Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a Mess

[@GireumRed]

I am still continuing to stream the game on my KZbin channel, so hit that notification bell if you do not want to miss it! 0:00 Opening Rant about Pokemon Company 2:31 (Real) Introduction 3:16 The Game's Visuals 5:18 Stop with the Tutorials 6:13 The Paldea Region and Its Levels 9:08 Paldea's Characters 10:06 Customization 10:53 Conclusion

[@ChaosDarkLight]

0:52 dat theme

[@anghainguyen9951]

Some feedback, I disagree with the lv scaling ruined the game. The map maker already are intentionally put the weak lv gym one on a side and strong lv gym on a side, They also put the hard gym and titan on harss terrain like slow mountain and desert ( which hard to get too) and you hope to fight weak pokemon there? Then some how the nearby bug gym ledar having 2 lv 55 bug it funny to me. So it you false to run into the play that already be warning by the map maker. It dont help that you complain about tutorial are too "holding hand" then ask for a "babysitting" system that limit the world to you the player so you always have a same LV fight. It wouldn't be fun and challenge it every plase you go are just around you lv and nothing hard, nothing easy. If you want easy game play try to read some information that already in the game or try the closet object to do since it most likely easy. But if you like challenge, just slam you head in what every you plase you like, if you lose grind some LV and try again or may be think about back track to find more new power up that help with you problem. Most of great open world have no LV scaling because it also both break the world and the discovery experience of the player. That my ideal about the LV scaling and i like how SV dont have it. The only bad thing about the LV it the dark crew and the bug gym are being put too far form the grass type gym and the fire crew which make people skip two of them.

[@PL4SMA_807]

Do review on SWSH

[@GireumRed]

@@PL4SMA_807 I am planning to do a full review of SWSH so in the future:)

[@PL4SMA_807]

@@GireumRed ok

[@sanssmash9183]

I feel like if they gave scarlet and violet 1 to 2 more years it would’ve been one of the best Pokémon games ever, they really need to stop the 3 year release “tradition” right now because the mainline games only seem to get more and more rushed.

[@thunderthepikachu150]

They should release more spinoffs as well

[@runningoncylinders3829]

@@thunderthepikachu150 If they can put a smaller team on a spinoff to net that extra time. Presumably Snap did ok, Mystery Dungeon is popular, and I miss the Ranger experience... that's the time needed to work on the next generation. A new Stadium style thing too wouldn't be a bad idea.

[@artycuz6877]

imagine having Sword and shield tcg for another 2 years 🤓

[@screamitout2161]

@@artycuz6877 fair

[@screamitout2161]

@@thunderthepikachu150 pokémon rumble was a gem and it needs to comtinue

[@bradford9086]

I'm terrified of what they'll do to our beloved Unova...

[@senorstacks1782]

Me too. They’re my favorite games. I think BW originally released with 549 available Pokémon I think, that’s more than GF has allowed to be on any switch game ever. I straight up don’t want GF to remake them, I wish a better studio would.

[@malick9549]

@@senorstacks1782 they'll probably only release Unova mons because the other ones are only available during the postgame(in bw)

[@IgnitedQuils]

@@senorstacks1782*649, but yeah still a lot. And SWSH with the DLC proves it can store more than 400 Pokemon.

[@snowarmth]

Are you saying the next mainline game is likely the BW Remake? That feels so unreal lol

[@Klonoahedgehog]

They seem to already be in early development, it looks like there are gen 5 callbacks in both these games and legends which GF only do if they already started making the game. I'm sorry for your loss.

[@awkwardsquirtle]

Not being able to enter buildings with lights and signs and window displays really did tick me off, the towns were really nice but really it was like walking down an aisle full of fake food and candy, everything looked good but it was all fake

[@tomsanders2094]

Ikr was shockingly disappointing 😔

[@SchmergDergen]

Yep, basically just Fred Flinstone trying to get into houses.

[@lol-nd5it]

@@tomsanders2094 just nitpicking. You’re all gonna be sucking this game up in a few years, just like with gen 5, because at the end of the day. Every complaint has been heavily exaggerated or it’s just something so small that it doesn’t matter or affect the gameplay.

[@anafu-sankanashi8933]

@@lol-nd5it unlike gen 5 complaints, these carry actual weight

[@awkwardsquirtle]

@@lol-nd5it it's been years since XY, SM, and USUM came out and most if not all the criticisms they got are still valid. It's people who don't care that thinks it's nitpicking or exaggerated.

[@krampusapprenticeofdarksan7870]

Also you forgot to mention how Legends literally had pokemon make contact with each other when doing attacks, now we are back to pokemon staying still. Plus they forgot to create an animation for the Pokemon closing their eyes when they are affected with the Sleep condition.

[@83cuicui]

There an animation for it you can see it when you send them out and just wait they just forgot to have it in combat lmmao

[@vasilias7987]

The moves sfx also look a bit mediocre to PLA which sounds weird because they couldve just use the sfx from PLA and people would be happy because the physical actually act like one and the sfx looks great

[@kissaku]

I haven't played arceus yet, but I would think there's a big amount of difference in the work they would need to put in animating every move to every pokemon model in this mainline installation. Also they couldn't just drag-and-drop from Legends: Arceus because their production overlapped. It's a bit sad what is the state of this game and I really hope they patch things up. Kinda having fun still. If they'd fix the biggest issues, made character customization better and maybe made the game just a tad bit harder (it's almost impossible not to overlevel to the highest of highs) then it would be really fun.

[@zach415]

They forgot to give them an eye close battle animation? Haven’t those been in the game since Gen 5? Really is 3 steps back one step forward

[@malick9549]

@@zach415 yeah lol, not to mention gen5 sprites and animations were better too so 1 step forward, 5 steps backward

[@LazyStarrfish]

What a darn shame. I don’t know if we will ever get a truly polished main line Pokemon game in the future

[@uwuowo1773]

hahaha no

[@HLFMikiLink]

We will not as those games are one of the most sold games on the franchise, why would they settle for higher standards when lowering them make more profit?

[@Joe_334]

Would you prefer a full game designed l Iike Pokemon duel? I thought that was interesting, but yeah, gamefreak decided to only make it a mobile game.

[@timmytimmymit5607]

Not gonna happen the sales of SWSH set the precedence for this abomination, and sadly it will continue to happen.

[@UnwantedGhost1]

Unfortunately never ever. Even after we're long gone.

