Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - RadicalSoda [02]

[@LP-zn8sc]

As someone who plays vgc. The crafting system is baffling. They literally perfected tms by making them infinite and then were like "what if we reintroduced the problems caused by having single use tm but make it even more annoying and time consuming".

[@base21]

Padding lol

[@WatsonDynamite]

how is this system any more annoying and time consuming than having to replay Diamond and Pearl all the way to Wayward Cave just to get a spare Earthquake TM

[@darcidious99]

It's the absolute dumbest decision in the game by far. Like everything else that sucks was predictable, but the TM thing was PERFECTED in sword and shield. Have lower tier moves like flame charge and low kick as permanent tms, and high tier moves like seed bomb and earthquake as findable/earnable TR's that break on use and are quick and easy to get in raids. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY wanted tms to go back to how they were before. What's next, mandatory HM's again just as a throwback to when pokemon didn't suck ass?

[@houndofculann1793]

@@WatsonDynamite yeah obviously it's not _that_ time consuming or annoying in comparison since they're rather easily replicable, but the system still is totally unnecessary padding. If they wanted to add a crafting system like this for worldbuilding purposes I think it would be much better for the craftables to result in permanent TM's instead of single-use, and for the recipes to at least have some clue on from what Pokemon they need the loot instead of just having question marks in place until you happen to stumble upon the right Pokemon. But I would still like it much, much more if all TM's were permanent and you could just find them all over hidden in random places. It would be much better for world design to have these kinds of rewards for explorable places.

[@saucymongoose7246]

​@WatsonDynamite They had this right in SWSH, yet f'd it up in SV. Every time you need a new TM, you gotta grind of SPECIFIC Pokemon to gain the resources needed to craft ONE TM. It's not as annoying as having to play through 60% of a game for a specific TM but nonetheless it's still annoying.

[@Kwispy_and_Scattered]

Fun fact, the game records your play time, and so does the switch. Turns out that the game's counter ignores lag, meaning at the end of your playtime you can check to see how much time the game sucked from your life. When i checked i had lost about 8 hours...

[@BigFatJuicyMonkies]

How do you check playtime on switch?

[@SkuddeOuo]

I checked mine and the difference is from 183 hours to 220 hours. So 37 fucking hours. 16% of my entire playtime is JUST the lag. I'm fucking speechless and at the same time not surprised at all cause SV run like SHIT.

[@CabbageMuncher13]

40 for me. Mind-boggling…

[@Duskool]

wow, and here i thought that Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled was the ultimate form of time consuming nothingness but damn. I feel sorry for y'all.

[@michaelbowman6684]

People will respond this this kind of criticism saying shit like "if you reset without saving, your in-game timer won't account for the time lost from reloading an older save whereas the Switch will show your total playtime, therefore this kind of check is invalid because their will 'always' be a large gap" and like yes, that is a thing people do when shiny hunting, but not everyone resets for shiny hunting so a player that has _never reset_ having a 15% lag ratio is valid with their criticism, these people need to accept that this game is seriously flawed and it's disservice to the brand to not recognize that, it'll only get worse if people keep pretending everything is fine.

[@deazee2288]

The reason why the game performance degrades the more you play it is because it can't clear unused assets correctly (basically a memory leak)...a problem that can be easily fixed with simple bug testing and more development time

[@Loner098]

Scarlet & Violet's quality is really making Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp look good.

[@EnbyOccultist]

@@Loner098 It's making the old Arkham PC ports look good

[@glowdonk]

Something that Pokemon Company refuses to give

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

i used to play the unpatched ps3 version of fallout new vegas (the most poorly optimized and performing version) and that game had the same problem where if you played too much on one save file it would eventually get to the point where it would just crash on startup and you couldn’t play on that game anymore and you’d have to start all over

[@KeonVioletWilkins]

The fact the base version of SMT V runs is as optimized and as competent as it does when it isn't a technical first party is astounding. Granted a lot of games like that, DQ11 and XBC3 all probably had multiple years longer development times but maybe that's a sign there's a reason these games take longer to optimize than a GBA~3DS game... and to be honest I feel like the 3DS was when the signs of them being weak at optimizing was starting to show.

[@taekwonjoe1996]

Gamefreak: "Kids these days don't have the attention spans to play video games for a long time" Also Gamefreak: Moves back to the stone age where TMs were single use and requires grinding specific Pokemon materials on top of that to craft said single-use TMs.

[@briankelly130]

Apparently kids are ADHD as hell but thanks to games like Mincraft, have an obsessive compulsion for farming for materials endlessly.

[@jpcsdutra]

Gamefreak: "Kids these days don't have the attention span to play video games for a long time" Fandom: "Gamefreak nowadays doesn't have the attention span to develop video games very well"

[@okagron]

They also made BP really easy to get in Generation 6 and 7, but then in Generation 8 made it considerably slower to get for some reason. It's like at every turn they contradict themselves.

[@Duskool]

@@jpcsdutra they don't have the money or resources, small indie dev

[@minixlemonade]

The children in question: Grind Fortnite for a long time all in hopes of becoming a professional

[@pizzanopastano9159]

I know this is a bit off topic, but I’m impressed at how much Rad’s art style has changed with these thumbnails! Like, even how the eyes are drawn are so different now and it still looks as good as his old art to me!

[@grandarkfang_1482]

It's because Rob wants to improve as an artist.

[@dram3711]

I like that he always seems go above and beyond for basicly anything.

[@meta13gaming]

Looks like the waifus are back too👀

[@Aratakenn]

What?

[@Benzinilinguine]

This was the topic of the whole video where he explained why there are girls in the thumbnails.

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

12:14 - "Mai Bachurt" sounds like a character you'd find in a chiropractor's office in an Ace Attorney game

[@briankelly130]

Don't forget her cousin, Maia Butriques

[@enemystand2981]

@@briankelly130when something stinks, it’s Butriques

[@plastikrappavevo4786]

They would be one of the defendants, so that one of the central arguments for the first trial day would be that the defendant couldn't have lifted something heavy like the body because their entire character revolves around chronic back pain.

