So shocked they didn't do level scaling. Remember in the Pokemon Origins animated show, Brock chose pokemon specifically for the number of badges the challenger had? It just seemed so natural, I assumed that was how it worked. Imagine my surprise when I faced the Grass gym for my fourth badge, and everything was lv 16...
Me and my brother have been playing through the games with us doing a battle against each other after every 3 “points” which are gained by beating a gym, Titan, or Star base. And because we’ve both been going separate ways, developing different teams, and doing things our own way before converging in a battle to show what we’ve found to the other, the experience has increased tenfold
I’ve done something similar with a few friends where we go through every generation. We started at gen 3 and worked our way through gen 4. It’s such a breath of fresh air to games you’ve gone through many times before and i can easily see that working just as well in scarlet/violet. I highly recommend to anyone who is able to do this with a friend or family member
@@italy4047 im jealous, really am. None of my parents are free, my bro is more interested in fps games (we used to watched Pokemon everyday back in the day ;)) and none of my friends are into the game as well.
Nemonia is by far the best rival imo. If you lose to her in battle, you don't have to rematch her till you beat her. She just takes the fckn W. That's so funny and new.
@@ReidnReactn To me she’s really funny because she’s genuinely not a bad trainer and her team is good, she just goes down to your level and acts all condescending unintentionally
@@asprinjuice425 nah i dont hate her she just made me mad and her team didnt feel that strong to me With Lucario Grass starter Garchomp Ttar Corvinight Amorouge I kinda one shotted all of her mons
The co-op feature is nothing to sleep on. My friends and I were able to join each other's worlds seamlessly and continue our own errands and story missions while being in the game with each other.
You don’t need Switch online to play locally :) My friends don’t have it, and three of us sat on a couch and played together through wireless mode. It was lots of fun!
@@ralfsstuff you definitely need it if you're in different houses, me and my cousin from Europe have been playing this since release day together, it requires both to have online membership tho (or one family membership plan)
I love that when you battle wild pokemon, there are other pokemon just chillin' in the background watching it makes the world feel so much more immersive. And I love Nemona she's fun.
@@BowmansWorld Except Legends Arceus would actually have groups of pokemon join a battle and gang up, a welcome mechanic which made things way more challenging. That appears to be nonexistent in SV for whatever reason? Gamefreaking constantly going backwards ...
and I wouldn't even mind not entering houses that much if there was ANYTHING else to do in these cities but there is NOT!! in Mesagoza I found ONE npc in the streets worth talking to! ONE! multiple shops are copy/pasted, you can't even enter them, stuff like icecream feels totally pointless/postgame... compare with Lumiose City - cities in Scarlet/Violet look nice but they are an unfinished, alpha-stage MESS
@@tuney7319 again, if there was other stuff to do in cities/towns it would be such an issue. but there is not. they are just absolutely empty and useles..
I really liked how Arceus did with being able to throw pokeballs outside of battle and the shinies making an audible noise and visual cue when they spawned in. I really wish they kept those two features
@@number1ivysundewfan it made catching running around catching whatever Pokemon I desired much more entertaining than past gens imo, where it's all just the same fornula. I also liked playing ninja with smoke bombs and baits and backstabbing them with pokeballs. Plus honestly doing all that extra stuff for the dex honestly made the dex even more fun, although longer, but gave me more depth and a reason to use Pokemon that I caught rather than just boxing them away sometimes
@@number1ivysundewfan legends arceus made catching pokemon fun in every other pokemon game I have always felt doing the pokedex was an annoying chore to get the shiny charm in arceus i completed the pokedex cuz it was fun
@@HeilRay the battle style was a gimmick for PLA. It's super fun in that game, but it's not balanced for competitive, which is a huge part of the franchise. It was never going to stay. It might come back in other legends games, if we get those.
While I agree, its also unobtrusive enough where you can just not look at what the next Pokemon coming out is, press no for switching, and then react accordingly after.
@@thetafritz9868 qol is quality of life, or options and such they add to make games nicer to play Set mode and switch mode are options that have existed in every main pokemon game since red and blue. It changes whether the game lets you switch pokemon or not after knocking out an opponent's pokemon in singleplayer, with set mode making it function like multiplayer battles do. It just adds extra challenge really. They also removed the option to turn off attack animations.
Fun fact: if you press the right stick while in a battle, the camera becomes fixed behind your pokemon, similar to past games. Though the angle doesn't always work well (big pokemon or flying types being kinda off camera), it's a nice option to have
Scarlet and Violet was that best Pokémon game since OR/AS. It needed another year of development time but it was actually fun to play unlike the gen 7 and 8 games.
Tip for the map: Click the right stick. It locks the map to pointing North, and it doesn't come undone between opening and closing the map or even the game. Made the map much easier to use for me.
What I love about this generation's legendary, is you immediately have a bond with Koraidon or Miraidon. Like it's your friend. You help it, and it helps you. I wonder how that's gonna translate to the anime considering the anime usually does one of two things: take aspects of the game story and puts them into segments of the anime, or strays from the game completely. Gen 9's mons are very well done, and I can't wait to dive back into competitive. It's a pretty ambitious game, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
Exactly. I’m so glad someone actually gave this compliment and appreciated the life they brought to the legendary. Instantly felt connected and you could tell it’s thoughts or emotions.
Koraidon is precious and must be protected at all costs. I've never really been one to bond with legendaries considering we don't get the time to but this time....I love the precious boi.
Gen 8 mons are well done?? This gen has the laziest looking Pokémon, there is a dead ass flamingo in the game, it’s straight up a flamingo no other design changes, other than fuecocco the other starters just look bad, they look bland and forgettable, design wise this gen took a huge step back
For the map navigation, there's a way to set it so the map is only pointing north... SUPER helpful. I believe you click one of the sticks while in the map to do this
Seeing a 10/10 sank my heart. I have been grasping for confirmation that these games are worth it and deserve the support. But from what I have seen from by sitting next to my friends playing through the game. This must be the most poorly optimized pokemon game of all time. Flicking shadows, frame freezes, lag, 3 fps npc's walking not far away, polygon buildings and 240p resolution pokemon when in battle with pokemon in certain areas. These are some inexcusable things we have found just playing through the game, the last couple of days. Im ranting here, because im a super hardcore pokemon fan, playing every game, every fanmade game, remembering pokemons base stat totals, ect. I really love pokemon and I REALLY want to buy the next generation of the mainline games and see the new pokemon, story and region. So im glad that the story seems to be good, but these issues I mentioned is scaring me off from buying a copy of either game. I don't want us to support unfinished games from our favorite franchise, and seeing these games. I think they would need another 1-2 years of development and/or cleanup of their code and optimization. What made my heart sink, was seeing that with reviews like this, that seems to disregard these issues, and still give the game a 10/10. Almost solidifies the fact that we will keep buying the next pokemon game, regardless of how rushed its release is. Im not trying to be rude to anyone with this, and I don't blame you if you bought the games and enjoyed them. I just worried that we will always hear, that the next pokemon game is a step in the right direction. Instead of hearing that we have finally arrived at the best game (not just pokemon game) of all time. Regardless of the pokemon games, "reputation", I do still believe that the number 1 franchise in the world, should be able to produce the number 1 gaming experience in the world.
Tbh wolfey is a fkin 🤡. The story while good don't even come close to Unova and Alola. It is far from the best game and for him to even claim that shows what a dunce he is. He really should just stick to VGC content
that’s the annoying thing about this game, you see all the issues since they are very clear and abundant but you are just having too much fun to care. brb gonna go complete the pokédex
Me too. I have a great feelings they'll be fixed though which will be nice. But I love the upgrade systems, the Tera raids, Nemona, other characters and the bosses (team star and gym leaders). I even like the school stuff and there's some form of like "friendship thing" with your professors like it says you get close to them. I think that's cool. And the new pokemon are awesome. I avoided most of the spoilers for the game, and im so happy I did.
That's pretty much my feeling. The performance issues are noticeable and kind of annoying at times, but they also don't mar the experience that much for me. The exploration and actually being able to JUMP in a mainline Pokemon game is just too fun to ignore, and I love that you can catch all the Pokemon you want for your team really early on unless it's the paradoxes. That's a bit of a shame, I'd love to use Great Tusk to fill the essential Ground and Fighting slots on my team with a single Pokemon, but I get why they're deemed too strong to let you get them early. Would still nice if you could actually breed them to get low-level ones, then you could at least get usable ones for your team on a second playthrough.
Tbh, the stories in SV (I’ve done 4/5 Star Bases, all titans, and half the badges) are honestly pretty good. The Titan’s one I started getting really attached to after the second one, and the Team Star one is really hooking me. I really hope this does become the future for Pokémon cause they nailed basically everything we could want from an open world Pokémon game (only thing I would want is TRUE level scaling for the gym leaders because I wanted so badly to wait and fight Iono last so she could be at her strongest).
@@tehCostHD I mean, Iono's was the only low-level gym I hadn't fought yet in hopes she would become harder. Psychic was much harder than Elec, but they were still a little below my level and I still got Ice and Ghost to deal with, along with the Fighting and Fairy Star Bases so I hopefully wont be overleveled for everything. Besides, im so confident in my team that being underleveled shouldn't pose too much of a challenge for me.
@@the_godbodor7026 if you beat the final titan you will literally be overleveled for anything that isn’t the fighting team star boss. None of the gyms will pose any threat at all
@@tehCostHD I was quite underleveled for the dragon titan when i beat it (around lvl 40) and my team is now about 43-45. If this is still way too high then I must've misjudged since I got a brief whooping by Arven and his lvl 60 team and I thought at least the final gym might be comparable, even if slightly weaker.
The Titan storyline, especially when you get to understand Arven's reason for hunting them, is the most "emotional" storyline in any Pokémon main game I've played. That's not saying a lot, since the stories don't tend to be too deep or emotional, but that caught me off guard a bit. The game really needs a competitive mode such as a Battle Tower or something else. Anything that incentivizes min/maxing your setup/team. The only way to do that currently is online mode, but it would be nice to have something offline as well.
Sadly for a lot of games and I think pokemon now as well, post game single player stuff will probably be relegated to being DLC down the line. I feel like a lot of games that used to have this kind of thing started dropping it in favor of 1. online versus for the min-maxers or 2. putting it, if at all in the first place, into dlc for min-maxers that don't enjoy competitive online play/versus modes. Personally I like playing versus other people and will happily play ranked mode to scratch this itch but I get that it's disappointing to not have a battle tower equivalent in the base game.
I might be the only one but the soundtracks are actual fire, especially team star boss, tera raid battles and gyms. Can't wait to finish the game and see all it has to offer
"The tutorial is the quickest in the series" It took me like 45 minutes to an hour. Of course, with lots of exploring and catching in between but still. The quickest in the series? I'm pretty sure gen 2's tutorial is just "Here's how to use your phone. Walk across some grass and have an old man give you a phone app"
when did he say it was the quickest? all I heard was that it was the least intrusive, as in you’re not bombarded with cutscenes telling you how to click the b button ever 5 seconds
obviously the graphics have issues, but the gameplay itself this generation is really fantastic. the story is the strongest since gen 5, and there're so many quality of life upgrades that just make it more enjoyable.
in germany so many people are toxic about the graphics of the game which i understand but they completely overlook the story and gameplay it's nice to read that there are people who also see the good side of the game
The story sucks. Wdym. I feel like I have a pacifier in my mouth the entire time. They tried to make an adventure game and made it more cringe than a slice of life anime dub.
@@user-op8pf3uf8s we like the game even with its problems, we’re huge pokemon fans DEAL WITH IT! If you dont like it and are turned off my frames dont play it!
How does a game with glaring flaws, not all of which were mentioned in this video and imo almost purposefully skipped over, given a 10/10? A low baseline for Pokemon games as a whole was mentioned so is it just a 10/10 relative to other Pokemon games? Just using the frame rate as an example, which is obviously a problem shared by a vast number of people, allowing something like this to slide because "it's gamefreak and they're just not good at it" gives them a free pass to continue delivering par-baked products which is a privelage virtually no other studios enjoy. This game was delivered to the public in a "one step forward five steps back" philosophy because no one is really willing to give a damn and they'll buy it anyway then give it comically high ratings because it's Pokemon. Lots of frustration that they just continue to be paid for subpar work.
Thank you. Summed up my thoughts. A 10/10 score to even be considered is ridiculous with the obvious issues like frame rate and also the many little details that are missing.
At first, I felt so overwhelmed. I wasn't sure where to go or what to do, so I just said "fuck it" and went wherever I please without the map. I discovered most of the story stuff from randomly finding it while I get distracted by every new thing. It's been a blast and I still have a few gyms and 1 team star group left to beat. I haven't been in the snowy area in the north yet, so I'll be moseying my way up there eventually. Despite the graphical issues, this really is one of the best Pokemon games to date.
I ran north after a friend told me there was a Chansy spawn up there lol, ended up finding a Cloyster swarm and killed them with auto battle, and after filling the seas with Cloyster shells, I was 15 levels higher lol
That’s usually how I felt when playing open world games, the moment you just let loose and just explore whatever comes your way it makes it all the more enjoyable
one thing i find so interesting about the game is how they still split up the areas into “routes” kind of. it’s hard to explain but it gives me hope that they can adapt this style into a more traditional region potentially
@@ooo8188 you can still have routes in open world games, since to be an open world just means you can go ANYWHERE at ANYTIME, and while we do have routes in s/v, we arent limited TO those routes, and can choose to leave or follow whenever we like and explore them without any barriers
This game has been a blast, and I'll never forget when a staraptor sweeped my team two times with facade terastylize, it was hilarious to see a normal type gym be so terrifying to me to the point where I had to catch a fighting type
I had a pawmot with close combat at that stage, so I breezed through this battle hahaha. I was also almost double their level due to enjoying pokedex collecting so much in each area hahaha.
