Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - Before You Buy

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet (Nintendo Switch) is here! How is the latest open world Pokemon adventure? Let's talk.
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[@xeroxasaurus9883]

I don’t get why Pokémon doesn’t create a masterpiece of a game. They have every resource to do it and they are the largest media franchise in the world.

[@alejandrovargas4036]

💯

[@shin-fx5jy]

Why be that ambitious when you can release an okay product yearly for more profit

[@RomnysGonzalez]

Because exactly that. They are so big and massive that doesn't matter what they do. Kids and people who already love POkemon got literally 0 standard and don't care because "haHAAAA !! NEW POKEMON LOOK LIKE A CUTE SHEEP ! HAAAHAAAAAA KAWAI DESU !!!! WE WEEB GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR CUTE POKEMONS !!!!" And that's why Nintendo and GameFreak would NEVER put any effort into their games. They gonna keep reusing assets and reselling the same game year after year. It's a shame and broke my hearts because i love the franchise is a nostalgia trip for me and they just keep ignoring their flaws that had been there for over a decade now

[@stevenha5344]

Pokemon doesn't make its money on the games, they make most of the money off merchandise. They have 0 incentive to improve and every incentive to shove the same crap out every year

[@froglifes6829]

@@RomnysGonzalez Dude its the same with call of duty but enough backlash and hate will change the game..

[@Cyber_kevv]

I wonder if our chances of finding a wild MissingNo. are high since the game is so glitched

[@dbdstuff]

🤣

[@alexfarrell3250]

Infinite rare candies and master balls for everyone

[@theLukkyChannel]

I think Maybe cos they wanna do the bare minimum to gain the masses but a lil effort doesn't hurt

[@Laughy-Flaaffy]

I typically defend Pokémon games and be as open-minded as possible. But this game’s frame rate and the bugs are downright unacceptable. The game has waaaay too many bugs to have been released.

[@tearsintherain6311]

@@Laughy-Flaaffy I’m pretty sure it’s because they set release dates arbitrarily, they didn’t wait until the game was finished but instead urged the devs to have it finished by the time ash beat Leon in the anime, and urged the animators to finish the anime before Black Friday and holiday spending season because it’s the moment they make the most sales. An executive must have had data suggesting the amount of people buying the game regardless of issues and the revenue made by the merchandise, pogo, etc pushed by the anime as well as the licensing was way better than record breaking sales in a switch game and postponing the rest of the franchise projects, think just how much they make in ctg and licencing for clothing and anime, the coin Pokemon in pogo etc, they don’t care if one product takes an l as long as the entire timeline goes on and they fix the issues around Christmas

[@Joseph-wh5of]

It's just insane that the team behind breath of the wild released their game years ago. And this is the best that the pokemon team can do in modern time...

[@djslavin3140]

its not the developers fault its the higher ups forcing them to release a game every year

[@macnasty8300]

So I have heard this argument a lot. i think the what most people dont consider is just what is being loaded into the game. in this pokemon game there is a maximum of 15 pokemon loaded in at one time that you the player can see and interact with. Every single one of those pokemon are spawned in with a set nature, set IVs and the posiblity of being shiny. So as you are just walking around the world, pokemon are constently being despawned and new ones being spawned in. That is a lot of information that the game has to constently be loading. In comparison to the last pokemon game ledgends arceus, those pokemon spawns are set as soon as you arive in the area you go to, running through the area wont despawn any pokemon to allow new spawns to appear and the only way to get fresh spawns is to go to camp and move the day forward by sleeping or returning back to the vilage. I myself compleatly understand the frustration of playing a vidogame at 10 frams in 2022.

[@macnasty8300]

@@djslavin3140 I disagree honestly. The pokemon company does not operate the same way as EA or Take 2 or other heartless gaming companies. For instance, the CEO of the pokemon company is Tsunekazu Ishihara, who is one of the people who directly helped produce and develop the original pokemon games. I made a comment about this a bit in this video pointing out that the largest media franchise has to stick to its release date for the game in order for the other pillars of the franchise to continue. There is nothing else planned in the card game or anime for gen 8 and if they pushed back the release of this game then the card release and anime would get pushed back as well. you could definitely make the argument that postponing the game would still be beneficial for the pokemon company in the long run. This is just how I understand / rationalize such a poorly released game.

[@djslavin3140]

@@macnasty8300 i’m just saying that the expectation of a release on this schedule is unreasonable for the actual developers themselves and it’s not their fault they aren’t being given the amount of time they deserve.

[@perferstrategy]

I agree. Even Monster Hunter World looks Absolutely mesmerizing, and its 5 years old. However I did buy the game on Steam so my computer GPU can maximize the graphic quality in a higher state but even a switch it looks way better than pokemon. Just wish Pokemon Delayed for a year.

[@quintessences]

The lack of interiors is so annoying. That was always my favorite part of Pokémon. Going inside random ass people’s homes and buildings and reading and talking to people and objects made the games always feel like a real world.

[@Unidragons]

Now while I agree, I have to ask, in what world do you live in that it’s normal to just bust in peoples house and start talking to inanimate objects

[@KairosSU]

You sir are the true definition of a JRPG Protagonist

[@quintessences]

@@Unidragons I mean I low key do be nosy when I enter a friends home and start looking at everything they have.

[@buincqv67]

@@quintessences they do it in all Pokémon titles and games and seasons and shows . It’s a world with fighting monsters that possess unimaginable powers and abilities used as house Pets. Walking into homes is the last thing I’d think is strange lol

[@tinainaz3830]

Which is why I feel there's a reason why Zelda is the best game franchise in the world

[@RomnysGonzalez]

My favorite part about the newest pokemon is how the game in 2022 is able to run at 15fps

[@orddan]

and the memes, love the memes lol

[@SuadeScars555]

Barley*

[@rolfofbread1399]

Switch pro better fix that 💀

[@davvo4248]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gamerbeast3616]

stop complaining

[@XainEisenhart]

I remember wanting a 3D Pokemon game that looked like this back in the N64 days. And... its finally here! A Pokemon game that looks like an N64 game!

[@The777brown]

Ah come on its GameCube at worst

[@zacharrowood6178]

@@The777brown and gale of darkness was wii u at worst

[@aclaylambisabirdman6324]

Sick burn

[@maplefox441]

Exactly my thoughts!

[@RavenGlenn]

I dont think you remember accurately what n64 games look like...

[@Dtoszi]

The Arceus team and the S/V teams were indeed different. Also, Scarlet/Violet was in production before and after Arceus released!

[@Graphomite]

Okay, but if TPC continues to give either team less than a year to develop, the Arceus sequel isn't gonna be an improvement over the first. You can't improve something using the same amount of resources.

[@Dtoszi]

@@Graphomite what are you even defending lmao? I’m more pointing out that S/V had nearly two years of development and even more over Arceus and still came out worse!

[@Nebotek1]

Ah no wonder they look so different

[@MementoMoriGrizzly]

Arceus looks terrible too, but at least it looks better than S/V.

[@gabiruman]

True, but they both had 3 years of development and I still think Arceus looks and plays marginally better than S/V. Also it's a shame they wen't back on the wild encounter formula in S/V. Arceus had finally got it right, you could choose to engange in battle or not, catch it right away or lure them with food, furthermore every Pokemon had some kind of personality as some of them would either run away or turn agressive as they detected you, this time around that was thrown out the window and they all feel the same.

[@viralium104]

Imagine a Pokemon game where all of the gym leaders were actual threats with high level Pokemon, but with varied tactics and strategies. Would make it a much more interesting challenge to overcome them 🤔

[@TorqueKMA]

Ya... Still waiting for Game Freak to realize that half of the "kids" buying their game are old enough to legally drink.

[@blazingfire365]

Ive always asked for a hard difficulty settings like gen 5 did but without needing to finish the game first. Just have the setting open from the get-go.