[@HLFMikiLink]

We do really need to acknowledge the fact that Pokémon Games have just become a Cash Grab, guided by the greed of The Pokémon Company. They know they're the only one that can produce a "Monster Catcher" game with this big of appeal, so they're just gonna continue to give us more and more thrash and unfinished games. It breaks my heart so much because: 1. We as fans are expecting a brand that continues to evolve and diversify, just as they did from gen 1 to gen 6. 2. Those developers are putting Hours, Days, Months of their time and fatigue just to see their product become a JOKE. But then there's people that only care about money, so yeah, minimum effort and maximum profit. This formula is what we're gonna get for the next 2-3-4-5, who knows how many, generation. We need to recognize this pattern and see them as cash grabs without trying to sugarcoat some aspects, this is not acceptable to any standard. When Cyberpunk released an unfinished game Sony REMOVED it from the store, and they were forced to repay every single purchase because people were not happy with it. Why is it ok for us?

[@Pyxis10]

Because parents keep buying it for their kids, without a good way to get the message out there to parents who don't do enough research I have to wonder what impact a boycott will have.

[@awkwardsquirtle]

Because we allow for it to happen. NatDex was a test to see what they can get away with and the pokemon fans defended despite the efforts of the critics. When they started revealing trailers for SwSh they (the fans) made excuses about obvious issues and that they will "fix it before launch" and when it did release they moved the goalpost and said "they'll fix it with an update." And when non of their excuses works they resort to ole reliable: "it's a kids game". The issue is that we really have no support, so critics are quickly silenced or drowned out by rabid fans.

[@uwuowo1773]

because pokemon fans are doormats and reject every other monster game in the genre as "pokemon ripoffs"

[@unripetheberrby6283]

Ikrrr it's so freaking sad; as developers, as fans! it's all near frustrating! :'( Don't think anyone's done something to deserve THIS uncertainty for so long

[@Rayan01012]

This is also a big problem I have. The games a thrash. But I think it is because of nostalgia reason this happens. People will buy it because it is Pokemon. But I think because it is Pokemon we shouldn't have to put up with this crap. Pokemon is the biggest media franchise and they produce a game like this? It also doesn't help that those Pokemon youtubers promote the game and get sponsored links. We should just boycott these games to make a point. Should they change anything if they can get easy money. I also think if these game were the first Pokemon games, pokemon would never succeed.

[@hudwen]

I honestly believe the tutorial should be an option to turn on and off just like the cinematic option.

[@Joe_334]

Hey neighbor, I understand you just moved here, but Let's battle! --Battle over Okay, let me show you how to catch a pokemon. Us: Ugh, do you even hafta!?

[@ghostrouxinol6169]

I was on the mindset of having "Old Tutorial" and "New Tutorial" setting. Did you never played a Pokémon Mainline game? Here is the tutorial. Did you played 1 or more Pokémon Mainline game? You dont need to spent hours learning something you already know. Or at least do what Fire Emblem does give simple tutorials that can be skipped by pressing a single button if you already know what to do.

[@DJtheMJ]

I feel Larry is the living personification of GameFreak's pain. Very outwardly tired, has a boss that ushers him to be happy on his last Pokémon despite him 100% not feeling it. He treasures his food because that is his only free-time besides working so much, only to immediately go back to work. (This is a joke btw.)

[@EffraBulbizarre]

Hmm... Maybe this is a hidden message from the devs who ask for help.

[@xiiir838]

@@EffraBulbizarre then we need to save them from the fans

[@CosmicVoid_119]

they are to blame too

[@lieutenantlobster6395]

@@CosmicVoid_119 they're not. This is all TPC fault.

[@madjester9844]

@@EffraBulbizarre we have been getting secret "help us" messages ever since team diamond in legend of arceus, with their whole "time can't be wasted" shtick

[@SurrealKeenan]

They literally made the game about the school so that they wouldn't have to design clothing options

[@cosmictrainer2919]

Spoilers: it becomes relevant later

[@gregthomas29]

Haven’t returned to the school since that god awful prologue

[@zjzr08]

@@cosmictrainer2919 I don't think changing it from being a school could've changed much...make your MC be part of an exploration team and Arven is your rival, Nemona is your mentor as a local Pokemon expert, frankly just change Team Star areas into 5 towns that each has a piece of a 5-piece McGuffin that the villain team needs, etc.

[@Swortex]

This is a damn shame that this game was not deleyed.

[@gregthomas29]

But money

[@danielplacencia9633]

Masuda Smoking that good Shit while making this game,All I want is a Decent and Good Pokemon Game....FOR ONCE! No Dexcut,No Excuses,No Rushing,and they should put Mega Evolutions and Z Moves Back (Screw Dynamax)

[@gatz900]

The sad thing is, The core game is great, but the performance issues, the removal of QOL features and longstanding options, and questionable decisions to change core mechanics, prevent me from crowning it as one of the best games. If not for these three, I think it could have been the best pokemon game ever.

[@cosmictrainer2919]

I agree so much fuck you ishihara

[@artimist0315]

*It could have been a great game. But I don't think this could have ever worked as a Pokémon game. It is not about quality, this hypothetical game would have been way better than dp, but Pokémon has a unic style, a charm that is just abscent from these games.

[@SwiggleMcJiggle]

It's also certain details. I know that many do not care, but stuff like not being able to enter stores and the cities seeming bigger than they actually are is something that takes me really out of a game. Corners were cut and it's noticeable.

[@gatz900]

@@SwiggleMcJiggle I care about that stuff. It was for sure cutting corners. Also taking out animation skip options, set option removal, still no ability to skip cutscenes, etc. With the slow frame rate, gameplay just seems slow

[@Danny328DT]

Postgame is poor, story is kinda meh with a few exceptions, and lack of exciting areas. What we need is the Battle Frontier, a story on par with Sun and Moon, and some crazy and wicked locations to make you even more curious to explore the region.

[@mima3616]

But WolfeyVGC, the greatest pokemon trainer of all time, said the new games were a perfect 10/10. There's no way he's wrong right? Right?

[@senorstacks1782]

Well since it’s what he NEEDS to be playing 24/7 to retain his position amongst the top players, then it makes sense that this is the best game for him. Competitively, it does offer a lot of great things. And I see it a common trend that for people who only play Pokémon, this game’s issues are easily overlooked. It’s anyone else who has played a quality game who looks at this and is taken aback by how awful it is in many ways.

[@Burrizo]

He enjoyed the game. No one should base their opinions on a single youtuber's. If he liked the game, then he likes it.

[@Pyxis10]

@@Burrizo Questioning why they like it is not a bad thing though.

[@prebenskill]

Could sucking up to a company have something to do with it perhaps? Everyone saying its a 6/10 + game is a scam.

