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[@pef_v6107]

Completely agree with Clive not getting enough development. Why introduce an awesome character with great personality and design if you're just going to drop them and not give proper backstory or development?

[@Tired_Tortilla]

@@eyeballhasissues6921 wooooosh

[@Hawkatana]

@@eyeballhasissues6921 woooooooosh

[@pef_v6107]

@@eyeballhasissues6921 He's saying that because you didn't get the joke of people pretending to not understand the Director is obviously disguised as Clive.

[@scrp6638]

@@eyeballhasissues6921 what do you mean???? Clive and Clavell have never been in one scene before and there’s no reason to think they’re similar at all

[@zjuraeventide8949]

@@eyeballhasissues6921 Huh, that's preposterous. Clive has a cool pompadour and the professor looks like an old man.

[@rat7791]

Not gonna lie. Cried a bit when Arven got so happy after healing his dog. Arvens whole deal is so much better then the other two because he has a dog and mommy/daddy issues.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

And it doesn't involve world domination, mass destruction, doomsday weapons, darkest days, or any of that extinction-level stuff. It's just a guy wanting his dog to get better.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

Yes I nearly cried and had to cuddle my own dog for a while after. I love Arven so much

[@s.bregnest2857]

Glad other people also felt this way, so I don’t feel like a bitch for having that reaction.

[@ericharrison4067]

Not gonna lie I cried A lot

[@SomeIceGuy]

Would be better though if it was just about his dog frfr

[@Synchos90]

My friends: 'So how is pokemon violet?' Me: 'Probably the hottest pile of garbage I've ever seen a triple A company release.' My friends: 'Then what are you playing?' Me: 'Pokemon violet.'

[@Deergon]

Twitter Pokemon fan behavior

[@Jet_The_Dragon_Hawk]

This also works for skyrim

[@larsthememelord3383]

isnt bethesda a triple A company

[@thewindyredpanda5715]

@@Jet_The_Dragon_Hawk this also Works for GTA5

[@Silentgrace11]

I feel like the big thing with this Pokémon game that has led to it being enjoyed in spite of it being a glitchy piece of shit is, it’s just fun. Aside from FPS and lag to some degree, most of the glitches are just broken and funny and don’t really impact gameplay that much. Im saying this as someone who only maybe has like 2 Pokémon games and haven’t been involved in the franchise or fandom since I was a kid - I’m just genuinely enjoying myself most of the time. Likewise, though, I can acknowledge it’s an absolute crapshoot at its core, and this is in part due to the expectation that Pokémon games can’t be delayed by virtue of the fact that it’s no longer about the game itself anymore, but the game corresponding with the release of the anime and any affiliated merch, which is not a good play for any game franchise to be.

[@toganium4175]

I agree with not needing 2 versions. I guess hypothetically having the Scarlet and Violet Pokémon in the same game would be weird, but I…genuinely don’t care. Version exclusives will always be the bane of my existence as a Pokémon fan.

[@FTChomp9980]

One version works because games like Fossil Fighters proves it.

[@nobafan7515]

Agreed, they can have one and have you pick which versions. No need to buy both or find someone else that has the other version.

[@DracoKazenare]

The whole reason the dual release thing exists is to encourage player interaction, but at the same time as long you have Link Battles and keep the whole mmo style multiplayer then you don't NEED stuff like version exclusives or trade evolutions. It's... Reductive, to put it in a word. I can say this game does have a higher level of difficulty to it though compared to SwSh so that's good

[@leonshirogane5541]

just have friends... or trade online in discord group maybe. i know is annoying is notlike i don't. so i have to fight away to work around it,

[@lightdrgn20]

@@DracoKazenare You mean to make more money. The multiplayer elements are already incentivize player interaction.

[@Doctortots]

"Legendaries that didn't get the memo that this is Spain" It's weird, I see a lot of people mention this, and yet it's one of the rare times when GF actually thought ahead and covered the "oddly placed pokemon" in game by having one of the teachers explain that they are from another region and were brought to this region long ago before being locked up. Then again, I think you get this info after doing some classes, so I really can't fault anyone for not wanting to sit through those.

[@dragneelfire2483]

The biggest shock this video gave me was “Arceus” didn’t sell that well… DUDE IT WAS AMAZING! 😱

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

although to be fair, that game was probably also a test run for the engine in SV, so it succeeded in testing the waters for gen 9.

[@tylercoon1791]

Eh...it’s like a 3/10. It’s like the 3rd best Pokémon game on the Switch though

[@TheSalsaGuy216]

And you know what’s crazy, Arceus proves that Pokémon doesn’t need two separate versions to be an enjoyable game

[@dragneelfire2483]

@@tylercoon1791 What would you say is the best Pokémon game in your opinion?

[@DivineRainor]

Sell well is relative. It sold like 14 mil, which is insane for anything other than pokemon

[@devintheone7534]

I'm so glad everyone recognizes Larry's greatness in his simplicity and realism.

[@castform7]

I definitely agree with the game benefitting from having the stories intertwine a bit, I do like the Area Zero portion cause it kinda feels like I'm the glue holding this group of idiots together but now I wish there was a bit more of that before "The Way Home" to show a small friendship between everyone who isn't me. Also yeah, none of us are good friends to Arven. Nemona's more one note nature is very enjoyable but there are some instance where I'm just "dude, read the room a little better." And we've already discussed Penny's not so great comparison. Then there's the cutscene before the credits where everyone, including the MC are just like "yeah let's go on an adventure" meanwhile Arven's probably an emotional wreck at the moment.

[@viper2003923]

Imo, the "let's go on an adventure" bit feels like it was something a group of kids (which tbf all four of the MC's were) would have come up with in an attempt to help distract their friend from wallowing in grief, and to attempt to make him feel better by showing him the world in a brand new view unburdened by the fact that he felt as though his parent didn't care about him

[@LokiToxtrocity]

@@viper2003923 This.

