The Highs and Lows of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet 

So, do you think SV is good or bad or both? 0:00 Burger Intro 1:06 Opening 1:44 Part 1: Frustrating Unfinished Glitches 6:47 Part 2: Incomplete Game 12:54 Part 3: The World of Paldea 17:05 Part 4: The Structure of Paldea 19:21 Part 5: Level Scaling and the Art of Open World Games 26:12 Part 6: Victory Road 29:53 Part 7: Starfall Street 33:49 Part 8: Path of Legends 39:32 Part 9: Terastalization is Good? 42:16 Part 10: Minor Stuff 47:00 Conclusion

You know how crazy it is that Pokemon could sell unfinished and glitchy game and still make lots of money. While other franchise like Silent Hill died.

I find it interesting that they also level scale Nemona when you battle her throughout the story but don't seem to do the same with the gyms. Depending on when you do a certain gym leader and trigger a Nemona fight, her pokemon could be in their first Evo or fully evolved

Some previous pokemon games would have made the classes mandatory so we can count ourselves lucky

I'm from Spain (the coast specifically), and I gotta say, the coast areas feel like right at home, and the large number of lighthouses and uneven topography is also a neat touch. Although, it feels weird to have a big dessert area and a bamboo forest in a region that's supposed to be spain xd

Imagine sonic 06 were released today and people said it was fine because framerates don’t matter and glitches can always be passed

To add to the burger analogy: The other burger shops near the one where you eat on the floor show way tastier burgers and place to eat however they are smaller than the one you're eating in it because most of its customers remain loyal to it because they have good memories of this burger shop's golden age

The worst part of the game isn’t glitches for me but how the Pokémon spawn we have now gone back to the swsh model of having Pokémon spawn in broad areas and not fixed landmarks like in pla. You might not see a problem but it really makes exploration less fun. In sv if you climb a mountain or hill you’re most likely find the same Pokémon on top of it that you did on the bottom. In pla you had to hunt for certain lines. Zorua only spawned in those ice caves, Goomy only spawned in swamp, petil only spawned flower patches, there was that island full of chimchar, the pond where it was the only place to get turtwig, deertrack heights where you could only catch wyrdeer and I could go on. You had to work to find certain Pokémon on your team. For the most you don’t in sv the biomes just have a set encounter table they cycle through, if you get a rare Pokémon like figabax it’s not because you were skilled at exploring it’s because you were lucky the game decided to give you one. When I saw glaceodo mountain I knew I wanted to climb it and see what mons awaited me at the top. When I reached the top there was nothing but a sign. The top should be the only place where frigabax should spawn as a reward for exploration. The way sv is now makes the act of finding new mons unsatisfactory. I’m not saying that every Pokémon line should be tucked away in some corner but a good 30-40 lines should be at least a little hard to find.

You forgot the legendary quartet, they are OPTIONAL legendary side quest that actually reqiured you to solve something rather than just go to a cave and catch it, you have to find the stakes and then go to the shrine A bit like the Regis in gen 3 since they are both hidden

Man it really sucks that a franchise that actually uses the Switch hardware well like the Xenoblade Chronicles franchise can barely get 5 million copies sold while this game can sell 10 million copies alone. And people genuinely believe the Switch is holding Pokemon Scarlet and Violet when we know that's not true with games like Xenoblade Chronicles, Super Mario Odyssey, Breath of The Wild existing.

One thing that is admittedly kind of neat is when you get into a battle several of the nearby Pokémon may also stop to watch the show but they don't interfere. Really shows how far the bond between humans and Pokémon has come since the time of Hisui where they all gang up on you instead.

I recently thought on a similar analogy to that of the burger: Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is like if you presented an important collegue report, and the paper you used was dirty, smelling like sh1t even, several pages were partially broken or can easily be broken with little effort and things can even be hard to read at times because the ink was cheap. Obviously they are gonna completely reject that and give it a 0 no matter how good the content of the report is, like this game, which no matter how good the gamplay is, the state they released it it's not acceptale at all (except it wasn't rejected and given a 0, it sold millions and some fans are even angry that it got mixed reviews instead of good ones).