@@1001History double their level??? Bruh I don’t understand how anyone finds enjoyment from that. Every single boss trainer I fought in this game I was either one par or 1-2 levels below because I actually wanted to enjoy my experience. Over leveling and just beating everyone up easily was never and will never be fun for me. And I don’t understand how it can be for others. Just playing normally and going to the different battles without over leveling was the most fun I’ve ever had in a Pokémon game and I lost more fights than I’ve ever lost before. Mela kicked my ass the first time because I went to her first before the dark one, but beating her underleveled was so much fun. Same with the poison boss and the normal gym. Incredible experience.
@@tehCostHD he said he was over leveled because he was catching mons. Catching mons give equal exp to genocide. Thus he was over leveled. Just because someone enjoys collecting doesn't mean he's not having fun.
SV is the first Pokémon game where I’ve had many Pokémon on my team I cycle between since there are so many great ones. So many times I thought my team was great, and then I’d find new ones and just think “oh shit, who is going to be on my team now?” And going in blind to non-officially revealed Pokémon has been amazing. I also want to know how many of these will fare in competitive like the new double-battle focused guys (absolutely love both of them and have loved using them against friends with their double battle gimmick)
Same! I had a set team (was trying to go paldean only) and that team was broken up only halfway in. Even now it’s being changed and I just finished lol.
One note about the map: I noticed that there’s a toggle for being able to rotate it vs. keeping it locked in a fixed orientation. I found that keeping it locked really helped prevent me from getting lost and kinda fixes that issue you mentioned.
You really don't have to worry about spoilers, most reviewers of Scarlet and Violet don't even play the game, they see that the framerate drop a little and they immediately give it a 1/10.
The only thing I thought was a little weird was the fact that "y" opens the map. I am surprised how few times I accidentally opened the map before getting used to it though.
@@zernst2798 Well his post is basically he hates everything about Pokemon, everything about Gamefreak, everything about Nintendo, and even everything about JRPG and RPG in general.
@@Zer0--Zer0 Nowhere even close, I have played several of the pokemon games before, have played tons of other games before. It's honestly how I spend most of my free time. This game is one of my favorite of all times, people are complaining about inconsequential technical issues that don't matter
@@trappedcosmos the game is suffering from a memory leak....it's not a small problem this shit leads to lower fps and game crashes etc. My game crashed 2 times already. With this games performance and graphics it's a 7/10 at most
I like that the levels were all over the place. It made the game way harder than I thought it would be and having a challenge in a fun Pokémon game like this was fun!
Yea I did was was clearly the 4th gym second, and the 3rd titan 2nd, and it was a blast. The boss battles feel like boss battles. Even at level the boss battles are pretty good.
same thing for me, exploring high level areas or fighting late game trainers/titans is so daunting now and its a breath of fresh air even with exp share permanently on it still didn't feel like it made the game easier
I'm fine with the Titans, Team Star, and the wild Pokemon not being level scaled, since that does make the world feel more complete. But when your own levels are limited based on how many badges you have, the gyms' strength should be based on how many badges you have (not full on level scaling, just each leader having 8 different teams). Plus there's that one scene in the anime where Brock chooses his team based on how many badges Red has, so there's precedent in the Pokemon world for this.
I love that you can take on gyms, team star bases and titans in any order. I just chose the next task without looking at the proper order. So i often found harder battles i actually felt difficulty
@@alexandregehin8665 being overleveled with your main team just means you can pull out some weaker things in your box (which you have on you at all times). If the level of the Gym Trainers is low or the nearby wild Pokemon are suddenly weaker, just switch up your team
@@researchinbreeder very true, but I personally like using a single, main team throughout my entire playthrough. Makes me feel super close to my chosen pokemon that way, seeing them take on harder and harder battles instead of just switching to random mon I have boxxed. Easiest way to please everyone would simply be level scaling everything; but hey, it's all personal preference anyways, and doesn't bother me too much as pokemon has always been fairly easy in difficulty ^_^
@@kairoikki6981 ye, I have nothing against personal preference. I'm just annoyed by ppl who will complain about the permanent exp share, and in the same breath say they never switched up their team. Even though every game with permanent exp share has also put the PC in your bag.
@@researchinbreeder I honestly do feel like there should be a choice to turn it on/off, as restricting players to one playstyle is a little off putting. It's nothing major to me but I can see why it irks people that just want to play with their faves, yet can't because they have to keep switching things up in order to have at least *some* difficulty in game. On one hand I get why they'd want you to use different mons, but why force that choice yknow?
Heads up, Established Titles was very recently exposed as a scam. Scott Shafer has an explanation video on it for more info. Might be helpful for future reference if you ever get a sponsorship request from them again.
@@gavin3760 It’s a scam depending on how you viewed it. If, like me, you saw it strictly as a nolvelty item to give a friend or family, then it’s not a scam. Although yoy could make what they print out yourself for so much less, but I digress. However, a big part of their marketing campaign is that you can TOTALLY put Lord or Lady on even official documents! And that part is without a doubt a scam. You can say people who fell for it are gullible, but that doesn’t make it not a scam/false advertising lol.
Think the funniest thing that happend to me playing with friends was that a friend off mine was chilling beside a shiny mareep, not seeing it because he was looking the other way, so I snatched it and asked why he didn't go for it. He was like "THERE WAS A SHINY 2 STEPS AWAY FROM ME?" He started to joke that I was team rocket the rest off the LAN party. 😂
Unfortunately online feels a little unplayable to me just because it's not really worth it that only one player can catch a specific pokemon. If you're with 3 homies and find a shiny, it's pretty annoying that you have to choose who gets it. Whereas if all 4 are playing alone, you're effectively quadrupling your shiny odds. REALLY doesn't help that the shiny noise and sparkle are gone. That shit needs to be patched immediately, or I'm modding my switch JUST to get a mod that adds that back in the moment such mod exists.
SMT V has “horrible frame rate” issues, yet is one of the best games I’ve played on the switch. Sometimes, there’s more at play than frame rate. Beauty isn’t what makes a game fun. Fun is what makes a game fun.
Funny thing is, even if it ran smoothly, it's so far off being a 10/10. Pokemon fans accept any old shite and that's why the franchise is in such a state. The open world is ugly, bland, unrewarding and uninteresting. Play Xenoblade, BotW, Elder Scrolls, pretty much anything else and compare it to this. It has no flow to it and is as lifeless as the wild area. (And feels worse because it's on a bigger scale) The characters are all vanilla Pokemon characters. The rival, whom I've seen people talking up, is a battle obsessed stalker who wants to be your friend. How many Pokemon games have we had that exact scenario in now? General gameplay still has a shitload of jank. So many trainers still only have 1 or 2 Pokemon. You literally have to go out of your way to find a trainer to battle in the first place. (Most likely due to weirdos who buy a turn based JRPG but don't like turn based JRPGs.) And people are completely overplaying the choices the game being open gives you. In Zelda, a skill related game, you can literally complete the game from the off. In Pokemon, a turn based RPG where stats are the deciding factor, you're not all that free. You can challenge things, and within reason, beat them. But you're going to get one shotted by anything that outscales you and no amount of skill can help that. You're going to have to get badges so that a Pokemon obeys you in order to challenge tougher content, and even in the event that you do things a little out of order, you go back to a lvl 15 gym with your lvl 30 Pokemon. There is some fun to be had. But even without the issues, it's like a 7/10.
@@steviedee9826 I appreciate your review. “I” didn’t say it was 10/10 and I do get a genuine sadness when I see what is offered me. What I truly appreciate here, is that you give me definitive shit other than “the frame rate” and “the open world sux.” I’m even more sad that I have to agree with you on these things 😔
I’m six hours in and have one badge. I’m steamrolling everything because I’m using exploration to get my money’s worth. I’m starting to see what Stevie Dee means.
Not addressing the frame rate/glitch issues with more severity is misleading. I don't mind a biased video but transparency would be nice especially when influencing others to buy it.
I actually like that areas have fixed levels instead of scaling based on how many badges you have or whatever. To me, being able to wander into an area that’s above my level, or cakewalk through a lower level area is part of the fun of open-world exploration. If everything adjusts itself to your level, it feels like it doesn’t matter where you go, which kills my desire to explore. Plus, having higher level areas makes it feel more rewarding when you can come back and take on an area that used to be too tough for you when you first came across it.
Strong agree. Creates organic gameplay moments out of mismatched difficulty that I think is a feature of open world games, not a bug. Just got hosed by Arven and it felt good getting his last Pokémon into the red with my underprepared, underleveled team.
The framerate and optimization issues bother me a bit, but I can definitely overlook them for how enjoyable these games are to actually play through the story. I'm totally with you on this review.
how can you give it 10/10 when the performance is so horrendous? yes the gameplay is good, but it's overshadowed by horrible frame drops and laggy UI, especially in boxes
Tera type really expands the pool of options. My brain is broken trying to think of the best ones. And they use it really well for making gym battles interesting.
If you want an idia get a pokemon with levitate and switch it's terra type to electric. Pure electric type plus levitate = no type disadvantage. I used flygon.
meanwhile it has 2.8 user score on Metacritic.... the truth is somewhere in the middle. 10/10 is pushing it. Maybe mechanically it's a step up from pokemon games (which are stagnant for decades) but as a game, i've been more impressed by indie projects of 1-10 devs with the budget of a grocery cart.
A 10/10 is absolutely insane. This game performs worse than any game I've played in the last ten years. Pokemon does not get a pass just because we love the series, and not being honest about its shortcomings (which are far more than just performance issues) does a disservice to the fans. What happens if they come out with a game that has graphics up to the standard of most other switch games, voice acting, and actually runs properly? What happens if they scale gyms. Does that game get an 11? The game is realistically a 7 when compared to other games. 8 if you're being generous.
Trank You! someone Gets it! The towns Never felt this useless and empty.Cant even Go into houses.Exploring is Boring,you dont even find Intresting places like maybe old castles to Explorer or a Dense Forest with Pokémon jumping from tree to tree.I still think that the Pokémon on the Overworld are was to lifeless.I dont get Why People are bringing down their Standarts because its Pokémon….
@@TheJoeyland Yep exactly. There are loads of problems past the performance and graphics. It's perfectly fine to like the game and to have fun with it! But giving it a perfect score is insane.
I'm a little confused over the 10/10 score. You start by saying these are the best Pokémon games yet, so maybe you mean that the 10/10 is relative to other Pokémon games? ...because the rest of your review is mostly "this is the best it's ever been in Pokémon, but it could still be better". Like "the story is way better than gens 6, 7 and 8, but it's not a high bar to cross", or "the game gives you a lot more freedom, but the lack of level scaling makes it annoying to play". You seemed very enthusiastic over the new Pokémon and also positive about terastillization, but in general, it feels like you're describing an enjoyable game with significant flaws, while 10/10 is a score more fitting for an almost flawless masterpiece. It only makes sense to me if the score is meant to be relative to past Pokémon games or if you're just being a contrarian, because this game's had a lot of negative critical reception by players. You don't even mention the most criticized aspects of this game which are the pathetic graphics, lack of fluidity (caused by performance issues), and the very rough state of the game. I grew up with games that looked worse than SV, and games that were more glitchy too, and I think many of those old games are great, and maybe you're like that too, but if that's the case you should've said so in your review, since that's kind of the elephant in the room here. A lot of modern gamers expect more than me and you in those areas, so it is important to mention it. As for the performance issues, you do mention them, but only briefly and you downplay them a lot. SV are some of the worse-performing video games of all time, including no-budget indies and the like. They are the only post-2000 commercial games I have ever seen that can't keep a smooth FPS in *cutscenes*. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the way you talk (and don't talk) about the game makes it really hard for me to follow, and this review is more confusing than helpful in my opinion. Also some people are saying that your sponsor is a scam. I wouldn't know because I skip sponsors but I think you should look into that. Ok I spent forever typing this now I go do something else bye.
Playing violet after arceus, it really feels like while developing new tools for S/V, they ended up with a ton of stuff, some of which didn't fit what they wanted in a mainline game. But the tools and mechanics were so good (like catching in arceus), they ended up making a whole spinoff using them. Which is all to say, I'm actually excited to see what the next generation game brings
The only thing I currently don’t like about the game is how few buildings in towns you can actually enter, and with all the shops it brings you to a purchase screen right away rather than having an interior. Other than that the games have been perfect to me so far!
Agreed. I’ve been exploring the wild areas far more than towns which sucks. I like talking to NPC’s in cities and seeing what they’re up to but the ones in this game are just so bad.
I was just always 10 levels below the fight I was about to take on, but I actually think that this was a positive since it really made a Pokemon game difficult for the first time in generations.
@@prestonjones8672 Too be fair, the last time a pokemon game was difficult for me was back when pokémons actually used status moves and trainers used items which haven't been a thing since.. what generation 4 or 5?