[@jonesygrets6029]

Well they should of kept the catch without battle mechanic The best thing to happen to Pokémon in years

[@jrodriguez2133]

Games for kids sadly its where they make the most money

[@Reki275]

Honestly, this concept right here is what got me into playing the Shin Megami Tensei games, which is basically Pokemon for adults (or at least adultier kids?).

[@MrShyghost]

As a childhood fan , its so sad to see what these games have become, you could feel the love in the games before. Not even mad , just very sad.

[@anneprocter]

it still feels like gamefreak are putting love into these in my opinion- it just sucks that the pokemon company won't give more time and resources towards the actual games. I could be wrong but it feels like thats what holding it back more than anything as the ideas are all there, the execution just isn't quite working

[@tanookigt]

It looks more like technical ineptitude than lack of passion. I think they stuck with the 2D/isometric view much longer than they should have. They should have been growing the 3D talent on their teams. These technical issues would've been sorted out 10 years ago.

[@raider_reaper_4194]

The Love is in this game, its a Great game easily the BEST pokemon game ever made. If you're not a graphics crazed nut like apparently half the world is now then it really isnt an issue.

[@SoloLynx]

@Jack Procter they aren't putting any love into the game its a bug filled fps is horrible its a mess the old gamefreak games were fantastic they are just lazy now

[@SoloLynx]

@Raider_ Reaper_ no it's one of the worst games they have made the best would be heartgold and soul silver which are remakes of pokemon yellow came out in 2009 the most fantastic pokemon game of all time

[@lokoyoko4408]

Frame drops and tearing are where I draw the line these days. Especially if you're developing for only one platform. This game should run just fine on that hardware given what it looks like.

[@anthonyfernandez82]

I have never heard of a game series looking worse as it goes on, instead of better with each game. that was until the switch of course

[@Follower_Of_The_Onions]

there is other switch game "Open world" style which run better look better and as well as area doesn't look empty like this game hahaha I feel sad when I saw the game play

[@arden9122]

@@Follower_Of_The_Onions Right? Next to BOTW these games look embarrassingly bad..

[@sinkeverbruggen1576]

underrated comment , I forgot that most developers have to code for multiple platforms. GF can't even handel 1

[@Follower_Of_The_Onions]

@@arden9122 that right BOTW, XB:3, even yer old Mario Odessey. it just feels soulless even my sis says so when playing it

[@onedrop2892]

Did anyone even notice that when there are status afflictions (like sleep), the pokemon doesnt even close their eyes? They just stand there, with eyes wide open, just with a sleep condition. Those sort of things are really doing it for me, however loving the game. I can see over the performance issues, but there are a lot of details that ONLY these games overlooked

[@redneon06]

Yes very weird because in the N64 they close their eyes! 😅

[@EmpressRoselinde]

Pokemon lets go pikachu/eevee looked really good. I don't understand why they don't use similar graphics in the newer games

[@phillippaulbauer5830]

They needed to wait. They needed to let the dust settle on Arceus and take all the notes on what worked so wonderfully about that game and apply them to this. It's such a step backward from Arceus despite still being fun. But Arceus really breathed life into the now-dessicated lungs of the franchise.

[@preemptivefaceplant5277]

It most definently isnt a step back. Yes the framerate and some minor glitching sucks. but outside that its amazing

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

@@preemptivefaceplant5277 there's untextured areas, 2 FPS animation and awful lag whenever anything is on screen, but that's rare since there's rarely anything else on screen until it sees you and inconveniences your Hour by having to wait for the constant freezing to stop. Plus the menu bugs and freezes and crashes constantly, the sound design is horrible, there's still no voice acting. They released it far too early, all of the game breaking bugs and glitches and untextured areas just ruin it. Of course it perfectly fine if you want to enjoy the game it's just completely unplayable as of now, and the fact that it will get better and isn't fully completed right now is just so stupid. Yeah it will get better over time but why couldn't they have waited a few Months so it could be finished and playable with no bugs or crashes or framerate issues?? etc... Because they're lazy and just want money.

[@alexcortez3007]

Agreed. Arceus was far from perfect but it worked. I kept saying that all I wanted from the next Pokemon was the Arceus formula + the traditional gyms and trainer battles. I would have been completely happy.

[@superoldgamesaturday3277]

@@preemptivefaceplant5277 Constant glitches like falling through the environments and multiple hard crashes is NOT the sign of a game that's "amazing" and I'll bet you wouldn't be saying that if EA had made this.

[@Trex10100]

@@CerealExperimentsMizuki its a nintendo problem not a game freak problem. Nintendo needs a stronger console. The game has constant pokemon spawning, what you think would happen? Saying the game is unplayable is a bit much. The framerate doesnt break the turn base system. Unlike having frame rates glitch in a fighting game or a game that has combat combos.

[@pawfector9463]

I've seen other reviews on this game, but you guys showcased it better. I knew there were framerate issues and glitches, but this is far more worse than I originally anticipated. One would think that a developer and publisher would make sure their game is running at its best, especially when it's a flagship title of theirs.

[@PantsaBear]

Gamefreak Pokemon games have had tons of optimization issues, and in order to run a stable 30fps they need to make the graphics literal GameCube level. These devs are clearly not very well managed internally, and also not given much time to work these games from the Pokemon Company. Feels like the game is made for as cheap as possible despite making millions of dollars, its so toxic I dont even think a GameFreak game given 5 years of dev time would even be that amazing honestly, their non Pokemon games are also not great. But it would certainly be better than this, especially since these devs are certainly crunching to make these deadlines

[@s2l4t9]

Netindo switch issue not Pokemon issue

[@ReadYourManuel]

@@s2l4t9 You don’t know shit. Tons of switch games are way more resource heavy. The game just isn’t optimized. It’s dog shit.

[@sketchtheparadigmyork1217]

Except it’s actually not that bad. Play it for yourself because these reviews are way too brutal. It’s literally not that bad.

[@dr.wahwee564]

@@s2l4t9 botw came out 5 years ago and looks better than pokemon yet pokemon can barely run. It's a game freak issue

[@shaidreamcast5141]

I love the Let's Go feature, but the fact that your trainer out runs most Pokémon, and how when your Pokémon does return to you, it goes into the Pokéball and not just behind you, making you have to slow down and stop again just to send it back out really takes the fun out of it

[@PeterGriffin11]

Yeah following Pokémon is still just as if not more clunky than it was in Sword & Shield which weird because they did it so well in Let's Go Eevee.

[@leopereira4718]

It blows my mind how that shit is still an issue these days. Like, this problem’s already been solved 3 console generations ago.

[@melvondrewhite2674]

@@leopereira4718 Still BETTER Then Legends Arceus !

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

@@melvondrewhite2674 well yea they had 2 extra years… it better be better

[@SaintShion]

Very true

[@AndreaAnnibal]

I love your honest opinion. You always try to search for good and positive aspects of the game. Even if this game has some flaws you also acknowledge the good things. Thank you!

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks

[@firecrusades3397]

@@gameranxTV shaking hands vibes

[@JSephH76]

This game would be super impressive if it was made by a 3 man indie team.

[@incapable_tortoise3703]

... Would it be?

[@vullord666]

Honestly no it wouldn't. Not unless it was made in the PS2/OG Xbox Era (even then it would be questionable). The problem is the complete lack of quality. Everything about the game just screams "IDGAF". It's not the graphics it's the textures, art, and complete lack of any depth. Indie games are passion projects and dev teams of any size pouring their souls into games and ensuring they achieve the best for what they CAN with their limited budget and size. They also don't rush games out to meet deadlines. Stardew valley was made by one person and it IS impressive because of the thought and passion put into it. It exceeds many AAA titles in terms of depth to character and world building and player experience. The game knew it couldn't offer any insane graphics so it specifically chose an art design that it could make look good. And again that was one person that just cared about the product they made.

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

I think they mean the game wouldn’t look anything like this. Here’s my interpretation: The game would have been okay tested and the people that made it would have taken years! They would have actually cared about it basically

[@mrtn1566]

The crazy thing is that there have been individual developers who have made Pokemon games that are better than this. It’s honestly pathetic.