[@Burrizo]

@@prebenskill No? They're having fun. Shouldn't have to tell people to stop getting mad at fans of the same franchise instead of getting mad at the company

[@futuregenesis97]

Finally someone that understands that GameFreak is not to blame. The Pokémon Company is to really blame for Scarlet & Violet turning out the way they did, they gave a limited budget and force GameFreak to finish the game within a specific time frame, so GameFreak has to time crunch and has to release the game in a buggy state. I also feel that GameFreak don't want to ask The Pokémon Company for extra time due to the way things work in hierarchy sometimes, GameFreak don't want to "bite" the hands that feed them, I mean they get to make mainline Pokémon games for godsake so they can't even say anything toward The Pokémon Company.

[@bandicootsauce4569]

"The AI is quite smart." Oh, I don't know about that. On my playthrough, one of the late game bosses sent out a Delibird that just kept using Snowscape - a move that changes the weather and doesn't do anything on successive uses until the weather it created goes away - over and over again.

[@zjzr08]

Also are the moveset of many trainers just shallow...I saw Larry just using 2 attacks for Dundunsparce which is completely blocked by a Ghost type defensively.

[@OriginalGameteer]

Not to mention next to no trainers use any items anymore Like, the e4 and Champion don't even have helping items... why????

[@zjzr08]

I think I saw what you mean during his stream...and it is baffling why it kept using that move for someone with pretty great offensive stats.

[@zeroshinkai957]

The AI is definitely missing the "I"

[@calvinmatthews1527]

Damn dude, you speak your mind no matter how brutal it is! You're right though, TPC company have enough money to get them through the next 5 years. They need to realize that the more games they release yearly, the more likely they'll cannibalize their own products. We're just so damned fatigued now!

[@timmytimmymit5607]

To hell with Pokémon there are other better monster taming genre titles out there Digimon Survive, Doke V, Palworld.

[@xiiir838]

I'm going to have to correct you there, champ. As an English speaker, in your culture is really easy (and the first thing to think about) to blame capitalism and "greedy corporations" for complete mess like these games, but it's actually NOT. Do you know who's to blame? *The people buying the game.* Not capitalists. Not corporations. The people to blame for the state of Pokémon games are the grown a$$ adults that buy kids games as sh¡tty as these, not one time, TWO TIMES because they want to get both versions. F*cking grown up adults paying for garbage, so they encourage companies to deliver more garbage in the least amount of time possible spending the least of resources to maximize earnings, it's just common sense. If stup'd a$$ grown adults cannot control themselves and avoid buying these games, it's not the companies problem, it's the consumers fault.

[@zeroshinkai957]

@@timmytimmymit5607 I with ya! Time for some digimon survive.

[@saucymongoose7246]

It's sad that even Yandere Simulator runs better than a modern Pokemon game in 2022 from a billion dollar company.

[@OkMakuTree]

Jesus Christ, that's an oof and a half XD

[@saiprimal98]

That's why I feel like saying "Gamefreak is an indie company" is an insult to actual small indie devs because smaller indie devs have produced way more polished and far less buggy games with nowhere near the budget Gamefreak has.

[@cactusrosi1409]

That is a beautiful roast. Damn. *Chefs kiss* 🤌🏾

[@anafu-sankanashi8933]

@@saiprimal98 indie games have a lot more time for releases tho, since they don't have a torturous overhead telling them they will have a terrible fate if they don't release before Christmas. Don't get me wrong I ain't defending gamefreak, but many of the crux problems with their games is the pokemon company.

[@saiprimal98]

@@anafu-sankanashi8933 yeah I also realized that after posting what I said too. It's just a bunch of unfortunate circumstances that led to the games coming out the way they did.

[@O.D25]

I'm about mid into the game and all I have to describe it is this: In a perfect world, I couldn't wait playing this game in at least mid 2023.

[@cosmictrainer2919]

I agree so much

[@AofCastle]

I like having trainers that are way over my level as a potential challenge. However, the problem is that when you manage to beat those higher level matches you might find a gym that's now 10 levels below you. My proposal is to add partial lvl scaling, you can go to places that are harder but you don't find places that are too easy. It's a shame because the last few battles are actually challenging (challenging in this case meaning that my 12 year old me would have gotten stuck there for a few hours as I now try to build teams with broader type coverage)

[@Pyxis10]

Or a difficulty slider.

[@zjzr08]

Would you agree to my porposal where you can set between say Badge Levels 1-8 and then you can face a trainer with that Badge Level team, maybe a stipulation that you can't face their lower Badge Level team comp?

[@AofCastle]

@@zjzr08 well, anything is better than what we have, so I'd take it.

[@theminecraft2516]

I think this game shares many similarities to Sonic 06. For one, the teams were split in two in order to make two games (Pokemon Legends Arceus and Gen 9 for Gamefreak) (Sonic 06 and Secret Rings for Sonic Team). Both were good fundamentally but were released as buggy messes, and both fanbases want it to be delayed for another year. And Pokemon Violet/Scarlet has a town in the game that looks like Soleanna.

[@theminecraft2516]

@@jaretco6423 underneath the glitches I think 06 is good, many people do and Project 06 proved it. I never said I thought Secret Rings was good at all

[@theminecraft2516]

@@jaretco6423 I know 06 is bad but I’m just saying with more polish and 1-2 more years in development it would have been good

[@LC-id6wx]

And just like what happened with Sonic 06, the company will use the backlash and online ridicule as an excuse to never try making this type of game again, intentionally misinterpreting what everyone hated about it. Sonic 06 was basically Adventure 3, with many cool playable characters and an interesting story. But it was rushed for the anniversary and became a trainwreck, so they stopped having other playable characters, stopped writing interesting plots, the characters never took anything seriously again, and Sega basically distanced itself as much as possible from the game, killing the Adventure style for no reason. Pokemon will end up the same way. Open world is absolutely the best direction to take the series, and it has a good story, lore and mechanics. But they wanted it out before Christmas and now it's a critically panned buggy mess, so Gamefreak will never try an open world game again. They'll probably also make the next game's story as simple as possible, and remove anything GOOD that these games intruduced, even though it had nothing to do with the game being a dumpster fire.

[@1BadAssArchAngelvs14]

@@theminecraft2516 sonic and the secret rings was never buggy tho it it was the tilt control sensitivity that made secret rings bad.sonic and the black knight uped sonic move sensitivity to where base starting sonic can tllt better than sonic and the secret rings.

[@theminecraft2516]

@@1BadAssArchAngelvs14 I never said it was buggy, just pointed out both teams were split into 2 in order to work on 2 games

[@Seba20901]

Actually, the gym leaders do change their dialogues a bit depending on the number of your badges. So, for example, if you got your second badge, whatever gym leader that gave you it will say that your level 30 Pokémon will obbey you. So they have logic code to accomodate the dialogues depending on your badges, but not for autoleveling the Pokémon

[@awesomeaggron5236]

The worst part surrounding the problem is they lvl scaled nemona based on your number of badges and nothing else. Like is it so difficult to apply this to the rest of your game?