I'm honestly do happy to finally find someone who liked sv, because I adored it but everyone was so negative that it made me feel like I couldn't enjoy a game I enjoy
I’ve found that the game is really lazy and borderline unplayable given the performance problems, however, I’m really glad that some people are able to look past the problems I have with them and enjoy the games.
my biggest problem is the level scaling. Despite the message of being able to do anything in any order, you really can't. Since nothing is scaled to your progression, its hard to do it in any order. And while there is no restriction outright said, the gym badges still level lock you from using Pokemon higher leveled than you. and there's no way to tell how strong a boss actually is until you fight them. Otherwise fun game
@@ralfsstuff I can think of 2 areas in the game that are actually locked behind traversal abilities. One is the lake, but the titan you get swimming from is level 19. The other is this high up area in the bottom-right section of the map you need climbing for, but that area is also completely untouched by the main storyline. Anything else that might seem locked behind climbing is accessible through other means, though it might involve going through a winding cave.
Performance is really the only major gripe. The only other thing i wanted was an actual idea of which gym order was "preferred" instead of just the first gym. If you aren't going to scale, the game should at least tell you to some extent the order the gyms "should" be handled. The starfall street and titan pokemon being a mystery is fine.
"Performance is really the only major gripe" - wow the amount of copium. no seriously - I would love to praise SV to heaven and back but it is easily one of the most rushed games I have EVER played. is it still fun in many ways? yep. but to say performance is the "only major gripe" - I feel like you are either biased AF or haven't played truly great games which have great gameplay, good performance, great graphics, are full of content and aren't half-finished.
@@charliez077 yeah my biggest gripe came from the story. the crater part with the time treveal came out of nowhere... it would have been weay better if they embraced the time travel stuff make the one game primal and the other futuristic and connect them though the story line.
I love the game too but theres 1 big problem i have with it: shadows dissapearing when you dont look at the thing that the shadow comes from. Its really distracting and i hate it
@@lstsoul4376 how is it not the only issue, for me (who like I still play the gbc titles from time to time so idrc that much about performance), the game is a masterpiece of they can make it run at 30 fps stable and solve the textures going to 480p when you enter a town
My BIGGEST gripe with the map is that it doesn't always just orientate North. I think it sets the maps orientation to whichever direction you're facing.
My favorite QoL I’ve seen them take from Legends Arceus is the remember/forget a move mechanic so you can change previously known moves without needing a move tutor and a heartscale. I wouldn’t mind new moves being learned via that method but seeing previously known moves easily accessible helps me a lot.
I’ve only played enough to beat the first gym but so far I’ve loved the game. Although some things such as animations and certain movements could be sped up.
@@michaelbread5906 The gamecube is far too weak to process something like SV. The ONLY thing that looks similar to a gamecube game are the low res textures of the ground and many buildings, but everything else is clearly far beyond gamecube games. Graphics are way more than just the textures. We have shader effects, far render distance, high polygon count, higher res model textures. All those things are too much for a gamecube. Only the ground and bulding textures are on gamecube level.
@@Saroku1000 bro, characters run at 7 fps if they’re more than 10m away. The graphics are horrific in terms of resolution texture. The frame rate and performance has to be the worst of any game to come out in the past 10 years. Maybe tied with cyberpunk on last gen consoles. I think this is worse. How can BotW, Monster Hunter Rise and Xenoblade chronicles run on the Switch but this Dreamcast looking game can’t? Mind boggling.
@@enzog1078 That wasnt my point. My point was that the low res ground and building textures are the only thing that is on gamecube level, everything else is clearly not possible on a gamecube.
With the map thing, press the right stick to make everything point in a locked direction (north up, south down, west left, etc)- helped me TREMENDOUSLY, so hopefully that helps you in the future
-Can’t change out of uniform. Best Pokémon game! -several shops that sell different things instead of just one shop. Best Pokémon game! -glitches galore. Best Pokémon Game! -get lost easily, useless zoomed out map. Best Pokémon game! -super dumb designs with cars and motorcycles. Best Pokémon game! -lots of talking and stopping you in your tracks. Best Pokémon game! -good music. Best Pokémon game! I don’t think so. Except that last one. I dig that 70’s vibe to some tracks.
@@pyronianking1654🤷🏻♂️ this guy’s video came into my feed late. At least now I know how much he sucks by claiming a game with problems is “the best game” in the series.
@@DeadlyRealityTV How so? Are they better? Never played them. Just because it has Pokémon stamped on the cover doesn’t give it the license to be called a perfect game. I enjoy the series a lot and even like this game, but just because I like it doesn’t mean I’m going to over look it’s problems like the dingbat in this video. This guy suck at his “honest review.” He missed a bunch of points. Best game? Give me a break. Don’t know why people don’t demand better from content creators or companies.
@@Oceanatornowk it’s a Pokémon game, you could and do literally give me 16 bit graphics and I’ll play it and enjoy it, the main aspect is laying back, relaxing and either the completion and collecting or the becoming the very best in the turn based game, the open world only makes it so it doesn’t feel like a part time job to play the game cause it has exploration etc, it’s like icing on a cake which makes it much better. I obviously hate as a consumer that they released the game early but I mean like to be real after seeing the issues idrc, I played it emulated before release and I got instantly hooked so I got it yesterday and have been playing for hours on end
The Pokémon models have never looked better. At least in the 3D era. I still love the simple yet nostalgic 2D sprites from the early games, but I can’t believe how good of a job they did in SV. For example, primeape has never been a favorite of mine but it just looks so badass in this game
One thing I noticed, while its a very very minor point, but the few times I was forced into double battles with an AI partner the partner was actually more than competent. Helpful, even!
You can like this game all you want, but you cannot be serious about giving it a 10/10. Bruh, the lack of a national dex, interiors to buildings, teerible graphics, terrible performance, still images cause they didn't animate cutscenes, glitchyness, lack of polish + a bunch of minor issues like arven having dialogue that spoils the cassiopeia plot make it so we cannot praise this game because gamefreak cannot think this is anywhere close to acceptable.
@@ZeldaVerde do you mean when you can say nemona or penny? I'm pretty sure she says she's good at hacking mid way through starfall, and if you aren't doing team star in the first place, you won't really care about that and you will probably skip over it.
Performance def sucks but this game isn’t even close to unplayable. People gave age of calamity a high score and that game is a reaction based action game that never runs at its target frame rate and often well under it.
@@Swillo as i said, my game runs between 10 and 15 fps. And is nearly unplayable... Maybe i'm just unlucky or my switch is too old, but that's what's happening to me
@@thecherries2011 Might be possible. I bought an OLED model last month for Bayo 3 and this game and the performance obviously isn’t perfect, but nowhere in the unplayable range.
@@TheDtzcrptrWhy would it age poorly though? He’s talking about story and exploration, all of which is actually good, in fact most reviews have all been consistent in saying this is a good game that’s just been undermined by performance issues which are separate from story and content.
@@tehCostHD I understand you're trying to cope with the fact these games are a mess outside of gameplay but that doesn't magically change the definition of a "review". Wolfe never says that this review is about gameplay exclusively either and talks about the other aspects (even if he just glosses over them since they're big negatives).
You started streaming your first time experience playing the game like 2 days ago. You currently have your hair way shorter, as seen in the streams But in this video you clearly have longer hair So you pre-recorded your "no spoiler" review based on your playing experience that didn't even happen yet? Can someone explain?
Wolfe. I'm 45 years old and my son just got into Pokemon. Your channel is super cool and I'm really enjoying it. Keep being the best Pokemon player of all time!
Glad to hear Wolfey didn't have huge issues with technical performance. Sounds like it's been really rough for some people's switches, although my experience was perfectly playable.
@@arked_way133 It's incredibly choppy on literally every Switch, but certainly among my friends two of them are just much more sensitive to/bothered by low Framerate and general stutter than myself and our other friend (a bit like how some people get car sick/some people don't, some people can handle smooth movement in VR, some people literally have to take the headset off within 30 seconds to avoid throwing up etc etc- different people are built different and respond differently to the same stimuli). Basically sounds like Wavypavy is in the "isn't really bothered" camp and your friend is sadly not, I doubt there is much you can do about it other than hope they patch the game somewhere down the line to improve performance as the Switch can definitely do it if they put the time and effort in (look at Xenoblade 3- an open world game on an even bigger scale that not only looks better but runs substantially better at the same time). P.s. and that's not to mention how immersion breaking some people find the general "oddities" this game has, like weird camera clipping, weird glitches, awful pop in, 5fps animation for people over 10 ft away from the player, shadows and other objects loading in and out randomly in full view of the player. Basically whether the poor technical state the game is currently in is still a fun experience depends very much on the player. Fortunately I wasn't so bothered, but it's a real shame gamefreak dropped the ball so hard on this side of things as it really will stop a lot of people enjoying what really is the best game in the franchise.
@@pjs232 if you play competitive games in high framerates like 120 upwards the game will absolutelly annoy the f... outta you, i can see clearly every lag like it's in slow-mo, it really bothers me.
@@arked_way133 Well your comment indicated you thought different Switches with identical hardware would somehow run the same game differently. So I told you in full why that was wrong, and what was probably your actual issue. No need to be an asshat about it, let's all get along.
I really enjoyed this entry personally, but this is far from a fair take. The 10 seconds spent on visuals and performance issues here is unacceptable. Despite the fun I’ve had it’s objectively the worst visual and performance experience I have ever had in a full price game. It’s not just that the visuals are bad, it’s that there bad and don’t even run well for being that cheap. Makes it hard to trust much of the rest of this review as fair.
I thought your review one of the most fair I'd seen until you gave it a 10/10... You brought up major issues like how well the game runs and how levels don't scale, but then didn't even think those issues warranted docking even a single point? This isn't a perfect game - it's a great step in the right direction, and finally a step away from the mechanics of the gameboy, but there's still significant room for improvement. It's good that you didn't gloss over the many good point just to focus on the bad and call this game terrible like so many other people are doing, but you swung too far in the other direction.
Ignoring the obvious horrid technical issues that make this game an embarrassment: The shift to open world has definitely been a positive for the franchise. It is awesome when you get through the tutorial and the game lets you go be free (more on that later). I also like how they’ve started to figure out sensible distribution of Pokémon. You’ll have them gather around trees and water. They’ll move in packs of varying evolutions. It feels more real than the wild area of SwSh. The Tera battles are much faster and better than Raid battles. The game isn’t **really** open world though. The choice of paths is kind of an illusion. The gyms don’t scale to your progress, an incredibly obvious thing that GF failed. The Team Star roadblocks mean you can’t really ignore them. The Titan story is the only one that works fine because it’s just an exploration element, but the map could stand to be less obvious in how it obstructs your exploration without the ride forms. Customization and Pokémon elements fail as well. Why is XY still the best customization the series has had? This is something that should not be trending down. Pokémon designs have also gotten very weird. We are so far gone from the idea of these being animalistic monsters in the wild. This might be the most egregious gen of power creep yet. I wish the gameplay was better, but GF cheaps out so much on the little things. The amount of animations in the game is tiny. They cut to black as often as they can to limit showing you anything. The picnic animations are a literal joke. You can’t convince me this is a finished product. All in all, I can’t give it higher than a 4/10. The technical faults are damning. The game outside that is still classic 1 step forward, 3 steps back. GF simply doesn’t have the ambition or urgency to make an actually good Pokémon game.
He literally has a section near the end of the video listing literally every single one of the things you just said as cons. But he just doesn't think it's nearly as big a deal as the hivemind on reddit. It's called an opinion bud.
I’m aware he mentioned them, I watched the video to lol. Wolfey is entitled to his opinion, just as I gave mine. A take you apparently have issue with me giving. It’s called an opinion, bud.
The cities are so lame. None of them have anything worth visiting for. You can’t even enter any of the buildings. It sucks. Exploring buildings and talking to people was one of my favorite things about pokemon
Wolfe I'm a big fan. I also enjoyed this game quite a lot, and I know your livelihood depends on the hype around Pokemon, but you cannot be telling people this game is a 10 out of 10 with the issues it has.
@@darkmoon2503 I just recently 100% Colloseum and XD on Gamecube during Covid so I guess im just so used to it. These games are far superior and I think that those were the best pokemon games ive ever played until now.
I got really into surviving on the road and have been living off the items I’ve found on the way. I ended up in a high level zone and been struggling, but that’s what I always wanted from these games, a challenge.
@@lcdany0153 my bad I thought you meant you found it hard because of the self-limitation of only using the items you pick around. But yeah, you can go to the hardest areas or gyms and still beat them with the right mons and strategy, even if you are underleveled.
I would give the game a solid 7.5/10 WITHOUT considering the performance issues. Though I’ve been able to enjoy the game despite these issues, I think they are nothing short of unacceptable for a franchise like Pokémon. Not to mention the game looks like it could’ve come out in 2012 graphically, when we’ve had plenty of beautiful games running smoothly on Switch.
Hey Wolfe, not sure if you've heard about this or not by this point but you might take a closer look at Established Titles. The organization was recently found to be a massive scam : /
I am so glad to hear at least ONE Person talk positive about this game. I am not even half way done, but I am already so interested in the story and I am enjoying every last bit of it. Gamefreak improved so much, but people ignore the positive parts so hard, just to talk about the negative parts (and I think there are only two kinda annoying things, which are the technical side of the game and the level scaling)
I heard from some people that the game is a bit hand holdy when you are about to do some challanges, such as taking Team Star, and stuff. Not sure if it's true, but I wouldn't doubt it to be true. Can you confirm that it's ver "Hand Holdey?"