[@number3766]

Honestly, I think the story could have been great, with a few modifications. 1. Arven is mad that Koridon saved HIM instead of his mom/dad. 2. Arven hates battling cuz during the Area Zero disaster, his Mastiff got severely injured while he was battling with it. 3. Have Star know Penny is the leader, refusing to go to school until their publicly anonymous B.B. Penny is able to return with them. 4. Penny creates Starfall to get everyone back to class without destroying the school and her friend's reputation, having the school doll out "punishments" and her friends returning to school due to the code. 5. Penny cannot reveal her return to everyone else to not cause all of Team Star to abruptly disband and forcing "Clyde" to punish them severely to preserve the school's reputation. 6. Link the non-violent success of team star scaring off their bullies with the Area Zero disaster, possibly defending everyone, bullies included, from the randomly appearing paradox pokemon. 7. The professor is stuck in a space-time anomaly like PLA and must be sent back to the past/future to stop the rift from spreading. 8. Their main goal has always been to protect Arven, first to contain the anomaly and presently to be exiled from the present to protect him. 9. Make it more apparent that Nemona is "miss perfect" due to wanting human connection. She's the negative side to the "gifted" child, isolated and obsessive with her interests as everyone either treats her as unapproachable, or the hyper-competent heiress princess. She's excited to meet you, the player, as you treat her like a normal person and give her a challenge. She's a bit obsessive because it's the first time in forever she has had a friend that can rival her own abilities and hasn't (unintentionally) abandoned her like her family. You're all she's got until the area zero stuff so she's afraid of losing you like her family, and thus can be a little overwhelming and obsessive due to lack of social experience. The way she's written right now is kinda....Yandere. 10. Mabe make the champion a survivor of the area zero incident, her ace is found in area zero and I'd like to see a paradox mon or two on her team. 11. Make the champion's personal reason for watching over Nemona, Arven, Penny and you being they remind her of herself or the professor. She may have been her assistant. Penny and Arven being the professor, Nemona and MC as her. 12. The second "me" isn't the AI, it's the professor from the other game. They collaborate with each other in creating the time machine, but end up creating the space-time anomaly due to opposite equivalent actions in each of their universes (ripping time to the past and future at the same time), causing the time-space anomaly and the area zero incident. 13. The professor has the opposite box legendary as her "ace", it being agitated it isn't in the proper time or space it was originally from. 14. The Koridon/Miradon you fight in the postgame technically comes from the other game, the OT being either Sada or Toro when caught. 15. Give Arven some closure in the post-game. He just lost his parent again, gone through multiple life altering realizations and has overall had a really bad time. Give the boy some peace, mabe accepting his parent's death and moving on with his new friends (the area zero crew). 16. Have Arven, Penny, Nemona and the player have more interactions together. I think it would be funny for Nemona to be fascinated by the titan mons, Penny trying to be the "super secret spymaster" but dorking out to Arven and Nemona, or just Arven being tsundere to everyone, helping out in little ways and denying he cares. (saving leftovers for Nemona and Penny, helping Nemona with pokemon matchups, Penny with technology and everyone with cooking) Seriously, the lack of interaction is criminal.

[@BlueMewGamePlays]

@@number3766 You forgot about giving us a option to marry Nemona.

[@CombatSportsNerd]

@@viper2003923 That’s nice and all, but it’s just straight up poorly handled

[@Set666Abominae]

I do quite like that they’ve subtly, through Arven’s story, grounded an actual distinction between damage Pokemon receive in battling and actual, serious injury. It’s something that’s been needed for a long time, because some Pokemon moves being literal would lead to quite the body pile!

[@neptune-waltzesinvoid]

Light That Burns The Sky go brrrrr

[@ewormXD]

Which makes the "how dare Arven use Mabostiff in battle afterwards" argument such a painful "way to miss the point" moment. Are you gonna kill him? Are you gonna send a savage uncontrollable Paradox monster at him? Or just your trusted teammates who know how to battle like professionals? So maybe shut up and give the doggo his first exciting fight in months!

[@acesniped639]

I thought Penny's lack of awareness to arven was a funny contrast. She's not super socially inclined so the whining makes sense. I really enjoyed the area zero dialogue overall

[@GuardianLinx]

Hard agree. Didn't love Penny's character personally, but the interactions in Area Zero were great, and I thought everything more or less made sense for the respective characters

[@diersteinjulien6773]

Area zero and the banter between the characters are what the entire game should have been. I REALLY hope next game we will have permanent companions to liven up the journey. After all, the anime has been doing it since the very beginning, and no one ever complained about Ash's companions

[@Croach193]

Makes sense, sure, but only because her character is so shit to begin with. “Let’s make a character who’s just the personification of an edgy internet teen.” Penny was absolutely the worst part of the game for me. I thought she was extremely obnoxious to begin with, and the twist with her being the boss of Team Star cheapened the whole story for me. I thought the Team Star story was so good and so sweet the whole way through, until they decided to make this random girl we only saw a couple of times the boss. And then to have that random girl acting like we were good friends at the end of the game even though we still barely knew her? It was so dumb.

[@franknova987]

​@@diersteinjulien6773 X/Y tried it giving you like 4 friends that show up from time to time and.... their mostly forgettable

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

althoough halfway through I got fed up with those three stooges slowing me down. By the time Professor Sada said "glad you reached this far without any incident" I didn't hesitate to say out loud "oh I got three incidents right here with me..."

[@magetsalive5162]

Ah yes, the fabled third version of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. The one that combines version exclusives, makes three or four random 'mons exclusive to S/V, and combines the plotlines of both games. How do you feel about this, Arven? "MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!" Thanks, Arven, for that valuable commentary.

[@Anton-de5vu]

The fight with the robot professor had without a doubt the COOLEST presentation of any Pokémon fight, watching the fucking menu text glitch out blew my mind

[@chickennugget6684]

If they were evil they would definitely would be worthy of the Super villain title, just standing at the time portal using fricking master balls, gods it's great. i'm also a real sucker for that kind of sequence involving menu buttons that have always been there but didn't do things

[@iverakansol9218]

Loved seeing the "AI Sada/Turo has no intention to fight anymore!" you can even see it flash in this video when Scott shows the clip. Crazy

[@Eterco]

Larry: "As a normal type gym leader, I try my best to catch various normal type pokemon" *Proceeds to throw out Arceus*

[@kristastic14]

Fun fact: I named my character Clive before actually knowing that there was a Clive already, so now there’s a cool female clive with purple hair and then emo disco clive. Edit: yo thanks for the likes, this is the most I’ve ever gotten on a KZbin comment

[@Volt790]

3:10 I know its the haha joke about Arven & Mabosstiff but even Mabosstiff himself wants to get back into it. Arven has him reassure he wants to. He wants to show he can play with the big boys.

[@Bladehound83]

Honestly, I know it's just the same model/pose as every Mabosstiff in the game, but seeing him with that big ol' grin after everything he'd been through just made me unreasonably happy.

[@Hawkatana]

7:22 You hit the nail on the head. That's why they added stuff like forced party EXP share and even removed the "Set" battle style despite it having been in the franchise since *RED AND GREEN IN 1996.* Game Freak is ultimately more concerned in dictating how players are allowed to have fun than any other concern that could or *should* take precidence.