[@Alb410]

@@mrtn1566 Though they often take either 10x longer to finish them and also they use already existing frameworks, with already finished Pokemon, finished assets and don't need to worry about ratings and reviews since they aren't being paid to make them.

[@theunknownducklord4190]

another big issue I have is the multiplayer. like suddenly your friend turns invisible while you're walking, riding the legendary disconnect everyone from the group (even though their whole big thing in this game was the legendaries) for this very reason we had to ban riding our legendaries and now we have to walk everywhere, which surprisingly isn't the worst but it's still pretty annoying as you could imagine.

[@johnhazlewood54]

That's a connection thing not with game switch has problems with that

[@turtletrio2916]

bro what are you on about that’s just wifi problems

[@mattpet7913]

I haven't had that happen to me yet

[@madcat998]

Tbh walking is probably better for immersion than that fisher price ass bike lmao

[@Katie-hb8iq]

The picnics are useful. They heal your pokemon, which is honestly useful in gen 9 because you could fight long stretches of similar-level pokemon and trainers before the next pokemon center. Also, that is how you breed eggs.

[@snehilsharma5827]

Yeah! And sandwiches are useful to boost spawn rate of desired type of pokemon. Used it to get charcadet because I couldn't get one to spawn with regular spawn rate.

[@imaginetheradio]

Yeah, it looks like the "reviewer" didn't do a thorough play-through with the mechanic.

[@Cynthetik]

They aren’t if there’s Pokémon centers literally everywhere.

[@RacistCeilingBird]

The game sucks.

[@elmehdizine7022]

@@imaginetheradio tbh this game is a joke, no wonder he didnt go that deep

[@TGMinnieeMee]

Picnics are great for really quick friendship. I caught a Riolu, made a few sandwiches, gave it a bath, threw a ball, and not too long it evolved. Plus max friendship helps in battle for nullifying status conditions, free sturdy ability, and bonus Crit chances.

[@houndofculann1793]

Yeah that last sentence is just a minus in my book. Going to avoid that mechanic in this case

[@BonesofGhostkat]

@@houndofculann1793 I don't mean this in a rude way but what was the Drawback In the last sentence? It sounds like an amazing deal that makes your pokemon stronger.

[@douglasivey7524]

@@BonesofGhostkat he means he doesn’t want the friendship handicap and instead wants a challenge

[@BonesofGhostkat]

@@douglasivey7524 oh I thought we were talking about the base game and not rom hacks my bad

[@timothydib3496]

@@BonesofGhostkat Not a rom hack. He obviously just doesn't want an increased crit chance. Don't think i would like it either considering how easy these modern pokemon games have become. I'm keen to give scarlet/violet a shot tho

[@turn3ase]

Actually, in the Pokemon legends Arceus, our main character have a voice when evading or jumping. I don't really understand why after many years, the Pokemon series still doesn't have any voice or sound in the conversation for just a little bit, but the Pokemon have their own voice in many situation. I hope one day they will have it.

[@bhuvangunessee]

For what it's worth personally I like the game more without voice acting lol, it's part of the charm. Pokemon is just one of those games that would sound weird with voice acting. Take that from someone who plays all kinds and genres of games all the time.

[@mullaoslo]

@@bhuvangunessee how would you know they haven't tried ,and there MANY movies and animes that would say voicework in pokemon work just fine

[@mr.j410]

BECAUSE YOU WILL STILL BUY IT!!!

[@popopop984]

@@bhuvangunessee This is just copium. Being able to talk would only make it better

[@PoisonFlower765]

@@bhuvangunessee it would be nice if there was a setting. On/Minimal/Off would work.

[@jamquick5298]

The lack is interiors is the biggest draw back for me personally. In any RPG or even open world games I don't like being outside the entire time; I want to go inside and sit down in a chair sometimes.

[@TonyTynebridge]

Bit weird

[@areumleyun133]

@@TonyTynebridge It's called immersion. Why would that be weird?

[@7milesdavis]

I want to sit down and play video games in my video game.

[@Brownaut1993]

Also just adds more to a world when you have memorable interior environments to explore

[@Grapefruit5000]

What the hell? 😂

[@Whytrueysofunny]

The purpose of the picnic is to heal your Pokémon, bond faster with them (certain Pokémon evolve off of bonds) and to breed Pokémon

[@TheBuddha337]

One day I'm hoping for the perfect pokemon game, one that looks like this but the story takes part across literally every region. Perhaps maybe it be the last pokemon game? Whenever that may be? Not sure. But I do think it would obviously need to be on a more powerful hardware. It'll never happen, I'm sure. Because I just don't see them stopping. But I remember as a kid while playing gold and silver, that I thought it was so awesome you could go back and fourth between Kanto and Johto. Idk, I'm. Probably asking for too much 9 generations in now. Never thought it'd make it this far lol.

[@ti3g3r2000]

As much as I do want a pokemon game that includes every region, how would it be balanced? Would they raise the level cap? Would they drastically reduce the content from the additional regions? Because chances are your entire team would be level 100 or close enough by the time your through 2 region. Would they lock your team away when you enter a new region till you reach a certain point? Idk how it would work. But one can always dream lol

[@TheBuddha337]

@@ti3g3r2000 Oh you're absolutely right, I have no idea how they would pull it off. It probably won't ever happen. But like you say, one can dream.

[@Gnomenamedgrimblegrumble]

I really want an urbanised realistic Pokémon game. Like with the spirit of defective Pikachu, and the realistic feel of games like Spiderman (PS4)

[@AJ_Chilling]

I can guarantee you that the "perfect" Pokémon game will NOT be coming from GameFreak.

[@gc1087]

Gold and Silver were 👌, Then we had Ruby and Sapphire which were really good. Everything after that I haven't even liked that much. I need to replay the remakes of the original games.

[@josephkim007]

when you said the eating animations were bad, i was thinking to myself, "How bad can it be?" When i saw it, i literally laughed out loud! did not expect it to be that bad lol! thanks for the video! confirmed a lot of things for me ^^ thanks for the honest impressions and opinions

[@DarkEnigma91]

What, you've never tried to take a bite out of your coffee cup and missed? Happens all the time!

[@Frost4Real]

Literally made than animation on fucking MS Paint 😂

[@alwaysshit]

Okay it can’t be that bad I’m not up to it yet

[@alwaysshit]

It’s that bad It’s literally unimaginably bad

[@javiasilis]

I remember when going deep into a generation meant developers knew the hardware, and we were able to squeeze more out of it. Not the other way around.

[@7F0X7]

Imagine BOTW, a 5+ year old game for the Wii U looking objectively better and running objectively better than this game, even with 10+ rapidly moving characters on screen at once....

[@yumri4]

It isn't possible when you have to meet a dead line inside of 3 years. You also have most game developers were trained on game engines so retraining them to code in C and nothing but C for the chips used on the hardware will take a lot of time. It also restricts what chips you can use to chips made to work with C unless you want to teach your developers more than 1 programming language to make a game in. Then you have when a bug happens where in the lines of code is it? C isn't that easy to debug but if you are using another chip that using an entirely different programming language then you will either 1 need an employee that can read then debug in both or have 2 that will work together and not blame 1 another for writing faulty code. The reason why APIs came into existence is how repetitive the code was was. Using a API puts more into RAM but it also reduces how big the code the programmer has to write will be. IDEs are good for programming as they can pick up on coding errors and help you find which line they were in. Thankfully they also don't impact the compile size of the code. Then you have game engines. They make the process of making a game even easier and possible to make 1 inside of 2 years. The main issue with game engines is the bigger size and the put that their run time has to be there. APIs are made to be small enough that they don't interfere with how much time the program will take to run nor take up to many resources to load into RAM. Game engines well it depends as each one seems to handle it in their own way.

[@7F0X7]

@@yumri4 No one cares about any of that. The game is dog crap, that's all that matters.