@@PARAD0XPHANT0M I didn't do one of the star bases yet but I am about to. However, from the other stuff I did already, I do not think it is hand holdy in any way. You are free to look around and dicover for yourself. You only get notified, when you are nearby one of the gym leaders, boss Pokemon or team star bases, but the rest is up to you. Nobody told me where to go, when I discovered the huge boss Pokemon from the trailers, which I think is fantastic. Seeing these huge pokemon without a warning is such a great feeling.
@@PARAD0XPHANT0M it hasnt been for me so far. I got my ass whooped pretty early on cause I chose to do somethings out of the order that most others probably would.
I meant hand holdey as in the sense that the game constantly has dislodge talking to you as if you are incapable of taking on challenges, and patronizes you for victories. Probably should have explained it better lol. But based on your descriptions, they kind of do, but it isn't for long. Good to know
@@PARAD0XPHANT0M the point i was making was that the game let me do stuff in whatever way i wanted, no dialogue about it being to hard or anything. It does tell you what areas are easier than others but gives you the choice to do it however you want. So yeah its only hand holdey in the tutorial section after the world opens up you can do absolutely whatever you want whenever you want. I could've grinded up my team to level 40 and taken on the harder areas and the game would've let me.
I love some of the QOL changes done so far - autoheal, swap a mon to lead straight away, faster animations (just wish we still had the skip animations option as well), swapping nickname, remembering and forgetting moves on the go... I feel the gameplay execution is excellent.
I've been having fun playing, but I HATE that the only shirts/shorts you can wear are the four academy outfits. It seems like such an oversight when the rest of the customization is so great. I'd really like to put my character in something that shows my personality more
I understand you're trying to hype them up because your income depends on it, but outside of the main story, the game sucks. So many QOL removals and as someone who enjoyed breeding in Gen 7 & 8, gen 9 is a massive step backward
My biggest problem is overleveling. This game is about exploring, and That’s what I have been doing the most. Because of that I’m overleveled for pretty much whole story. Everytime I’m going back to the story I’m sweeping with 1 pokemon. They should scale and the fact they don’t is stupid and joykilling.
I know I'm late, but you should take that oportunity to use different Pokemon. I always catch at least one of each new Pokemon I see (so when it's time to complete the Pokedex its just a few left) and what I did is if my party was lvl 50 and I entered a lvl 30 area, I just change the team to lvl 30 Pokemon. That was actually really fun because I got to use so many different Pokemon in just one playthrough.
I think the scaling problem if based on how strong you are/highest levell pokemon would mean each gym would be a certian levell weeker or stronger then you. I think scaling should have bin based on your progression and what pokemon you had encountered so you can still train and the gyms don't eather stay below or above your training. If the strongest wilde pokemon you had faced was lv 20 or something the game scales gyms by that. This would leyt you train and the gyms could still be a chalange but not pushovers or too hard.
as soon as my little player character was able to run instead of the slow walking pace he'd been doing at the beginning it felt good and it went from good to great when he did that sliding animation into a crouch, like. it just feels so sick very excited to see what riding the legendary feels like if just the walking is so nice
There is some minor issues like frame rate at this point (it's mostly just background frame rate in larger cities where it's slightly more apparent) but most of the other bugs are gone as far I can tell, I'm like 20 hours in, no issues to really be upset about. I think allot of the hatred around these new games is to do with Game Freak introducing some of the gameplay elements from Arceus (not Arseus...) to give the game a new feel and it breaks free of traditional Pokemon gameplay style ever so slightly, and the die-hards are so butthurt that they will say anything to keep you from playing it. The biggest complaint outside of frame rate would be not being able to go into buildings, when you enter a shop it's just a menu that pops up, which I think saves a bunch of time personally, but if it is that big of an issue I'm sure the switch 2 will have the ability to handle these things. I'm currently absolutely loving it, will play to completion and obsessed with filling out the pokedex for the first time ever and I've played since the original red and blue games on OG gameboy... I can't wait to see what they can do to fill out the world in the next titles on switch 2 when they have the power needed to do so.
Yes these games are so amazing especially with all the glitches,pop in, framerate drops, low quality textures, bugs, camera clipping through the environment, no level scaling, a 2 hour opening turtorial, removal of set/shift mode, an empty open world, removal of The legends arceus catching. This is truly the best pokemon has ever been, all those classic gameboy and DS games really dont come anywhere close to this masterpiece.
A lot of the new gameplay is pretty trash too; "why yes i would love to push a giant olive around rather than fight trainers for a gym challenge, i also love throwing a pokeball 30 times at the new team star bases rather than just fighting trainers". Also the story is hardly better than what they were making before, its still bad, but there is more dialogue so it takes longer to get through it.
So 80% of the problems mentioned in you comment are technical issues that he did address, 2 hour long tutorial?i was done with the tutorial in about 40 mins or so lol, the open world didn't really feel empty to me because of all the different Pokemon you can catch in it, i spent hours just exploring and finding different Pokemon, tms, items and battling trainers, wheter or not legends catching was good or not is a subjective thing, many people liked it but many hated it aswell, i for one was not a fan of it Only things I agree with are the technical problems, removal of set options and no level scaling
I love the variable themes, every zone has a wild, and trainer theme, and four variants of each, day night, and a rain and shine variant for all of them.
I'm surprised u spoke very little of the optimization of the game. To essentially say "its a Pokemon game so it doesn't matter that much" really says a lot about the bias of this review.
The thing with Scarlet and Violet are, everytime Im like, hey this is cool, or I really like this, or these games are so great, I get kicked in the balls with fps issues, glitches, my game closing etc. If those werent there these games would be A tier games. Now there just C or B tier.
@@StealthNinja4577 that is certainly an opinion, but with pokemon I feel like we knew that they would be bad from a graphical point and all that stuff. I wouldnt play them if they werent pokemon and I didnt love the franchise
@@BBBLYap1 I don’t care about graphics, I care about performance. I haven’t been able to play very long because the constant pop-in and frame rate issues legit give me headaches.
@@BBBLYap1 there's no excuse for it. GF and TPC shouldnt get a pass because "its pokemon." the performance is awful at times and it ruins the game for me. clearly fans who dont care about that have extremely low standards.
@@BBBLYap1 (looks around room at pokemon stuff) it's a big part of my life but at the same time I'm passing on these games. If they can't release a quality product then there's no sense in paying 3x over the original rbygsc
If you click on one of the joysticks while on the map, the map orientates to always point north. That’s really helps
it took me like 15 hours to find that but it is helpful >_>
Dafuq? Thanks mate! The map rotation shite was one of the more annoying part of the game for me.
omfg THX
Literal hero, thank you
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
So shocked they didn't do level scaling. Remember in the Pokemon Origins animated show, Brock chose pokemon specifically for the number of badges the challenger had? It just seemed so natural, I assumed that was how it worked. Imagine my surprise when I faced the Grass gym for my fourth badge, and everything was lv 16...
@@Ihatevideogames334 Geez, what are you doing watching videos about Pokémon then?
I thought this same thing and was waiting to fight Iono til last. Team is lvl 50 and I come to fight her and her lvl 20s, very disappointing
@@Ihatevideogames334 it sounds like an Skill issue
Thats my largest criticism even more so than the performance issues
i'm sure they can add it as a mod somewhere. Level Scaling and Teams + Your Opponent actually uses Battle Items.
Me and my brother have been playing through the games with us doing a battle against each other after every 3 “points” which are gained by beating a gym, Titan, or Star base. And because we’ve both been going separate ways, developing different teams, and doing things our own way before converging in a battle to show what we’ve found to the other, the experience has increased tenfold
Holy fuck, now THATS a pokemon journey. Shame I got only one switch, one game and unfortunately, my bro aint interested in pokemon
shit dude, now i wish i had a brother like you
I’ve done something similar with a few friends where we go through every generation. We started at gen 3 and worked our way through gen 4. It’s such a breath of fresh air to games you’ve gone through many times before and i can easily see that working just as well in scarlet/violet. I highly recommend to anyone who is able to do this with a friend or family member
@@italy4047 im jealous, really am. None of my parents are free, my bro is more interested in fps games (we used to watched Pokemon everyday back in the day ;)) and none of my friends are into the game as well.
how can I reboot my brother :((((
“There’s one gym leader in particular I really liked”
Big man Larry stays winning lol
Office worker difference baby!
Common Larry W
Larry carry
Nemonia is by far the best rival imo. If you lose to her in battle, you don't have to rematch her till you beat her. She just takes the fckn W. That's so funny and new.
Bruh she made me so mad sometimes i one shotted her team everytime and she kept saying im gettin serious now just to get one shotted again
@@ReidnReactn To me she’s really funny because she’s genuinely not a bad trainer and her team is good, she just goes down to your level and acts all condescending unintentionally
@@asprinjuice425 nah i dont hate her she just made me mad and her team didnt feel that strong to me
With
Lucario
Grass starter
Garchomp
Ttar
Corvinight
Amorouge
I kinda one shotted all of her mons
That's not a new thing tho
I mean if you go with pseudo legendaries of course battles are easy. Use a nerfed team lol
The co-op feature is nothing to sleep on. My friends and I were able to join each other's worlds seamlessly and continue our own errands and story missions while being in the game with each other.
Do you know if I need Nintendo's subscription for local multiplayer as well? Is that even a thing rn?
You don’t need Switch online to play locally :) My friends don’t have it, and three of us sat on a couch and played together through wireless mode. It was lots of fun!
@@ralfsstuff you definitely need it if you're in different houses, me and my cousin from Europe have been playing this since release day together, it requires both to have online membership tho (or one family membership plan)
It was real fun u-until my friend grew bigger…idk how…I think I’m scared for life-
Can you each advance your own stories/gym progress while in multiplayer mode?
I love that when you battle wild pokemon, there are other pokemon just chillin' in the background watching it makes the world feel so much more immersive. And I love Nemona she's fun.
So exactly what legends arceus did?
@@BowmansWorld Except Legends Arceus would actually have groups of pokemon join a battle and gang up, a welcome mechanic which made things way more challenging. That appears to be nonexistent in SV for whatever reason? Gamefreaking constantly going backwards ...
Immersive until they randomly disappear or get stuck in walls.
@@SchmergDergen I haven't had those types of glitches at all. Wonder why some people have had such bad experiences. I just have lag here abs there
@@dapperdabber13 I’m just lucky the game hasn’t crashed on me. Hopefully for patches because there is an amazing Pokémon experience in there.
Regarding the cities, it sucks not being able to go into anybodys houses anymore. That was a big part of exploring cities in the past.
and I wouldn't even mind not entering houses that much if there was ANYTHING else to do in these cities
but there is NOT!! in Mesagoza I found ONE npc in the streets worth talking to! ONE!
multiple shops are copy/pasted, you can't even enter them, stuff like icecream feels totally pointless/postgame...
compare with Lumiose City - cities in Scarlet/Violet look nice but they are an unfinished, alpha-stage MESS
What's the point of Pokemon if I can't be a danger to myself and others by breaking and entering people's homes?
Honestly I don’t mind it that much mainly because you couldn’t really do much in the homes anyway
@@tuney7319 again, if there was other stuff to do in cities/towns it would be such an issue. but there is not. they are just absolutely empty and useles..
@@charliez077 well there’s gyms, and some stores..
I really liked how Arceus did with being able to throw pokeballs outside of battle and the shinies making an audible noise and visual cue when they spawned in. I really wish they kept those two features
Throwing pokeballs out of battle wouldn't make that mutch sense in this game cause there's no reason to catch that many of the one pokemon
@@number1ivysundewfan it made catching running around catching whatever Pokemon I desired much more entertaining than past gens imo, where it's all just the same fornula. I also liked playing ninja with smoke bombs and baits and backstabbing them with pokeballs. Plus honestly doing all that extra stuff for the dex honestly made the dex even more fun, although longer, but gave me more depth and a reason to use Pokemon that I caught rather than just boxing them away sometimes
Also streamlining the stat changes instead of forcing you to watch each stat raise/lower.
And why the hell did they remove the battle style choice?
@@number1ivysundewfan legends arceus made catching pokemon fun
in every other pokemon game I have always felt doing the pokedex was an annoying chore to get the shiny charm
in arceus i completed the pokedex cuz it was fun
@@HeilRay the battle style was a gimmick for PLA. It's super fun in that game, but it's not balanced for competitive, which is a huge part of the franchise. It was never going to stay. It might come back in other legends games, if we get those.
Still think it is odd they removed set mode as an option, removing qol options is always a point dock for me.
While I agree, its also unobtrusive enough where you can just not look at what the next Pokemon coming out is, press no for switching, and then react accordingly after.
@@frostcloud09 Thats what I did, but its kind of a waste of time every time.
Here's to hoping it still exists when battling other people lol...
what's qol? set mode? huh?
@@thetafritz9868 qol is quality of life, or options and such they add to make games nicer to play
Set mode and switch mode are options that have existed in every main pokemon game since red and blue. It changes whether the game lets you switch pokemon or not after knocking out an opponent's pokemon in singleplayer, with set mode making it function like multiplayer battles do. It just adds extra challenge really.
They also removed the option to turn off attack animations.
