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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Coming November 18, 2022

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14 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Why the Deck 2? You can put Yuzu on the Deck 1.

 

Yeah I’m just not expecting “pro” performance off the current deck where you could say run Kirby at 60fps at 720p with full animation. If it can run any switch games at full 720/60 then that’s rad but that is not what I had gathered from its performance.

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well, I can tell what the excitement level for this here is :P

 

 


Game Information

Game Title: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

Platforms:

  • Nintendo Switch (Nov 18, 2022)

Trailer:


Developer: GAME FREAK

Publisher: Nintendo

    Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 76 average - 53% recommended

Critic Reviews


Areajugones - Ramón Baylos - Spanish - 9 / 10

How proud one feels to know that one belongs to a place that is seen with such beauty from the outside. Long live Pokémon... Long live Game Freak and the mother who gave birth to them.


Atomix - Sebastian Quiroz - Spanish - 90 / 100

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet are very worth it. This is a fantastic end to a great year on the Nintendo Switch, and I can't wait to see how Game Freak and The Pokémon Company take what worked here and expand on it in the future.


Digital Trends - Giovanni Colantonio - 3.5 / 5

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's open-world pivot is exactly what the series needed, though poor tech holds back its true potential.


Eurogamer - Lottie Lynn - No Recommendation

An interesting reworking of the traditional Pokémon gameplay for an open-world setting brought low by its lifeless environments and graphics


Eurogamer.pt - Jorge Loureiro - Portuguese - No Recommendation

The game world is excessively empty, not only because of the lack of density of vegetation and other elements, but for the lack of activities. Cities contrast a bit with this, expressing life, with happy NPCs walking back and away, and lots of shops to enter, where you can buy clothes and accessories for your character. Outside the cities, you'll only find huge beams of light on the horizon, symbolizing the crystals where you can participate in Tera Raid Battles (which are virtually identical to the Max Raid Battles of the previous game). Pokémon Scarlet and Violet had a lot to gain if they had been postponed.


Everyeye.it - Gabriele Laurino - Italian - 7.5 / 10

Summing up the new Pokémon game always means triggering a conflict between heart and head.


GAMES.CH - Benjamin Braun - German - 85%

In one point, however, opinions are likely to differ on "Pokémon Crimson and Purple": the technical implementation. The performance goes to its knees from time to time, Pokémon or NPCs pop into the picture a few meters in front of us. And "normal" graphics errors occur significantly more often than in any other "Pokémon" game on Switch before. How serious these and other weaknesses actually are, however, is, as always, in the eye of the beholder. We like the style overall, which is why we can usually overlook even the sometimes gross weaknesses in performance or texture quality. Nevertheless, these weaknesses are the reason why "Pokémon Crimson and Purple" has to take a back seat to "Pokémon Legends: Arceus", although we ultimately like the playful concept of adventure in Paldea at least as much, if not better.


GamePro - Linda Sprenger - German - 75 / 100

The open world sparks a sense of adventure and the typical Poké collecting fever, but also has playful but hardly any exciting ideas.


GameSpot - Jacob Dekker - 8 / 10

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's open-world approach reinvigorates the long-running series.


GamesRadar+ - Joel Franey - 3 / 5

"The open world inherently changes so much for the series that it needed a total ground-up rethink of the mechanics"


Geek Culture - Jake Su - 8 / 10

Do the latest Pokémon games get everything right? Not always, but when they do, therein lie adventures that is giving players the keys to crafting their own experiences in a wonderful world filled with fantastic creatures. Whether you are chasing down the title of the best in the land or hoping to detail the hundreds of Pokémon out there, there is always something fun waiting for you down the line, and that’s a world we can all agree is one that is exciting to be a part of, much less a key figure in.


Geeks & Com - Anthony Gravel - French - 8.5 / 10

Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet bring some interesting new innovations such as a complete open world and a fun new Let’s Go! mechanic that speeds up fighting. The fact that you can now tale multiple paths really helps to diversify gameplay and the narrative behind is the best the series has to offer. Unfortunately, some technical issues such as texture problems and Pokémons that load too slowly in the open world will irritate players.


Glitched Africa - Marco Cocomello - 9 / 10

Some ideas might not work and there are some obvious visual issues to overcome but there’s never been a grander, more exciting Pokemon adventure.


God is a Geek - Adam Cook - 7.5 / 10

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are great games mired by a host of technical issues.


Guardian - Tom Regan - 3 / 5

Technical problems and an evident lack of development time take the shine off this ambitious new outing for the world-conquering critters


Hobby Consolas - Álvaro Alonso - Spanish - 90 / 100

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet capture all the magic of the past and merge it with the improvements of the future, resulting in two fresh installments with very good ideas. The graphics is still their biggest weakness, but they shine so brightly in everything else and they are SO special games... that they get our A's.


IGN - Rebekah Valentine - Unscored

[Review in progress] There really isn’t a moment in these games where I’d say Pokémon Scarlet and Violet run well.


Inverse - Jess Reyes - 7 / 10

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet give you more choices than ever before. In exchange, it expects you to adapt to its half-baked open world and mostly optional new features. These latest games aren’t the great leap forward from Pokémon Legends: Arceus that fans were hoping for, but it is a small step.


Metro GameCentral - David Jenkins - 8 / 10

A significant advancement on Pokémon Sword and Shield and while it's not hard to see how it could be improved further this is the most ambitious and entertaining Pokémon has been in a long while.


Nintendo Life - Alana Hagues - 7 / 10

It's a smaller step than many may have hoped for, especially considering what Pokémon Legends: Arceus did, but it's definitely one in the right direction.


