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I mostly agree that they should have implemented a level scaling system, but a SIMPLE level scaling system is not a perfect solution either. This is bc players would not be able to challenge themselves by taking a harder path. The ideal solution is to implement a level scaling system but still have some battles be higher level than others regardless of the number of badges you have. For example, the level of the gym leaders will go up with the number of badges you have but Ryme will always be 3-5 levels higher than larry.
This is when the yearly releases finally caught up to them. People love to cry "unfinished" because of no Battle Frontier or expansive post-game, or because of Dexit. That's just a game having a lack of content you specifically want. THIS is what an unfinished game ACTUALLY looks like. Something being held together with spit and one drop of hot glue. It's a shame too. I got Violet and it's some of the most fun I've had. I even started team building for competitive, something I've never done before.
@@plumali_youtube163 those 3 years were split between this game and legend arcues a game that actually looks like it had love,passion and time put into it despite its flaws. This game seemed more like gamefreak was like”S*** WE NEED A NEW GAME FOR THE ANIME AND TOY LINE AND WE ONLY HAVE LIKE 11 MONTHS UHHHHH JUST RELEASE THIS AND HOPE IT MAKES DOUGH”.
can i just say it is SO relieving to find someone who actually loves team star’s story. so many other youtubers completely disregard it and then call it bad despite them skipping over half the dialogue :( the story is actually engaging and the characters are so lovable, so i thank you for giving them the love they DESERVE
@@eattheranchnot really no. Just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s fantastic. Just because someone else doesn’t mean it’s their fault. Your opinion is just that. An opinion it’s not a fact. Your opinion doesn’t have any more weight than someone else’s. Just because everyone likes trash doesn’t mean trash is good.
@@X3nophiliacwhat I said accounts here too. :3 I’m not implying ya’ll were being toxic, I just am wanting to help assure a nice civil exchange. We can all agree to disagree on what we liked/disliked.
Because it is bad. All the bosses have the same rehashed garbage backstory about being bullied. Aside from designs and basic personalities they are essentially just copied and pasted. Not to mention Penny is just straight up unlikable and uninteresting. Team Star is absolutely pathetic
I really liked this game's story. I never thought I'd have a personal attachment to a box art legendary that goes beyond "cool and strong mon" but the sandwich loving lizards with Toothless like personalities changed that.
I feel kinda bad for GF they've been accused of lazy, unambitious and mediocre developers since Sw/Sh but then they started working on two of the most ambitious and fun pokemon games yet and because they couldn't get more time people are shiting on them harder than before. I'm not defending the state the games came out, it's embarrassing how many bugs and performance issues the game has, but I wouldn't call the developers lazy, unambitious or mediocre GF still has what it takes to make good pokemon games but not the time
i wouldnt call them lazy either, but if anything it does seem quite rushed hasnt even been a year since legends arceus, one of their more ambitious and unique games launched so im sure noone wouldve cared had this released a few months later, which said few months couldve been crucial for fixing such bugs and performance issues
I wouldn't let them off the hook so completely. I am a former game dev, and I find it mind boggling just how amateurish this game is. 11 months to make an open world switch game is crazy, but small teams have done far more with far less. I've seen university projects with 6 devs and ~10 months of development which, with about 3 or 4 more months in the cooker, would have been at this point. So I consider them to have the equivalent manpower of 9 competent but inexperienced developers, to judge by what they produced. But this is one of the oldest and most profitable franchises: they should be a sizable team with a huge amount of experience. Something is *very* wrong, I believe, on all levels.
All they have to do is not take 60 dollar's for a disgustingly optimized game that looks worse than free genshin impact on my Xiaomi phone. For the quality we are getting this is at most 5 bucks.
Nah I disagree. LoZ breath of the wild was the first one with voice acting in the series and most people liked it I dont see why it would be different for Pokemon
I'll just say it outright: I don't see voice acting coming to the mainline games with the current way operations are run. Even with just English and Japanese, I do think that it would add too much organisational overhead. Who to voice and who not to left aside, you still need a localised translation somewhat earlier than you do now. Which will likely come with its own share of issues. But Pokémon is built on mass appeal, so only two voiced languages probably won't be enough. And once one European language (aside from English) is voiced, you have to do the others. I'd love to see it, but I'll only believe it when it happens.
One thing that bothers me with the story is how it feels like Scarlet was the basis of the game and Violet was made afterwards. Since Koraidon feels more believable with eating food, licking people, and being territorial. And the idea of a ride pokemon being better with Miraidon since it actually uses reasonable transportation methods. And one thing I really dislike in this game is the Tera raids, they are so uninteresting and buggy. I don’t know how they even let that out in the state it is in and think people wouldn’t care or complain about it. I really like this game, but besides comp there isn’t much to do after beating the finale which really sucks, hopefully there will be more interesting things to do in the future like with SwSh
correct. in 2020 MIYAMOTO SLEPT FOR LIKE 2 HOURS A DAY AND ONLY ATE LIKE CHEAP INSTANT NOODLES AND MICROWAVE MEALS WITH ALMOST NO NUTRIENTS OR CARBS WHICH WOULD BE ONLY SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN WHAT WE DID EXCEPT HE WAS STILL WORKING ALMOST NOSTOP FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
in case you wanna know, the "styles" thing for your character is english version only, in other languages (or at least in spanish) it still asks if you're a boy or a girl
I have no idea why people see removing "Gender" is somehow a "progressive" thing. Your basically either a Boy now, or a Femboy. Not able to select any Girls Clothes has just set us back to one Gender while somehow claiming we have none. Its all so stupid and I cant wait for all this to just stop.