I feel in general SV is half-ambitious, half-stagnant, with so many great ideas executed sloppily, and some ideas that still have issues of being a modern Pokemon game.

(Spoilers) Team Star/Starfall Street and the final boss would've benefited SOOO much from PLA's overworld attack system, especially since the Team Star bases and time machine area look large enough to be arenas for dodging attacks! Imagine dodging lasers and charge attacks as AI Sada/Turo legitimately try to kill you with the awesome might of Paradox Pokémon, while fighting back with your loyal team! Alas, we live in the greed timeline, so no cool game design for us.

I definitely think it’d have been nice if they saved the game for next year

The fact of the matter is that these games should have been delayed at for least 6 months until Spring, 2023 to fix these persistent bugs and glitches in the game.

The game has a great story and characters and a lot of great new Pokémon, but my god the region of Paldea feels so lifeless with almost nothing to do besides catching Pokémon, that’s real sad

I miss going into random people's homes, shops and buildings.

whats worse is a spinoff pokemon school sim game, like the episode the school of hard knocks, wouldve been amazing. we always have trainer schools in the games but never really interacted with them besides battling. theres lots of potential: like you start off using school rental pokemon, you could unlock tms through tests, and they could bring back the pokeathalon and contests. and you learn to 'take care' of pokemon like in pokemon amie

23:30 One correction: Witcher 3 DOES have enemy upscaling, but it is an optional feature that you can toggle on/off in your option settings. It automatically adjust the level of foes and their loot drop to be on par with your own. For me it's the proper way to play while keeping the challenge fresh in max difficulty. This also ensures that Geralt gains more xp for defeating those enemies than with enemy upscaling off. To turn on enemy upscalling, from Start Menu go to Options. Then scroll down to gameplay, in this tab will be an option to turn enemy upscalling on or off. You can change it at any point in your playthrough.

spanish person here, answering the call All cities in Paldea ressembles areas or places of spanish culture or geography. Mesagoza is a mixture between Madrid (plaza mayor), Barcelona (sagrada familia and parc güel) and places like Toledo, with its streets. Your hometown is based on Andalucia, normal gym town has a roman theatre which is based on the one in Mérida, Levincia is Valencia and the market its based on a Lonja, from Galicia. We have a dessert in Almería (which is located un the south, not in the west) and Mountains in Pirineos, which is a bourder between Barcelona and France (kalos). I think that is why glimmora looks like the ultimate weapon of AZ, and there´s a huge crater on the middle of Paldea. the game hints that Paldea was the country which Kalos made the war. The food you can find on shops is based in spanish typical diet too. tortilla, paella, marisco... The food has such presence in the game (gym leaders, mystic herba, lechonk, smoliv, nacli, scovillain...) because the mediterranean diet is known as one of the best in the world. Oranges are typical in Valencia and grapes (and wine) in La Rioja. The arts are represented in gym leaders (grass, ghost, psychic) and cities because spain has a huge representatives like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Miguel de Cervantes, Gaudí...) Our windmills are known for appear in the most iconic scene from the most iconic book of our literature, Don Quijote de la Mancha. Several pokémon desings are based on traditions, like quakaval (carnaval de canarias), or spanish fauna, like mewoscarada (lince ibérico) So yes, as a Spanish person, I think game freak makes a great work adapting my country, and its great being able to see all that in a pokémon game. Sorry for my bad english

Game Freak should get more employees if they have to release these games every year

Don't you just miss the days of complete versions. I can't say I do because I was born when they died but I still find it sad that the act of giving us the full game with some extras is gone. F in the replies for Gen 6 which was completely shafted.