[@castform7]

Pokemon, the game marketed as an infinite choice machine, gives you less choice to optimize the way you play each game.

[@edfreak9001]

tbf "dictating how you're allowed to have fun" might as well be a slogan for Nintendo as a whole

[@imreallybadatnamingthings]

@@edfreak9001 Hard agree

[@franknova987]

The fact that speedrunners are suffering cause allot of stuff gets locked via VERY specific checkpoints because the game was programmed that way

[@mushroomdude123]

Especially with this being the 4th Switch title to not allow you to change the multiplayer battle timer, effectively killing any chance of people playing Single battles in game.

[@Nightdweller4]

The story about the pokemon of ruin, is that they are from a different land and that's why they have some Asian culture to them, hope this clears up the confusion

[@firekirby123]

Yeah, definitely seemed to be a nudge at nations known for colonization taking artifacts back home with them, then either mishandling them or misunderstanding them. It's a really interesting idea that highlights a problematic mentality in human history, similar to the fossil pokemon in Sword and Shield. Plus, the Pokemon themselves look rad as hell and their theme is an absolute bop.

[@sparrowfox6943]

@@firekirby123 Wait, I thought they were originally gifts from another region that just happened to have been cursed?

[@firekirby123]

@@sparrowfox6943 I thought they were taken, but you very well might be right. Been a hot minute since I went through the History class that covers them. Either way, pretty sure it was still the evil actions of the king that led to them being cursed, not the least of which was avarice.

[@Slimeonian]

@@firekirby123 nah the king was gifted the treasures by a merchant from the east, and the king gladly took the treasures without knowing they were already cursed. It was that curse that let to the treasures becoming Pokémon and causing ruin across the region. The king simply got too greedy and took any treasures he could find, and that greed came back to bite him in the end

[@Lolia.]

@@Slimeonian The King was known to hoard and covet great and rare treasures. He bought the treasures in his greed, and while they were in his possession, the King's greed corrupted the items and brought upon ruin as a result of the King's doing. In some Asian cultures, objects can become alive when exposed to intense emotions, because of the greed and corruption these Pokémon awakened into the forces that tried to destroy the kingdom and everything within it. Thus they had to be sealed. Which is why, the trainer, with a pure heart could release them and quell the Pokémon of Ruin's rage.

[@rmc10o]

I kinda like how disconnected the stories feel. It makes sense with how your three buddies at the end aren't just immediately best friends and kind of step on each other's toes as the get to know each other.

[@MrBizznessMan]

Scott having his endslate theme be Remix 10 from Rhythm Heaven DS just makes me hope he eventually does a video/stream of it

[@vesseltried]

THATS WHAT IM SAYIN

[@omasumi]

rhythm heaven with a mix of salt

[@GoodTofuFriday]

I only learned that song was from rhythm heaven a few weeks ago.

[@herrpokemon9929]

I never noticed that 😅

[@ReikuYin]

I've felt the same.

[@novasoup]

4:06 lol i felt the same way about what penny said, i was playing it live on a call with friends and was like "SHUT UP PENNY AT LEAST YOUR PARENTS ARE STILL ALIVE"

[@jordy7625]

Facts. I know Arven was like "Must be real nice to have a dad that didn't say he was going out to get milk".

[@trellyv8826]

Bro she didn't even know that yet and also they are children and you know people have different opinions on things. People need to calm down and stop looking for random reasons to be mad at things.

[@TheRedarm75]

You missed the part that avren didn't want to send out mabosstiff and honestly Mabosstiff was the one who egged him on to challenge you in the first place "I forgot how much mabosstiff loved to battle"

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

Yeah I loved that, like his dog just pulled a "I'M HEALED LET ME AT EM"

[@BonkersBoop]

Larry kinda almost wiped me lol

[@HazbinCovenWitch]

I _hate_ his Staravia and his fucking Brave Bird. 😡

[@poggersman]

never underestimate larry

[@casual3123]

Sort of weird how Iono was seriously the only gym leader where terastilizing into thier type was actually smart and no other boss have any strategy behind thier tera type choice other than STAB. Also I don't understand how the PC boxes in SV lag. Like, X and Y may have run at 30 most of the time but thier PC boxes ran at 60 FPS! How is the Switch running a smaller simplified version of something that existed on a weaker console a whole 9 years ago!?

[@NightClubSamurai]

its possible that these games load up all the models of the pokemon stored in each box which makes it lag

[@bfeldz1023]

The chef dude terastalizes an ice type into a water type which is also a defensive terastalization.

[@gigavoltx8340]

Iono's Mismagius honestly messed me up my first attempt due to Electric + Levitate (mostly because I used Encore with Maushold and accidentally locked it into Charge Beam, which got out of hand REALLY fast with Sp.Atk stacking).

[@huntata2360]

Area Zero is a PG Made in Abyss and I love every other aspect of this game too. Including the Sandwich making.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

Oh my god it totally is. It even looks like the layers... Oh now I can't unsee it

[@jahfeh8846]

First thing I thought of when I entered area zero

[@gasterthemaster6490]

I guess Koraidon/Miraidon did kill someone, so that's the closest thing we'll get to MIA in Pokemon.

[@598019001]

Honestly, I think if Scarlet and violet had gotten maybe 3 or 4 more months in the oven, it could very well have be held up as one of the best of all time. As is the rough corners hurt it with the bugs and such which take it down a notch, but it still seems like a great game.

[@InsanePigeon]

Yeah well, if a game was purely judged on its concept and not its execution, sonic 06 would be like a 7/10. Honestly I hope this downward pokemon trend continues, might make the developers actually try something new instead of replacing gimmicks like light bulbs every gen.

[@DiamondAppendixVODs]

@@InsanePigeon considering how well scarlet/violet sold despite how fucked up it is, it's more likely the devs will just think "oh we don't even need to finish the games, they'll sell anyway"

[@mysticdigital5936]

Yeah no, you can't say "If you ignore all the problems THEN it's a great game." It's a bad game.

[@CringeAnimePFP160]

To be honest, I don't know any of the glitches that others have been experiencing. I've been playing violet for a while now, and the worst I get are little fps drops every now and then, which I don't really mind.

[@loopingmoon1444]

@@mysticdigital5936 He's not though? He's saying despite the problems, it's still a great game. You can have your own opinion about the quality of the game, to me if I can have 70 hours+ worth of fun, that's worth something. But you can't say he's ignoring the problems when he's acknowledging them in his statement.