[@taipaulsen4347]

@@awesomeaggron5236 yes it is for an indie studio like gf

[@viruschris3160]

@@awesomeaggron5236 Level scale? As in the certain Gyms you go that Nemona fights you her team scales to YOURS to make it fair with the number of badges even if that Gym is higher level? I haven’t started the video yet, but is there footage for this? If so, why they heck didn’t they just… sigh. And people DEFEND not level scaling is a good thing as it’s a kid’s game. Bruh, having level scaling makes it easier to adjust to your sandbox progress and helps kids understand where they should be at. Having the freedom to go anywhere and going to a level 50 or so without realizing can cause a lot of confusion… when there’s barely anything to indicate what level they’re at. Especially the Titans.

[@awesomeaggron5236]

@@viruschris3160 yep I fought the gyms rather out of order Grass,, Electric, Bug,, Water,, Psychic, Ice, Ghost, Normal. nemona fights you before your 3rd gym battle, right after the 5th gym battle, and right before the 7th. Every time she was 1 or 2 levels below the gym leader you would had faced on the normal order. Example ionos ace was lvl 24 Nemonas ace will be lvl 22 or 23 I dont remember exactly. Then I faced the bug gym and Katy was lv 15 L. Nemonas ace after you defeat the 5th gym leader which in my case was tulip whose ace was lv 45 Nemonas ace was lv 38 2 levels higher than Larry's ace at 36.but for me who just fought a team of mid lvl 40s which I was underleveled for i was right on par for nemonas team strangely. Before fighting the 7th gym which for me was ghost. I fought her again and nemona was lv 43 which was actually 1 lvl higher than rymes ace who is 1 lvl lower at lvl 42. But she was higher lvl as I was meant to fight her before tulip not ryme. So Nemona is scaled on your badge count but not necessarily the badge you will fight. Very large oversight. This means they did consider the idea of lvl scaling but only did it for these fights :(

[@viruschris3160]

@@awesomeaggron5236 Amazing. They did level scale in the most obscure manner possible. How… how did they not notice this right away? Then again yearly deadlines probably rushed them, but this is why they need to delay the game for more quality. And if they kept this in with still no level scale for the rest… that’s on them and are dumb.

[@KojaVukovic]

Here we go, was waiting for this. Watched couple of your streams. Yes, this game is very disappointing, BDSP levels of disappointing. I believe formula is fine but we cannot let them get away with everything since Sun and Moon games. For a company this big, to produce so many bland games every year and us to defend them and say nothing is just doing wrong for Pokemon. Being critical isn't being hater, we are critical because we care for Pokemon, we love it. Thank you for all of your reviews, you are also a person who truly loves Pokemon.

[@Mrdonjuliothewicked]

BDSP levels of disappointing? Please be fr lol.

[@KojaVukovic]

@@Mrdonjuliothewicked disappointment yes, not as bad as bdsp just disappointing. I excepted so much more. Never said game is bad. It's just not finished and as our boy says it it's lazy, rushed and cutting corners. Game would be amazing if it had more time to be developed.

[@Mrdonjuliothewicked]

@@KojaVukovic I completely respect your opinion! I will agree this game was VERY hyped and as someone who has played the games since 2002 (I’m 24 so since I was 4) and tends to focus on positives of a game rather than negatives, even outside of Pokémon, I still will agree completely with a little more time they definitely could have made some things better like the graphics of people walking from a far and the windmills, as someone who doesn’t care THAT much about graphics I know I will be bias but it doesn’t really take away from my personal experience of the game, it was still 10/10 for my experience. I do at the same time completely understand some peoples’ complaints of the game, I agree w them, the only disagreement I have w Pokémon fans in general is yes every game has their glaring flaws but they pick at their flaws so much to the point every game they’re only talking negative about it, instead of talking good or at the least being honest and talking their good and bad. It’s like some wait for a new game to come out just to complain about something new. I feel no matter how hard Pokemon did try to make the perfect experience and they had as much time as they needed to make the best game, Pokémon fans will still complain. ofc I’m just talking fans in general I’m not at all saying you’re like that.

[@pq6125]

Guys boycott this game! Ask for a refund!

[@ajclemons1368]

@@pq6125it will never happen the fans are kids and man children gamefreak drains their pockets every time they slaps new animals on the box and sell them separately as 60$ titles for Mobile game quality

[@generaltechnomage306]

"Lazy, Rushed, and Cutting Corners" Don't forget Cheap. After all, they don't even spend extra money on staff to make these games release soon without rushing them.

[@AlolanAlomomola]

To me it doesn't even feel like they were cutting corners this time. It literally feels like they were working on the game and all of a sudden Ishihara stormed in and said "Stop whatever you're doing! Time's up, release date is tomorrow!" without further notice. I mean, you can really see they did not have the time to finish whatever they were trying to create here. This time I completely agree, this is not a finished game, it's a development demo.

[@MTGDuelist8870]

it also doesn't feel like they were being lazy either at least to me. the characters and story are actually well written and feel like characters, but the game itself does feel rushed

[@ghb323]

7:50 even BOTW had a scaling system like the collsium ruins’ enemies scales based on how many devine beasts completed, and lynels scaling based on a hidden scoring system that increases when killing enemies

[@saricubra2867]

But BOTW dungeon scaling sucked. It's a very bad example for difficulty scaling. Literally Legends Arceus figured out the difficulty thing this year.

[@NiNGalaxU2]