The similarities to Sun and Moon were mildly annoying to me. The Lillie/Arven similarities with the bad parents, titans being like totem Pokémon, the tutorial being focused around a school, Cavell having a disguise like Kukui having that masked alter ego for Battle Royal battles, paradox Pokémon being this generation’s ultra beasts. Also I remember rumours of Sun and Moon being based in Spain back when those games were first announced because some members of GameFreak had recently gone to Spain around the time that Sun and Moon were released. Unless I’m misremembering things. This was years ago after all lol. Playing this game did make me wonder if this is what they wanted Sun and Moon to be but they couldn’t do it all on a 3DS so they revisited the idea years later on the Switch though. 🤔

It such an unfair position for the consumer because this game's content is amazing. This is some of the most fun I've had in a game since BW/B2W2 and ORAS. The Story beats, the characters, the Pokémon, the gameplay is such a knockout. However the higher ups cracking the whip should not be rewarded for half baked games that break whenever a stray breeze hits them.

its crazy. we had the ability to go inside skyscrapers in big cities all the way back in black and white

When you decide to remove auto save and the game crashes on you literally 3 hours after removing auto save .

I miss the routes. It kept the game organized.

I'm at the intro and already know this is going to be a treat 😌

Thank you for making a critical passionate review of these mixed bag games. Hope you receive many views. Will the main problem of modern Pokemon in general ever get resolve someday?

As a spaniard, I've seen people here absolutely LOVING the game and the different representations, actually, according to one spanish Poketuber whose source I don't know but it's usually trustworthy, Quaquaval is based on MY city's Carnaval! Although the Canary Islands don't even appear in the game, hope we get added as dlc or something-

I'd like to disagree on your take on Nemona. The way I read her (from experience) is that she is a neurodivergent kid that developed an hyperfixation on pokemon battles. She often misses social cues and context, which is characteristic of some people on the autism spectrum. I don't think she's an idiot at all (and that can be quite harmful to call her that), as she managed to be top student and student council member, but she has difficulty understanding other things like family relationships, etc.

When the dlc is a napkin to set ur burger on

It's called terastalization because of prefixes: Mega evolution Gigantimax Terastalization Mega, Giga, Tera 46:00 Perfectly valid, but want to add that in most unscripted battles, you can turn on autocamera by pressing in the right stick(may be mixing it with pressing in the left stick).

just started the video, but i'm already impressed by the quality of it!! it's funny, organized, and even has REAL SUBTITLES!! WOOOO thank you!! you have yourself a new fan :^) can't wait to see your channel grow even more!

As much as I liked Legends: Arceus and am somewhat happy Sinnoh fans like me didn't just get the half-assed BDSP "Remakes", I think it just straight up shouldn't have existed. They should have never planned to release these two major projects within less than a year and just devoted all their ressources to Gen 9. I really felt like dirt when I purchased Legends, thinking it would send a signal that it represents the direction Pokémon should head towards, just for Gen 9 to be announced barely two weeks later, proving they didn't give a damn what people thought about Legends in the first place.

i was drawing and i tabbed out for a second around here and got a little spooked when you said "i liked all the characters, except for one" and it showed her because i was drawing fanart for her with this in the background lmao

I just kinda hate how every game franchise is suddenly going open world As if thats somehow mandatory for a good game or fixes any shitty game. These people havent played shitty MMORPGs and it shows

What's more amusing is that it's not even consistent which dedicated sandwich shops lead to a modeled interior. As in, some sandwich shops do have interiors and even NPCs that offer useful things like recipes or other subquest stuff, but outside of those specific ones all the others just lead to menus like any other shop. I feel like Arven's quest could've been a bit better by forcing the player to engage with the sandwich minigame if only to lure out the titan pokemon so you could fight it. Even if you don't make the mystical super-cure sub, it would parallel Arven's gimmick better and would help the mechanic overall by actually giving the player some incentive to use it at all instead of it being totally optional as it is now.