[@lamb6549]

Maybe the Penny storyline Is not so clear, but i find It clever Penny wants you to take down every team star base and everytime you take down a base, the boss has to give you a badge and leave their position as boss So at the end, it makes sense for her to ask you to beat her, so she can be the big boss no longer and she doesn't need to abdicate and It doesn't look like she betrayed her friends

[@draigg0]

I find it really refreshing that they actually acknowledged how teachers overlook bullying, and that they don't get punished for sticking up for themselves, which most bullying victims irl end up getting after being ignored by teachers. Team stars storyline is basically what every kid who's been bullied wishes would happen xD

[@Arcane_Kobold]

You forgot the most important thing: the ost in this game is absolutely phenomenal. Especially Vs. Penny

[@Ilikebats123]

3:15 Best part about this is it was literally the dog's idea.

[@lilboygthorns7373]

Penny for me went from: “Aww, look at this little adorable ball of social anxiety” to “this is the saltiest brat I have ever seen”

[@tabletopnephilim4633]

I legit was not expecting Mabosstiff to be as strong as he was. Nearly wiped my entire team. Also I would legit love it if we eventually got a non-robot third Kirlia evo based on Iron Valiant. I would never get Gardevoir or Gallade again.

[@magicfish8213]

Idtiot doesnt know that Clive is his favorite character in disguise, Larry

[@elitobin]

Larry is peak pokemon character 🤯

[@thedastardlylizard5944]

THE SALT STINGS AHHHHHHH

[@rippletail8942]

100% agree on the raids, especially as someone who really enjoys shiny hunting. Having one of if not the main method of hunting this gen be locked behind something so tedious and frustrating kills me

[@Poopemoji500]

I do believe that they will make another Legends game. Even if it didnt sell amazingly, everybody who played it loves it, (as far as I can tell), and for a brand new spinoff, it sold amazingly.

[@clockworkcat8576]

It definitely sold well enough for at least another one.

[@wintersong2266]

It sold almost 14 millions copies. I don't know in what world that isn't amazing sales numbers. Especially for game that released just after the holidays ended.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

Yep exactly! The only real complainers were the ones who never played the game. Sure there were bugs, but Nintendo is known for having tons of bugs in their games even years down the line. The graphics were great for how bad the Switch runs and how pixilated the screen is, not to mention the story and the designs for the new forms were amazing

[@adaphion]

If it's set in the past again, I hope they just have the player character just actually be someone from the era instead of some pointless time travel bullshit

[@dro5888]

@@adaphion Pointless time travel bullshit is fun, but also I feel like it will mostly be like based on the other legendaries for your method of finding yourself there.

[@mehemynxm6974]

My favourite part of the story was that the parent didn't "really love you all along". Even the AI goes "wow he just stopped caring about his own son". Made the AI feel more impacful as it viewed Arven as it's own son.

[@Axqu7227]

Absolutely. USUM was completely ruined by Lusamine being contrite/sorry at the end and it made me absolutely hate those games. The original sun and moon were super impactful because Lillie and Gladion both had different responses to a selfish and cruel parent pretending to be kind: Lillie wanted to help and Gladion was done with her forever, and both were treated as good options. Lusamine going “teehee I’m wrong and I’m sorry” ruined ANY impact the story had.

[@Chloe_Zana]

I didn't get that impression at all. I think that the professor did love Arven, it just wasn't enough to drag them away from their work, and that was the real problem. They had a photo of Arven and Maschiff that they took from their lab pinned to a whiteboard, for instance. Maybe if they hadn't died they would have changed and maybe not, but now Arven will never get the chance to find out, and that's the real tragedy.

[@mehemynxm6974]

@@Chloe_Zana The Professor certainly did at one point love him. That's why the AI does as well. But by the end he no longer cared about Arven. The AI was told to kill everyone and the professor just left Arven alone.

[@mehemynxm6974]

@@Axqu7227 It was really jarring to have her go from "you're literal trash" to "welp I lost, did I mention how much I love you guys" lol.

[@cosmicblizzardvods3595]

Glad to know Arven's story affected so many people. Took Lusamine's place as my favorite character in the whole franchise.

[@yhlanded]

I heard one theory that Clive is actually the school director in disguise. They’re never seen together in the game… interesting theory

[@ArshadZahid_nohandleideas]

I call bullsh*t, there's no way!

[@fuzya8636]

Nah, ur tripping it's obviously Nemona, they've never been seen together either

[@Zorae42]

Can't believe all you people didn't expect Larry's type change. There were 8 gyms, 5 team star, and 5 legend pokemon - one for each type; so I was super interested to see what the types of the elite four were going to be since they'd be repeating them. And then the first two were ground and steel - both legend pokemon types. It was pretty clear they were reusing those (makes sense since they were a single pokemon instead of a full team). Which meant that Larry had to be flying or rock or dragon (although not dragon if you had done stuff with Hassel and found out that's the type he uses).

[@rivercook8894]

Also, he kind of foreshadows it is his gym battle with his last mon being a bird. And the clouds on his tie.

[@An_Entire_Lime]

I cant believe you expect people to actually pay this much attention to the types of every single boss in the game I am just trying to get through the elite four man, I am not gonna stop to crossreference the type specialty of the first two members with the titan pokemon

[@MelloTay]

I honestly just saw the light blue on his tie that reminded me of the flying type. That was how I guessed it. I didn’t even notice there were clouds on it.

[@primrose4382]

I only thought Larry used flying in the Elite Four because fighting types are super effective against normal types which he usually specializes in.

[@quinntessentialskill7414]

Also, Tyme, the math teacher, is a former rock type Gym Leader, so that's how you could process-of-elimination completely.