[@sleepyespurr2922]

Rrcently, Bayonetta Character Designer Mari Shimazaki confirmed she worked on SV by designing Miriam, Raifort, and the bread dogs Fidough and Dachsbun.

[@grandarkfang_1482]

I can tell.

[@KuroKorvus]

This explains Raifort's um... ASSETS! i still can't get over her little hair twitch 😂😂😂

[@MadnessBomber]

... She better come back and keep making characters.

[@insertclevernamehere6607]

Damn the only good character designs were designed by *the* character designer of our century.

[@rushink]

Makes sense why those two are the characters that I wanna... Uhhh... Respect... Yeah, let's go with that... Respect the most

[@TheFunfighter]

Pokemon is that kind of franchise, that I occasionally remember out of nostalgia, and think "if they improve X, I might have a look at the next entry". But even if they improve whatever I hoped for, they do it in some inconvenient and bafflingly overcomplicated way, and manage to mess up 5 other things in the process. Truly the epitome of "one step forward, [five] steps back". They'll never get there. If Pokemon was invented today, I would get laughed out the door with this quality.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

They're about a decade behind where they should be.

[@officiallyjan8596]

@@PlatinumAltaria They're more like 30 years behind where they should be because they're farther back now than they were when the franchise started.

[@comyuse9103]

@@PlatinumAltaria they are so much worse than that. a decade ago we got beyonetta 2, titan fall, alien isolation, naissance, more stuff probably. pokemon was a decade behind when they released the original pokemon red and blue and they never really improved.

[@HunterStiles651]

@@comyuse9103 Nah mate. Red and Blue were mostly par for the course with the original Gameboy, and Gen V were some of the best looking games on the DS *period.* Also, the difference between 1996 to 2006 is much greater than the difference between 2014 to 2024. Gaming technology hit a plateau around the time the PS4 came out.

[@AlteredNova04]

Ever since X and Y, I've lost interest in the franchise because the games are so easy that it's boring. I keep telling myself I'll come back if gamefreak ever decides to add difficulty settings so I can actually be mildly challenged by NPC trainers. Instead, they keep making them easier with every new entry. These games are literally designed for toddlers.

[@wdf70]

Fun Fact: The highest grossing media franchise company still thinks it's an indie studio.

[@N1GHT_ST0RM]

That's an Insult to Indie Devs, who on the Regular pump out more creative and polished Games like this trash fire.

[@MasterEth]

What I love about MrSodaBerg is that no matter how Broken the game is, he will always bring the entertainment that the game severely lacks

[@Pulimer]

It is very refreshing to watch someone being utterly and continuously annoyed for the missing Set Mode option. My frustrations have received a voice. Thank you! Never let them forget.

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

I didn't even know they trashed the set mode option until Rad started this series, and my stance on it is similar to the Exp. Share: Even though I personally never turned the Exp. Share off/used set mode [intentionally, anyway, Battle Facilities and online used it by default of course], it was-and still very much is-fucking bullshit to remove the ability of choice for something, especially when that ability of choice had been around for several games [granted the full-team Exp. Share was only around for two generations, but still] _Especially_ especially when those choices could apply additional difficulty to players who want it, seeing as how they haven't attempted to add any kind of difficulty selection since Black2/White2 ...granted that one time was very flawed, both in obtaining it and the execution of it, but still

[@zjzr08]

​@WhimsicottFanatic Even then I'd argue classic Exp Share wasn't a difficulty option but an ease of access item - it splits up your Exp but it also means that one equipped with don't need to battle and with only 1 per save usually meant the pros and cons weren't too crazy IMO - should've just made it so Exp share is customizable to a number of a Pokemon but doesn't create Exp out of thin air (other items would do that instead hehe).

[@DrCoeloCephalo]

20:25 Pokemon Showdown is a free online simulator used by competitive players to practice battling, both for official and unofficial formats without needing to be hindered by the time sink of Pokemon's stat maxing. The Shedinja strategy you are talking about was used in the AG (Anything Goes) format. The Anything Goes format has no banlists or rules. Not even a Species Clause. The format got ditched due to complaints with that Shedinja strategy. Because the program is open source, Game Freak and Nintendo cannot do much about it. Edit: My bad. The format got dropped because of ReviveCats (Liepard/Purrloin Prankster Assist Revival Blessing). Tera Shedinja is not that good in practice.

[@hikaru9624]

Thr program may be open source but the assets (the Pokémon) are not. It's only a matter of time before they bring Japan's strick copyright laws to them in the form of a ceist and desist. Not defending Nintendo or Gamefreak. Just pointing out a strong likely hood.

[@mrmcawesome9746]

​@@hikaru9624 Considering it's been around since 2011 I'm gonna say you're wrong, but who knows maybe _14_ years will turn out to be just one too many for Gamefreak.

[@EnbyOccultist]

@@hikaru9624 Just not true, they have no legal basis to take it down. It's nonprofit and doesn't infringe on any of their copyright protections, if they took it down they'd be the ones violating the law. They know it too, they've been aware of Showdown for nearly fifteen years without sending so much as a warning to them. Nintendo has taken down fan projects the week they went public, if something is up for over a decade its because their multi-billion dollar legal team can't find a way to take action against it.

[@psycholuigiman]

@@EnbyOccultist We're talking about a massive and major company here. I'm sure they're lobbying to get the law changed in their favor as I type this out.

[@pableitor2009]

But doesn't shedinja dies to any passive dmg like Stealth rocks or sandstorm? Or any pokemon with mold breaker or similar abilities?

[@Idkwhattoputhere535]

Botw and Totk actually uses a feature for the NPCs where they have a bunch of premade clothings and hats in different colors with their faces and hairstyle coming from Default Miis. Pokémon games would profit A LOT with this kind of mechanic for the next game (Can't wait for whatever the fuck they're cooking up with Legends ZA)

[@EnbyOccultist]

That would probably take them more than their allotted three year development time and fifty dollar game budget so it's unlikely we'll see it any time soon

[@PlatinumAltaria]

I couldn't believe that NPCs had Mii faces, but oh my god they do.