I’m now a 24 year old who started Pokémon with around 8 years old and Pokémon Pearl. It’s safe to say that I was spoiled a lot because when my own “Pokémania” hit, B/W was released and to me it was somewhat the equivalent of how Kanto stans must have felt during the Gen 1 era since Gen 5 tried to be something entirely new in a very stagnant formula and I got accustomed to that. Never understood why people hated Gen 5 in the 2010’s and find it ironic how now people look fondly to Gen 5. When X&Y came I enjoyed it and even the Kanto references + enjoyed Sun&Moon, but by the time SwSh cane out I was really bothered by so many Kanto references and even seeing how Let’s Go got a really good treatment. With these games you can see that they were allowed to take their time but when the Gen 4 remakes arrived it was clear they had to be rushed out to make a quick buck which made me really unhappy seeing how these days anything with Gen 1 gets polish and the rest not. Especiallly with SV I felt like I’m done with this franchise and now I’m hearing rumors about a Gen 5 remake or Legends game in 2024 and I’m fairly worried to say the least. Plus, yes, 5 years of time would be a great amount of time, however, BotW took also 5 years to make and Nintendo has more employees than Game Freak plus Nintendos’ employees are like wizards in the video game industry. These people have proven time and time again that they can put absolutely amazing graphics on consoles which should not be possible thanks to lots of technical trickery because they are just that good and knowledged in their field and even they had to take 5 years to make BotW. I don’t think Game Freak’s employees are really that knowledged in 3D. And even in the 2D era they had their starter problems. For example, everyone knows that GS has the Kanto region in it but this was not done by Game Freak but actually Satoru Iwata. Yes, you can read it up online. Mr. Iwata looked at the games and said that they were a complete mess and single handedly saved the release date plus had some time left and decided to put the entire Kanto region into the games simply because he was just that good at what he was doing. I agree with the fact that, probably, Game Freak is, at least when it comes to their technical knowledge, a form of indie company but just with loads of money so they can hire a lot of externs to help them out which in my opinion might not be the best solution long term. Personally I feel the best solution would be to double their team to 300-350 people and actually take one or two year of breaks to scholar all of the developers to get them to the level of knowledge of modern 3D games and then, and only then, I believe the 3-year-cycle might actually work. Although even then I’d prefer that they take 5 years for each main game. I’m playing TotK recently and just simply can’t help but compare SV to it. The amount of things you can do in TotK compared to BotW makes this game feel so much more real it’s hndescribable if you haven’t played it for yourself and when comparing it to SV, SV just seems like an alpha prototype that should have never seen the light of day.

[@Monoqor]

This game at it’s core is REALLY good. The visuals, performance, and many other bugs completely drag this title down. The thing I always said about SWSH is that it got screwed by GameFreak basically making it like a ported 3DS game - but *visually* it definitely looked better than S/V, atleast in-battle.

[@maddie_1122]

The lack of level-scaling in this game pisses me off especially because there is a CANON explanation of how it might work In the pokémon origins series, Brock recognises that Red doesn't have any gym badges yet so says "I'll fight you using these two pokémon", indicating that he would've used a different team if Red was more experienced

[@artimist0315]

I literally can't think of this game as a Pokémon game. It is not even because it is bad or all the issues, but the entire charm of the franchise is completely gone at this point. The new creature, characters, region, the gameplay ... even the presentation just don't look like they are part of the same world as Kanto, Hoenn or Kalos. Yet they keep reusing the old kalos models.

[@martwymem2564]

I think that the gen 9 games can sometimes get glitchier than gen 1 games, and that is saying something.

[@klh0203]

I honestly prefer SwSh. Even though it can be too linear and unambitious it at least doesnt take me out of the immersion like the performance issues in gen 9. The core gym challenge of SwSh is just very solid as well, and the intro doesn't drag so much. I'm also in love with SwSh's soundtrack so that helps a bit lol.

[@drigon100]

I'm not even remotely suprised.... Me and my friends all decided to skip S&V after how S&S were. This is first Main line game I have ever skipped and I do not feel like I'm missing out... Which is a shame.

[@jairovera8065]

I want SV to sell so well TPC and GF will be motivated to release a half assed Gen 10 game and see if Pokémon fans will buy it blindly and defend it. On a real note, it’s unfortunate we got another home console mainline game that doesn’t live up to its potential.

[@Gigachad-hb7ji]

I already skipped 2 mainline games.

[@drigon100]

@@Gigachad-hb7ji Can't say I Blame you S&S were so bad

[@Gigachad-hb7ji]

@@drigon100 still haven't got a switch yet. Would probably emulate on my phone,emulation seems almost ready for skyline.

[@cutesyprincess14]

You did yourself a favor. This game isn't really worth it unless you are a die hard Pokémon fan like me. I love this game but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.

[@natetheaverage5270]

I think a lot of the problems in this game are caused by Gamefreak still using the same engine from Sun and Moon, perhaps not exactly the same, but at least a slightly altered version. It worked fine for those games and mostly worked in Sword and Shield, but now they're forcing it to do things it was never designed for and it just barely functions.

[@cutesyprincess14]

Agreed. It is really outdated now. They should hire some new people.

[@xiiir838]

A lot of problems in this game are caused by fans buying them no matter how sh¡tty they are

[@natetheaverage5270]

@@xiiir838 Well yeah, obviously, but I'm talking about issues with how it was programmed.

[@theskoomacat3106]

"It just works!" ~Todd Howard

[@saricubra2867]

"Good visuals" Not that copium again. It doesn't matter if you have Crysis Remastered with super realistic lighting if it runs at 540p 17fps and it's a blurry mess, if you want good visuals, get a PC. Meanwhile, my smartphone can run Genshin Impact at 60fps on 1080p while the Switch can't handle 60fps open world 720p gaming. The Switch always has been a crappy console, i'm glad i can play Switch games on the best console of all time (a PC).

[@mathieul4303]

Nintendo games looks great but Pokémon games always looked subpar on the Switch

[@hapahapahappy]

Every city just feels like a ghost town. You can't go into any buildings at all, which is so stupid and feels incredibly rushed. Anyone that says if it weren't for the graphics it would be the best pokémon game are just not right at all. At least in past pokémon games you could actually explore cities thoroughly instead of just going there to fight the gym.

[@MedsieLovr]

Reject modernity, embrace Romhacking!

[@timmytimmymit5607]

Reject Pokémon embrace Digimon survive, Doke V, Palworld

[@Filip97X]

The saddest part about the frame rate, many people online said, restarting the game fixes the frame rate for some time, before it becomes bad again and you need to repeat the process. Meaning that the console can handle the game but that the game didn't fix its loading block problem but leaves them lumped up using up the consoles processing power and making it unable to load in new blocks. Meaning that they haven't put one of the most essential things that every game has IN THE GAME.

[@Orpheolus]

Having beat the game, I can say that Obi-wan can sum up the game perfectly: *You were the chosen one* and had the game been polished would've probably ended up being my third favourite mainline game but ended up being mid. still fun.

[@isaak0206]

0:54 music?

[@HerculesMays]

It amazes me when Pokemon Crystal Clear, a ROM hack of Crystal made by ONE guy, is able to do a better job of being an open world Pokemon game than the official AAA Pokemon game released in 2022...at least in Crystal Clear the gym leaders and trainers actually scale by badges.

[@zeroshinkai957]

Play pokemon unbound its freaking amazing!

[@IceBlueLugia]

Since when does the gameplay have to be school-focused? Why can’t it just be a backdrop for the setting and an important aspect of the villain story?

[@Malisteen]

i actually like some of the gameplay changes, and as usual the new pokemon designs are good. but yeah, the performance & polish are ~even worse~ than my rock bottom expectations.