"Spanish people tell me in the comments" Well, it seems like it's my turn. If Paldea ever feels like a barren empty field, it's an accurate representation, as most of the country is unpopulated except for the region of Madrid (depicted in the game as Area 0, accurate I guess) and Cataluña (depicted in the game as a giant rock that you can't even climb, accurately representing how most of its people don't want to be a part of Spain) One of the things I like the most is how the region has ruins from an old empire all over the place because that's how it feels in Spain, as every big city has been built around castles built in the Reconquista era. There's also many smaller castles and towers where small towns have been built. The biomes are a bit all over the place but the northern side is more mountainous than the rest of the country, so putting the big mountain there was good. Mesagoza seems to be a mix of Madrid, Barcelona and Zaragoza. The Academy looks like La Sagrada Familia from Barcelona while the rest of the city looks like Madrid's Plaza Mayor but with a pokemon battle field instead of a statue. The river going around the city is very similar to how the river Ebro goes around Zaragoza. Medali kind of looks like Merida, as it has an ancient roman theater lookalike. The rest of the city is either out of my knowledge or completely made up. The most famous spanish restaurants are in Euskadi (northern region close to france), Madrid and Barcelona, but none of them to my knowledge specialize in asian food like onigiris, curry and such. Porto Marinada and Alfornada represent Portugal well enough despite being part of Paldea in the game. Porto Marinada has the only port in the game, which could be a reference to Oporto while the auction market reminds me of Cascais' Mercado da Vila (Cascais is a town that's very close to Lisbon). Alfornada on the other hand is uniquely decorated and reminds me of portuguese ceramics. Levincia is clearly inspired on Valencia, but the towers right by the sea might actually be Madrid's 4 towers. The city being all technologic is somewhat accurate as well because Valencia has been trying to become Spain's "tech city" for a few decades now (unsuccessfully I think, because it's still better known as a touristic destination) And the lake is a real shame as it covers some of the most beautiful locations in Spain. Galicia has not been represented at all and Santiago de Compostela's cathedral should have been represented in the game in some way. Maybe it was too religious, which I understand. Artazon's windmills look like the ones in Castilla La Mancha. This city might be a reference to Don Quijote de La Mancha combined with all other kinds of arts. The rest of the cities either don't represent anything or my knowledge of my country doesn't go far enough. I'm inclined to believe it's the latter. Quaxly's hat looks like the old logo of one of the biggest political parties of the country. Quaquaval is said to look like a brazilian carnival dancer, but just consider that in the Canary Islands the carnival is a big festivity as well. The Canary Islands are very far from the mainland so in SV the pokedex description doesn't invalidate this theory when it says that it's a pokemon from far away. The names of the games are either an unfortunate coincidence or a sly reference to the republican flag (violet) and the current flag (scarlet) I don't like bullfighting but I think paldean Tauros looks really good. Arboliva's line is genious because olive oil is an essential ingredient in most spanish dishes and the pokemon's design is good on its own as well. Scovillain is great as well because it represents another dish. "Pimientos de Padrón some are hot and some are not" is the translation of a rhyme said any time anyone mentions Padrón peppers ("Os pementos de Padrón, uns pican e outros non"). Padrón is a Galician town that became famous for, you guessed it, its peppers. They are served fried and most of them are usually mild but sometimes you might eat one that's really spicy and this seems to happen naturally. The Ruin Legends make sense because America was discovered after Castillian kings Isabel and Fernando funded the expedition. The main objective was to travel around the world to get to India through undisputed commerce routes (most wars in medieval europe can be explained with the control for commerce routes to India and China). With this history in mind, the story of the Ruin Legends makes perfect sense. The music is also really good, I hear a lot of spanish guitar here and there. But I don't know too much about music so I say much more. The sandwiches are a cool concept but it's ruined by the fact that condiments and multiple ingredients are pretty much mandatory. As obvious as it might sound, sandwiches here are usually made with one ingredient or two, chorizo is used in slices instead of dropping full chorizos on the bread and strawberries are never ever used. One more thing, the localization for this game was great, with many popular sayings/proverbs and references. But I didn't look into the english translation, I don't know how accurate to Spain is that one.