[@rockowlgamer631]

Too bad it couldn't help TotK's boring story.

[@D3viant517]

@@rockowlgamer631I think the story itself was…ok for the most part, but the way it was presented was absolute dog water.

[@harry426]

So does Baldur's Gate 3. There's only a few characters in the game with unique body types/facial features.

[@RuinedSilver]

MY fave thing about scarlet and violet- When I first booted up the game, I learned that when you confirm you character the game takes a screenshot to use for the trainer ID/ student passport in game. "Why are you saying that like its news" you may ask. It isn't new information, you are correct. but you see, when I confirmed my character, For a half second one of their eyes imploded into polygons. That half second is when the game took the photo, and as such, my characters id now has them looking like their eye was gouged out by a vengeful deity. ever since I started the game, to this day, I have NOT changed my passport photo, and I never will. Edit- SOMEONE (not naming names) had the GALL to doubt me. I HAD TO MAKE AN IMGUR FOR THIS. Edit 2- my hubris is punished. I cannot post the pic due to anti-link stuff (Or maybe it was me calling youtube a cockblocker). someone get me mental help, or a solution Edit 3- People wiser than me have assisted. Check my profiles community tab for the pic.

[@GreatFox42]

please post a pic i need to see this

[@aleblasco39]

I'm leaving a comment just to see if you post a link to a pic of it lmao

[@Zorothegallade-rpg]

Same

[@Zyroes]

Same as well.

[@sakkikoyumikishi]

Le sigh. Sorry to disappoint y'all but they won't post a pic because they're lying. All of the bugs present in S/V have been EXTENSIVELY documented for well over a year now, ESPECIALLY all the visual bugs. There is no bug like what OP describes. They made it up

[@bramble553]

I do want to add personally, the Dexit problems get even more ridiculous the longer we have to deal with it. By the time the SwSh debacle was over, the generally accepted "excuse" was that Gamefreak wasn't able to really bring all the Pokemon over (which is still complete BS due to how they designed the models to begin with). Come SV, we've finally got every Pokemon in a Switch game in some capacity, yet Dexit is still being harshly enforced. There's no actual "developmental woes" problem, they're just arbitrarily forcing it on the consumer, likely to force them into buying HOME subscriptions to keep their Pokemon around. Gamefreak, we are *5 Games into the Switch's life cycle, what is going on*

[@jpcsdutra]

I mean, that's not even news. People were saying that right after that one press conference, months before SwSh came out. And then they announced DLC that literally just proved everything else they said was a bs excuse. Heck; when LGPE came out they datamined the game and found out that it pretty much had everything added to it and then later removed. Things like abilties and all moves were still listed and pretty much functional because it was needed data for Home. All Pokémon are seemingly ingame, just with models swapped for Marowak as a place holder. Multiple people have proved multiple times in multiple ways that it isn't a matter of disk space, hardship or cost of development, or even "animating" or "balancing" the Pokémon. They did it consistently 20 years in a row and it should be *easier* not harder to keep updating it after transitioning into 3D. Every single contrievance was made with intentionality to sell more of something else.

[@shadowsnake5133]

And there's still unavailable pokemon. Nuff said.

[@Tanuki-Sama]

@@jpcsdutra Yepp, that's the future gamefreak seems to want. Make pokemon a subscription game. I bet they'd try to make it a gacha if they thought they could get away with it 😅

[@CrazyQuilman157]

Keep in mind that Pokemon has a massive competitive scene. I think Dexit and the DLC releases were implemented specifically to keep the meta for it constantly changing.

[@zjzr08]

​@CrazyQuilman157 Which can be solved by just not being able to use them in ranked battles (see other games with banlists)...they could've even pushed it more by allowing players to make custom ranked battle rooms with custom rules too IMO.

[@BurkMcGill]

Fun fact about the game running poorly, something that may or may not impact that is that while playing on the main map, the entire ocean is permanently loaded in every area, and the ocean just so happens to be about 1000 times bigger than the actual map. Even worse is how this is barely even an exaggeration of the size.

[@CiromBreeze]

Having the entire ocean be loaded actually isn't an uncommon practice. It usually takes more processing power to cull parts of the ocean that you can't see than to render the whole thing as a flat, repeating texture.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

​@@CiromBreeze But why won't it need to be so much larger than the map when the game has shit rendering anyway?

[@CiromBreeze]

​@@jesusramirezromo2037 It needs to be larger just to make the ocean appear like an ocean (instead of just noticably cutting off in the distance).

[@FinelessFish24]

27:53 No no, you see there's an entirely different reason for that. They said early on that all clothing options would be available for every player, regardless of gender. And they couldn't go back on that. ... they didn't want boys to wear skirts. I'm certain that's the real reason.

[@woobgamer5210]

which is then pointless when the trainer character HAS no gender. there is no way to specify their gender, you just design them to look a gender.

[@kohakustella]

​@@woobgamer5210in theory that's true, in practice iirc the npcs use pronouns according to your appearance

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

So you just assume malicious intent? When guys can wear skirts in Animal Crossing? Also Link literally crossdresses in BOTW, it's not the same devs sure but to assume that's the reason is such a stretch of an argument.

[@LunaP1]

The only way they allowed for change of clothes is the dlc clothings.

[@APolygons2]

poor Scottish people....

[@aleblasco39]

As a Spanish myself, gotta say that unless you go to a private school that require an uniform(and most of them are catholic based lmao), most of the schools either them being public, semi public or private, don't force on an uniform and you can go to school in whatever you want although. So yeah, the school in this game looks like a posh school to me just because of the imposed uniform lmao

[@punkysnarks]

You have no idea how annoying the terrastrializing cutscene is until it happens in multiplayer. When the 7 star Delphox raids were happening, we lost one of them because a dumbass on our team decided to terrastrialize their Mewtwo in the literal last seconds of the raid instead of attacking. Nobody else could do anything. We were forced to watch as they wasted the last of our time when that Delphox was just a few hits away from being defeated. I wanted to strangle them.