[@pwojo9776]

My biggest gripes about the game: - The lack of customization despite having the most in-depth customization options. You have a million options for shoes, socks or tights, bags or backpacks, glasses, helmets or hats, beauty marks or freckles, hair, gloves, etc. but god forbid you have more than 4 options for actual outfits that you can't even mix and match pieces. The in-game reasoning is that you are at a school and it's a school uniform, but Penny isn't wearing the uniform and the Team Star leaders are wearing heavily modified uniforms. I would wear a coat like Giacomo if I had the option. - The Elite 4 teams versus how the gyms hammered into you the one mechanic of "not the type they specialize in but looks like it and teras into it", and also how of all the new ground, steel, flying, and less-so dragon type Pokemon there are each member only has 1 new Pokemon. Rika could've had Clodsire, Toedscruel, Donphan, Krookodile, and tera-ground Garganacl. Poppy with Revavroom, Gohldengo, Tinkaton, Orthworm, and tera-steel Ursaring. Larry with Kilowattrel, Flamigo, Bombirdier, Staraptor, and tera-flying Dudunsparce. And Hassel with Cyclizar, Garchomp, Dragalge or Tatsugiri, Baxcalibur, and tera-dragon Tyranitar or Gyarados. - Geeta, the champion, and her team. Like, we all know her team is trash. I'd be repeating what's already been said. I think her team should've been Glimmora to start to actually make use of its ability, then Palafin, Armarouge or Ceruledge depending on the version (she has the opposite of the one you can get in your game), Iron Treads or Great Tusk (she has the one from your version), something intimidating or scary like Luxray, and Kingambit as her ace (maybe it's tera-normal or something) again to actually make use of its ability. - Some of the Gym Leader's tera-aces didn't make a lot of sense or felt like a cop-out. Larry, I like him, but his tera-normal ace Staraptor felt like a bit of a cop-out, like it's already a normal-type, that kind of feels like cheating, Flamigo would've been better in my opinion. Katy's tera-bug Teddiursa barely makes sense, at best it's a bug-bear but I feel like that's a bit of a stretch, something like Applin or Toedscool would've been better to go with her whole cooking/baking theme. Iono having Mismagius also barely makes sense, Varoom or Orthworm would've been better, something silly or a weird kind of cute. - The whole like top-third of the map just felt like empty. The ice-gym isn't even part of a town, it's just on top of the mountain. The Fairy Team Star camp is just in the middle of bumfuck nowhere; like without the camp there it's just an empty marsh with a lighthouse in the middle of nowhere, there's like barely a road that leads to it. Zapapico serves no real purpose other than having the Charcadet evo items. The bamboo forest and the tagtree forest seem really unique just to have no actual town near it; like in other games, there'd be whole towns to go with them. Also, there's too much of the quarry; I know they needed it for Titan Orthworm but there's just so much of it all.

[@bfeldz1023]

Iono having Mismagius was because of Mismagius having levitate and as a result having no weakness after tera. It was purely for mechanical reasons and to show off just what can be done with terastalization. I hate Iono, but she has one of the best tera mons of all the gym leaders for the creative use of the ability alone. Larry having Staraptor was to give him a Normal/Flying type both to hint at his future typing and also to reference the most common type combination in the series. It was also done to make his facade hit harder. I'll give you the Teddiursa though, was a weird choice. I guess you could stretch and say she's a baker who makes sweets and bears like honey which is sweet. Edit: Baker lady should have had bread dog.

[@kiarah.371]

penny and the star bosses are dropouts...hence the lack of uniforms..... Also, the fairy squad is far out because they're... fairies.....just like the fighting squad is up in the mountains.

[@poggersman]

@@kiarah.371 1. still no excuse why nemona doesn't wear a uniform lol 2. I guess but you could really make that argument with anything. If it was Flying you could say "oh they flew away to the mountains" or if it was rock you could say "oh its part of the mountain region" or if it was dark you could say "oh the base camp is hard to find like how it's hard to see in the dark" etc etc. I know it's an old comment and I'm not trying to be rude or anything but I just wanted to point these out edit; I'm an idiot and I misremembered, Nemona IS wearing a uniform, so I'll give that one to you

[@dj146n]

Scott's little "NEH HEH" at the end gives off such big goblin vibes and I love it

[@treywilliams1388]

Funny thing is the only actual glitch I got in the game was at the end when I accidentally fell off a cliff during the cave part….and that benefited me cause I was a getting lost and it instantly teleported me to the bottom.

[@dusa-]

Once I found out I could shimmy myself off the cliffs I just kept yeeting myself to the next area because walking was so slow and I was getting lost.

[@dolphinplayz1230]

I was on a call with my friend at area zero and he told me to just jump

[@spindash64]

5:50 finally, a machine running on non-binary code

[@PattPlays]

1:10 everyone who played and got tired of Pokemmo ten years ago: it really isn't all that fun

[@topcat59]

Larry’s truly is the best Pokémon trainer you can fight against, it’s a shame you can’t hang out with him and offer him some coffee.🐱

[@CrimsoniteSP]

Scarlet and Violet are the pure definitions of like a diamond in the rough... if the "rough" portion was just the game and the "diamond" being the gameplay. For how bug riddled this was, it actually is my favorite Pokemon title. A lot of the Pokemon games end up feeling like a slog. This one didn't. When I finished the game a shiny hunted the ones I wanted to hunt, I just wanted more. And more. And more.

[@chickennugget6684]

It gets so much right but misses so horribly on features *that were in previous goddamn games* I don't even get how the boxes are so bad, surely it wouldn't take much memory to cache fricking sprites

[@Angrymorganite930]

Lol it’s actually really funny because Koraidon is literally just standing there waiting for you to battle it and then I just immediately caught it with a master ball 😂 like it’s ready for this huge epic battle, psych!

[@quantum6355]

3:46 It’s confirmed from the anime that the “Masked Royal” is Kukui, not just someone who looks like him.

[@squee-g1658]

To be fair. I could be just an anime thing.

[@rockb0ttm]

It's confirmed in the games too, he's making a joke on secret identities being obvious

[@Cinnaschticks]

That's the joke 😂

[@Cinnaschticks]

​@@rockb0ttm yuppers, can confirm, fun game

[@frohawk231]

Im so happy Im not the only one that failed the exam for wanting to have fun. It felt like such an annoyance at the time of wanting to enjoy the game gets you punished.

[@TheDapperDragon]

It's not that at all, and it's such a simpleton complaint. Imagine you show up at a job interview, and they ask why you want to work for them, and you say 'for the money, duh.' Obviously you're not there because you just love the place so much, but it speaks volumes of your attitude. You're essentially telling Rika 'Your entire organization, your life's work is basically just me having a laugh.'

[@Johnmerlin20]

Im so happy you mentioned Black and White 2 being one of your most played and enjoyed. Gen 5 still holds as my favorite generation and most played one by far - I hope they don't butcher the remakes ( I have no hope unfortunately) I would rather them not remake them at all with how remakes have been going tbh

[@NightBladeSpearichu]

Instead if a remake how about Legends Kyurem?

[@Jhams009]

@@NightBladeSpearichu or even legends genesect/victini, two of the coolest mythicals with some sort of interesting backstory

[@Fungo4]

I didn't like Black 1, but everyone seems to love the sequels. What did I miss out on?