Fun fact: if you press the right stick while in a battle, the camera becomes fixed behind your pokemon, similar to past games. Though the angle doesn't always work well (big pokemon or flying types being kinda off camera), it's a nice option to have
Dondozo is too huge for these games lol
Fun fact - S&V is the best Pokémon game I’ve ever played
hold zl to zoom onto the opponent
I love it because if you use Tinkaton then the enemy pokemon ends up CONSISTENTLY hiding behind Tinkaton’s hammer and i found it absolutely hilarious
You can also right stick click on the map ui to lock it in normal cardinal directions. It gets rid of the need to rotate the map
Scarlet and Violet was that best Pokémon game since OR/AS. It needed another year of development time but it was actually fun to play unlike the gen 7 and 8 games.
Tip for the map: Click the right stick. It locks the map to pointing North, and it doesn't come undone between opening and closing the map or even the game. Made the map much easier to use for me.
Thank you! Was getting aggravated with it switching on me!
Came here to say this! It makes it soo much easier!
they say this right when you get the map btw
So funny how many people overlooked this
i cant press my right stick gg
What I love about this generation's legendary, is you immediately have a bond with Koraidon or Miraidon. Like it's your friend. You help it, and it helps you. I wonder how that's gonna translate to the anime considering the anime usually does one of two things: take aspects of the game story and puts them into segments of the anime, or strays from the game completely. Gen 9's mons are very well done, and I can't wait to dive back into competitive. It's a pretty ambitious game, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
Exactly. I’m so glad someone actually gave this compliment and appreciated the life they brought to the legendary. Instantly felt connected and you could tell it’s thoughts or emotions.
Koraidon is precious and must be protected at all costs. I've never really been one to bond with legendaries considering we don't get the time to but this time....I love the precious boi.
Gen 8 mons are well done?? This gen has the laziest looking Pokémon, there is a dead ass flamingo in the game, it’s straight up a flamingo no other design changes, other than fuecocco the other starters just look bad, they look bland and forgettable, design wise this gen took a huge step back
You could say that "it makes them less special or somenthing" but i think it was a fun new idea
Miraidon is my boy and I love him
For the map navigation, there's a way to set it so the map is only pointing north... SUPER helpful. I believe you click one of the sticks while in the map to do this
This is game changing. THANK YOU.
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I think I'm going insane, I'm 100% sure my map was locked by default lol
Seeing a 10/10 sank my heart. I have been grasping for confirmation that these games are worth it and deserve the support. But from what I have seen from by sitting next to my friends playing through the game. This must be the most poorly optimized pokemon game of all time. Flicking shadows, frame freezes, lag, 3 fps npc's walking not far away, polygon buildings and 240p resolution pokemon when in battle with pokemon in certain areas. These are some inexcusable things we have found just playing through the game, the last couple of days.
Im ranting here, because im a super hardcore pokemon fan, playing every game, every fanmade game, remembering pokemons base stat totals, ect. I really love pokemon and I REALLY want to buy the next generation of the mainline games and see the new pokemon, story and region. So im glad that the story seems to be good, but these issues I mentioned is scaring me off from buying a copy of either game.
I don't want us to support unfinished games from our favorite franchise, and seeing these games. I think they would need another 1-2 years of development and/or cleanup of their code and optimization.
What made my heart sink, was seeing that with reviews like this, that seems to disregard these issues, and still give the game a 10/10. Almost solidifies the fact that we will keep buying the next pokemon game, regardless of how rushed its release is.
Im not trying to be rude to anyone with this, and I don't blame you if you bought the games and enjoyed them. I just worried that we will always hear, that the next pokemon game is a step in the right direction. Instead of hearing that we have finally arrived at the best game (not just pokemon game) of all time. Regardless of the pokemon games, "reputation", I do still believe that the number 1 franchise in the world, should be able to produce the number 1 gaming experience in the world.
Well said brother
Tbh wolfey is a fkin 🤡. The story while good don't even come close to Unova and Alola. It is far from the best game and for him to even claim that shows what a dunce he is. He really should just stick to VGC content
It's a 10/10 because it's a really fun game. Like how Skyrim was broken at launch and has been game of the year every year since release 😂
that’s the annoying thing about this game, you see all the issues since they are very clear and abundant but you are just having too much fun to care. brb gonna go complete the pokédex
Despite the huge performance / fps issues and a couple of bugs, I am enjoying this game WAYYY more than Sword and Shield!
Me too. I have a great feelings they'll be fixed though which will be nice. But I love the upgrade systems, the Tera raids, Nemona, other characters and the bosses (team star and gym leaders). I even like the school stuff and there's some form of like "friendship thing" with your professors like it says you get close to them. I think that's cool. And the new pokemon are awesome. I avoided most of the spoilers for the game, and im so happy I did.
@@Matthew-xf1bw yea I also avoided spoilers, best decision ever! :D
@@Nako3 I wish I could avoid spoilers, sadly I don’t have the will to constantly avoid them 😭
That's pretty much my feeling. The performance issues are noticeable and kind of annoying at times, but they also don't mar the experience that much for me. The exploration and actually being able to JUMP in a mainline Pokemon game is just too fun to ignore, and I love that you can catch all the Pokemon you want for your team really early on unless it's the paradoxes. That's a bit of a shame, I'd love to use Great Tusk to fill the essential Ground and Fighting slots on my team with a single Pokemon, but I get why they're deemed too strong to let you get them early. Would still nice if you could actually breed them to get low-level ones, then you could at least get usable ones for your team on a second playthrough.
@@TyrantWesker Yea the exploration is fun, I had caught over 30 Pokemon before I even got to the school haha
Tbh, the stories in SV (I’ve done 4/5 Star Bases, all titans, and half the badges) are honestly pretty good. The Titan’s one I started getting really attached to after the second one, and the Team Star one is really hooking me. I really hope this does become the future for Pokémon cause they nailed basically everything we could want from an open world Pokémon game (only thing I would want is TRUE level scaling for the gym leaders because I wanted so badly to wait and fight Iono last so she could be at her strongest).
Half the badges? You are gonna be overleveled as fuck now for the rest of them…
@@tehCostHD I mean, Iono's was the only low-level gym I hadn't fought yet in hopes she would become harder. Psychic was much harder than Elec, but they were still a little below my level and I still got Ice and Ghost to deal with, along with the Fighting and Fairy Star Bases so I hopefully wont be overleveled for everything. Besides, im so confident in my team that being underleveled shouldn't pose too much of a challenge for me.
@@the_godbodor7026 if you beat the final titan you will literally be overleveled for anything that isn’t the fighting team star boss. None of the gyms will pose any threat at all
@@tehCostHD I was quite underleveled for the dragon titan when i beat it (around lvl 40) and my team is now about 43-45. If this is still way too high then I must've misjudged since I got a brief whooping by Arven and his lvl 60 team and I thought at least the final gym might be comparable, even if slightly weaker.
@@the_godbodor7026 that arven fight is ment for you to beat it after beating all the other stores
The Titan storyline, especially when you get to understand Arven's reason for hunting them, is the most "emotional" storyline in any Pokémon main game I've played. That's not saying a lot, since the stories don't tend to be too deep or emotional, but that caught me off guard a bit.
The game really needs a competitive mode such as a Battle Tower or something else. Anything that incentivizes min/maxing your setup/team. The only way to do that currently is online mode, but it would be nice to have something offline as well.
Sadly for a lot of games and I think pokemon now as well, post game single player stuff will probably be relegated to being DLC down the line. I feel like a lot of games that used to have this kind of thing started dropping it in favor of 1. online versus for the min-maxers or 2. putting it, if at all in the first place, into dlc for min-maxers that don't enjoy competitive online play/versus modes.
Personally I like playing versus other people and will happily play ranked mode to scratch this itch but I get that it's disappointing to not have a battle tower equivalent in the base game.
Ever played gen 5?
@@redemption5763 🤓🤓🤓
@@elmes3i771 🤡
Facts. Especially the last ending. Wasn’t expecting that part. Haven’t felt that caught up since gen 5
I might be the only one but the soundtracks are actual fire, especially team star boss, tera raid battles and gyms. Can't wait to finish the game and see all it has to offer
The ruinous legend song slaps
AI Sada/Turo is absolutely goated
It didn't really hit with the Elite Four or for the final championship though which was disappointing
You're not the only one. Area Zero theme also slaps.
@spacecookiez5045 Nah the e4 and champ themes hit different dawg.
"The tutorial is the quickest in the series"
It took me like 45 minutes to an hour. Of course, with lots of exploring and catching in between but still. The quickest in the series? I'm pretty sure gen 2's tutorial is just "Here's how to use your phone. Walk across some grass and have an old man give you a phone app"
def the shortest of the 3d games and black/platinum
You have to do the thing with the togepi egg too
when did he say it was the quickest? all I heard was that it was the least intrusive, as in you’re not bombarded with cutscenes telling you how to click the b button ever 5 seconds
obviously the graphics have issues, but the gameplay itself this generation is really fantastic. the story is the strongest since gen 5, and there're so many quality of life upgrades that just make it more enjoyable.
in germany so many people are toxic about the graphics of the game which i understand but they completely overlook the story and gameplay it's nice to read that there are people who also see the good side of the game
Me when I lie
10 fps isn’t “fantastic” damn you poke fanboys are insane
The story sucks. Wdym. I feel like I have a pacifier in my mouth the entire time. They tried to make an adventure game and made it more cringe than a slice of life anime dub.
@@user-op8pf3uf8s we like the game even with its problems, we’re huge pokemon fans DEAL WITH IT! If you dont like it and are turned off my frames dont play it!
How does a game with glaring flaws, not all of which were mentioned in this video and imo almost purposefully skipped over, given a 10/10? A low baseline for Pokemon games as a whole was mentioned so is it just a 10/10 relative to other Pokemon games? Just using the frame rate as an example, which is obviously a problem shared by a vast number of people, allowing something like this to slide because "it's gamefreak and they're just not good at it" gives them a free pass to continue delivering par-baked products which is a privelage virtually no other studios enjoy. This game was delivered to the public in a "one step forward five steps back" philosophy because no one is really willing to give a damn and they'll buy it anyway then give it comically high ratings because it's Pokemon. Lots of frustration that they just continue to be paid for subpar work.
Thank you. Summed up my thoughts. A 10/10 score to even be considered is ridiculous with the obvious issues like frame rate and also the many little details that are missing.
At first, I felt so overwhelmed. I wasn't sure where to go or what to do, so I just said "fuck it" and went wherever I please without the map. I discovered most of the story stuff from randomly finding it while I get distracted by every new thing. It's been a blast and I still have a few gyms and 1 team star group left to beat. I haven't been in the snowy area in the north yet, so I'll be moseying my way up there eventually. Despite the graphical issues, this really is one of the best Pokemon games to date.
@@Ihatevideogames334 coolio
I ran north after a friend told me there was a Chansy spawn up there lol, ended up finding a Cloyster swarm and killed them with auto battle, and after filling the seas with Cloyster shells, I was 15 levels higher lol
That’s usually how I felt when playing open world games, the moment you just let loose and just explore whatever comes your way it makes it all the more enjoyable
This has to be a joke 😭
Lol right😂
one thing i find so interesting about the game is how they still split up the areas into “routes” kind of. it’s hard to explain but it gives me hope that they can adapt this style into a more traditional region potentially
I thought people disliked this feature because they expected it to be fully open world
@@ooo8188 i like it because it’s still open world, you can still venture outwards
@@ooo8188 you can still have routes in open world games, since to be an open world just means you can go ANYWHERE at ANYTIME, and while we do have routes in s/v, we arent limited TO those routes, and can choose to leave or follow whenever we like and explore them without any barriers
@@Oh-Ho-Hello Calm down
@ronh7424 sorry?
This game has been a blast, and I'll never forget when a staraptor sweeped my team two times with facade terastylize, it was hilarious to see a normal type gym be so terrifying to me to the point where I had to catch a fighting type
I was glad I had a ghost croc to chuck out after he took down 2 of my mons in 1hkos XD
I had a pawmot with close combat at that stage, so I breezed through this battle hahaha. I was also almost double their level due to enjoying pokedex collecting so much in each area hahaha.
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@@1001History double their level??? Bruh I don’t understand how anyone finds enjoyment from that. Every single boss trainer I fought in this game I was either one par or 1-2 levels below because I actually wanted to enjoy my experience. Over leveling and just beating everyone up easily was never and will never be fun for me. And I don’t understand how it can be for others. Just playing normally and going to the different battles without over leveling was the most fun I’ve ever had in a Pokémon game and I lost more fights than I’ve ever lost before. Mela kicked my ass the first time because I went to her first before the dark one, but beating her underleveled was so much fun. Same with the poison boss and the normal gym. Incredible experience.
@@tehCostHD he said he was over leveled because he was catching mons. Catching mons give equal exp to genocide. Thus he was over leveled. Just because someone enjoys collecting doesn't mean he's not having fun.
SV is the first Pokémon game where I’ve had many Pokémon on my team I cycle between since there are so many great ones. So many times I thought my team was great, and then I’d find new ones and just think “oh shit, who is going to be on my team now?” And going in blind to non-officially revealed Pokémon has been amazing. I also want to know how many of these will fare in competitive like the new double-battle focused guys (absolutely love both of them and have loved using them against friends with their double battle gimmick)
fr i always think my team is cracked but then another stronk pokemon comes to me and says hi
Same, I also had to bench my starter duck( last evo sucks)
Same! I had a set team (was trying to go paldean only) and that team was broken up only halfway in. Even now it’s being changed and I just finished lol.