[@Syphe07]

I think I’ve had more total enjoyment from radical talking scarlet/violet, than if I were to actually buy the game

[@JaxontheOkay]

the game is borderline psychological torture. every moment i'm sitting there waiting on the game to just function and load a cutscene i wish i was dead

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

you’re not missing out. i played the game for about 10 hours on release and just couldn’t take it anymore, and that’s saying something bc i put hundreds of hours into pokemon shield, not necessarily because i liked the game itself but because breeding competitive teams is fucking time consuming. violet was the first pokemon game i didn’t even finish, even shining pearl got me to finish the story

[@Syphe07]

Damn, that sounds *rough*

[@rushink]

Bought it recently with a friend, didn't really play together besides telling each other what we caught. It was fine enough, and the visual glitches didn't take me out of the game besides making me laugh a little or hyperfixate on them like a lamp moment. Still, wouldn't recomment it unless you're really into Pokemon or JRPGs, and that last caveat is more on the line of you enjoying building teams in JRPGs like Shin Megami Tensei, Dragon Quest Monsters or the type of games that gives you random PCs to play with (like FF Tactics Advance or DQIX or such other RPGs), rather than the challenge of the game or things like that.

[@SolstaceWinters]

My brother bought it for me in a bundle (with a bunch of other ones for the family). I wasn't sure on it yet, needing more time to research it before I bothered with it. I actually rather enjoyed Legends Arceus for what it was... and I downright hate Pokemon anymore. Sick to death of it. I can confirm a lot of what is said above. Unless you REALLY like Pokemon and/or are blind to their stupidity as a company, it's not really worth it. I've sunk a good 100+ hours into it because my friends and family are into it and they really wanted to play and raid with me, and I'm tolerant enough, but I'm definitely vocal when things annoy me. It's deplorable that a AAA company like Game Freak can't make simple terrain or cameras behave correctly, or have to remove three features for every one they add, or can't let us enjoy character customization properly, or even understand how to do proper menu UI smoothly. It's hilariously awful. Pros: + The pokemon themselves are actually pretty alright, I generally never have any problems with the 'mons themselves. + For once, in my opinion, the music's pretty good. I usually find the music too tinny and shrill to enjoy. I actually enjoyed the music this game. + Combat, while indeed rather slow, is still pretty solid. The mechanics are tight. + Tera-ing as a gimmick, is alright. It's slow to activate, slow to use, dumb and clunky to look at, but mechanically, I think it's pretty neat. Cons: - The game is falling apart around you. Don't let the size of this point fool you, this is massive. This shouldn't be this bad. There's no excuse for walls 10 feet away to be morphing around you. There's no excuse for anything 20 feet away to be taking significant drops it FPS. There's no excuse that shadows around you should be second guessing their life choices based on their angle from you at ALL TIMES. It's just plain awful. - You know what? I got more. There's no excuse for people to be blipping out of existence 30 feet away, or mountains 60 feet away. There's no excuse for the loading times. There's no excuse for how difficult climbing terrain should be. It's astounding how a company as rich as Game Freak is could turn out something so bad. You could say "Well they know people will buy it" and that might be true, but this is the kind of bad that HURTS REPUTATION! - The lack of Set Switch (as Soda mentioned once or twice maybe), but also noticeably "Skip Battle Animations" is also missing. I like having those disabled sometimes, especially when manually grinding out my EVs or in pithy battles that get in my way. And yet now I HAVE to watch animations! - The world is big and wholly traversable... and there's bugger-all to do in it. The bane of any open-world game. Oh sure, you can catch pokemon or beat the trainers or do raids or find items..... but those are destinations. Once you catch all the pokemon in a region, you don't need them; or beat all the trainers, or head to a raid destination, you just go to where they are... you aren't taking in the sights and EXPLORING. Finding items requires exploring, but they always spawn in the same places. But most aren't worth your time, and raids drop better items anyway, and those appear on the map... as a destination to directly head to, so why bother going exploring anyway? Even then, there's not a lot of "world" to explore. There's not much to see. There's some ruins, but what about them? They have no lore to them. They are just.... ruins. The world is big, but small. A lot to do, but nothing worth seeing. - The story is like any pokemon game story, and I sorry to say I'm biased against them, it's pretty bland. By now most already know it if they were interested to begin with. But just in case I won't say anything. This game gives you three "factions" of a story to play off of: You have the "Gym League" faction angle, represented by Nemona; you have the "Ultimate Sandwich" angle, represented by Arven; and you have the "Game's Token Bad Guys" angle, represented by Team Star. You can do them in any order, each improves your gameplay in some way, such as Arven improving your Bike Lizard, and the Gym League improving your Pokemon Level Cap. That's all well and good, but all of the stories and characters you meet along the way are still up the Game Freak Standard... which is to say.... meh. Each character has maybe ONE personality trait. Take Nemona for example, she has ONE emotion, "let's battle". That's all her pretty little head thinks about, it's what she lives and breathes. Every story beat character has ONE trait in Pokemon Games, and I think they all suffer for it, and it makes each character feel shallow. This game is no different. There's only one character in SV who I think really has any depth, and I won't say who, but those who have played might already know who it is. But overall the story is just uninteresting, and I include the DLC in that. Especially the DLC. This got longer... way longer... than I intended, apologies. I hope (but doubt) this will be of any use to anyone. This went from me trying to give an informed opinion to more of a rant at the end, heheh. But like I said, I've been dragged kicking and screaming through this game by people who REALLY love pokemon. I used to LOVE pokemon. I'd watch the show as I ate my morning cereal prior to school. My favorite pokemon were Eevee/Flareon, Magneton, and Alakazam for the longest time. Fire/Psychic has always been my go-to types, but I gained a soft spot for Fairy in Pokemon Y when that was given to me. But over the years, it's really soured. There's clearly no passion on the devs' part anymore. Gen 7 was a handholding nightmare, and Gen 8 didn't look much better. I never even finished Pokemon Sun, stopped halfway through Victory Road because whatsernuts wouldn't get off my dick and leave me alone as I did my super important me-time Trainer Trial. There's a part of me that still likes pokemon, I'm just pretty sure it's not worth liking. Thank you for coming to my Text Talk. I hope this was worth reading, and thanks again if you did.