[@Johnmerlin20]

@@Fungo4 The sequels had a pretty good variety of encounters, it was nice to see the time skip for the gym leaders and your companions from the first game. And it wasnt too easy or too difficult its also the only game with an easy, normal and challenge mode (although how to unlock them was dumb as hell) and pokemon world tournament was probably the best thing they have ever created in a pokemon game IMO. You were able to fight gym leaders and champions from other regions who had updated teams. Honestly overall it was a great game and had a lot going for it at least I like to think so. For me its not just nostalgia either I recently replayed every pokemon gen over the last 2 years again and it holds up for me lol

[@bekkfxst]

@@Fungo4one of my favorite parts was the sheer amount of stuff to do: Pokéstar Studios (you act out battle scenes in movies), Join Avenue (you run a mall), musicals, the Pokémon World Tournament, then beating the E4 unlocks the other 1/3 of the map which includes white tree hollow/black city-and that’s only talking offline content.

[@Aereto]

6:18 I built to focus as defensive support to give heavy hitters better survivability in the face of a wrecking ball. Reflect/Light Screen and Safeguard is a huge help, which barrier breakers are the only counter in comparison to the turns required to buff defenses only to be negated by the Tera Power. I have played enough RPGs that buff and debuff on bosses make huge difference.

[@homocancer]

Finally, someone who understands that the bugs aren't as bad as people say

[@brackenseely3175]

Penny's story mostly played out on its own. It felt like I had some battles on the side while the team sorted out their drama

[@zahariusgallicchio]

Well, since you already like the MegaMan line I'm sure you'll love the fact that Ceruledge is a one 'Mon raid sweeping machine. Ceruledge slightly edges ahead of Armorouge just because Bitter Blade is a better recovery option than what Armorouge gets. Both are *very* comparable otherwise. They have such incredibly deep move pools and access to so much potent setup tools that there is an incredibly limited pool of 5 or even 6 star raid Pokemon that can threaten you. I've found that the only Raids that are a struggle are the 5 star raids where the Mon has access to a Sleep inducing move.

[@ThePickledAuthor]

I still wish it had some form of level scaling. Legit, I took an hour just to explore and check out all the neat things in the local areas before my objective, and I was instantly over-leveled the moment I went back to it. It's not a terrible thing, but if you give me an opening to explore, I'm going to explore, darn it! lol

[@darknessscythe1]

There always Super Nemona to fight after the Ace Tournament at the schoolyard with her full team of lv85 competitive trained pokemon.

[@Thecloudster0]

That STC joke scared the hell out of me, but that was what I needed…

[@GamerNonGamer]

It's from one of his streams. He's laughing for like a full minute after he makes the joke and it keeps going with the dialogue afterwards.

[@K-wolf_Alexandrite]

Say what you want about Arven, but he handed me my first and only L of my playthrough with that Mabosstif. I was only under leveled by 5 but that pupper was tough.

[@dyingstar24]

"with legendaries that didn't get the memo that this game takes place in SPAIN" uh-oh! SOMEONE didn't pay attention in history class!

[@Guest_8382]

1:gym battles 2: grocery shopping 3:bully hunting Yes classic Pokémon

[@artsydemon8914]

Okay, so, fun fact about the Asian-named legendaries. It's a nod to the Japanese invasion and colonization of Spain hundreds of years ago. It's kind of a recognition of "Yeah we fucked up, so here's an exaggeration of us sucking" so they made the invading king want to bring ruin to the world with those artifacts.

[@protomoto]

100% agree the arcs should have some over lap where like you have to beat a team star boss with nemona or arvin to get to the titan or next gym. I feel like if they had more animated cutscenes it would break up the rush everything mindset.

[@draigg0]

It would be nice to have some overlap but then it would kinda take away from the open world aspect of the game by not being able to progress until you've done part of the other stories first, and/ or you might accidentally get spoilers for one storyline if you don't play it in the order gamefreak hoped you'd play it in xD

[@CombatSportsNerd]

Ok seriously, I freaking love your CC animation at the end

[@deadlydingus1138]

Violet was the most fun I’ve ever had playing a pokemon game. Not to mention, I can’t think of a design in this game that I don’t like (though I wish Skeledirge’s eyes would look in the same direction). As a result, I decided to play through Scarlet, too, so that I could just get to use more new pokemon and I enjoyed it just as much. Say what you will about these games. They’re still my favorites.

[@cyb3rspace478]

It’s definitely the best 3D Pokémon game so far and definitely a step in the right direction story wise and with the amazing new designs. I really hope more time is put into the next games when they come out, because this one would’ve been amazing if more time was put into it.

[@Keizer0724]

I think the deaths in the first XY movie should not count because they were revived again. Yes they had died but they’re alive again.

[@ArshadZahid_nohandleideas]

The characters aren't dead, but they died Like my uncle for the fourth time

[@cynicalto]

I still think going forwards Pokemon needs voice acting. Not only is it kinda awkward seeing lip movements in cutscenes and hearing nothing, but I actually missed a lot of dialogue in Area Zero do to being distracted by exploration, seeing the paradox pokemon, and not noticing the subtitles.

[@terrificmarrow2764]

Thanks for the tips on Pokémon outbreaks Scott, this’ll help me with hunting

[@MaxineInYourWifi]

I feel like the "not needing 2 versions" argument is one that although i do agree with, I kinda wish they went with something like their original plan if they were doing versions: Have the world and pokemon you get literally different for every save. Its really fascinating how they were trying to make a journey that was different for almost every person, but just settled on 2-3 with the ID system.

[@aethix1986]

The problem is that would be extremely difficult to implement well from a development perspective. And the current pokemon developers can barely make a normal game as it is.

[@justsomerandomdudeontheint9859]

I dont think S/V needs a third tittle, I think a Legends game would be cool, especially a Legends: Genesect. Like bro we still don’t know what it looked like, and dont you dare say it’s a Kabutops because taht is entirely not true. A game taking place is ancient times with fossil Pokémon just roaming would be so cool, and maybe we would get to see what the Galar fossil Pokémon actually looked like.

[@draigg0]

After watching the boundary break video on this gen, I'm not surprised it lags so badly! My god! There's a whole entire planet (to scale, you can't even see paldea when it's zoomed out) loaded in there seemingly at all times??

[@I_TheNightWolf_I]

0:41 Finally, someone who has the same opinion I do :)

[@Davtwan]

And the best part about that switcheroo is that it still fits Larry’s motif. Remember how many Flying Pokémon gained the Normal type once double-typing first came out?