[@chillvibed]

@yumri4 I hate people like you. Excuses. And always defending these companies. Does your Dad work for them????

[@rightyboywilson4911]

@@yumri4 does the switch api use c?

[@orsonhydepalomares9652]

Picnic is actually useful, cause if u open your map, you'll see a pokemon u want to catch and u can't see it in the area just make a sandwhich with an "encounter" of the type of the pokemon u want to see and catch.

[@YeahNaw]

I think Pokémon Scarlet / Violet singlehandedly will have me, moving forward, watch a Before You Buy, before actually buying. I tend to stay away from spoilers, and currently is having huge buyers remors from this game. I heard about slowdowns and crap graphics, but I thought it couldn't have been THAT bad considering it's a freaking Pokémon IP. But man... a lot of the technical issues really takes me out of the game.

[@Slushii24]

I’m sure they’d patch it up soon they probably couldn’t patch up all the glitches before the release though … I still wanna get the game since it looks fun to me and I had asked a friend who has the game and they said it’s fun

[@YeahNaw]

@@Slushii24 Them couldnt patch things up in time is exactly the issue, in which, this title should have no excuses for. The game isn't just filled with bugs, it's unfinished. And I mean that by literal sense. They can patch framerate issues, but some textures on certain areas are borderline non-existent, they'd have to pretty much rebuild models for some of the sceneries to looks normal.

[@drednezroth5369]

This was my first game avoid spoilers and ill be doing that going forward. Diffrent strokes and all that

[@nave712]

I know how you feel. I do like the game despite the issues. The larger world is a lot to take in though

[@qyuremk]

honestly, with legends arceus, i thought the games could only get better, but scarlet and violet leads me to think that its gonna take even more time for this to happen, i hope we're able to get more stuff like Legends arceus in the future and that this was only a test to see how everyone liked this style of game, but eh who knows

[@argy7526]

i downloaded both games yesterday and i have to say that arceus seems better to me than scarlet and i am getting at list 3 if not 10 times more fps

[@hunt7533]

You can't sell a damn game for 60$ due to a mere test lmao, they're lazy asf, they don't try anymore.

[@mb00001]

Seeing what they have done, i think the success of Legends Arceus was a fluke, they honestly don't seem to give a f about producing a decent game, also i bet that Terrestrial (don't know/care spelling) will be removed and replaced in the next game

[@scalicali8073]

People also called Sword and Shield a test when it was released. The only pokemon game on the Switch that is fun and interesting to play is Legends Arceus tbh and that game also felt like a test for future generations

[@Gatorade69]

Gamefreak have never been masters of optimization. I believe Sword and Shield were originally going to be on the 3DS and were built on an engine for the 3DS. However with Violet and Scarlet there is no excuses. I don't know why Arceus was so much better... It too was developed by Gamefreak. I winder if there's numerous development teams in Gamefreak ?

[@VonGreen]

I think this video is a master class on how to walk on eggs when telling the hard truth about a Pokemon game without bursting a riot from the fan base

[@superoldgamesaturday3277]

See also, every game journalist's review of this.

[@Dtoszi]

@@superoldgamesaturday3277 IGN straight up publishing a PERFORMANCE REVIEW instead of just a paid review was hilarious

[@gilangignasraharjo6138]

THERE SHOULD BE RIOT! gamefreak can't keep doing this shit! >:(

[@CarlosSaulRodriguezA]

@@Dtoszi yeah, but they also say it like it’s the console’s fault… when is not AT ALL

[@superoldgamesaturday3277]

@@Dtoszi They're waiting for the check from Nintendo to clear, but the people who blindly bought this and making excuses for this are just as bad.

[@tresfordays9644]

So, personally I still enjoy the game despite its technical issues, my big two complaints from Sw/Sh were that it was too short and too easy, after 4 hours into S/V At my own enjoyable pace I haven’t even battled a gym or titan, so it doesn’t seem like length is gonna be an issue this time, and depending on how often you want to go to Pokémon centers, traversing the open world can provide enough of a challenge to make it not super easy, though the technical issues are annoying, I can push past them and still enjoy the game, however those issues make it hard to recommend this game to anyone not a die hard Pokémon fan

[@nicholasvogel3148]

You bring up a really good point that I've been thinking too...the game is a little hard and has room to be as hard as you want it to be, which is a interesting part of the play experience

[@Babysasuke3]

I’ve never played nor watched Pokémon this is my first introduction to it and I love the game despite the bugs and frames I’m learning all these new Pokémon I’ve never heard of and watching them evolve as well

[@TheBuddha337]

I agree I didn't "breeze" through it like sword and shield. So that I'll give them credit for. Other than that, I'm not going to give much credit. Did I enjoy it, yes. One day I'm hoping for the perfect pokemon game, one that looks like this but the story takes part across literally every region. Perhaps maybe it be the last pokemon game? Whenever that may be? Not sure. But I do think it would obviously need to be on a more powerful hardware. It'll never happen, I'm sure. Because I just don't see them stopping. But I remember as a kid while playing gold and silver, that I thought it was so awesome you could go back and fourth between Kanto and Johto. Idk, I'm. Probably asking for too much 9 generations in now. Never thought it'd make it this far lol.

[@TheBuddha337]

One day I'm hoping for the perfect pokemon game, one that looks like this but the story takes part across literally every region. Perhaps maybe it be the last pokemon game? Whenever that may be? Not sure. But I do think it would obviously need to be on a more powerful hardware. It'll never happen, I'm sure. Because I just don't see them stopping. But I remember as a kid while playing gold and silver, that I thought it was so awesome you could go back and fourth between Kanto and Johto. Idk, I'm. Probably asking for too much 9 generations in now. Never thought it'd make it this far lol.

[@Htiy]

@@TheBuddha337 me too. On sword shield, I caught Pokémon exclusively on the route before each gym (including E4) instead of training them to challenge myself but even then it was easy

[@masonk6031]

They should just make the ultimate 2d pokemon game with classic b2w2 or earlier sprites but with all of the modern technology

[@perferstrategy]

Check out Nexomon looks better than this game. Looks like a newer version of older pokemon games. Even the HUD is more interesting. SV where you store your pokemons in your computer is so TRash looking. BDSP had way better background artworks for my lovely pokemons to feel more at home.

[@alexfarrell3250]

I could give a pass to the graphical issues but an unstable frame rate is the most irritating thing to try and deal with. There's almost nothing worse than experiencing a nice open world just for things to grind to a halt and move in slo-mo. Hopefully they fix it

[@smeltgamer]

I want to look past the graphics but DAMN IT SUCKS DOODOO

[@gamerbeast3616]

@@smeltgamer who plays pokemon for graphics

[@viggyvodka]

@@gamerbeast3616 Garbage argument, as a fan it's fair to ask for a stellar and polished experience from the largest franchise in the entire world. Being an apologist for the trash they've been putting out for the past decade only perpetuates the cycle of mediocrity.

[@smeltgamer]

@@gamerbeast3616 i dont but this is just inexcusable, a 3DS looking ass game on a switch with crap fps too match its graphics

[@Wft-bu5zc]

@@gamerbeast3616 A game about exploring a 3D world and catching monsters than have various colors and visual looks... How are graphics NOT important for that? This isn't chess.

[@robsax0079]

Y’all nailed it. I am a little forgiving because the game is HUGE, but I was shocked at the pop in, the textures, the weird glitch that makes the still frame after a cut scene off center exposing a white bar on one side of your screen, the random lighting issues, the horrible frame rate... just to name a few. It’s shocking. Also, I don’t know how I felt about The Pokémon Go speed catching in Arceus, but now that it’s gone... lord I miss it. I really hope they patch this game. It needs more time in the oven.

[@preemptivefaceplant5277]

Rumor is they are doing a big patch thursday along with the eevee event

[@Wiifan5551]

@@preemptivefaceplant5277 You have sources? I want to believe this.