"boarding school and open world!" bully has entered the chat.

The good = the story The bad = the games performance

Mentioning pikaspreys crystal clear hurt my heart as I loved watching his actual playthrough and it was taken down about a year or so ago and I miss it so badly. I'm sure it had something to do with the traction and attention he brought to the game, after the first few episodes shockslayers website got taken down and I'm sure Nintendo bullied him out of it. Big rips.

If scarvio were a pokemon, they'd be BUG type

The only story In SV I got invested in was the path of ledgends......I WILL SAVE THE PUPPY NO MATTER WHAT. Also Arvin's back story.........oooof.......he just gets the worst end of the stick.

two words that are the cause of all the laziness annual releases.

I agree with everything. I really miss the PLA catching end evo. But the one thing that bugs me (and probably only me) is how ugly all the orange shit is in Scarlet, even the outfit. Purple and Violet is much easier on the eyes.

For me its both. Its a playable game and i enjoyed playing it but for 60$ they really should have taken there time to iron out some of the things that for a 60$ game shouldn't be a problem (Incase its not clear there not being a national deck and more pokemon (especially legendaries) is one of the biggest problems in my opinion)

I loved the classes. I mean yeah I already knew everything in them, but I think for kid me who hadn't seen the matrix yet... Those classes would have been interesting and useful. I think it's cool they put that in a game. Also the first art class was so neat and uplifting.

4:26 "NPCs commit sudoku" That had be rolling 😂😂😂 I assume you meant Seppuku? But even then, jumping off a cliff wouldn't be seppuku. That's just standard jisatsu.

12:07 it sounds like someone is loading a gun.

Problems always loop back to wanting Pokemon games yearly

At what point is the general public going to see how bad pokemon has become

Can we talk about how bug and grass are almost always used for the weaker gym leaders. If they can't stop treating these types like a joke how is anyone else supposed to?

I knew from the first thirty minutes that this game wasn’t going to be enjoyable. The hand-holding , boring dialogue and bad graphics just left the game not feeling like Pokémon. It didn’t help when 30 minutes into the game after meeting Miriodon and walking though the cave that I got stuck in a wall and was softlocked, having to replay the entire tutorial.

15:32 they did a fantastic job. Mesagoza is literally Madrid + Barcelona and Levincia is Valencia the city of arts and ciencies. They even put the classic yellow mailboxes from Spain (correos) in the city LMAO

Thank you for always dropping the most thorough, interesting and funny game reviews/video essays. Yours are always my favorite!

This is why I stop supporting Game Freak. They became too lazy and keep capitalizing on nostalgia. There's nothing new besides gimmicks. Sure they tried to make it truly open world, but the execution is so poor. They introduce cool stuff in one Gen, and take it away or implement it poorly in the next ones. I'm tired of people not addressing or acknowledging the problems, or brushing it aside, and keep supporting the mess that keeps coming out because it's simply telling the game devs that they can get away with that.

Let's see if the big patch actually fixes the performance, dropping frames, glitches and maybe even pop-ins Either way, they'll never fix the overworld textures nor graphics, that's up to the fans on that one (why do fans have to keep doing that TPC don't or even recently generally that Nintendon't **cough** Mario Switch Sports games **cough** Nintendo Switch Sports **cough** and their online subcripition service missing certain key features like themes, a messaging system or voice chat)

SwSh’s eating animation was almost perfect besides your Pokémon eating just air

i hate that i look at sword and shield and think "man these graphics are great comparitively". that should not be a sentence that can even be said

Well, at least they did a great job with the music... I mean, there is Area Zero, which has a really good BGM, making you feeling in a weird zone with weird things happening. And there is Penny, Champion Nemona and AI Turo/Sada, which are the best Battle music since ORAS.