[@TheGoldenDunsparce]

Wait, wasn't dual typing there from the start? The reason psychic types were so OP was because psychic was weak to bug, most of which were weaklings and didn't know any bug moves, and ghost, and the only ghosts in the game were ghost/poison. The poison dual type made them weak to psychic...

[@bfeldz1023]

Double typing has been a thing since gen 1. Pidgy line and Spearow line were Normal/Flying in Red/Blue/Green.

[@bfeldz1023]

​@TheGoldenDunsparce The reason psychic was OP was because it was only weak to bug actually and bug had no strong moves at all. A bug in the code of the original games made ghost weak to psychic and not the other way around so psychic only had 1 weakness.

[@start9799]

It’s so nice how much Scott has developed. His videos have so much more to them than just “I’m angry at this thing for weird reasons”.

[@Tumultulous]

I feel like Penny was still underdeveloped. Like I had a general understanding of who she was. But it was kinda jarring seeing her get along with everyone by the time the area zero thing happened. Like you said the stories felt pretty disconnected. I really wish Penny had a little more time to shine outside "here are some rewards" "I'm the mastermind". I really hope that SV gets updates (because the pc lagging and not having mass release annoys me)

[@Fungo4]

I found it hilarious when I beat the path of legends before touching starfall street, and upon hearing that "There are machines in area zero" Arven suddenly concludes "We need to bring Penny along".

[@bekkfxst]

It’s not ideal, but HOME has mass release (albeit 1 box at a time) and you don’t need premium for it.

[@garreonlefay6703]

Falco, the Chinese legends are a reference to the Silk Road, of which Spain was a part of.

[@gabbo7101]

No? Spain, portugal, and other european trade empires circumvented the silk road by going around africa by sea. It was faster and avoided taxxing and robbery potential. The silk road wasnt used by the iberian peninsula, it was killed by it.

[@Striker_2]

Great video! Awesome takes on the current status of Pokemon and I gotta agree with a lot of them keep it up!

[@Dragonpit]

I'm pretty sure Penny's deal is that she was basically smothered and suffocated by the constant affection growing up, instead of getting some space, and thus became rebellious as a result. Like, she's supposed to be the contrast to the characters who weren't loved enough by their parents, but being the one who was loved TOO much, and wound up becoming distant as a result. Still, I don't find her to be a super-relatable character. She doesn't seem to be handled well enough, and feels far too normal for what was being aimed for as a result.

[@draigg0]

That sounds about right - I think her social anxiety and/or being bullied is meant to be the relatable part though

[@Erifire]

The unexpected sequel that we didn't know we needed

[@cyberspace2587]

Honestly- as terrible as Scarlet and Violet are from an objective standpoint, they might be in my top 3 favorite Pokémon games. They did everything right for me, the (sort of) true open world, actually GOOD multiplayer, more music from the Tobster, and just a pretty fun and charming story to follow. (My favorite being either Path of Legends or Operation Starfall). I get the complaints, but I’m one of the lucky few who’s never experienced a game breaking glitch in my 200+ hours of playing the game. And yeah, I honestly loved the Bully story. I think my bored ass brain was just paying extra attention to it and it made me feel really connected to these characters in general (except for rich boy.) But yeah, Scarlet and Violet may have just beaten out Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire for me- just barely.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

I felt like that storyline mirrored a lot of what happened to me, so I was super invested into it. I knew how they all felt being bullied, and I was rooting for them the whole time to take back their own lives and get better from their trauma

[@Ammiteur9]

I know what you mean, but in my opinion, we can't say Scarlet and Violet are terrible from an objective standpoint. That would include all the very well made aspects, you just mentioned (which I find awesome as well). I don't have enough technological knowledge to say what specifically is wrong with it, but I think we can agree the only things that are terrible, are issues about said technology. The rest is pretty great. (I'm just saying this, because I feel like everyone lumps everything into one category too much these days. Easiest example would be either one loves something or hates something. I think it's important to acknowledge both good and bad. Which you did)

[@naganut9718]

I wouldnt say objectively terrible, cuz that doesnt include story, character, mechanic, etc

[@rimuru2035]

@@Ammiteur9 given the victory road "storyline" is the exact same thing we got the last 7 of 8 gens, the titan "storyline" was meh for the thread that was there, and starfall wasn't much beyond the designated baddies we've gotten the last 8 gens.

[@Ammiteur9]

@@rimuru2035 So you didn't like it, I guess. That's fine, it's not for everybody.

[@SOJITZL]

Penny does one thing in the final arc and it's turning on lights... She's a hacker, she does none of it

[@VIofCaffeine]

6:27 Ah yes the infamous usage of Azumarills in Tera Raids

[@NintennoCollector]

Fact Huge Power is glitched on charizard raids made it even worse to do than normal...and no sign of that being fixed. Oh and the corrupt save bug that has been present in 3 games is back...again. But hey, at least that pesky no good duplication glitch is fixed!

[@azazeltheundyingdamienkali5700]

My god, Area Zero is just...incredible. Every time I go there, it's like, "I'm sorry, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into Xenoblade Chronicles!" Also, the music feels so otherworldly and surreal, like I just stepped into a land out of time, or maybe even another planet entirely. And, the final battle against AI Turo (I have Violet)-it just might be my new favorite boss battle in the Pokemon series. The music is incredible, the atmosphere is intense, and, there's the fact that you're not so much fighting AI Turo himself as you are fighting the will of the original Professor Turo. I just can't help but adore it so much.

[@Wooper_enthusiast]

Area zero made me learn that in fact, Nemona is denser than a Cosmoem.

[@DMFF_YT]

The shiny Altaria popping in to the cutscene real quick just got me.

[@sliceofbread3829]

There are some bad graphical issues or map problems with In-Wall-Spawns and falling through the map or through the ground of a river. But the game itself was still fun. Larry switching the team was really cool.

[@FanOfMostEverything]

Agreed on pretty much everything aside from the Team Star story. Larry's amazing, Tinkaton and Clodsire are even better, and I do wish we'd gotten a little more variety for the future paradoxes than Poké-Badniks. It's a buggy mess, but it's still a deeply enjoyable buggy mess. Also, going to need to go back and read those journals in the research stations. I thought those were just set dressing!

[@Fungo4]

For real, the team star story is likely game freak's most earnest attempt yet at like... ACTUALLY telling a story? It has character development, conflict, twists and turns, backstory, everything a basic narrative needs... even if you can see it all coming from ten miles away.

[@altejoh]

Imagine if the classes were like in Pokemon Stadium 2, where they went out of their way to teach you different battle strategies to make you better at the elite 4 or in competitive.