One note about the map: I noticed that there’s a toggle for being able to rotate it vs. keeping it locked in a fixed orientation. I found that keeping it locked really helped prevent me from getting lost and kinda fixes that issue you mentioned.
@@Ihatevideogames334 here have some engagement since you crave it that much, now go be pathetic somewhere else
how do u do that?
ARE U SERIOUS
Thank you for this it’s very hard to find non-spoiler content about scarlet and violet and I haven’t got them yet so I really appreciate this
You really don't have to worry about spoilers, most reviewers of Scarlet and Violet don't even play the game, they see that the framerate drop a little and they immediately give it a 1/10.
@@RGC_animation 1/10 💀🤦♂️this looks good to great game to me
@@RGC_animation the game is a 5/10 at best
@@mihaimercenarul7467 I would like to hear your opinions on it, why would it be a 5/10?
The only thing I thought was a little weird was the fact that "y" opens the map. I am surprised how few times I accidentally opened the map before getting used to it though.
same lol, still happens haha
I still press the - button to open the map.
Man, I keep pressing all of the wrong buttons. I really wished you could just rearrange the buttons
I thought I was the only one!! That key mapping is so annoying lol
I like it, back in the dppt days y was the button you could bind a key item to and i would usually have my map on y during main story hahaha
I really loved that the Pokémon can choose what moves they want to replace when learning new moves.
and you can remember moves without anything
@@Ihatevideogames334 good for you
@@Ihatevideogames334 Remember, it's not targeted if you hate everyone.
@@RGC_animation lol I've seen references to this guy all over the comments section but haven't seen any of his posts lol. Spooky
@@zernst2798 Well his post is basically he hates everything about Pokemon, everything about Gamefreak, everything about Nintendo, and even everything about JRPG and RPG in general.
10 out of 10? You cant get this dude seriously
It deserve it, this game is amazing
@@trappedcosmos I have to ask, is this the first game you've ever played??
@@Zer0--Zer0 Nowhere even close, I have played several of the pokemon games before, have played tons of other games before. It's honestly how I spend most of my free time. This game is one of my favorite of all times, people are complaining about inconsequential technical issues that don't matter
@@trappedcosmos the game is suffering from a memory leak....it's not a small problem this shit leads to lower fps and game crashes etc. My game crashed 2 times already. With this games performance and graphics it's a 7/10 at most
7.8/10 too much world
I was here while wolfe was on lunch
Same
Same
Me too!
I was here while Wolfie chose his starter
Same
I like that the levels were all over the place. It made the game way harder than I thought it would be and having a challenge in a fun Pokémon game like this was fun!
Yea I did was was clearly the 4th gym second, and the 3rd titan 2nd, and it was a blast. The boss battles feel like boss battles. Even at level the boss battles are pretty good.
same thing for me, exploring high level areas or fighting late game trainers/titans is so daunting now and its a breath of fresh air
even with exp share permanently on it still didn't feel like it made the game easier
I'm fine with the Titans, Team Star, and the wild Pokemon not being level scaled, since that does make the world feel more complete. But when your own levels are limited based on how many badges you have, the gyms' strength should be based on how many badges you have (not full on level scaling, just each leader having 8 different teams). Plus there's that one scene in the anime where Brock chooses his team based on how many badges Red has, so there's precedent in the Pokemon world for this.
I love that you can take on gyms, team star bases and titans in any order. I just chose the next task without looking at the proper order. So i often found harder battles i actually felt difficulty
and then you'll sweep the previous ones, this pro is also a con
@@alexandregehin8665 being overleveled with your main team just means you can pull out some weaker things in your box (which you have on you at all times). If the level of the Gym Trainers is low or the nearby wild Pokemon are suddenly weaker, just switch up your team
@@researchinbreeder very true, but I personally like using a single, main team throughout my entire playthrough. Makes me feel super close to my chosen pokemon that way, seeing them take on harder and harder battles instead of just switching to random mon I have boxxed. Easiest way to please everyone would simply be level scaling everything; but hey, it's all personal preference anyways, and doesn't bother me too much as pokemon has always been fairly easy in difficulty ^_^
@@kairoikki6981 ye, I have nothing against personal preference. I'm just annoyed by ppl who will complain about the permanent exp share, and in the same breath say they never switched up their team. Even though every game with permanent exp share has also put the PC in your bag.
@@researchinbreeder I honestly do feel like there should be a choice to turn it on/off, as restricting players to one playstyle is a little off putting. It's nothing major to me but I can see why it irks people that just want to play with their faves, yet can't because they have to keep switching things up in order to have at least *some* difficulty in game. On one hand I get why they'd want you to use different mons, but why force that choice yknow?
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its not a scam
@@gavin3760 It’s a scam depending on how you viewed it. If, like me, you saw it strictly as a nolvelty item to give a friend or family, then it’s not a scam. Although yoy could make what they print out yourself for so much less, but I digress.
However, a big part of their marketing campaign is that you can TOTALLY put Lord or Lady on even official documents! And that part is without a doubt a scam. You can say people who fell for it are gullible, but that doesn’t make it not a scam/false advertising lol.
@@gavin3760 Except it is
@@MidProductionz in the same way buying land on the moon or a star in the sky is. Shits a joke you lame brains thought it was real
@@amunago080 Who ever said it was real? Lol
The online is literraly the best part of the game. Everything is just so much funnier with the homies
Think the funniest thing that happend to me playing with friends was that a friend off mine was chilling beside a shiny mareep, not seeing it because he was looking the other way, so I snatched it and asked why he didn't go for it. He was like "THERE WAS A SHINY 2 STEPS AWAY FROM ME?" He started to joke that I was team rocket the rest off the LAN party. 😂
@@trueredpanda1538 this made me cracked up lmfaooo
@@trueredpanda1538 That's freaking hilarious!
Nice
Unfortunately online feels a little unplayable to me just because it's not really worth it that only one player can catch a specific pokemon. If you're with 3 homies and find a shiny, it's pretty annoying that you have to choose who gets it. Whereas if all 4 are playing alone, you're effectively quadrupling your shiny odds.
REALLY doesn't help that the shiny noise and sparkle are gone. That shit needs to be patched immediately, or I'm modding my switch JUST to get a mod that adds that back in the moment such mod exists.
Biggest recommendation for the map, you can change the mode to have the map always face north, which is so much better
Liked this so other people can see it
Gloss over excessive technical issues and still rate 10/10. Sponsored by Nintendo confirmed
There’s plenty of people who just don’t care about the frame rate issues.
SMT V has “horrible frame rate” issues, yet is one of the best games I’ve played on the switch. Sometimes, there’s more at play than frame rate. Beauty isn’t what makes a game fun. Fun is what makes a game fun.
Funny thing is, even if it ran smoothly, it's so far off being a 10/10. Pokemon fans accept any old shite and that's why the franchise is in such a state.
The open world is ugly, bland, unrewarding and uninteresting. Play Xenoblade, BotW, Elder Scrolls, pretty much anything else and compare it to this. It has no flow to it and is as lifeless as the wild area. (And feels worse because it's on a bigger scale)
The characters are all vanilla Pokemon characters. The rival, whom I've seen people talking up, is a battle obsessed stalker who wants to be your friend. How many Pokemon games have we had that exact scenario in now?
General gameplay still has a shitload of jank.
So many trainers still only have 1 or 2 Pokemon.
You literally have to go out of your way to find a trainer to battle in the first place. (Most likely due to weirdos who buy a turn based JRPG but don't like turn based JRPGs.)
And people are completely overplaying the choices the game being open gives you. In Zelda, a skill related game, you can literally complete the game from the off. In Pokemon, a turn based RPG where stats are the deciding factor, you're not all that free. You can challenge things, and within reason, beat them. But you're going to get one shotted by anything that outscales you and no amount of skill can help that. You're going to have to get badges so that a Pokemon obeys you in order to challenge tougher content, and even in the event that you do things a little out of order, you go back to a lvl 15 gym with your lvl 30 Pokemon.
There is some fun to be had. But even without the issues, it's like a 7/10.
@@steviedee9826 I appreciate your review. “I” didn’t say it was 10/10 and I do get a genuine sadness when I see what is offered me. What I truly appreciate here, is that you give me definitive shit other than “the frame rate” and “the open world sux.” I’m even more sad that I have to agree with you on these things 😔
I’m six hours in and have one badge. I’m steamrolling everything because I’m using exploration to get my money’s worth. I’m starting to see what Stevie Dee means.
Not addressing the frame rate/glitch issues with more severity is misleading. I don't mind a biased video but transparency would be nice especially when influencing others to buy it.
This video feels more like a paid review rather than a opinion.
I actually like that areas have fixed levels instead of scaling based on how many badges you have or whatever. To me, being able to wander into an area that’s above my level, or cakewalk through a lower level area is part of the fun of open-world exploration. If everything adjusts itself to your level, it feels like it doesn’t matter where you go, which kills my desire to explore. Plus, having higher level areas makes it feel more rewarding when you can come back and take on an area that used to be too tough for you when you first came across it.
I just wish the gyms scaled
Gyms are pretty pathetic. They need more pokemon too.
Just the trainers and titans needed to be scale. The wild is fine.
Strong agree. Creates organic gameplay moments out of mismatched difficulty that I think is a feature of open world games, not a bug. Just got hosed by Arven and it felt good getting his last Pokémon into the red with my underprepared, underleveled team.
@@andrewp6738 but it feels bad when you are overpower and face up a gym.
The framerate and optimization issues bother me a bit, but I can definitely overlook them for how enjoyable these games are to actually play through the story. I'm totally with you on this review.
how can you give it 10/10 when the performance is so horrendous? yes the gameplay is good, but it's overshadowed by horrible frame drops and laggy UI, especially in boxes
It's the opposite for me. For me, the good gameplay overshadows the technical issues.
@@brandedbybryant1144 yeah youre right, maybe i phrased it wrong, i do also enjoy the game, but im not gonna say it's a 10/10, maybe 7/10
Tera type really expands the pool of options. My brain is broken trying to think of the best ones. And they use it really well for making gym battles interesting.
imo only the electric gym used terra in a cool way
My dream tera is a tera flying Gardevoir. looking forward to that.
If you want an idia get a pokemon with levitate and switch it's terra type to electric. Pure electric type plus levitate = no type disadvantage. I used flygon.
meanwhile it has 2.8 user score on Metacritic.... the truth is somewhere in the middle. 10/10 is pushing it. Maybe mechanically it's a step up from pokemon games (which are stagnant for decades) but as a game, i've been more impressed by indie projects of 1-10 devs with the budget of a grocery cart.
5/10,7/10 probably
At one point in a battle in a city, people were just walking through the battlefield in the middle of an attack.
Gotta say it made me laugh
A 10/10 is absolutely insane. This game performs worse than any game I've played in the last ten years. Pokemon does not get a pass just because we love the series, and not being honest about its shortcomings (which are far more than just performance issues) does a disservice to the fans. What happens if they come out with a game that has graphics up to the standard of most other switch games, voice acting, and actually runs properly? What happens if they scale gyms. Does that game get an 11? The game is realistically a 7 when compared to other games. 8 if you're being generous.
Trank You! someone Gets it! The towns Never felt this useless and empty.Cant even Go into houses.Exploring is Boring,you dont even find Intresting places like maybe old castles to Explorer or a Dense Forest with Pokémon jumping from tree to tree.I still think that the Pokémon on the Overworld are was to lifeless.I dont get Why People are bringing down their Standarts because its Pokémon….
@@TheJoeyland Yep exactly. There are loads of problems past the performance and graphics. It's perfectly fine to like the game and to have fun with it! But giving it a perfect score is insane.
I'm a little confused over the 10/10 score. You start by saying these are the best Pokémon games yet, so maybe you mean that the 10/10 is relative to other Pokémon games? ...because the rest of your review is mostly "this is the best it's ever been in Pokémon, but it could still be better". Like "the story is way better than gens 6, 7 and 8, but it's not a high bar to cross", or "the game gives you a lot more freedom, but the lack of level scaling makes it annoying to play".
You seemed very enthusiastic over the new Pokémon and also positive about terastillization, but in general, it feels like you're describing an enjoyable game with significant flaws, while 10/10 is a score more fitting for an almost flawless masterpiece. It only makes sense to me if the score is meant to be relative to past Pokémon games or if you're just being a contrarian, because this game's had a lot of negative critical reception by players.
You don't even mention the most criticized aspects of this game which are the pathetic graphics, lack of fluidity (caused by performance issues), and the very rough state of the game. I grew up with games that looked worse than SV, and games that were more glitchy too, and I think many of those old games are great, and maybe you're like that too, but if that's the case you should've said so in your review, since that's kind of the elephant in the room here. A lot of modern gamers expect more than me and you in those areas, so it is important to mention it. As for the performance issues, you do mention them, but only briefly and you downplay them a lot. SV are some of the worse-performing video games of all time, including no-budget indies and the like. They are the only post-2000 commercial games I have ever seen that can't keep a smooth FPS in *cutscenes*.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the way you talk (and don't talk) about the game makes it really hard for me to follow, and this review is more confusing than helpful in my opinion.
Also some people are saying that your sponsor is a scam. I wouldn't know because I skip sponsors but I think you should look into that. Ok I spent forever typing this now I go do something else bye.
