We’re not doing this revisionist shit

This game ran Iike utter dogshit, has terrible pacing, no building interiors whatsoever, lame ass towns, a fake open world, and some of the worst difficulty scaling in any Pokemon game period. On top the fact that the graphics looked worse than Sword and Shield

I want to preface that liking Scarlet and Violet is fine but calling them “good” games because GameFreak remembered that they’re a multibillion dollar game studio for the last 30 minutes of 30 hour game is objectively incorrect

The people under this post defending the deplorable state this game released in are exactly why Game Freak will continue to deliver the absolute bare minimum to us while charging premium prices. You know why? “It’s Pokemon, so they’re gonna buy it regardless”

Here’s my ranking of all the mainline Pokémon games, so you can see where my standing is with this franchise

I’m glad majority of the people who found this post have the mental capacity to grasp the concept that you can enjoy a game while understanding that it has a very weak foundation and clearly wasn’t finished on release. Hats off to you, SV enjoyers with more than 5 braincells!

Most of the game is straight shit from an ass, then it rips your heart out with about 10m of comparatively deep material just to shit in the hole in your chest. Like, I liked playing it, but damn.

The last 15-20 minutes of the game feels like a completely different product than the rest of it, it’s bizzare

@7he0th3r Pokemon team locked in for like 3 days at the office then only used the other brainpower to come up with heat pokemon and nothing else

@HinokamiJay fr i love a lot of the new Pokemon we got! they don't exactly make up for the story, but it was close

The last 30 minutes of the game were good af though

Will never deny that ur absolutely right

@anonamn0 Are you fr? This whole post is just engagement farming?

@anonamn0 No?

It’s always had the best ending and story in the franchise

What pains me the most is how undeniably charming this games actual cutscenes are but so much is stripped away from the egregious lack of voice acting

highest grossing media franchise of all time btw

logging on and my tweet is all over the tl because i posted the only good part of the game 👀

You cooked but they saying some absolute bullshit😭😭

I don't give a crap what y'all think, I love this game even if it's not the best.

And that’s fine! Not trying to say you’re wrong for liking it

@GugaMC2007 really don’t care where you stand on sv as games but you are literally saying people are wrong for liking it

@GugaMC2007 like lol you said people are objectively wrong if they call it good

You clearly cannot read lol

lol your statement is just saying that people are objectively incorrect for saying its good, no matter how you frame it you are calling people wrong for their opinion on the game. just stand on that

No, because my statement focuses on the tweet I quoted, saying that if your justification of this clearly unpolished game being “good” is that the last 30 minutes are clearly more polished, you’re incorrect This is a comprehension issue lol

The fact it even has an eating animation at all is honestly amazing

Nintendo nut swallowers this yo mans?

For me there are tons of flaws with the game like graphics, performance, and the towns being extremely lacking but l still had a ton of fun playing it which is the most important thing for a game

This is a sound argument until you realize that this game is held at the same price point as GOTY AAA games consistently when the work and polish put into it is nowhere close If this game was $20, even $30 I wouldn’t give a rats ass but $60?! Absolutely not

I understand that take but for me it’s how much enjoyment I get out of a game for the price and while quality tends to be a big factor it’s not 1:1 Like $60 for a game I have 400 hours of fun in is a good deal for me

This scene is so funny to me because it feels like they went out of their way to make it bad? Why are the cuts so fucking long and staggered 😭😭

They'll never convince me, this is what my mind associates permanently with SV.

cardboard cutout towns devoid of any memorability (even SWSH had some places I liked to go back to), dogshit graphics, empty and bland open world that barely resembles anything from a Pokémon game, ugly “realistic” textures The NPCs are the only saving grace

i ran it on my switch lite. to say it looked and ran like dogshit is an understatrment

You didn't even need to post this, the part they've shown is mid already

had to pull out the graph (x is where id put scavio)

This game made me realize I treated Sword too harshly during my playthrough. You'd have to pay me to play thia shit again even with the switch 2 enhancements. Imo the worst mainline pokemon games

if you ignore literally everything except area zero its an amazing game

Every day I wake up thanking whatever deity is responsible for making Winds and Waves have extra time to cook. Not sure if some Pokemon Company suit had a wake-up call or what but it's a big reason to have hope

I'm curious to ask. Is this on the Switch 1? Your frame rate looks lower

This is switch 1 gameplay yeah

Lmao. I thought so. I JUST did this on my living dex save file for Scarlet and I remember it looking better than this (even if just a little bit)

My favourite part is Game Freak, at no point in the past 4 years, has made any genuine attempt to improve this game beyond re-releasing it as-is on more powerful hardware The only post-game support we've had are busted, broken raids (both in terms of balance and of performance)

That last hour tho 💔

Me finishing Area Zero and the Nemona fight knowing all that’s left for me are a 5 FPS Dex completion quest and low poly views of Paldea

Aye man that Dec that fire tho but yeah 😭💔

Dex*

When I start to like S/V then I remember this whole sequence with the Game Builder Garage ass bolders leading up to the boss

Launch SV was painful

Fake video, framerate too high.

I ain't gonna front, this game looks like an N64 game but upscaled. I hate ragging on PkMn games just cause I honestly don't expect anything from them in fidelity, but this game really was nothing like what I expected for their first-ever console/not on a handheld device.

Instead of going "yeah we ran out of money so we rushed the ending" like with most failure projects, for some reason they only gave a shit about the ending despite having infinity money to work with.

Never been a revisionist, I have ALWAYS loved Scarlet and Violet. Yes, they do have issues, most of which Switch 2 thankfully fixes but beneath all that is a very fun game with a great story, likeable characters, great gameplay, catchy music and the open world is fun to explore!

And it’s still the best mainline Pokemon game on switch

Literally only one other mainline game has released on the switch so I don’t know what ur angle was here

I didn't think it was bad on a gameplay level but certainly not at the polish the biggest multimedia franchise deserves so I hold it to a higher standard.

You cant even change your clothes in this game

Maybe get a Switch 2? Game runs smooth on it.

I have one, but it was a Switch 1 release so I don’t like them locking a half decent version of a 2021 game behind a $500 paywall

A console upgrade is not a paywall. But I agree that they shouldn't have released it on Switch 1. The Switch 1 simply didn't have the performance required.