[@Yankee_Nick]

Love the Hollow Knight Hoodie you got there! I have the same one. Nice detail :)

[@brayenmorrison3199]

1:28 😐😐😐 Cursed Camera Angle.

[@brayenmorrison3199]

Oh wow a bot.

[@theanonymouschicken169]

My favourite moment in the game was when Clive said IT’S CLIVING TIME! and cleaved everyone.

[@NeochromeNarratives]

I realized that I own the same hoodie that Scott animated himself with here. It’s my favorite hoodie too.

[@maxedoutvibes]

Penny be like: "I kinda committed embezzlement" Everyone else: "Cool..."

[@hudhouse99]

My problem with Penny is that she causes most of her own problems and makes everyone around her worse after coming back.

[@chickennugget6684]

Penny is genuinely just a horrible friend, just from her team star interactions alone sure, maybe that can be attributed to bullying but.. it definitely doesn't seem that way.

[@happyhealsgaming7614]

Most of the graphical glitches and bugs also happens more frequently if you play the game docked and connected to TV's with...I think either too wide or too tall screens. Me and my fiancee plays the game, and when she docks there's hardly much graphical bugs and glitches and, the game loads a bit better still. On my screen which is a tad bit wider than taller, you can notice a drop in framerate, and things popping into existence slower as well. After learning this we just plugged to different screens and it's been a a fairly smooth gameplay for both of us with almost no bugs or glitches. Worst we had when playing online was when we got unsynced during online play but, that was easily fixable. Lol not saying it's forgivable of course cause, come on, Legend of Arceus was tremendous and Scarlet/Violet is more a regression in alot of areas. But in all honesty, the story, the variety of pokemon, the world, the different paths to take and just...playing the game in general was wonderfully fun. Definitely played it WAY more than Sun/Moon and Sword/shield combined for me.

[@aegisScale]

It's really unfortunate the game had to release ~10 months after Arceus, which was a behemoth of a spinoff . . . I know we probably will never know for certain but I think the sheer inconsistency in the game's ability to function (along with the story's to a lesser extent) is a result of extreme crunch. Still, I can see the boundless love and ambition put into this game, which is why I'm still playing it. I think even if they didn't make a functional game GameFreak still did their best to make something that wasn't the same-old Pokemon, giving S/V a lot of extremely creative ideas that keep it fun.

[@dantemustdie00]

@@aegisScale Yeah they were nutz trying to release two main series games within a year.

[@happyhealsgaming7614]

@@aegisScale When you stop to look at the smaller things that the game has to offer it's, pretty immense. Occasionally how the pokemon acts in the overworld and their movement occasionally has a nice bit of immersive style to it. When compared to Sword/Shield there's a significant difference in how alot of the pokemon moves in the overworld which I liked alot. I feel it might have been a more polished game if they kept the similar style of Arceus (The overworld is separated into 5 large area you can load into). I think, while this will kind of cut into the Open-World a bit, the performance would have been MUCH smoother, atleast to begin with.

[@TransformingWing57]

I enjoy this games theme and the ending more than anything. I have a headcannon theory about Arven's folks traveling through time will introduce more pokemon cause it opens up a way for more 'extinct' pokemon from Legends Arceus to make a return since Arven's mom going back in time might make conservation changes to help certain pokemon return to some degree and Arven's dad might develop more unique and advanced Pokemon that we may see another Legend's game open up with that's set in the distant future perhaps.

[@acro3atmusic76]

i didnt knew about cloning until it was to late :( nice video keep up :)

[@ZeldaboyOG]

If they're gonna release it looking and acting like crap they should just have both versions on one cart. When you start your game you pick which version to play. So if you wanna play the other you gotta restart or just play on a separate account. I would pay 60 bucks for that. From what I hear this is how BDSP actually was except there was a flag internal to the cart that determined what version you had access to but the data for both is in fact there.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

If you like it just don't buy the game then. Nintendo is never going to stop being like this, no matter how poor their sales get

[@ZeldaboyOG]

@@lovelysakurapetalsyt I did in fact stop buying the games. I did not buy Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, Scarlet, or Violet. I know they won't be improving. So sadly I have decided I'm not longer going to support them. It has come to feel more like a nostalgia tax than something I'm genuinely excited for. I have to fight the feeling that I'm missing out, because I truly want to love their games. At this point though it's just becoming me trying to convince myself it was worth paying 60 dollars for 6 days worth of minor entertainment.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

@@ZeldaboyOG Dude, trust me, it's not just a few days of entertainment. If a lady with severe ADHD can still play it months after it's release, you'll be fine

[@ZeldaboyOG]

@@lovelysakurapetalsyt hey I'm happy you enjoy it. I was but am still not trying to be that bitter person angry that other people are enjoying their games. However, I truly think they do not remotely care about their games or their fans anymore though. They being the Pokemon Company not Game Freak. I could go on, and on about my reasoning for why I feel this is the case but it's ultimately pointless. This wasn't the start though this was the end for me. It has been a steady decline for many years. I've been playing since Red and Blue first came out. I'm not a genwunner. I felt like every new installment was better than the last up to a point. I feel like it peaked at Gen 5 then plateaued at Gen 6. From there is has felt like a steady decline. Slow at first and then much quicker beginning with the Ultra games. Legends I decided would be the turning point for me. It was so amazing in concept, but in reality felt so incredibly empty. After that I committed to stop giving them my money. Other than the 4 I already mentioned I own every single version of the mainline games, and the two Colosseum games. There is also a truly amazing ROM hack community. I already have plenty of Pokemon to enjoy. I can't continue to move forward with them anymore. I don't want it to slowly taint and ruin the decades of love I have had for the series.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

@@ZeldaboyOG Jesus Christ okay don't act like I'm a bitch for trying to encourage you to actually like a game regardless of the company. Be a bitch when I'm trying to be nice I guess

[@Fujoshi1412]

My only complaint for the paradox pokemon was it should have had more new Paldea Pokémon not ones from previous generations they look either prehistoric or futuristic outside of your glorified mount box legendary. I’m sure we might get more later but it’s still something I’m salty about but also confused by. Like one or two of the new Paldea Pokémon or heck do it off the starters but make it specific to the one the player picks.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

Or even make it so that the ones who got forms came from Paldea originally to begin with, and not from other regions *cough cough* jigglypuff

[@torkaumbra1826]

“But its…fun” is the best description of the game

[@ninjaydes]

Yeeeees~ Way to go you for putting that Super Paper Mario reference in there!