[@preemptivefaceplant5277]

@@Wiifan5551 I don't, thats why it's called rumors. I've seen the talk in many youtube videos and it was brought up in a live stream I was watching. I'm just gonna believe the rumor because there is am Eevee event Thursday so that's when it's supposed patch is also coming. We I'll know Thursday

[@Wiifan5551]

@@preemptivefaceplant5277 Lol true. I was specifically asking where you heard these rumors, not confirmed sources.

[@zakrios7389]

Stop forgiving and start holding these cash grabs accountable

[@TheBuddha337]

I'm glad that I was able to ask the pokemon nurse on suggestions where to go next. Because I was so used to Pokemon being so streamlined.

[@Kirbyfarts]

I don’t understand how Pokémon is so popular and the company has so much money and time. I bet if they took a long break in between Pokémon games and poured their heart and soul made one major insanely high quality Pokémon game with like all the Pokémon and just a ton of story that takes more than a day to beat we would all love it

[@ChampionRevilo]

The ANIME. That's how it got popular in the 1st place. People bought the games to imitate Ash as a kid.

[@Parso_YT]

Confused at the fact that they didn’t adopt more from arceus, even if they just mimicked the art style, also I find when you start a battle with a wild mon it seems to be a bit slow before the battle starts

[@hazardsigns]

I think (much like Disney did with Beauty and the Beast back in the day) Game Freak didn't think Legends would do well, so outsourced it to their B team. That's why much of the good stuff is missing here. They were also partly developed in tandem. I'm still enjoying casually playing Legends, but refuse to buy either of these games. Much as I want my wee buddies running around beside me in 3D, Violet and Scarlet are horrible unfinished

[@PantsaBear]

Its not really that confusing when you understand the timeline of game development and how dysfunctional GameFreak likely is internally (partially, but not entirely due to, the release schedule)

[@potatosensei1771]

Both Arceus and Scarlett and Violet were in development at the same time

[@RemmyRiffs]

Agreed. Feels like they took a big step forward with Arceus just to take a gigantic step backward with this...thing. It's hard to even call this a game.

[@Parso_YT]

@@RemmyRiffs yeah definitely feels like they’ve taken two steps forward and one back with this one

[@caddermeran]

if breath of the wild can be as beautiful as it is. Pokémon has no excuse

[@ohsnap5141]

exactly

[@tnuggyz]

Pure laziness. They know they could make a lackluster game and still sell record numbers. It's unfortunate because they are fully capable of making a great game.

[@thats4thebirds]

@@tnuggyz this is the dumbest take. Lazy doesn’t apply to people who have no control over their deadlines. Management makes these decisions not developers.

[@masonmurphy5402]

@@tnuggyz when you know nothing about game development

[@fish5645]

@@masonmurphy5402 As the saying goes, you don't need to be a chef to know a steak tastes like sh*t. Go somewhere else with your "game development is hard" BS, that is their job and they make serious money from it. Time for them to start making products that don't insult their customers despite some thanking them for absolute garbage.

[@contretemps3001]

love your before you buy series! thank you

[@Oiled_Up_For_Lebron]

Are performance issues bad depending on if you have the switch hooked up to a tv or just handheld?

[@Kinosho_Kawakami]

it boggles the mind how they didn't use what Arceus changed, like easily and quickly changing Pokemon and cycling to items. i love that feature. it's sad that it's become the norm to not run and buy the new game of the franchise as soon as it's out because of glitches, price or gameplay in general.

[@Ren-dz8ws]

They were developed at the same time by different teams, probably separately

[@preemptivefaceplant5277]

It boggles my mind how people make comments like this without researching the games. Game play is amazing and really enjoying it. Im glad i can battle which you couldnt do in PLA, other then the texture issues this feels like a real pokemon game.

[@connorkenway1996]

Man, this game's graphics takes me back to the Nintendo 64 days. Somehow though I could run Banjo and Kazooie at a consistent framerate on a 24 year old console unlike this game running on a 5 year old console

[@Saroku1000]

Thats complete nonsense, it doesnt have the best graphics, but its graphical level is within the Switch-realms.

[@GC-co1jb]

@@Saroku1000 cope

[@spacemoon56]

@@Saroku1000 No it's not. Breath of the wild, super mario odyssey, witcher, monster hunter are within siwtch realms. Stop making excuses for gamefreak fanboy.

[@allesinallem2675]

@@spacemoon56 even indie developers do better visuals than gamefreak, like, for example "shinen" with fast rmx.

[@JoseMendez07]

I guess gamecube graphics would be more accurate hahah

[@AshenHollow7]

I have hope that they will be able to smooth out framerate some hopefully somehow, they somehow managed to fix the horrible framerate and stabilize that in elden ring here's hoping they put in the effort because they can do better

[@lincy9114]

Great video, this was the pokemon game that I was really excited for after Arceus, and I was originally going to get it on day one after seeing all the trailers, then the review came out, follow by videos of various glitches and so on, that when I decided , ok may be I should just get Persona 5 Royal or Nier Automata for the switch instead, which I have held off because of Bayonetta 3 . Hopefully these issues will be resolved in the future updates, and as a game developer myself, I am aware of the difficulty in game development, but still quite shocked to see Nintendo and Game Freak release the product at this stat, I think it would have worked out better if they had more time to refine the overall experience, right now it just all over the place.

[@JadeMythriil]

I really do like the concept of the world. I would've given it a chance if not for these glaring performance issues. And the graphics despite being the most basic of any Switch game, still causes performance issues? How did they manage that? Gamefreak REALLY needs to hire someone who has experience making and optimizing an open world. Maybe then will the graphics improve as the performance improves.

[@Frost4Real]

This is exactly it. If an ambitious game comes out using Unreal 5 and RTX but has bugs, its understandable, but GF have been making these basic, cartoony, super unambitious games for like 5yrs now since the Switch came out and they have this many bugs and performance issues?! Especially when Arceus ran better which is nearly a year old

[@HDGaminTutorials]

What they need is a new console with better tech switch is 5 years old and technology is much more advanced now

[@JadeMythriil]

@@HDGaminTutorials the tech isn't the problem here. if a game as simplistic looking as Violet and Scarlet still causes frame problems, no amount of tech will solve it if the game is just so poorly optimized.

[@esho6460]

I’m 30 and started my Pokémon journey with Pokémon Blue. Played up till Ruby and Saphire then stopped. Got back in a little bit with Sword and Shield but never finished it. I had so much hype for Scarlet and Violet but unfortunately it falls short performance wise. Really wish we could get a big budget Pokémon game on a current gen console such as series x or ps5

[@kapalot9387]

won’t happen unfortunately. with pokémon being nintendo owned you’d have a better chance waiting on nintendo to make another better performing console

[@SpartanS1ayer195]

@@kapalot9387 and it would still be leagues behind Xbox and PlayStation

[@Bekayvd]

You should try arceus. I've been playing since pokemon red and haven't had as much fun with a pokemon game since the original gold and sliver. Arceus is something else. It really nails the sense of wonder the early games had

[@loren5432]

...In other words you only played like 3 main entries if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, you should at least play Emerald and HG/SS. I feel like those are the best Pokemon games ever made, the rest range from being decent to being bad due to questionable changes (looking at you, X/Y). Also check out the Mystery Dungeon games, those are fun spin offs based on the Pokemon series that everyone should try.

[@meisterwu8922]

@@kapalot9387 When will people learn that Nintendo doesn't own Pokemon.

this looks like a 2005 game

[@kwameoliver2455]

I wish people would just be honest and tell people not to buy the game so fast, and just wait for it to get a patch, if they don't care about the glitches then go right ahead but stop making it seem like the glitches are easily ignored when do care the same way some don't, the game isn't going anywhere it would get better as time goes on

[@qactustick]

It's really telling that SV is probably the first time where even the 'defenders' in these forum wars are acknowledging that the problems are real. Like there's really just no getting around that SV runs terribly. And you can hear the pain in some of these messages from people who're ready to (even blindly) love these games like they always do with Pokemon, but even they're pausing and hesitating here. Really feels like a new low has been reached to cause both sides to be united like this.