Polygon - Kenneth Shepard - Unscored

Despite my frustrations with its structure, mechanics, and the fact that it looks and runs like a middling GameCube game most of the time (there were several instances, even outside of the open-world areas, where character animations would drop to near stop-motion levels of movement), I still left Scarlet and Violet enamored by its character relationships and neatly tied-up themes of finding one’s own joy in the big, wild Pokémon world.


Post Arcade (National Post) - Chad Sapieha - 7 / 10

The ninth generation of Nintendo's popular series gives players a huge free-to-roam world brimming with weird little guys to catch. Read on.


Press Start - Harry Kalogirou - 7.5 / 10

Whilst there's still stumbling missteps as Game Freak try to find their footing in the future of Pokémon, Scarlet and Violet is an endearing, and enjoyable attempt at a fundamentally different Pokémon experience. New ideas, some quality of life improvements, and some excellent new Pokémon designs make the trip to Paldea worthwhile.


Screen Rant - Cody Gravelle - 4.5 / 5

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is engrossing at its best but clunky at its worst, offering an uneven but ultimately exceptional experience on Switch.


Shacknews - Donovan Erskine - 7 / 10

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are ambitious new entries in the franchise that are held back by abysmal performance issues.


Spaziogames - Nicolò Bicego - Italian - 7.8 / 10

Scarlett and Violett, in all their hicupps and issues, try to do something new for the franchise. We can't definitely say that they are good at everything they do (not at all) and they still run pretty bad on Nintendo Switch, but some of their ideas are way more entertaining than what we saw in Sword and Shield. And, maybe, in Sun and Moon, too.


Telegraph - Jack Rear - 3 / 5

Pokémon's first fully open-world title has a lot of ideas but never quite manages to stick the landing with any of them


TheSixthAxis - Jason Coles - 7 / 10

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet feel like the awkward second evolution of one of its starters. It's growing into something resplendent, it's showing signs of an exciting second type, but it's got that weird vibe of a 20-something that hasn't quite figured out who they actually are. Add that weirdly stretched feeling to the constant technical oddities and you've got a game that's undoubtedly good fun, but it's still not even it's final form. I can't wait to see what Pokemon becomes, but it's not quite there yet.


Unboxholics - Στράτος Χατζηνικολάου - Greek - Worth your time

Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet bring some innovative ideas to the series and freshen it up slightly, with new features that are certainly worthwhile. It's Nintendo's classic and successful formula, with the ninth generation being extremely interesting, with brand new Pokémon, new missions and ideas that are sure to "ring a bell" for hardcore gamers. Is this the next step that Game Freak has been waiting for? The answer is...sort of.


VG247 - Alex Donaldson - 4 / 5

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet is more than the sum of its parts. Those parts include the woeful performance and optimization problems, which are a real drag – but much of the rest of the title soars so high that it does go a long way to make one ignore them, after a fashion.


VGC - Jordan Middler - 4 / 5

Every decision Scarlet and Violet make are good ones. The huge expansion and changes to the single player campaign are great, the size of the world and the joy of exploration are the best in the series, and the new Pokemon and battle mechanics introduced all sing. However, it’s just impossible to shake the thought of how much better the game would feel if it was on more powerful hardware, or simply ran acceptably on Switch.


Washington Post - Jhaan Elker, Alyse Stanley - Unscored

One thing Game Freak does have working for it is that people want to play this game. People want open-world Pokémon. Game Freak may be struggling to get there, but it’s been really cool to be able to see it getting closer with each new generation.


XGN.nl - Luuc ten Velde - Dutch - 7.5 / 10

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet takes the next step for the franchise thanks to the lush open world. Even the new Terastallizing mechanic is great fun, although it is kinda a reskin of an earlier mechanic. Amazing music and some smart design choises make it a game you can't miss. At least, that is what we would've said if the performance wasn't as bad as it is.

 

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tbf the reviewers don’t seem v excited either..

 

I liked Sword and Shield but Legends was much better and this seems a step back in some qol ways so idk how I’ll feel about it. I didn’t really dig Pearl remake but I’ve liked the others this gen and holiday season with a new Pokémon game feels good.

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1 hour ago, stepee said:

tbf the reviewers don’t seem v excited either..

 

I liked Sword and Shield but Legends was much better and this seems a step back in some qol ways so idk how I’ll feel about it. I didn’t really dig Pearl remake but I’ve liked the others this gen and holiday season with a new Pokémon game feels good.

I got so much to play I think I’ll hold off and wait for Santa to bring me this. Pokémon during holiday time will feel perfect. 

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On 2/27/2022 at 5:46 PM, stepee said:

 

Im still finishing up the end game in Legends. Am I going to want to do that again but in a modern setting with towns and stuff in less than a year? Fuck yeah I am!

 

I wish it was this though. It sounds like the combat works like the old games and no real time pokeball throwing. I think the transitions and everything are going to be slow again. I guess there wasn’t time to learn from Legends and it’s reception.

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2 hours ago, stepee said:

 

I wish it was this though. It sounds like the combat works like the old games and no real time pokeball throwing. I think the transitions and everything are going to be slow again. I guess there wasn’t time to learn from Legends and it’s reception.

 

Yeah I never ended up getting PLA and was hoping internally that they would know the changes in that game would need to be in the new generation, but it looks like not all of it. These games still seem like such minimal effort at this point, and the series needs a major upgrade, but I'm doubtful they will spend that money to do so when these games still sell so well they're probably making a killer profit. 

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