[@shroomish6462]

the new pokemon designs are good???? I can name a lot of examples of the art being lazy in this game if u want to like flamigo is literally just a flamingo with patterns on its beak, and that's good pokemon deign to you????

[@brainthebrian3690]

"as usual the new pokemon designs are good." You lost me after that part.

[@Hadvar]

7:41 I could overlook the questionable graphical detail. I could even convince myself to get over the awful distance framerate. But the fact that they didn't deign to scale your opponents' levels to your own progress in an *open world game* , where you are supposed to be able to do *whatever you want, whenever you want* is an absolute tragedy.

[@i_are_bobo]

They're definitely not lazy but for sure they cut corners because they were rushed

[@enegizedadam]

The pokemon games will meet the same fate as sonic 06 soon enough.

[@CantyCanadian]

I fully agree with everything, but I do have to point out that there were different teams working on Arceus and SV. However, if Team A is unable to make a game within the timespan allowed by the marketing team, everything must be rethought.

[@xiiir838]

So you agree with lies?

[@obits3]

“You’re not going to go to class” Someone’s gonna fail the midterms 😂

[@kolin98]

Super underatted channel. Hopefully you grow more soon.

[@stoptfg295]

How improved the pokemon models are makes me really curious as to if the "losing pokemon to improve models" lie from SwSh was intended to be truth at some point. I could see GF being forced to release before being able to finish all models, and choosing to only use the previous ones so that they didn't stick out like a sore thumb right next to the new models.

[@zjzr08]

Are the models improved or just the textures?

[@srfrancium9728]

@@zjzr08 textures

[@johnellisbushbush]

While I agree that mostly its The Pokemon Company to blame. I’d place at least 10% of the blame. They still refuse to hire more developers and seem unwilling to ask for help. Have they addressed any of these issues at all? I’d give it a chance but I’m not buying a completely broken game. The best thing to come from this weeks lacklustre presents was that they did announce another game for November 2023.

[@Smfsableye]

There’s really only one major problem I have with this game so far and it’s that there’s neither level scaling nor any indication of level needed for each challenge. I do expect a ridiculous amount of gatekeeping for the competitive side of the game so there’s that flaw too.

[@Graficcha]

Getting pokemon battle-ready for competitive has never been easier. Hypertraining available at lvl 50, bottlecaps, mints etc can be gotten from shops for a hafty but hardly bankbreaking sum... any pokemon you have even with a bad nature and shit stats can be made optimal easily once you're in lategame. You can remember moves at any time, TMs are no longer freely reusable but you can pretty easily make more if you need them, picnic allows you to transfer egg moves onto an existing mon apparently - beside shiny hunting or people wanting to have the right stats and natures from the get-go, there's no need to spend a tonne of hours lugging eggs around.

[@JasonGodwin69]

The worst part about Pokemon's soulless nature is that so many fans eat it up without appreciating what fangames that took 7 years to make do better.

[@Mick-hp4yg]

Arlo totally nailed it. So heartbreaking.

[@mysryuza]

This why BotW took 5-6 years to release. I wouldn’t be surprised if this considered in the future as the Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly of the series; Inconsistent teams, game done with not enough years to improve and polish the game to meet holiday sales, terrible glitches, bugs, poor framerate, etc. Surprised I haven’t heard about a seizure incident about this. Still not sure why I can be dark skinned but with brown hair only as far as I’m aware.

[@simonw.1223]

Its just the switch is not powerful enough. Say that to Mariokart, Botw, Tears of the Kingdom probably, Arms, Splatoon, Astral Chain etc.

[@BansheeNT-D]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3~

[@jaretco6423]

Metroid Dread. Super Mario Odyssey & 3D World + Bowser's Fury. Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle & Sparks of Hope. Kirby & Forgotten Land. They all ran great. Even the third party ones ran better on the Switch. Dragon Quest 11, Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy & It's About Time, Sypro Reignited Trilogy, Mega Man 11 & more.

[@simonw.1223]

@@BansheeNT-D ohhh forgot that. Yeah that too

[@simonw.1223]

@xid well that is just a better burn as its a team who probably never worked with the switch.

[@jayplay8869]

Lol. Playing Zelda… imaging Pokémon playing, running and looking like a Zelda game in 2023… is just not something one can imagine

[@pwispa9532]

It's real sad because unlike SwSh or BDSP, the core gameplay itself and a lot of the new stuff here is genuinely great, yet the painfully mediocre graphics, jank and performance drag it down heavily. They absolutely needed more time on this one because you know the game is unstable when it needs to be reset like every two hours to prevent memory leaks and crashes so it won't run like ass. Whatever higher ups at Nintendo or Game Freak who are still wanting these games to be yearly are really hurting the series at this point and I hope this launch gets it into their thick skulls that mainline Pokèmon definitely needs gap years now. I don't get why they think Pokèmon wouldn't be able to survive or spin off games and merchandise alone in a year nowadays because it absolutely would.

[@spence6195]

Even if Game Freak released 💩 on a plate, Pokémon fans would gobble it up. No improvements will be made if the broken Pokémon games sell 10 millions copies in the first week

[@j.j.r98]

The no level scaling is so stupid

[@vincenzosama]

And after all these years, we realize that Unova on the DS continues to beat every title in that franchise from the 3DS to the Switch, even though it consists of a pocketable vertical device that only emulates pixels on a screen. Amazing, this is the perfect example of Nintendo. A perfect example of being an incredibly incompetent

[@blackbullet4254]

I feel incredibly blessed that my very first pokemon experience was gen 5. I don't even want them to remake it they will absolutely ruin it

[@taputrainer8463]

Similar to what was mentioned in the video, I felt disappointed that the three paths in the game weren’t three separate story modes. I thought that I could play the herba mystica route and once that was finished I can get to the endgame but I was disappointed to see that you need to beat the other story modes in a set order simultaneously to get certain upgrades. It would be nice if you could do either just one story route or do all three with either one or multiple teams so each player has a vastly different gameplay experience and a wide range of Pokémon to use instead of just mainly sticking to six. I wanted to raise three different teams for each story mode and you still can in the base game, however, you need to use exp candies to level up your Pokémon since there’s no rematch trainer battles. The game’s advertising made me think it was going to be this way but it wasn’t. The game constantly shoves in your face that you’re free to do whatever you want yet its nearly the complete opposite in game.

[@zjzr08]

I agree there aren't really 3 paths, just 1 with 3 different styles, that albeit more than the usual, doesn't feel as fleshed out as the villain story seemed a lot rushed, while the "legendary story" (i.e. the Herba Mystica) was also kinda quick.