4:48 Delibird after Iron Bundle

Funny that you didn't talk about Tera Raids as they're easily THE glitchest aspect of the entire game, especially online. Text boxes half loading, health bars not displaying properly or being janky with accuracy, models freezing in place (outside of the freeze status mind you), the raid itself being frozen and you're all stuck sitting there until the timer runs out, and the constant, CONSTANT skipped player turns. It is a giant unplayable mess over half the time

Scarlet and Violet thankfully have gotten much better after patches for it, I just got the game a few weeks ago and i haven't had a single bug or frame-rate issues which were a relief when buying it.

At this point I realize that is thanks to Pokemon that I’m more capable to see also the bad things in something, rather than being mostly positive (although, I’m still more positive and hopeful, but more realistic) Although I would say that Sonic Colors was the seed for that, Pokemon Franchise was the water that make the seed grow to an ugly tree.

I really love your videos and your accent makes them even more enjoyable. I also appreciate you created english subs since I am Spanish native

it's very frustating to see a very huge company with long history (almost 30 years old) with very wide scope of fans, gets very greedy and doing everything half assed, just pumping games after games after games to printing as much money as possible. to make matters even worse, they don't care about fans complaints and suggest to fix the problems, they only cares if people keep buying the games and merchs, very ironic and frustating indeed......

Badge limits are such a simple way to make open world or multi-region games possible without any major issues. PokeMMO will make your Pokemon instantly faint if you try to use a level 70 starter in a different region without the corresponding badges.

5:32 biblically accurate Magnetone lmaoooooooo

I dont fully support SV because of the simple fact that graphics are not optimized, and assets that are far have absolute sh*t frame rates. I'm 2 months in since playing SV, and I'm still praying to god to experience those silly bugs that people have shared online. So far, no bug, no crash, just shitty frame rates from some assets and locations that rains. With that said, this is still by far the best Pokemon Experience in terms of story. This is coming from someone who played at least a version of every generation of pokemon. This is a testament that no matter what the gameplay is, if the story can deliver, it gives a positive experience. I wish I could relate to most people who had a "horrible" experience with their game, but not only I got this game cheaper than its srp, I just have a straight up working game (same with my friend who got the violet ver). Whatever is found sh*t on this game, I hope game freak improves on it on the next line, but whoever is the team that wrote the story, they are going in the right direction.

All I see with these games is wasted potential and it pisses me off.

Great video! I enjoyed the game way more than I thought I would despite its... numerous shortcomings. No clothing option, sucks. Glitches, suck. But I did enjoy my time despite everything. Honestly my favorite part was the final story episode and it reminded me again that I prefer linear games over open world if it means I get well designed dungeons and pretty areas but that's a very personal opinion. I was always more of a JRPG fan so the character banter and focus on the story is just up my niche.

Biblically accurate magneton gave me a chuckle

Everyone just wants Silver again but better written, he was held back by the times he was released. A criminal rival makes so much sense, why would I not be motivated to stop someone who steals the starters!

42:04 I would have liked if after Larry's Gym the next time you fight Nemona she would have changed her starter's tera type.

Honestly even though it didn't have adjusting level difficulty I still really enjoyed the game for having moments of hard gym battles which I could beat using some strategy I developed. Personally did not think it was a super big issue for the fun though maybe level scaling would make more fun

11:34 Thank you for mentioning this. I have barely seen anyone talk about the missing intro cinematic for the title screen. I miss them.

Someone may have mentioned this already, but The Witcher 3 *does* have level scaling, but it's an option that you have to select from the menu.

The Family Guy reference got me. This video is gold, great work! I had this in my watch later for a week, and I kept putting off watching it, but I don't know why. It's so perfect! Love you xx

huh, I never though of Kingambit and Annihilape as "paldean form evolution", I just thought they're regular evolutions introduced here. Like Magnezone and Probopass etc to me they're not in the same boat as Clodsire or Obstagoon

Where can I find the restaurant comic to share with friends?