[@naqibfarhan4356]

I am one of those guys, i really really love pokemon games, all of them.I even enjoyed Pokémon sword and shield which everyone hated. But this, this is just sad. A full priced switch game looking like a Gameboy color game in 2022, when we already have titles like BOTW, Crysis, doom, skyrime, witcher 3, persona etc all high quality games running at a reasonable fps. And here we have a shit looking game running like shit. Its just sad, i am just sad.

[@jaydentaylor882]

@@naqibfarhan4356 agreed. If they knew it would have a terrible framerate and look like something out of the 90s (which I am sure game testers would have told them about) then they should have downscaled the map and added a more in-depth story and/or at least added some detailed interiors

[@Trex10100]

Everyone that's complaining about framerate doesn't know how framerate drops occur. Its not a software problem, its a hardware problem.

[@qactustick]

@@Trex10100 No, it's a software problem. These games aren't releasing on any platform other than Switch. There are games that've been *ported* to the Switch that run better than this. If those games can run better, is the excuse for Pokemon really that the Switch isn't 'powerful enough' to run it? I don't think so. They simply didn't prioritize getting the game to run well on the platform it was designed for, and/or didn't have enough development time to achieve it. Plenty of other games have managed to do it, including games that are open-world like these are.

[@Trex10100]

@@qactustick You people no nothing about tech. Glitches are a software problem, framerate drops is a hardware problem. The software can only run if the hardware is up-to-date. You're talking about ported open-world games that doesn't spawn multiple enemies in and out with varied differences. There's at least 10-16 pokemon spawning on screen at a time(different sizes, natures, stat spreads, ect) per biodome(lakes and grasslands while in the same area have sperate spawns) compared to a game like neir automa. Where you fight like 6 robots with no shields with the same health bars that don't respawn until you comeback to the area. Then when you progress in the story they'll be replaced with 3 of the tall robots and 4 flying ones.

[@rodrigobentancor9119]

I just wanted this to be a really good game

[@eatconcrete6443]

The new pokemon designs are bad 😅

[@bingobongo1615]

And it is, its just buried under a lot of shit… At least performance on handheld is ok

[@MossXM]

How could you not tell it was going to be crap beforehand? They didn't even try hiding it in the trailers.

[@flataffect]

@@eatconcrete6443 lol wtf no they aren’t. Best in a long time, WAYYY better than sword and shield.

[@gamerbeast3616]

@@eatconcrete6443 no they arent

[@Ramxenoc]

Picnic adds a lot to the game. Sandwiches change the pokemon you encounter, how fast you level, I believe the strength of certain types, breeding, how fast you get eggs and you can get more than one egg for the first time in ever, you can also increase your rate of shiny pokemon with the picnic sandwich making feature.

[@mylespando5192]

Well it still looks like an annoying mechanic

[@Ramxenoc]

@@mylespando5192 If you find it annoying I guess. Idk if you call yourself a fan of the games but if you don't like it i'm gonna call you and the others that don't like it weird because breeding is way better and faster with it as it is. Ya'll just don't like change and it really shows when you criticize something that is objectively better. Outside of breeding you don't have to use it if you don't want. I only did like twice for my first playthrough

[@linekerv]

Sandwich mechanic is also to increase chances for shiny Pokémon.

[@fakenamerealchungus9851]

@@Ramxenoc pokemon fans typing out essays to defend their budget Cooking Mama mechanics in 2022

[@Ramxenoc]

@@fakenamerealchungus9851 Because people that are complaining more than likely don't give a fuck or actually play them long term and if game freak sees it and is like "Well they hate it never do this again" then it hurts the people that actually love it. All the people that I know that play the games are loving the game and agree the games are the best games they've made in a long time. The performance is the only issue. Graphics don't mean shit and it looks pretty good of you're on an OLED. Game also runs better when you play in handheld instead of docked. So yeah I'll happily type out my essay defending the game because every aspect of it that isn't performance or graphics depending on who you ask is good.

[@Xen-wy6bo]

If Switch can't run it just Update the Graphics & Release it on Android/iOS.

[@Migzter05]

I have only played sword and shield when it comes to the 3D pokemon games, but I can already say that I still prefer Pokemon in its 2D format when it comes to exploration. I think what they did with X and Y and the more recent Diamon/Pearl remakes are the top examples of blending 3D with the original 2D base game the right way.

[@SuadeScars555]

It just shows how hollow the games actually are. Tile based movement and totally invisible items had you mashing the action button on every corner of the map of those classic games.

[@iKayorei]

Seriously. They've did this open world thing with Arceus, wasn't a fan cause it looks like dog poo, I'd much rather them go back to X/Y or Sh/Sw grpahics

[@jaydentaylor882]

Agreed. ORAS was really good with this as well IMO, the difference is thought that the devs knew the limitations of the hardware they had available and made the games as well as they could. man i miss my DS and 3DS

[@gabekeeter6415]

BDSP were terrible lol, they kept the 2d tiles with analog movement so you kept getting stuck in small corridors, just a bad design choice

[@videorgames]

Appreciate the attention to performance and the footage to showcase it. Thank you!

[@baileyroddog]

Thank you for making this video I wanted to get this game but not after seeing this video. Definitely opened up my eyes to what would have been a crappy present for Christmas

[@fromisnine3292]

Makes you really think what the developers can do if they are not limited to nintendo consoles. Like, imagine an open world pokemon using pc or playstation/xbox.

[@vermilliontoaster3063]

I’m not surprised. The only support I give game freak since I was a teen, are these videos and my talking with fans.

[@The_oli4]

Pokemon go is still a great experience imo. I have to say that the 3ds games also where really good.

[@raptor1368]

I don't think you get it man, if it weren't for performance issues the game would be great, maybe even the best pokemon game we've got so far

[@matejeric]

@@raptor1368 it looks like a shitty mobile game

[@raptor1368]

@@matejeric I don't care about graphics, what I care about is if the game is good or not

[@LowIntSpecimen]

@@raptor1368 I mean yeah, graphics aren't everything but I'd expect better from the most profitable franchise in the world.

[@Inhale_Burrito]

The picnic is great because you can use it to not only bond fast with your pokemon but can refill all their health bars instead of heading to a center or using items. He may have missed that part. With the game being this big and the pokedex grind it's perfect for prolonged exploration.

[@Call_Upon_YAH]

Jesus Christ is the propitiation for the whole world's sins. They that believeth and are baptized (with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but they that believeth not shall be damned. Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness. *God is ONE manifesting himself as THREE;* the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! *For these three are one.* As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him. Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, and where I am doing it; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them, they lack understanding. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.

[@detroitsin5250]

Also how you get eggs from breeding apparently, if 2 compatible pokemon in party while picnic

[@karthikkr93]

@@Call_Upon_YAH It's amazing how intolerant Christianity is when you actually read what people say huh

[@Inhale_Burrito]

@@detroitsin5250 I was wondering about that. I've only gotten a single potion out of that basket. I'm guessing there's no daycare in this. I havent come across one and usually don't do my Google searching until I head towards the elite four.

[@detroitsin5250]

@@Inhale_Burrito I just beat the 2nd gym so I havent messed around with it myself but they were sayin the eggs can auto deposit in your pc box too or some shit

[@youtubeobserver]

for real though besides the game being unfinished in terms of optimization and performance, is it at least finished content-wise? Is there a surplus of things to do? For reference I thought Legends Arceus was alright but felt it had next to nothing to do/no reason to revisit any of the locations I’m hoping to hear the opposite before I try this one

[@ailehunter]

There's actually a lot of caves in this game... but yeah, not a lot of inside areas for buildings. For voices, i'm sure they'll add them... in Pokemon Masters instead.

[@rattenusrattoonus1880]

here, we have an example of the low standards pokefanbois have. Impressive. Good job.