He is a hardcore Fanboy or he got paid.
Playing violet after arceus, it really feels like while developing new tools for S/V, they ended up with a ton of stuff, some of which didn't fit what they wanted in a mainline game. But the tools and mechanics were so good (like catching in arceus), they ended up making a whole spinoff using them.
Which is all to say, I'm actually excited to see what the next generation game brings
Both games were developed at the same time which is why none if the legends arceus stuff is in s/v
The only thing I currently don’t like about the game is how few buildings in towns you can actually enter, and with all the shops it brings you to a purchase screen right away rather than having an interior. Other than that the games have been perfect to me so far!
Agreed. I’ve been exploring the wild areas far more than towns which sucks. I like talking to NPC’s in cities and seeing what they’re up to but the ones in this game are just so bad.
When Wolf called the rival Pneumonia I burst out laughing.
I was just always 10 levels below the fight I was about to take on, but I actually think that this was a positive since it really made a Pokemon game difficult for the first time in generations.
Ah hes so you have never played white black pokemons or even fought against cynthia?
@@larrystrk6496 he said “in generations” and both games you mentioned were many generations ago lol.
@@prestonjones8672 Too be fair, the last time a pokemon game was difficult for me was back when pokémons actually used status moves and trainers used items which haven't been a thing since.. what generation 4 or 5?
@@larrystrk6496 ah, so you've never felt the touch of an intimate partner? noob...
@@Professor.Farnsworth *To 🤓
I'm honestly do happy to finally find someone who liked sv, because I adored it but everyone was so negative that it made me feel like I couldn't enjoy a game I enjoy
I’ve found that the game is really lazy and borderline unplayable given the performance problems, however, I’m really glad that some people are able to look past the problems I have with them and enjoy the games.
my biggest problem is the level scaling. Despite the message of being able to do anything in any order, you really can't. Since nothing is scaled to your progression, its hard to do it in any order. And while there is no restriction outright said, the gym badges still level lock you from using Pokemon higher leveled than you. and there's no way to tell how strong a boss actually is until you fight them.
Otherwise fun game
That and I think there's some areas you cant get to without certain movement options which are locked behind bosses around lvl 50-60.
You can do them in any order, you just shouldn’t, I beat grusha as my fifth gym leader because I thought that was the next one
@@ralfsstuff I can think of 2 areas in the game that are actually locked behind traversal abilities. One is the lake, but the titan you get swimming from is level 19. The other is this high up area in the bottom-right section of the map you need climbing for, but that area is also completely untouched by the main storyline. Anything else that might seem locked behind climbing is accessible through other means, though it might involve going through a winding cave.
Wolfey: gets two shinies in 15 minutes
“This is the greatest Pokémon game ever made”
Performance is really the only major gripe. The only other thing i wanted was an actual idea of which gym order was "preferred" instead of just the first gym. If you aren't going to scale, the game should at least tell you to some extent the order the gyms "should" be handled. The starfall street and titan pokemon being a mystery is fine.
It does tell you though. On the map each gym has a description which gives you hints for the order
@@MrDrakeDamage pokemon center lady also helps with the recommended path
@@tonyochoa4312 Don't listen to her she's a scam. She just points you to the nearest story objective.
"Performance is really the only major gripe" - wow the amount of copium. no seriously - I would love to praise SV to heaven and back but it is easily one of the most rushed games I have EVER played. is it still fun in many ways? yep. but to say performance is the "only major gripe" - I feel like you are either biased AF or haven't played truly great games which have great gameplay, good performance, great graphics, are full of content and aren't half-finished.
@@charliez077 yeah my biggest gripe came from the story. the crater part with the time treveal came out of nowhere... it would have been weay better if they embraced the time travel stuff make the one game primal and the other futuristic and connect them though the story line.
I love the game too but theres 1 big problem i have with it: shadows dissapearing when you dont look at the thing that the shadow comes from. Its really distracting and i hate it
They are PEAK Pokemon, AFTER some performance patches
Then they’re not peak, performance isn’t the only issue
@@lstsoul4376 performance IS the only issue
@@lstsoul4376 how is it not the only issue, for me (who like I still play the gbc titles from time to time so idrc that much about performance), the game is a masterpiece of they can make it run at 30 fps stable and solve the textures going to 480p when you enter a town
Lol far from it. LOA was so much more interesting and better to play though.
They don't have any postgame battle facilities, exp share is still forced and now they've removed the set battle style
My BIGGEST gripe with the map is that it doesn't always just orientate North. I think it sets the maps orientation to whichever direction you're facing.
Click the right stick. (Map screen, not minimap)
Press in the Right stick. Really helps and it orientates it north.
My favorite QoL I’ve seen them take from Legends Arceus is the remember/forget a move mechanic so you can change previously known moves without needing a move tutor and a heartscale. I wouldn’t mind new moves being learned via that method but seeing previously known moves easily accessible helps me a lot.
A good feature. Realy lets you setup your pokemon's moves.
I’ve only played enough to beat the first gym but so far I’ve loved the game. Although some things such as animations and certain movements could be sped up.
The gyms/battles are really underwhelming imo. I do like the exploration, but the graphics are about as good as many games I played on the gamecube.
@@michaelbread5906 that was my problem when I first started playing, the textures look so bad sometimes
@@michaelbread5906 The gamecube is far too weak to process something like SV. The ONLY thing that looks similar to a gamecube game are the low res textures of the ground and many buildings, but everything else is clearly far beyond gamecube games. Graphics are way more than just the textures. We have shader effects, far render distance, high polygon count, higher res model textures. All those things are too much for a gamecube. Only the ground and bulding textures are on gamecube level.
@@Saroku1000 bro, characters run at 7 fps if they’re more than 10m away. The graphics are horrific in terms of resolution texture. The frame rate and performance has to be the worst of any game to come out in the past 10 years. Maybe tied with cyberpunk on last gen consoles. I think this is worse. How can BotW, Monster Hunter Rise and Xenoblade chronicles run on the Switch but this Dreamcast looking game can’t? Mind boggling.
@@enzog1078 That wasnt my point. My point was that the low res ground and building textures are the only thing that is on gamecube level, everything else is clearly not possible on a gamecube.
With the map thing, press the right stick to make everything point in a locked direction (north up, south down, west left, etc)- helped me TREMENDOUSLY, so hopefully that helps you in the future
Ay! Toxiquid!!
Stoked to see the competitive videos coming out. You and Cybertron were pumping out VGC content nonstop
-Can’t change out of uniform. Best Pokémon game!
-several shops that sell different things instead of just one shop. Best Pokémon game!
-glitches galore. Best Pokémon Game!
-get lost easily, useless zoomed out map. Best Pokémon game!
-super dumb designs with cars and motorcycles. Best Pokémon game!
-lots of talking and stopping you in your tracks. Best Pokémon game!
-good music. Best Pokémon game!
I don’t think so. Except that last one. I dig that 70’s vibe to some tracks.
L take
You sound like a digimon player 😂
@@pyronianking1654🤷🏻♂️
this guy’s video came into my feed late. At least now I know how much he sucks by claiming a game with problems is “the best game” in the series.
@@DeadlyRealityTV How so? Are they better? Never played them.
Just because it has Pokémon stamped on the cover doesn’t give it the license to be called a perfect game. I enjoy the series a lot and even like this game, but just because I like it doesn’t mean I’m going to over look it’s problems like the dingbat in this video.
This guy suck at his “honest review.” He missed a bunch of points.
Best game? Give me a break.
Don’t know why people don’t demand better from content creators or companies.
Cap @@RazHolly
Agreed. Scarlet and Violet are fantastic (technical issues aside). I enjoy every second of it. GOTY 2022 for me
I’m wondering, how can you say technical issues aside? Performance seems to me a pretty integral part of the experience
Yeah they gotta work on the lag. Every time I walked into a heavily populated area my game frame drops like crazy
If it were playable it’d be a pretty good game.
Same, I was trying to 100% complete swsh and get competitive teams but now I’m completely absorbed by violet
@@Oceanatornowk it’s a Pokémon game, you could and do literally give me 16 bit graphics and I’ll play it and enjoy it, the main aspect is laying back, relaxing and either the completion and collecting or the becoming the very best in the turn based game, the open world only makes it so it doesn’t feel like a part time job to play the game cause it has exploration etc, it’s like icing on a cake which makes it much better. I obviously hate as a consumer that they released the game early but I mean like to be real after seeing the issues idrc, I played it emulated before release and I got instantly hooked so I got it yesterday and have been playing for hours on end
The Pokémon models have never looked better. At least in the 3D era. I still love the simple yet nostalgic 2D sprites from the early games, but I can’t believe how good of a job they did in SV. For example, primeape has never been a favorite of mine but it just looks so badass in this game
One thing I noticed, while its a very very minor point, but the few times I was forced into double battles with an AI partner the partner was actually more than competent. Helpful, even!
You can like this game all you want, but you cannot be serious about giving it a 10/10. Bruh, the lack of a national dex, interiors to buildings, teerible graphics, terrible performance, still images cause they didn't animate cutscenes, glitchyness, lack of polish + a bunch of minor issues like arven having dialogue that spoils the cassiopeia plot make it so we cannot praise this game because gamefreak cannot think this is anywhere close to acceptable.
Not only a 10/10. He says it's the best Pokemon game ever made and that you can't go back to older games anymore LOL
@@Xeakerr Wtf bro Wolfe must not be playing the same games as me
When does arven spoil the cassiopeia twist?
@@NapoleanBlown-aparte if you, ve finished the titan's quest but not team star's and talk to him, he does.
@@ZeldaVerde do you mean when you can say nemona or penny? I'm pretty sure she says she's good at hacking mid way through starfall, and if you aren't doing team star in the first place, you won't really care about that and you will probably skip over it.
I would agree a 100% if the game was not almost unplayable and running between 10-15 fps. Great game held back by the performances
Performance def sucks but this game isn’t even close to unplayable. People gave age of calamity a high score and that game is a reaction based action game that never runs at its target frame rate and often well under it.
@@Swillo as i said, my game runs between 10 and 15 fps. And is nearly unplayable... Maybe i'm just unlucky or my switch is too old, but that's what's happening to me
@@thecherries2011 Might be possible. I bought an OLED model last month for Bayo 3 and this game and the performance obviously isn’t perfect, but nowhere in the unplayable range.
Thank you, Wolfe, for using your voice as a big Pokemon creator on UA-cam to push back agains't unfinished releases! Wait...
Right?
I’m fairly sure this vid will age poorly but I’ll happily be wrong! Gonna take one hell of a patch graphically tho
@@TheDtzcrptr because this video is about the gameplay, not the performance, it’s not that hard to understand
@@TheDtzcrptrWhy would it age poorly though? He’s talking about story and exploration, all of which is actually good, in fact most reviews have all been consistent in saying this is a good game that’s just been undermined by performance issues which are separate from story and content.
@@tehCostHD I understand you're trying to cope with the fact these games are a mess outside of gameplay but that doesn't magically change the definition of a "review". Wolfe never says that this review is about gameplay exclusively either and talks about the other aspects (even if he just glosses over them since they're big negatives).
You started streaming your first time experience playing the game like 2 days ago.
You currently have your hair way shorter, as seen in the streams
But in this video you clearly have longer hair
So you pre-recorded your "no spoiler" review based on your playing experience that didn't even happen yet?
Can someone explain?
He's a sellout shill that was paid 5k to promote this game thats the explanation
Wolfe. I'm 45 years old and my son just got into Pokemon. Your channel is super cool and I'm really enjoying it. Keep being the best Pokemon player of all time!
Glad to hear Wolfey didn't have huge issues with technical performance. Sounds like it's been really rough for some people's switches, although my experience was perfectly playable.
Do you know how you made yours not so choppy? Asking for a friend who is having trouble
@@arked_way133 It's incredibly choppy on literally every Switch, but certainly among my friends two of them are just much more sensitive to/bothered by low Framerate and general stutter than myself and our other friend (a bit like how some people get car sick/some people don't, some people can handle smooth movement in VR, some people literally have to take the headset off within 30 seconds to avoid throwing up etc etc- different people are built different and respond differently to the same stimuli). Basically sounds like Wavypavy is in the "isn't really bothered" camp and your friend is sadly not, I doubt there is much you can do about it other than hope they patch the game somewhere down the line to improve performance as the Switch can definitely do it if they put the time and effort in (look at Xenoblade 3- an open world game on an even bigger scale that not only looks better but runs substantially better at the same time).
P.s. and that's not to mention how immersion breaking some people find the general "oddities" this game has, like weird camera clipping, weird glitches, awful pop in, 5fps animation for people over 10 ft away from the player, shadows and other objects loading in and out randomly in full view of the player. Basically whether the poor technical state the game is currently in is still a fun experience depends very much on the player. Fortunately I wasn't so bothered, but it's a real shame gamefreak dropped the ball so hard on this side of things as it really will stop a lot of people enjoying what really is the best game in the franchise.
@@pjs232 jesus christ I didn’t know I was deploying a college essay
@@pjs232 if you play competitive games in high framerates like 120 upwards the game will absolutelly annoy the f... outta you, i can see clearly every lag like it's in slow-mo, it really bothers me.
@@arked_way133 Well your comment indicated you thought different Switches with identical hardware would somehow run the same game differently. So I told you in full why that was wrong, and what was probably your actual issue. No need to be an asshat about it, let's all get along.
