!) People have been praising the meticulously re-Worked Pokémon models no end; they really seem 'realistic fantasy' nailed to a tee which totally suits and Progresses the Series Charm & Style. They love the Open world and Free-level catching, which is a 100x improvement on the much (and rightly this time) criticised Sword & Shield (but still, they sold well, due to amazing Competitive mechanics , Good unnerfed Abilities & the marketing which was solid.) And the Story was pretty amazing for Pokémon: I mean, it was some surprisingly touching stuff past it's initially cringey cover , and that matters, people were pulled in by it. I'd give SV a solid 8/10. (For comparison, I'd give Sword & Shield a 5/10 and that's being generous now!) Just a few Performance and bugs on week 1 which I know are still not acceptable from such a Big company - but I got mine day 3 on download, patched Up and I barely ran into any hard glitch or major issues: just some annoying slowdown so I really do they should ask Monolithsoft for help with the next game's Engine. Anyhow, sorry for the loong ramble lol! 😄😅 Great video & you've earned a Sub and hopefully many more for your very sensible and non-agenda pandering assessments!
@@KingZoroark yeah, and with Arceus being the second best(with BDSP having some of the UI from LPLE), they can make the the next games with the best performance and battle animations with a mixture of LGPLGE, PLA, BDSP, and SV with a bit of animation backdrop from SwSh
Well... I don't wanna be rude but, in my personal opinion, Pokémon on the Nintendo Switch was nothing but an embarrassing pile of disappointment for almost 50% for the fans.
People tend to forget that the switch hardware is not strong so these things will happen with voilet and scarlet doesn't matter if you have the oled switch still restricted hardware plus alot of these bugs have been patched scarlet and violet a miles ways better to play now even with some of the bugs still not patched
I really want to get back to play pokemon scarlet and violet but frame rate constantly drops every time I play. Always got headache playing. I really wish they could fix performance issue so I can enjoy the game again 🥹