[@subhranilbhattacharjee5827]

Its impressive how well the game runs on the Game Cube. I wonder when they will remaster it for the switch

[@gamerbeast3616]

shut up hater

[@theduktape2446]

Pretty sure Mario Sunshine is better than this in every way.

[@MusicMeetsController]

It's really unfortunate the Pokemon games are going downhill. I hope they pick up again and start getting better. It really can be a great series if they put a lot more effort into it. It's like the company has all these great ingredients, but they don't know how to cook.

[@johncole4882]

I work at GameStop, I was shocked at how many people came in yesterday to pick up their pre order or just to buy the game in general. I didn't realize so many adults were so into Pokemon still. I guess I just get the appeal but to each their own

[@andrei4617]

It has been down hill since the shift to 3d in gen 6 ppl really are satisfied with getting the same half baked shit they have been getting for the past 10 years

[@MaLordWotan]

Doubtful as with each game ppl still buy it & overall it has good ratings (yes they are lower than past gens/games) but also as they mentioned it is a daring game with limitations from the console.

[@EvlEgle]

Eh I wouldn't say they are going downhill. They have always been a glitchy, bugfilled mess.

[@arbitrary_thoughts]

@@EvlEgle they are very much going downhill and never been as buggy/gltchy as these newer ones.

[@christopher6337]

I’d love a real time battling system. The four buttons are tied to your Pokémon’s moves. You can mount and fight with your Pokémon during wild battles. Wild Pokémon can attack you directly. Can set a nature for your Pokémon, aggressive/cautious/etc. Real sizes for Pokémon. There are a ton of examples I mean damn.

[@frederickdelius1106]

What are the pokemon like? Do they include plenty from the old ganes? Ive been skipping the games. Well i played sun, ruby and the first eith megas...white and black? Just cant decide if i want to play this one. I literally returned a copy today.

[@justinross9833]

As good of a game it is, you just can't help but be impressed at how huge yet empty this game looks. You'd think they'd improved upon Arceus but this still feel like an experimental "new-gen" Pokemon game at best. Still, we can only hope that succeeding updates make this play smoothly as intended.

[@Saroku1000]

ANY open world game world would feel empty if it got Pokémon in it. Skyrim would feel as empty as Paldea if all monsters and npc fighters would be replaced with Pokémon, because you dont fight yourself in the game and all you can do is to walk arround to catch and fight Pokémon and trainers. The concept of Pokémon is what makes an open world feel empty.

[@Wft-bu5zc]

@@Saroku1000 Skyrim would never feel like Paldea. The landscape and environment design in Skyrim is far superior, so even if you removed all NPCs and made the world feel dead it would still have better exploration.

[@superoldgamesaturday3277]

IS it good?

[@avroraflorestina2314]

@@Saroku1000 Clearly you havent tried Minecraft Pixelmon mod

[@TheReZisTLust]

This is literally why I skipped Arceus caus eit was just a tech demo of the next game which surprise surprise it's another tech demo. I was surprised they added swim animations for Pikachu and Pikachu clone but not the gen starters

[@Soulbane90]

Looks like the game has some kind of backup save system in case it crashes. Press X + B + Up (D-pad) in the main menu to access secret auto-saves. It does these saves even if you have auto-save off.

[@Graphomite]

LOL!

[@bogardsfoxhole]

I'm just a little disappointed that they haven't added any sort of level scaling system for the gym leaders. The only incentive to actually do the gym challenge is because it makes Pokemon a little easier to catch, that's it. I spent so much time running around, doing Tera Battles, and just a bunch of other stuff that my Pokemon got super over leveled and the gym challenge was extremely easy. There's been lots of criticism over the years of "oh, Pokemon is so easy now" but in this game's case, it rings true. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a ton of fun, but the pacing is totally off, and it really is quite easy.

[@rattenusrattoonus1880]

braindead pokefanboi alert

[@kristopher1583]

thanks for the info, I'm going to wait if I do buy this one. looks like it needs a update fast

[@TheElephant775]

For days I've been on the fence about buying this one and watching reviews all over KZbin; your take convinced me to hold off on purchasing this. If a "Before You Buy" vid is giving off these kinda vibes, to me, that's a HUGE red flag.

[@Saroku1000]

People overexegerate, especially with Gen 9. It goes as far as people saying that it looks like a NES/N64 game or that sword and shield, which are clearly graphically inferior to SV, have better graphics

[@TheElephant775]

@@Saroku1000 I just don't feel comfortable throwing $60 at a game company that has the money and power to make something amazing, and then produce something like this.

[@DTHAI17]

Wait a few weeks then it’ll be $40. I can def see you snagging it for 20-30 mid feb.might even be patched by then.

[@gusanator77]

@@DTHAI17 not too familiar with nintendo? Their games never get deeply discounted. It will be $60 for a loooooong time. You might get luck and there be a 10% off black Friday deal, but that's a huge stretch

[@DTHAI17]

@@gusanator77 you must not slick deals. $49 right now.

[@Im_aMUSEd]

These games are very fun to play, being able to play through the whole game co-op is the best added feature since sliced bread. Just don't turn auto-save off. The performance issues lend to infrequent crashes. My gf learned the hard way by losing 8 hrs of play and essentially has to start the game over now

[@duckwithabs4537]

Thats horrible.. good to know though

[@Nope-ef5fs]

wow keep buying this trash lol

[@montgomeryfortenberry]

She didn't save once in 8 hrs???

[@TheReZisTLust]

I lost only like 2 hrs thankfully cause I played a day before the physical release but turned auto save off right before talking to Mom and when I got the the 1st town I talked to all npcs and the Tauros owner froze my game so I lost my female kitty

[@turtato2155]

Ooof

[@DoneDragon1]

I feel like the performance issues will be patched out pretty quick. I'm more worried about why they released it with those issues though, aren't they testing their own games before they are are released to the public?

[@Slushii24]

They probably thought they could patch all the glitches before the release of the game but ended up not being able to do it before the release but yeah I do think they are gonna work on that soon and patch it up I don’t think that they’d let this crap graphics stay for too long especially with all the glitches I agree with you tho

[@hisoka7489]

Let me make a guess…….. no

[@jonmadden59]

I'm guessing they released it early to get black Friday sales

[@Miochh]

A common issue with lots of companies atm, they do not have or invest enough in QC. People are still going to buy the game regardless of bugs because the franchise is big and popular enough, so they invest less money in quality assurance to make bigger profits.

[@ArinJager1]

there's no excuse for this state of a game on release... should've delayed it to 2023

[@looney2297]

I miss playing Pokémon on the 3ds US/UM was the last good Pokémon game

[@-Stable-]

Fr

[@ryanwatt6706]

I honestly think if they get the RuneFactory creative team for the world then these games could be beautiful

[@chlosakura101]

yesss

[@bastiwen]

I personally am having the most fun with a main entry since a loooong time. The only things I dislike A LOT are the technical issues and some missing features, otherwise it's a blast imo. I loved Arceus but I hadn't had gun with a main game since X/Y I think

[@gameranxTV]

👌👌👍🏼

[@bastiwen]

@@gameranxTV Great video btw ! You guys always do an amazing job :)

[@akaicedtea6236]

I played Arceus and hadn't played a different one since Moon and I'm having a lot of fun too. It's got its issues but running around exploring and fighting is fun.

[@reed8081]

There's guns????

[@itsceerby]

Pokemon Rifle and Pokemon Shotgun

[@kamarrroxs4176]

Thank you for being honest about this. We need more honesty about the state of this game.

[@omartrujillo4938]

At this point I'm just waiting for a fire red remake with arceus legends gameplay

[@ZWOLF]

I think one of the worst issues is when your game stays on for too long and becomes progressively worse in frame rate (I saw someone refer to the issue has memory leak somewhere). Like game goes from already low frames to less than normal making it even more unplayable. And to fix that problem you have to reset the game. I think the game in concept is very fun but having my character go 2 frames a second to then having lighting glitches is so hard to enjoy. They definitely need to fix that issue with a new update. I think overall this is a good step for Pokémon if they can execute it better and I think half the battle is having a better performance console which we’ll hopefully get soon. Like I REALLY want to like the game because it’s fun to play but the performance and visual glitches are so off putting imo.