It took me like 5mins to realize this wasn’t satire lol…
I really enjoyed this entry personally, but this is far from a fair take. The 10 seconds spent on visuals and performance issues here is unacceptable. Despite the fun I’ve had it’s objectively the worst visual and performance experience I have ever had in a full price game. It’s not just that the visuals are bad, it’s that there bad and don’t even run well for being that cheap. Makes it hard to trust much of the rest of this review as fair.
I thought your review one of the most fair I'd seen until you gave it a 10/10... You brought up major issues like how well the game runs and how levels don't scale, but then didn't even think those issues warranted docking even a single point? This isn't a perfect game - it's a great step in the right direction, and finally a step away from the mechanics of the gameboy, but there's still significant room for improvement. It's good that you didn't gloss over the many good point just to focus on the bad and call this game terrible like so many other people are doing, but you swung too far in the other direction.
Ignoring the obvious horrid technical issues that make this game an embarrassment:
The shift to open world has definitely been a positive for the franchise. It is awesome when you get through the tutorial and the game lets you go be free (more on that later). I also like how they’ve started to figure out sensible distribution of Pokémon. You’ll have them gather around trees and water. They’ll move in packs of varying evolutions. It feels more real than the wild area of SwSh. The Tera battles are much faster and better than Raid battles.
The game isn’t **really** open world though. The choice of paths is kind of an illusion. The gyms don’t scale to your progress, an incredibly obvious thing that GF failed. The Team Star roadblocks mean you can’t really ignore them. The Titan story is the only one that works fine because it’s just an exploration element, but the map could stand to be less obvious in how it obstructs your exploration without the ride forms. Customization and Pokémon elements fail as well. Why is XY still the best customization the series has had? This is something that should not be trending down. Pokémon designs have also gotten very weird. We are so far gone from the idea of these being animalistic monsters in the wild. This might be the most egregious gen of power creep yet. I wish the gameplay was better, but GF cheaps out so much on the little things. The amount of animations in the game is tiny. They cut to black as often as they can to limit showing you anything. The picnic animations are a literal joke. You can’t convince me this is a finished product.
All in all, I can’t give it higher than a 4/10. The technical faults are damning. The game outside that is still classic 1 step forward, 3 steps back. GF simply doesn’t have the ambition or urgency to make an actually good Pokémon game.
He literally has a section near the end of the video listing literally every single one of the things you just said as cons. But he just doesn't think it's nearly as big a deal as the hivemind on reddit. It's called an opinion bud.
I’m aware he mentioned them, I watched the video to lol.
Wolfey is entitled to his opinion, just as I gave mine. A take you apparently have issue with me giving. It’s called an opinion, bud.
gotta side with you on this one, i give it a 2/10, it just looks unfinished
I feel like wolf has some rose color glasses on and wants the games to be good where as I've not enjoyed them since XY
Fun fact: You can press the right stick to lock the map. Meaning the north is always towards the north.
The cities are so lame. None of them have anything worth visiting for. You can’t even enter any of the buildings. It sucks. Exploring buildings and talking to people was one of my favorite things about pokemon
Wolfe I'm a big fan. I also enjoyed this game quite a lot, and I know your livelihood depends on the hype around Pokemon, but you cannot be telling people this game is a 10 out of 10 with the issues it has.
He explained the frame rate BS elegantly. Don't buy the twitter hype try it for yourself, you'd be surprised.
@@raider_reaper_4194 I’m playing it right now. I love Pokémon but I can’t give this more than a 7 out of 10 in its current state.
@@darkmoon2503 I just recently 100% Colloseum and XD on Gamecube during Covid so I guess im just so used to it. These games are far superior and I think that those were the best pokemon games ive ever played until now.
@@raider_reaper_4194 yeah I agree, S/V are definitely the best Pokémon games so far, just not nearly 10/10.
You can lock the map to always have north being up by pressing R3. I know the map still sucks but that helps a little at least
I got really into surviving on the road and have been living off the items I’ve found on the way. I ended up in a high level zone and been struggling, but that’s what I always wanted from these games, a challenge.
There is no challenge lmao, you're self-imposing one to yourself. The game is as easy as the last 6 or 7 they released
@@Mikhaii_64 Well that’s what I was trying to say, I’m enjoying the fact I went off track a little and found it difficult.
@@lcdany0153 my bad I thought you meant you found it hard because of the self-limitation of only using the items you pick around. But yeah, you can go to the hardest areas or gyms and still beat them with the right mons and strategy, even if you are underleveled.
True true, I loved stumbling into a new area, finding out it was high levelled,and trying to stick it out as long as possible.
Posting a positive review about a Pokemon game in current year, this man is braver than a navy seal
ikr
next he should explain why the national dex cut is necessary, that would make him the personification of courage
@@ihaveyourlocation4003 honestly still weird people think of it as a bad thing 🤔
because having animation for 1000 different pokemon in an already laggy game is just a bad decision
I would give the game a solid 7.5/10 WITHOUT considering the performance issues. Though I’ve been able to enjoy the game despite these issues, I think they are nothing short of unacceptable for a franchise like Pokémon. Not to mention the game looks like it could’ve come out in 2012 graphically, when we’ve had plenty of beautiful games running smoothly on Switch.
Hey Wolfe, not sure if you've heard about this or not by this point but you might take a closer look at Established Titles. The organization was recently found to be a massive scam : /
I am so glad to hear at least ONE Person talk positive about this game. I am not even half way done, but I am already so interested in the story and I am enjoying every last bit of it. Gamefreak improved so much, but people ignore the positive parts so hard, just to talk about the negative parts (and I think there are only two kinda annoying things, which are the technical side of the game and the level scaling)
I heard from some people that the game is a bit hand holdy when you are about to do some challanges, such as taking Team Star, and stuff. Not sure if it's true, but I wouldn't doubt it to be true. Can you confirm that it's ver "Hand Holdey?"
@@PARAD0XPHANT0M I didn't do one of the star bases yet but I am about to. However, from the other stuff I did already, I do not think it is hand holdy in any way. You are free to look around and dicover for yourself. You only get notified, when you are nearby one of the gym leaders, boss Pokemon or team star bases, but the rest is up to you. Nobody told me where to go, when I discovered the huge boss Pokemon from the trailers, which I think is fantastic. Seeing these huge pokemon without a warning is such a great feeling.
@@PARAD0XPHANT0M it hasnt been for me so far. I got my ass whooped pretty early on cause I chose to do somethings out of the order that most others probably would.
I meant hand holdey as in the sense that the game constantly has dislodge talking to you as if you are incapable of taking on challenges, and patronizes you for victories. Probably should have explained it better lol. But based on your descriptions, they kind of do, but it isn't for long. Good to know
@@PARAD0XPHANT0M the point i was making was that the game let me do stuff in whatever way i wanted, no dialogue about it being to hard or anything. It does tell you what areas are easier than others but gives you the choice to do it however you want. So yeah its only hand holdey in the tutorial section after the world opens up you can do absolutely whatever you want whenever you want. I could've grinded up my team to level 40 and taken on the harder areas and the game would've let me.
You Name yourself Best pokemon Player of All times? Thats a little odd to say i feel and im normally a huge Fan of yours
He got arrogant
@@Xeakerr Gave up hiding it rather
He's arrogant af I don't understand why people watch him still
I love some of the QOL changes done so far - autoheal, swap a mon to lead straight away, faster animations (just wish we still had the skip animations option as well), swapping nickname, remembering and forgetting moves on the go... I feel the gameplay execution is excellent.
I've been having fun playing, but I HATE that the only shirts/shorts you can wear are the four academy outfits. It seems like such an oversight when the rest of the customization is so great. I'd really like to put my character in something that shows my personality more
DLC my friend
@@theape6778 we shouldn’t have to wait to DLC, they should just release a fully baked game for once
I think saying the cities look "stunning" is a bit much my dude.
I understand you're trying to hype them up because your income depends on it, but outside of the main story, the game sucks.
So many QOL removals and as someone who enjoyed breeding in Gen 7 & 8, gen 9 is a massive step backward
yep
I remember watching this dudes videos years ago. Dude talking like a robot now. Nintendo is probably paying him to give it a 10/10 lol
My biggest problem is overleveling. This game is about exploring, and That’s what I have been doing the most. Because of that I’m overleveled for pretty much whole story. Everytime I’m going back to the story I’m sweeping with 1 pokemon. They should scale and the fact they don’t is stupid and joykilling.
I know I'm late, but you should take that oportunity to use different Pokemon. I always catch at least one of each new Pokemon I see (so when it's time to complete the Pokedex its just a few left) and what I did is if my party was lvl 50 and I entered a lvl 30 area, I just change the team to lvl 30 Pokemon. That was actually really fun because I got to use so many different Pokemon in just one playthrough.
@@tarkus1056 i think thats a good way to solve this problem. Thanks.
I think the scaling problem if based on how strong you are/highest levell pokemon would mean each gym would be a certian levell weeker or stronger then you. I think scaling should have bin based on your progression and what pokemon you had encountered so you can still train and the gyms don't eather stay below or above your training. If the strongest wilde pokemon you had faced was lv 20 or something the game scales gyms by that. This would leyt you train and the gyms could still be a chalange but not pushovers or too hard.
as soon as my little player character was able to run instead of the slow walking pace he'd been doing at the beginning
it felt good
and it went from good to great when he did that sliding animation into a crouch, like.
it just feels so sick
very excited to see what riding the legendary feels like if just the walking is so nice
SAME! when the character walks slowly at the beginning is kinda awkward for me
@@Ihatevideogames334 I agree. This game is rushed.
i still cant believe this guy gave a 10 out of 10....like IGN gave it 6 out of 10....and we hurt IGN..
There is some minor issues like frame rate at this point (it's mostly just background frame rate in larger cities where it's slightly more apparent) but most of the other bugs are gone as far I can tell, I'm like 20 hours in, no issues to really be upset about.
I think allot of the hatred around these new games is to do with Game Freak introducing some of the gameplay elements from Arceus (not Arseus...) to give the game a new feel and it breaks free of traditional Pokemon gameplay style ever so slightly, and the die-hards are so butthurt that they will say anything to keep you from playing it. The biggest complaint outside of frame rate would be not being able to go into buildings, when you enter a shop it's just a menu that pops up, which I think saves a bunch of time personally, but if it is that big of an issue I'm sure the switch 2 will have the ability to handle these things.
I'm currently absolutely loving it, will play to completion and obsessed with filling out the pokedex for the first time ever and I've played since the original red and blue games on OG gameboy... I can't wait to see what they can do to fill out the world in the next titles on switch 2 when they have the power needed to do so.
Thanks for the essay but still a bad game that is not a 10 out of 10
@@dengitpeterit's his own personal opinion, you don't have to agree
@@dengitpeterwhat a douche bag
Yes these games are so amazing especially with all the glitches,pop in, framerate drops, low quality textures, bugs, camera clipping through the environment, no level scaling, a 2 hour opening turtorial, removal of set/shift mode, an empty open world, removal of The legends arceus catching.
This is truly the best pokemon has ever been, all those classic gameboy and DS games really dont come anywhere close to this masterpiece.
A lot of the new gameplay is pretty trash too; "why yes i would love to push a giant olive around rather than fight trainers for a gym challenge, i also love throwing a pokeball 30 times at the new team star bases rather than just fighting trainers". Also the story is hardly better than what they were making before, its still bad, but there is more dialogue so it takes longer to get through it.
Sounds to me like you can’t just have fun
So 80% of the problems mentioned in you comment are technical issues that he did address, 2 hour long tutorial?i was done with the tutorial in about 40 mins or so lol, the open world didn't really feel empty to me because of all the different Pokemon you can catch in it, i spent hours just exploring and finding different Pokemon, tms, items and battling trainers, wheter or not legends catching was good or not is a subjective thing, many people liked it but many hated it aswell, i for one was not a fan of it
Only things I agree with are the technical problems, removal of set options and no level scaling
I love the variable themes, every zone has a wild, and trainer theme, and four variants of each, day night, and a rain and shine variant for all of them.
Just like Arceus then, i'll be listening to each one!
I'm surprised u spoke very little of the optimization of the game. To essentially say "its a Pokemon game so it doesn't matter that much" really says a lot about the bias of this review.
My favorite part of the game is walking to class and saying hi to my buddy Tim and his Pokémon walking at 3fps
The thing with Scarlet and Violet are, everytime Im like, hey this is cool, or I really like this, or these games are so great, I get kicked in the balls with fps issues, glitches, my game closing etc. If those werent there these games would be A tier games. Now there just C or B tier.
I give it an F. Broken games aren't acceptable
@@StealthNinja4577 that is certainly an opinion, but with pokemon I feel like we knew that they would be bad from a graphical point and all that stuff. I wouldnt play them if they werent pokemon and I didnt love the franchise
@@BBBLYap1
I don’t care about graphics, I care about performance. I haven’t been able to play very long because the constant pop-in and frame rate issues legit give me headaches.
@@BBBLYap1 there's no excuse for it. GF and TPC shouldnt get a pass because "its pokemon." the performance is awful at times and it ruins the game for me. clearly fans who dont care about that have extremely low standards.
@@BBBLYap1 (looks around room at pokemon stuff) it's a big part of my life but at the same time I'm passing on these games. If they can't release a quality product then there's no sense in paying 3x over the original rbygsc