[@jinklejohnathonthejimoathy]

I watched four Radical Soda videos whilst eating ramen, and now it's kinda of a tradition. If I'm hungry, there's ramen in the cupboard, there a Radical Soda video I haven't seen, then that's exactly what will happen. Even if I don't like it.

[@poppyy482]

accidental pavlov's dogs on self moment

[@base21]

​@@poppyy482pavlovs dog?

[@thecubeman381]

​​​​@@base21If I remember correctly, Pavlov was a scientist who studied dog's conditioning and pattern recognition skills. He would ring a bell before feeding the dogs, and after some time, they'd start salivating just from that sound, even if there wasn't any food

[@miky9504]

@@base21An experiment on conditioned reflex by Ivan Pavlov where he used a buzzer to warn a dog that food was ready, causing it to salivate. Then, after it learned that "buzzer-food", any instance of the buzzer running would cause to dog to salivate, even if there was no food.

[@sharzinlalebazri5673]

Nah chief. The random trainers in Scarlet and Violet are actually a step in the wrongest possible direction as far as character design is concerned. We got from great designs that genuinely stand side by side with the gym leaders (Heck, the gen 6 Hex Maniac surpassed every other human character from that game in terms of popularity) to the blandest, most cookie cutter designs imaginable.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

The splash arts from gen 6 were so perfect as characters for this world.

[@Nighterac]

I have seen that weirdly buff muscular girl with that haircut so many times now Sometimes she wears glasses, but she just looks so bad to me lol

[@rockowlgamer631]

@@Nighterac And it never gets old lol.

[@D3viant517]

I dunno how you can say that when this is the game that gave us Charlie as an npc

[@zjzr08]

I think the random generated faces is great on paper but the clothes design of these trainers aren't that great...and there are also much fewer trainer classes that they were few generations ago and a lot of trainers in Paldea wear the student attire which doesn't help.

[@thefoxesmind]

As soon as I saw that there would be no clothing customization, I knew immediately that they were going to be even LAZIER about the game.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

ORAS didn't have customisation and some people were mad, but that was still a good game. Here it's clear they really just did not give a shit.

[@okagron]

@@PlatinumAltaria ORAS was still missing content from Emerald and it had its fair share of dumb decisions (crap like free Lati twins for no reason) and overall lacked content. People do like to argue that it was a remake of Ruby and Sapphire and not Emerald, but why the hell are you using the worse version as the basis for your remake? All it does in the end is have your remake do catchup to the better version.

[@F1areon]

@@okagron Probably bc if they remade Emerald, they couldn't split it into two versions and subsequently make more money.

[@NurioMarayana]

​@@F1areon That doesn't make sense. They made split versions for HeartGold and SoulSilver while remaking all features from Crystal

[@F1areon]

@@NurioMarayana Not really; HGSS barely had anything from Crystal beyond stuff like Suicune or the Battle Frontier. They didn't even have the Odd Egg...

[@0MidnighttheDragon0]

we're only half an hour into the game and RadicalSoda is only on part 2. this is gonna be juicy.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

The Pokémon Company has a pathological fixation with forcing us into clown costumes. Or maybe in Japan it's normal to wear full neon spandex to ride a bike, idk.

[@whtevercomesfrst]

Well Im definitely a clown for purchasing this game.

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

To play a tiny bit of Devil's Advocate, with the Alola games it kinda made a little bit of sense since you were riding on Pokemon and whatnot [even if they obviously expect us to forget all generations prior where we could directly ride our own Pokemon to surf, fly, or scale waterfalls without protective gear] From Gen8 onwards though, the full bodysuit is definitely absurd and stupid, at the absolute most it should just force a helmet on I stand by that forcing a helmet would be fine 'cause uhhh considering what happened with Gordon Ramsay a while back, I'd say it's a good idea to have kids get it in their head, even if subconsciously, to put on a helmet if they're going to ride a bike

[@Therius]

14:03 He did it boys, he said the thing!

[@Crystalitar]

The clothing part frustrates me so much. Like They have legend of zelda with totk and botw with clothes. Xy and sun and moon and sw. All clothing SPLATOON HAS CLOTHING. Mario had outfits in oddysey. .... and then pokemon. Of all things. Removes a big chunk of it.

[@dasauto7346]

"I got better" with nicknames as "Anne Frank" shows up on-screen (holy crap what is this party)

[@briankelly130]

My first thought was "Is that a reference to Maus?"

[@dasauto7346]

​@@briankelly130 Pretty clever dark humor if it is hah

[@streled5361]

@@briankelly130 Well... It's both

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

I'm honestly amazed he was even able to get away with half of those names Like I figured [or rather, hoped] the filter would've been loosened up a bit after the days of Gen6 where you couldn't name a Pokemon something as simple as "Basement", or even some Pokemon their own damn species name like Cofagrigus or Nosepass, but Christ I didn't think it'd get _that_ lenient again

[@Jacob-hx7kk]

For anyone who spent their time sifting through the vid, trying to find the bit again, it's 7:17.

[@Vic-Valentine]

23:00 appreciate the subtle Chosen reference

[@SeaHorseOfYoutube]

It's OK youtuber RadicalSoda, the Pokemon Company has the sanitized explanation to meat in Pokemon games, you see, they are made from regrowable parts of Pokemon that fall apart naturally without any force or danger from humans! Slowpoke tails? yes they just fall apart on their own and regrow!

[@Zoulstorm]

which breaks part of the G/S storyline as you had to stop the evil team rocket from harvesting slowpoke tails, but apparently they were just picking the tails of the ground??

[@Ragnellrok]

​@@Zoulstorm I believe they were cutting them off forcibly.

[@frousteleous1285]

If this turns into a 30 episode venture, I wouldnt even be mad. Like PLEASE

[@pascalsimioli6777]

After watching your entire Sword and Shield review MULTIPLE TIMES I can finally do the same with this one. You bless me.