[@alexfvcruz]

the console is not holding it back, BoTW looks 500x times better and performs better as well

[@franciscovaldes4107]

They wont fix it because people are buying it anywau

[@kingken0460]

I really enjoy the game but the performance definitely needs some work. Hopefully more updates will come soon. Also the picnics are also used for breeding.

[@Profestyle]

Pokemon games never/ rarely get updated.

[@gamerbeast3616]

@@Profestyle if they do get updates its for dlc

[@phillippaulbauer5830]

Lmao, breeding picnics

[@R.O.T.C._SEEM]

I've been playing it since launch and haven't seen any performance problems until I hit the water. Still no glitches but to me it's still playable

[@YoureGhey]

I feel like at this point In time they are capable of making a Pokémon game where we can travel from each of the 9 regions and battle the leaders from each one with Pokémon we’ve caught from all regions. That would be a great game.

[@skinnybuddha8988]

This game is looking rough for a modern day game this popular. I still enjoy playing the Red version on my clear purple Gameboy color every now and then.

[@joseaguilar3323]

I just replayed Pokemon Yellow and it was still a pleasant experience. It's missing pretty much all the quality of life stuff from Gen 2 onwards, but it was a good game at its core.

[@wesleybaldwin1999]

Competitively Tera is by far the best gimmick. It vastly increased the viable pokemon and strategies.

[@MrEverisforever]

There has been no VGC battles yet so it's hard to say, completively at a high level it might be a nightmare

[@azazel673]

But the VGC hasnt even started 😂 how are you basing that?

[@taylon5200]

While I agree, I just wish it didn't ruin every Pokemon by giving them a stupid hat. Just give us the crystal skin. I'm sick of sending out a badass Mon and it getting a clown hat

[@bourky93]

@@azazel673 a mechanic that increases possibilities can only be a good thing. There is much more room for creativity here which is indisputable.

[@ragingstorm_]

@@MrEverisforever plenty of people are battling each other already or using the vgc format on the smogon battle simulator. if u have to wait for daddy game freak to figure out this mechanic is good or not that’s on you

[@MJB_9292]

Whenever a new pokemon game comes out, i think about buying it but then just go back and play pokemon yellow/gold/black and realise they are still way better pokemon games and would rathar re-play them yet again then buy the new nonsense haha

[@ichigo_nyanko]

I'm so glad I got homebrew on my switch, With homebrew and overclocking the game runs perfectly, I was honestly surprised when I found out people were complaining about the performance.

[@joser51o]

I'm calling it first because I bet we will probably get some form of upgraded form for their next console be it a remaster or something like blank scarlet and blank violet

[@haunteddreams7856]

I lost 2 of my pets in the last 3 days. One died suddenly and the other got put down this morning. Video games especially today have been a great way for me to take time away from balling my eyes out to sort of concentrate on something else, whether I'm beating up bad guys as batman or racing cars in hot wheels. I just want to put this here because although everyone has tough days if we take some time off to play video games that isn't something we should feel guilty about. I felt like if I stopped crying and played something then that would mean I stopped caring but it's ok and people may insult me for writing this I'm just doing it because at the moment typing this is relieving some of that stress and pain

[@gameranxTV]

Stay strong 💪

[@aintthatapotofeffluck8926]

Womp.

[@the69theldenlord99]

Hey dude. I Don't know you, but I wish you the best. Losing a pet is a horrible feeling. Much love from here❤

[@jackson.6282]

I’m with you man hoping I get to die soon

[@fish5645]

Sorry for your extreme loss but that doesn't excuse bad games. You shouldn't feel bad playing them if you feel like it, any backlash or heated comments are towards the developers not you. I hope you feel better real soon.

[@don1410]

The sandwich option gives different buffs and increased drop rates and shiny Pokemon rates

[@15codys]

I love the real time battles and not having to wait for the weird circular dimension to load up. I love that Pokémon are in the world itself, but how can this game be worse than LoA that launched earlier ? This is a main Pokémon game for Nintendo of all companies , not a side project yet it feels emptier than past games. We all want Pokémon games to be better open world games, that’s what we’ve always wanted. I was very excited for this game and I want to love it and ignore its problems, I really hope Nintendo/GameFreak will patch this game for the better. Heck, games like Pokémon XD looked amazing for it’s time, Sword/Shield looked amazing, Pokémon games now should be almost perfection.

[@lordphinix3]

I have no idea if the picnics are any good in the game but I like the idea of it. Reminds me of the opening of Mewtwo strikes back.

[@UghieYucky]

That’s the first thing I thought of, too!

[@D71219ONE]

Graphical and performance issues aside, I’m so baffled by Game Freak boasting about the “Three different storylines!!” It’s the same things you do in a Pokémon game anyway. They just let you go out of order now. I remember when I first played Skyrim in 2011, I felt that each faction’s storyline could be a main quest in itself. I remember thinking, “This is what the stories of open world games are going to become from now on!” …I was wrong.

[@macnasty8300]

the pokemon company is not the same as other gaming companies. A delay in the release means that everything has to be delayed. that includes both the anime and the card game. Gen 8 anime is over, and there are no more card sets releasing for gen 8. The release schedule for the mainline pokemon games coinsides with the rest of the media produced by the company, therefore games cant be set back.

[@amunago080]

This is a laughable excuse for such a profitable company. If they wanted to change the way things work they could, but I wouldn't because why fix what still makes fuck tons of money

[@karen_from_finance4710]

Yeah it use to be in my cart about 2 seconds ago……… I’ll wait for what I’m expecting in a modern Pokémon game, see y’all in 50+ years

[@MammanAnimations]

Im so glad I discovered gameranx❤

[@gameranxTV]

❤️

[@rohanamor4323]

TBH it wouldve looked cool if the the crystals attached to their head are floating around the pokemon with elemental particle effects from their typings and made it look like an aura. Instead we got the worst gimmick in pokemon games. The best powerup would probably be the Mega forms, they should've expanded that instead.

[@DanteDH88]

At least a lot could be fixed with updates, the frame rates are rough though

[@Snootingson]

I feel like after a few updates it will meet or expectations and maybe over shoot em, just what i think tough

[@Legnica148]

unfortunately the Nintendo world is not like this (not sure why it's not like Sony/Microsoft in this regard?)... we won't get proper updates. ever.

[@aaroncadena6398]

Anyone know If I should pick up my first Switch and this game now?

[@calebnahm4978]

Had so much potential man

[@TT-ey3hi]

Is is not worth buying ?

[@brandon1402]

it’s a very good game

[@johnnybernard]

hopefully it gets sorted out soon

[@jamesconlin5099]

and you havent played it

[@jamesconlin5099]

@@TT-ey3hi IT really is

[@hefty8876]

The picnic feature also allows you to raise the friendship levels of your mons

[@dan...dandan...]

I don't know why I read it as mom. Probably saw too many Ash's mom and professor meme

[@kichan3353]

I know how to raise the level of your mom

[@shafin9003]

@@dan...dandan... me too😅

[@montgomeryfortenberry]

And breed pokemon

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

It also lets you breed your Pokemon and the sandwiches can do all sorts of things like increase the spawn rates of shinies or specific types of Pokemon, give your team stat buffs and even increase egg spawn rates.

[@baronsamedi7659]

U forgot one thing that's also equally important they got rid of all the drip WE HAVE NO DRIP IN THE GAME

[@greenjoe21]

It may be "open world" but you get punished if you want to just explore. You can easily have your pokemon get too high of a level where they won't listen to you unless you force yourself to do the gyms in a timely manner. If you want to freely explore this world, you must finish the story quests first, THEN then game becomes more of an open world. You're actually locked out of a few areas and TMs until you can climb and glide.