[@euroanez998]

I the pokemon adventure manga, is stated gym leaders use pokemons acording the number of badges you have. THIS game, was the best moment to apply this

[@Amon_Gus799]

I think the game is really fun and enjoyable only thing holding it back is that it just feels very unoptimized for the switch which could’ve been fixed if they weren’t rushed to finish it before Christmas

[@HeyItsKora]

The Pokemon franchise is basically dead to me at this point. I still can't believe how EVERYONE was hyped that this game would be the one, this would finally be THE pokemon game for Switch, Pokemon's own BOTW, meanwhile the INSTANT I saw the trailer and the starter Pokemon I immediately was like "oh, it's gonna totally suck, ok" but it seemed like everyone was still convinced that it was finally gonna be a good game. Also people were saying how this one wasn't rushed, that they had taken their time with it, but all I saw was Sword and Shield but you can control the camera and aren't forced down a corridor. I still hoped it would be good, and I still nearly bought it because I bought and played SwSh and although I felt very short sold, I still enjoyed it. I figured S&V would be the same, but now I am very, very, VERY glad that I saved my money. It's safe to say that I will never buy this game with my own money, and it actually pains me to admit that to myself. I was so looking forward to Gen 9... I'll just go back to playing Platinum on my DS and pretend none of this is happening... Great video, great criticism, thanks for confirming that I did the right thing to not buy it.

[@naieve7774]

what a fun beta

[@shroomish6462]

im still disappointed they didn't change the pokemon animations when battling, they still just stand in one boring pose

[@kmdreacts]

Don't blame GF for doing what they do best... Barely anything. Blame those fools who say it's a kids game but buy it anyway, while their age ranges from 20-35. I mean, who in their right mind stays silent while GF continue to make two versions but trading is So Gat Damn easy this day and age. I still use wonder trade on 3ds and get a lvl1 Mew without trying. Can only imagine how easy it is on the Switch. Still, it amazes me how Now people complain about the graphics but Totally let it slide in Legends Arceus 😐🤨 Either way, my run with Pokémon ended the day they released USUM and no Pokémon Z.

[@timmytimmymit5607]

Pokémon died after Gen 6, and when they killed Mega evolutions.

[@kjhgfdfghjkdrtyuiwewe]

I had a bug where the elite 4 and champion music looped the 4 second into over and over, missing out on the rest of the music. It sounded awful. It ruined the whole experience of the fights.

[@Vimalth]

You know that Gamefreak is co-owner of the Pokemon company, not the other way around? They don't have funding problems, they (their leadership, that is, not the ground floor devs) just don't care about making good games and putting in a lot of work when the game just breaks sales records anyway.

[@zjzr08]

I talked with Gireum with this constantly that GF and Nintendo on paper has power over TPC (and seeing the latest patch announcement it seems to have been affecting Nintendo's cred, despite not being technically a first-party game) and should have a say if they see the schedule is too fast - that being said we really don't know who really controls stuff in the franchise so it's hard to know who is the root cause of these problems.

[@Areinu]

Did you see that you can disable story cutscenes in the settings? If I ever do a second playtrough of this I'm skipping everything until the "treasure hunt" starts. I think they aimed to give "guided" experience with the levels. The gym leaders have kind of "tiers" depending on how far you are from the school, so you can have some choice on the order. Then you can mix in some monster hunts when you want to upgrade the bike. If you go too much into your bike escapades or star-falling you'll start getting into dangerous level territory without additional badges, which will "guide" you into another gym challenge. When your gym challenge will be in hard-to-reach place it might guide you into bike upgrades. It's... not perfect, but it kinda works. You'll usually run into some tough battles, and some battles where you'll be too powerful, but overall it's still better than Sword and Shield. The thing is you can't preview levels. While you can expect the level of the challenge based on nearby wild pokemon, final matches against rivals might end up being 20 levels above your team, which is pretty hard to overcome. I had it like that in monster hunt, since I beat the last Titan at levels 38-40, but I think it was meant to be at 50. That said, I don't think it's perfect, but it's a decision someone made. I don't think it's because of cut corners or laziness. Not all open worlds scale. For example Witcher 3 didn't, and it's one of the best open world games in existence. On the other hand Fallout 3 did scale, and it made the difficulty curve too flat, you could just do the same thing over and over, since it was always scaled to your level. Deathclaws were never a challenge, since you could punch them to death as soon as you came out of the Vault. For their first foray into open world I'd say their solution is acceptable.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

You could prolly churn out some fairly impressive still images here, but getting the pieces moving is where it looks like everything breaks. I wasn't considering getting this version; I'll still skip it. I mostly agree with your outlook on this series. It moves too fast on the business end to optimize the experience, making the main series games feel like a bookend for a generation rather than the centerpiece.

[@ZaikoEAG11]

this game was not ready. I'm editing the gameplay to post here. The amount of times this game breaks the immersion (fps, controls, pop out, etc) is absurd

[@timmytimmymit5607]

Stop buying rushed Pokémon games end yearly releases.

[@ZaikoEAG11]

@@timmytimmymit5607 could you guess this game was going to be in this state based on the trailers? the good part is the backlash and people wanting refunds. Let's see if this time it get's to GF's ears

[@malick9549]

@@timmytimmymit5607 nothing will change if you ask stranger on yt to not buy it, yk? The problem is kids asking their parents to buy the game/their parents buying it as a gift because it's pokemon and every kid loves it.

[@poejavelski148]

So glad I stopped playing the mainline Pokemon games at USUM. It’s a damn shame because the kids today won’t know about the magic of gens 3-5 😔

[@timmytimmymit5607]

Same I stopped at USUM

[@cutesyprincess14]

If you stopped 🛑 then why are you here?

[@SERMareep2007]

@@cutesyprincess14 To praise overrated gens like gen 3

[@AniGaAG]

_One_ disagreement: I _do_ blame the actual designers on these games for mainline Pokémon games continuing to be generations behind contemporary JRPGs in just their actual game design. That's been an issue for _years,_ it's not new - it just _continues_ to be one.

[@TheRealHedgehogSonic]

Not only is the school setting useless, but your main character looks like an NPC because of the uniform. I feel like they could've killed two birds with one stone if they reworked the setting.

[@javiersaenz1040]

Stop buying pokemon games until they get good

[@zey8595]

I've been waiting for this! haha Thanks Gireum, the most relatable Pokemon youtuber imo! (commenting before watching but I already know what's going on lol)

[@TheTitan625]

My game crashed last night playing online with friends. Had very heavy slowdowns in cities and certain zones. even my switch overheated and I had to turn my switch off for hours to get it to cool down.