[@waltterikoponen8426]

One thing I despise about gen 9 was how slow the loading is! Like, changing clothes is hell >:( Also I dislike the main character's "during battle" pose or that I can't change it... And the best ball throw is not available to use?! (The one penny uses etc.)

[@steampaul3442]

fun fact about this game: the ocean is about 100x larger than the full map and is never culled, while the game tries to process all transparencies and reflections. the map also doesn't have a skybox or a skydome like in a normal game, but a skysphere that is also insanely gigantic (about 3x the size of the sun if paldea was the same size as spain) hm. i wonder if these things have any influence on the performance....

[@cmccgamer]

30 minute part 2??? Man this day just get better and better for me

[@geeb_]

We're livin' in the city with this one

[@vasylpark2149]

They could have had as an incentive to do all the school quizzes that if you pass them all you get permission to wear whatever clothes you want.

[@FrostGlader]

14:52 funny thing about this exploit. I have done it, and probably the most insane thing you can do with it is get 7/8 of the requirements for one of the optional legendaries, Chien Pao, completed, WITHOUT the Raidon. You actually have to do it a SECOND time because one of them is somewhere across a river. I would have gotten all 8, but the last one is up a cliff which normally requires Koraidon/Miraidon to climb with the Climbing Ability and I couldn’t find any way around, but due to a exploit related to their physics (named a BLJ, same as Mario 64), you can basically climb any surface they can get any sort of foothold on. I tried to do the battle teleport, but it’s finicky, and the height of the cliff prevented it from working.

[@ShaneT5S]

23:00 Oh I never knew RadicalSoda had a Chosen version as well. The best random reference

[@Preformed__Waif]

I didn't know if anyone else knew what the reference was

[@checkerhat327]

Instantly came down here to see if anyone else had acknowledged it, absolutely flabberghasted.

[@twoetwo]

I was like "Huh? Wait. Was that The fucking Chosen?"

[@jeshirekitenkatt1212]

i love the implication that in this world, whatever the F*ck diglett do is a valuable enough ecological niche that other species have convergently evolved to fill that niche. so far as we're aware, the pokemon world produces diglett the way ours keeps accidentally making crabs at least by wiglett being a mollusk (it's a geoduck, i'm pretty sure) we know that diglett isn't. don't we all feel so much more educated on whatever the hell that things supposed to be

[@dixitwastaken]

Digletts are moles!

[@rotomfan63]

Gamefreak heard someone tell pokemon loyalists to touch grass or go outside and they took that personally so made it so the player can't stop being outside. Even though no other open world game has really ever done that. Look at botw and totk, or even fallout and those are all settings where there are actual lore reasons for there being less buildings instead of Iberia even though Iberia has had buildings and cities and urban areas since before the punic wars

[@zoruasnivy]

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet make me feel physically sick if I play them too long due to the framerate and pop in shadows. It is the first time I have sent a formal complaint to Nintendo about one of their games....

[@ericasawyer8985]

I thought I was the only one, I can only play this game for a few minutes then my head hurts and I feel woozy 🥴 I’m like wth??!

[@SpareMango]

Watching Makima play pokemon for 30 minutes is crazy

[@grandarkfang_1482]

*_Kick Back starts playing_*

[@nananamamana3591]

"This is really impressive for the Gamecube" No it's not. Super Mario Sunshine, Pokemon Colosseum, Pokemon XD, Resident Evil 4, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, the *ENTIRE* Metroid Prime series, Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean... Don't ever disrespect the Gamecube by comparing it to the switch -- the gamecube games that are *ON* the switch don't even run as good as they did on the gamecube!

[@kohakustella]

Agree. Colosseum, which is still a dogshit game, make no mistake, looks ten times better than SV.

[@mr.shplorb662]

Metroid prime master looks much better than the og, this is not a hardware problem, this is a development time issue

[@Rediscool9]

I see that the Pokémon games on Switch alone has officially gaslit you into believing that the Switch is less powerful than the GameCube. Btw, literally everything you said in your second paragraph is so full of shit.

[@okagron]

@@mr.shplorb662 This. The Metroid Prime remaster genuinely looks fantastic (looks considerably better than the original) and runs at a consistent 60 fps. And i played it on a Switch Lite and there were no performance issues. The Switch can easily run Gamecube games with updated graphics and resolution, it's just Gamefreak is either given no time or budget (or neither) to properly delevoped their games. And when it comes to the wrong argument that the Switch is underpowered, it can run Xenoblade Chronicles 3 really well and that game looks miles better than any pokemon game and runs better than all of them as well.

[@okagron]

@@mr.shplorb662 This. The Switch version of Prime 1 looks considerably better than the original and runs at 60 fps too (even on handheld mode). The Switch can run Gamecube games just fine, it's just Gamefreak is given no time and budget to properly develop their games. Also, the fact that the Switch can run Xenoblade Chronicles 3 as well as it does is just evidence on how wrong the argument that the Switch is too underpowered. Yes, the Switch is not exactly a workhorse, but it's more than capable in running great looking games.

[@JohnnyCenter25]

Can we just appreciate the "Can make Lasagna" description? I've had to pause every time a new Pokemon got introduced. Makes it engaging. Also, sidenote, I would totally eat Woopers lasagna despite the poison. Actually mainly because of the poison...

[@theredcrossofficial]

23:00 I can’t believe you referenced the Chosen. His influence is growing

[@Frogzor17]

The TM crafting system can actually really suck if you need specific materials from a pokemon that's hard to find. I have no idea why barboach and wiscash are so rare. Hell, instead of every evolution line having its own materials, why not just have more generic ones, like dragon scales can drop from dragon types/the dragon egg group, feathers can drop from bird pokemon, etc.

[@LordGwaGwa]

I haven't vocally laughed at a youtube video like this in over a year. You and your editing are funny.

[@Chris-ok4zo]

Any time I see that kiwi bird and/or tig bitty'd chick(s), my face slowly morphs into a pog.

[@liquidenergyz34]

Much like how Bear Grylls bursted out into flames, I bursted out into laughter

[@Seamkey]

Really like the little animations you put in every now and then.