I must be the luckiest person alive, other than the occasional frame drop and npcs sliding around sometimes, I never noticed any bugs in my playthrough.

does anyone else feel like, uncanny? when you watch vids of this game? it kinda creeps me out the way the canera moves and the characters look. not just bc the glitches but the whole aesthetic. i feel unsettled. it feels like new episodes of the simpsons.

26:10 yeah but with galar you atleast experience every general area of the game. I didn't even know you could get to the steel titan from and directly after iono until late game and it never one ever even has you travel to the fall biome outside of post game but even than the ruinous quartet is missable

Great video, watched it while shiny hunting on pokemon Scarlet. All the ads also for the teal mask lol

I wonder if the developers had an algorithm do most or all of the Pokemon selection & level design of major NPC characters?

The Trainers beeing optional made me not battle any at all, because i already was overleveled anyway. I literally maybe fought like 3 or 4 trainers

I like the gimmick it makes battles more complex you can surprise people (I only do casual battles competitive goes over my head) and set the pace of the battle the hats are silly lmao. I have a skeledirge with grass Tera type and I have swept entire teams with it lol.

It's kinda funny that you used the same font at the beginning of the video as the one used for Mortadelo y Filemón, the best spanish comics ever written. I know it's pure coincidence, I still liked it

I think this is the best way to describe SV, it works, it somehow works with all the horrendous bugs it launched with, I’m honestly surprised the game launched like this.

Man, until like, update 2 or something my fave didn't even play the food eating animation right. I wish I recorded it. The model didn't animate at all except to move up and down, and then change expression at the end (except it didn't close its eyes or open its mouth at any point.) It was like the gen 7 smile the whole way with the background changing and then their eyes changed shape a little. I had no idea what was going on. I thought I was just supposed to enjoy the sandwich png in the background while character sat lifelessly in front.

Great video! At 27:50 or so you mention Larry was based on a popular Japanese TV show - do you have any links or ways to look into this? Larry had me laughing out loud at a few points in the playthrough, any place where he came from would be amazing to see! Cheers!

I was waiting for you to upload

4:27 There's my clip! So glad it made it into the video! :>

When I first saw the eating animation I thought they were throwing up

45:26 I also wanna mention the fact that in these wild battles, it kinda sucks that in certain slopes and terrains pokemon are standing in the air, while in legends arceus their legs actually touch the ground on any surface and adapt to it. What prevented them from implementing it in Scarlet/Violet too? Not to even mention the contact moves in legends arceus actually made a contact and pokemon moved around, instead of staying in the same damn spot. Imo, the only improvement this game had in terms of battle visuals is giving certain pokemon some actual dynamic idle animations (for example lucario having the actual combat pose instead of just standing there)

Note: You also have a 100% chance to critical catch any pokemon you caught before. Anyone else remember when a critical catch was a miracle when you otherwise would have never caught a mon?

Your Part 1 being a homage to "The Fall of 76" was so unexpected, but it absolutely made my night.

I actually work at a school w uniforms and maybe things are different in different countries but enforcement of them isn't nearly as strict as it seems in the games. The uniform is the polo shirt w the logo and bottoms of the students choice and as long as the kids stick to the general color scheme of the top and bottoms, their clothes are appropriate, and the school logo is visible the kids get a lot more freedom in how they wear their uniforms. Sometimes there's even designated "no uniform" days which are usually for picture day or they're pajama days or smth. Also I find it v homophobic that the elite 4 can only be challenged once. I just wanna flirt w Rika some more is that too much to ask? Also I feel like if they were going to set SV in a school then they should've designed the game in a somewhat similar way to Stardew Valley or smth where the game actually starts to feel easier as you progress and gain more skills, yet still contain challenging fights and areas that are also interesting enough that they kinda feel like your reward for being in school as much as you are.