[@greek1237]

I found Iona pretty fun. She has a flare to her. So I am not going insane, there is no clothes options like gens 8 and back??? Just hats and socks.

[@Kazureth]

Did anyone notice, that Pokémon in battle has open their eyes while sleeping? :/

[@HibiTeamQueso]

They could hire Hal Labs (Pokémon Rangers and Kirby and the forgotten land) and Chunsoft (PMD) to release more spin-offs and give the Mainline games more time 😐

[@DanielA-no9xv]

Gen 5 was the last good generation

[@jumping_beanz6209]

Really interesting because personally I enjoy the game and I like seeing other peoples opinions also I got the day 1 patch so I didn’t deal with glitches

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

a lot of mindless kids enjoy the game, you are not the only one

[@jumping_beanz6209]

@@mihaimercenarul7467 First of all really got to start with an insult to make a point? Second of all is it wrong for me to have an opinion that is different from yours? Lastly yeah I’m young but that doesn’t invalidate my point especially because I’ve played many older gens with my first game being emerald so if your willing to talk we can talk about our differences in opinions like regular people

[@jumping_beanz6209]

@@mihaimercenarul7467 or at the very least agree to disagree and move in with your day

[@milotic3333]

The guy deleted his comment? Wow what a loser

[@SERMareep2007]

@@mihaimercenarul7467 dbz fan.

[@ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣΛΑΧΑΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ]

One thing that deserves praise and wasn't mentioned here, is they finally gave Pokémon proper scaling according to their logical size

[@zjzr08]

I will say I do wonder how they're gonna do these types of battles with Pokemon like Wailord whose wide...at least with games like XD having a "pocket dimension" at least we can see the whole battle seamlessly while not disrupting the area.

[@castform7]

I generally am having a good time with the game but sweet Arceus is this $hit ROUGH. When I saw that the first cutscene wasn't finished, I knew I was in for a roller coaster ride. For every two steps forward Gamefreak takes, it seems fall backward tremendously in other areas. For positives you have a world that feels lived in, characters you enjoy, pretty good new Pokemon and a fine new gimmick. For negatives, you have a game that can run a consistent frame rate when Tepigs fly, awful level scaling, a boring first 2 hours and an overall feel of a rush job (which it is) I am so sick and tired of anual releases. I don't care what side projects Pokemon has to delay, they DO NOT need the money they'll gain from it. They need to take their time so we can finally have a good full experience instead of "a step forward".

[@megatronacepticon]

What they could have done with overleveled Pokemon is work it like Ash's Charizard where if your Pokemon thinks it has a worthy opponent it will listen to you, which would be anything within 5 levels or higher of the Pokemon. So if you take a level 36 Pokemon against a level 30 or lower with not enough gym badges you get disobedience, but against a level 31 or higher it will obey. That way you couldn't use lategame stuff to cheese the early areas but could still tackle stuff in any order without the need for level scaling if you catch stuff local to the area you want to take on next.

[@ShellShocks14]

I love this game. Its by far the best pokemon game imo, and its the buggiest shit ive played in YEARS. I realllyyy hope it gets some good patches

[@Joe_334]

Have you ever seen the glitch that makes the character look like Mike Teevee after visiting Willy Wonka's factory, some tall slim looking creature...?

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

it's by far one of the worst pokemon games. What did you smoke?

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

how can you love this garbage lol

[@kixer7957]

@@mihaimercenarul7467 at its core this Is probably one of the best Pokémon games they Just need to patch the game

[@micu8942]

@@mihaimercenarul7467 have you heard of the word opinion?

[@elijahking519]

Do you give a number rating?

[@noah_ignis]

So far with this game I'm having fun this game could have been up there with Black and white 2 but I can't deny that this game is a mess when it comes to it's polish if this game was released in spring or summer of 2023 I think there wouldn't be an issue because Pokemon games need a bigger time gap it was excusable when the games were on handheld but with the Nintendo switch there needs to be more time put into these games the blue prints and ideas are ambitious and the games could have turn out better if the developers were not rushing to meet a strict deadline

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

having fun with this trash?

[@Superluigi881]

I can't get behind people saying Arceus was a beta test for this game when they were in development around about the same time and this game has none of the things it did well.

[@MrA6060]

as someone who finished it already, it gets better imo, i don't like how they don't give me a guide or anything to which order the gyms are. Also apart from the npc and animation slowing down when just 5 meters away, i didn't really experience much general stutter, or if i did i didn't notice it, and i thought i would have it more because i'm playing on a switch lite. Also some really funny moments were seeing opponents with the tag "Student" looking like 70yo men in the school uniform haha Now for the technical production point: are you using some sort of audio processing? because i notice a lot of distortion when plosive are spoken. not saying it sounds bad, it just sounds a little off, i think some more processing of the voice track would do wonders to the overall quality, and without the need to buy expensive mic setups! :) hope this comment helps the algorithm and as a overall critic of the video

[@emilioboyer4170]

No spoiler: spoils pokemon unrevealed by tpci. Dude don't show that stuff.

[@DEMONICxHADES]

Hands-down, the worst design generation ever ! Hate almost all the new Pokémon & honestly they don’t really look like Pokémon.

[@DietWarlord]

Modern graphics and performance. Hoenn style Battle Frontier. Pokemon World Tournament. Level Scaling. = Greatest Pokemon game of all time.

[@zjzr08]

While I agree a lot about problems of level scaling...I do think applying disobedience mechanics to original high level Pokemon caught is a needed pseudo-level cap for progress. They're still pretty tanky so you can technically try to stall out your opponents with them, although it won't be as fun as battling with them. I think wild Pokemon not having a level curve but the trainer battles are would be a nice contrast. Either make trainers match your team based on Badges (but not only the Gyms) or maybe have a slider of what "Badge Level" the trainers can battle you for (cannot be lower than your current badge level). I do think there should be a dynamic success check for these Pokemon relative to the level of the Pokemon you're facing. Like I get the frustration with Glaceon in particular, who was just 2 or so levels higher from the Badge level. 37-35, maybe the success is cut down to 98%, or if it's level 50, then the success is cut to 85%. Not sure if it is still too high though as I know 20 levels higher Pokemon can change a 2HKO to a OHKO.

[@-Down-D-Stairs-]

The game itself is a blast however it's a technical nightmare which is unacceptable

[@platzstarlight]

Still better than BDSP trash regardless.

[@ziggy2metalx720]

Gamefreak have never really fixed any performance issues in recent Pokemon games so we might be stuck with this for the next 3 years unless they actually do something about it.

[@timmytimmymit5607]

Outsource Pokémon to Triple A developers. Like the guys who did the New Pokémon Snap.