[@flamelmao69420]

I have absolutely no hope for Legends ZA. None. I just know that the release is gonna go so fucking badly to the point where Gamefreak will go on a (possibly indefinite) hiatus. And the fact that we haven’t seen ANY gameplay footage is actually pretty concerning.

[@jpcsdutra]

I don't have any hopes either, but it's actually a bit good that they actually got an extra year off and aren't showing it off yet. It's the first time in decades that we get a single version game that is getting more than 3 years in the oven. Either way I'm just glad they aren't ruining Unova *yet*

[@odeiofunkdeputariarum851]

You think a pokemon z game that brings back megas is gonna do badly? Get your clown costume ready

[@dixitwastaken]

Bold to assume that they'd actually loose enough money to go under. Even if the games sell worse they're still making bucketloads through merch and mobile game microtransactions

[@DiscoBiscuit_]

RadicalSoda's new style is actually amazing. I can't stop rematching these

[@PrismaticSekai]

14:02 It's like a rollercoaster 🗣️🗣️

[@Gestersmek]

21:27 Man, don't do the GameCube dirty like that.

[@deringjosuegarcia1531]

They did themselves dirty

[@vegetaalmighty8649]

I feel like the game is programed with MASSIVELY increased shiny odds on those first couple routes before you reach the school as EVERYONE I know found a shiny pokemon in that area, myself included, when they first started the game.

[@animeartist888]

The magnifying glass gag got a snort laugh out of me oml. Poor BearGryllz the Sprigatito

[@danielwinchester4759]

I can feel it. This is going to be 7 hours.

[@deringjosuegarcia1531]

Pokémon is slowly turning early 2000's Sonic

[@kocakbil]

14:00 "It's just like a roller coaster!" HE SAID THE THING HE SAID THE THING

[@Omega_speed]

I think I saw on another video that Pokemon scarvio renders the leaves at maximum resolution, at ALL TIMES. No wonder it runs so poorly

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Jesus christ.

[@mateuszhodgson4370]

I also think that the entire world is perma rendered at all times no matter how far away you are from them so it’s no small wonder the game wants to implode

[@aidenatorx99]

3:30 “Celebrity appearances at their finest folks!” 🤣 That delivery cracked me up.

[@Sparkizinho]

Remenber when people ask Gamefreak to fix the game, and they said "There is nothing wrong with it" 🤣🤣🤣

[@briankelly130]

The fans said there was nothing wrong with it too.

[@apselbluestar2223]

absolutely love the animated bits. Great review so far Rad!

[@gonzoengineering4894]

The selfie cam captures the camera UI??? I can understand most of the Gamefreak Magic. It's not good. The games shouldn't see the light of day in their condition. But I understand how we got here. But this one broke me. This is I N S A N E. How does this happen? Is the spaghetti code so jank that removing the broken feature would collapse the whole house of cards? Hell that doesn't make sense, they could just bury the code, maybe patch it in the DLC if you want ROI. The *key mapping* would have to be the load bearing jank! This is a cognitive hazard. This is a madness rune made of knowledge.

[@jpcsdutra]

It's probably a mix of lazy coding and a lack of testing. I'm sure they just wrote a line to have the camera take a screenshot regardless of what was on it. Even it could be fixed with a single line of code that hides the GUI for a single frame. Would be far from the only thing in this game that could be fixed with very few lines of code.

[@gonzoengineering4894]

@jpcsdutra I guess I can just imagine a burnt out dev looking at everything else inches from the deadline and saying "good enough," but I can't imagine anyone looking at this and saying anything but "fix it or cut it, I don't care which"

[@qua.thequa]

11:12 sometimes after a while, my character’s face would be stuck through out these cutscenes

[@Jumpman-ch7xq]

Was just watching part 1 again, what great timing

[@ezraburton792]

Did anyone else notice the Smosh's chosen reference. Threw me off before I died laughing.

[@beatziegraham6928]

They also got rid of being able to turn off battle animations.

[@Xaccdrio]

There's a disturbing lack of appreciation for Cat Grylls in the comments of this and the first video

[@lackadaisical9417]

0:39 i hate my self for knowing this is moemon

[@pariahdark1892]

Wanna play it again?

[@Shyblook1234]

It is simply a treat whenever this man uploads

[@russellsmith7174]

I just want one more good pokemon game before i fuckin die.

[@Varis0103]

I love the pokemon rankings. I never thought about if a pokemon could make lasagna but now i ask that question for them all

[@aaronolson6736]

With how much even the DLC locations struggle loading, I don't think Gamefreak should make a zone any larger than one of the Biomes in the Terarium.

[@anthonycousineau5205]

I love those reviews so much! Can't wait for the next episode already!

[@RevengeRaptorREAL]

i love that i made the decision NOT to buy this pokemon game (for the first time since HGSS) and everything ive seen since about the game has just repeatedly validated that decision. like i dont think i would even pay 20 bucks for this crap. i could buy it for 10 bucks and i might STILL not want to finish it

[@PlatinumAltaria]

You can get Terraria for less than $10 right now. I would not pay $10 for this mess.

[@RevengeRaptorREAL]

@@PlatinumAltaria damn right. hell i could buy Outer Wilds twice and play it twice and feel more spiritually fulfilled than i ever would with SV

[@okagron]

Pokemon Sun made me stop buying pokemon games because right there i could see the trajectory of the franchise. Poorly optimized, content starved games with next to no difficulty would become the standard of the franchise and i was right about it all these years later.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

@@okagron USUM are universally recognised as the hardest games.

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

If you're looking for indie games that can scratch that Nintendo RPG itch I'd highly suggest Cassette Beasts as a Pokemon-inspired one and Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling for Paper Mario. Both infinitely better purchases than Scarlet or Violet.

[@junkermayfair6670]

I cannot help but smile with the Bear Grylls references cx And his tiny sprigatito form is great!

[@Vrikrar]

WAIT. WAIT WAIT WAIT. THERE'S A CAFE YOU CAN GO IN?

[@loverVloser]

I always get so happy when I get the ‘RadicalSoda uploaded!’ notification, no matter how I feel about whatever game he’s reviewing (for example I’ve never played a Sonic game), the videos are just so entertaining and of such a high quality I’ll watch no matter what

[@peep69420]

This game went to the FFX school of freeze frame transitions, but learned all the wrong lessons

[@soulsearcher9620]

Even Lemon Soda couldn't say "I love Sonic Forces"

[@mr.raccoon1999]

THE GREAT PLAY THROUGH CONTINUES

[@GuiltlessGear]

I'm delighted to see this follow up so soon. I wasn't expecting it for at least a month.

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

This video made me realize that Gamefreak has finally destroyed the small amount of attachment to Pokemon I had left and the even smaller sliver of hope I had left that they could someday right the ship.

[@raymaikeru]

It starts with Pokémon Company actually giving a damn about it. Game Freak is already well aware of their current problems (much like SEGA having that snap-to-reality moment between Forces and Frontiers) and they have stated they want more time to work on the games. It kinda also doesn't help Game Freak has always been inexperienced with game development since Day 1 (I mean Gen 3 was gonna be the actual start of Dexit but was saved by Iwata doing something called "coding".) But with TPCi, they only see the games as a way to sell the merch, the biggest money maker. The games makes less money to them in this context. It doesn't even make that much money than the anime and the TCG, only being above any shorts they release on KZbin and the manga. At this rate the fans are begging TPC to give GF more time, or get some competent game developers to help GF (like Nintendo is right there.)

[@RichzardStudios]

23:01 I was not expecting a reference to The Chosen lmao

[@magethemage6143]

I don't mind the concept of terastalization.....I just wish it didn't look so fricking goofy. I understand there needs to be some form of way to tell easily what type it became.....but I feel like there had to have been a less stupid looking way. The hats alone are the reason I never touched it during my entire playthrough......and because at the time I thought it was the most inane gimic to date....

[@oh_ok_I_guess_Im_lost]

21:13 i remember in Pokemon X/Y there was a setting to remove the animations in battles, so it was just text saying what the pokemin did and the health depleating. It felt odd to use :/

[@NicholasTylerBrown]

12:59 What is this game called? It looks really pretty

[@PorkpieJohnny]

Yes someone tell me I'm interested now

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

My hunch is it might be the ROM hack Rad mentioned he was working on in part 1, although I don't really have any solid proof other than the route he showed in that part lookin' pretty well made and Umbreon guy that showed up for like two jokes also in that part looks kinda similar to the player character in this clip, but that might just be me thinking that because they both have a hat and black jacket

[@Domino10444]

I'm so glad you're doing this series

[@ArtzyZero]

I do often defend this game a little, much in the same vein as one might defend Sonic 06 for missed potential but dammit I will not forgive them getting rid nearly every interior you'd typically find in these games. Anytime I play a Pokémon game, I love exploring any building I find and talking to every NPC even if they don't give me an item. When I first played I had a mini rant just as Rob did when the camera zoomed into the door frame and nothing happened. There are so many unique environments in this game that have unique homes and I really wish I could've explored them and learned more about the cultures that inspired them! D:

[@ghoulchan7525]

yeah, it made each town feel really forgettable. because outside the copy pasted shops there isn't anything to do there besides the Gym battles.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Ok but this would be like if Sonic team had released a consistent stream of good games for a decade, and then started releasing Sonic 06s. Like... go back. Stop.

[@ArtzyZero]

@@PlatinumAltaria That's not really what I was trying to say, I was referring to how I defend S/V in much the same way as 06 is often defended, missed potential because it needed more time. Neither game would've been perfect but people wouldn't have been put off experiencing the games because of the performance issues/common glitches and bugs. I genuinely enjoyed my time with S/V despite the obvious problems and I want to stress that I don't excuse those problems at all, it just becomes normal when you play it enough. The real discussion should of course be with how Game Freak and TPC handle things.

[@ArtzyZero]

@@ghoulchan7525 Shout out to that one town with buildings carved into the rocks but because you can't explore inside them there's literally only one NPC worth talking to in the entire area.

[@raymaikeru]

Same I'm with you on this. Literally the performance is the ONE THING stopping me from giving this game an 8/10 and stopping it from beating L:A in my book.

[@skulloflove163]

Im so happy to see another vedio from you so soon after the last. I know that your work is toph and I my self do not like pokemon but your wrighting of jokes is so much fun and engaging. Keep up the good work.

[@alexa500]

Mr. Soda!!!!! How dare you call this game impressive for GameCube!!! Pokemon Colosseum from 2003 had the best graphics that the entire franchise has ever seen, and they were phenomenal for their time!! Of course, being made by Genius Sonority and not Gamefreak ❤

[@phase623]

If anyone remembers this game, Pokken tournament actually had that exact idea for clothing and customization, where it lets you select the item, and then the color for the item. Even when some item screens end up having very few items! Pokemon once again looking for ways to uninvent the wheel

[@Delta-l87]

The not healing status conditions in the auto heal is great for people who are using a guts Pokémon or another ability based on status conditions

20:33 there is still the matter of indirect damage. Sandstorm, poison, burn, Stealth Rock...

[@Plexxis_SugarPom]

23:01 man radical doing the chosen impression is wild /j

[@mariomaniac6426]

you dare disrespect the WHOOPER

[@robxholicfoxyfan8552]

Sowrd and Shield and Sun and Moon literally had legit eating animations. I literally have no freaking idea what on earth tye eating animations are in Scarlet and Violet. Like I understand them struggling with making the open world Optimized even if it's not a good showing. But that eating animation is legitimately the worst thing in the game objectively. Say what you will about the Pokemon roster, game breaking glitches, or lack of indoors. The eating animation, or rather lack thereof, is absolutely unacceptable. It isn't even a "we were forced to crap out the game early" level. This is "How can we make an eating animation so horrendous that it would make the worst frames of early Scooby Doo Hanna Barbara animation look like a polished masterpiece while costing us more money?"

[@mrnyakka5362]

just found your channel and watched part one this morning! was excited for 2 to come out and lo and behold; today was the destined day