@@mitchryan257 For me personally this whole more then two Gender thing is dumb, but if its such a big deal to some players why not just have a Third Option for it? Instead we went from having two, back down to one, while somehow saying we gained more. This is some messed up Math if you ask me.
@@nobalkain624 agreed, although if they do add a third option, are they going to code all million “genders”? I don’t even think they should be giving preferential treatment to such a minority and it opens the door for others wanting preferential treatment, then that alienates others since it’s inherently biased.
4:57 Even setting aside the "highest grossing franchise" part, Pokemon Masters, a _mobile_ game has voice acting. There's no excuse for a main series to not have voice acting when a mobile spinoff has voice acting. I mean Piers still didn't sing in that one event quest but still, it's more than the main series has.
Technically, Pokemon Master is handled by DeNa, where they held the voice acting themselves. Even New Pokemon Snap is made by Bandai Namco who have voice acting. Both Pokemon games are not made by GF. If GF did have voice acting in their old games...yeah, there is no excuse. However, they don't.
for the postgame they could have a button that just says "battle nemona" since she apparently raised several different teams and it would be a good way to see her original team + make for good postgame content they could even have penny "hack" your phone and add that button, knowing nemona she'd probably come running if [protag] asked her to battle
I was burned hard by sword and shield, a good bit my own fault cause the writing was clear as day, but still hurt. So I decided to emulate this one at first and I saw a lot more care with added animation, better models, and better texture especial on the pokemon. Saw what they where doing with the open world saw the patch that improved the 5fps walk cycle of npcs and fixed some bugs and it really inspired me so i bought it and I've really been enjoying it so much so that I actually wanna play it again. Its just so refreshing to get from this franchise and I can only hope they continue in this direction and studios learn to give game devs time to work on their projects Defiantly a 7/10 from me just not enough water
3/10 from me good game ruined by fps going down so low i have to wait over 1 minute for a confused pokemon to do anything. Funny enough ppl shit mostly on the story and by far this has been one of the best stories we had in a long time so i just think the pokemon fanbase cant tell whats good or bad XD
@@clarity2199I can put together a laundry list of Sword/Shield’s issues, but if you (somehow) managed to enjoy it that much, then more power to you.👌🏽At the very least, I did find the DLC quite solid, even it simply made an underwhelming game slightly less so.
Making the crystalization color coded wouldn't have worked really. Besides color blind people having issues there is the fact that there are 18 types who do have quite some overlap in terms of color. I mean Ice, Steel, Water and Dragon are all blue and psychic and fairy are both pink.
I feel like people forget Gen 7s story. I think it’s excellent and I loved it. (Specifically Sun and moon, not USUM). I’d say SV’s story is third place to BW and SM, but still great
Level scaling is the one thing that would have fixed so much. Because no matter what path you do or how you do it, you'll eventually out-level the other paths in one form or another.
@Stephen George I'm glad other people are cheesing fights. I'm talking from a basic perspective. If I wander off and go exploring, fight the first titan, and then go to the first gym with most my team already nearing level 20, that's over-leveled. As Manga said. A basic level scaling system would have made that much less an issue.
I kinda wish that team star had more to do with the concept of locking PokeBalls that just sort of appears in the end game Like since Penny's a super hacker she could have figured out how to make a device that locks trainer ID's and wanted to use them to teach bullies a lesson but ultimately didn't want to take away their Pokemon. However the rest of team star would become radicalized by the idea of them being able to choose who can and can't use Pokemon. This way it introduces the locking concept sooner while also making Team Star an actual threat.
While that's a good idea... It would also be used against Team Star as well. Actually, that concept of locking pokeballs would help other villainous teams, and screw them over at the same time.
@@pickedceasar1216 Let's say that someone manages to get into the main device that locks the trainer's IDs, and decides to screw the team by locking their trainer's IDs. This would prevent the team to use their mons, because of their own device being rigged to do so.
@@bombtails but how would someone get access if team star and Penny are the only ones that know how to do it? They could also make it so the locking device itself can only be used by certain trainer ID's I could see a skeleton key get developed that bypasses all ID but that sounds like an endgame item or something only a main character should have
I for one love the art you make for your thumbnails. Art is as everyone knows a way for people to express themselves. And I for one can appreciate the work people do to make their work a little more interesting. I am also for one don’t really mind if someone does something special for their thumbnails but I appreciate it nonetheless for their work. And I really really love your art Kamen. So I actually look forward what art you put out for your thumbnails and such. As you all heard I believe you’re quite the artist. Your art is way better than I can ever make. So please, don’t mind what people say to you Kamen. Express yourself as you see fit and enjoy yourself to the end. I in the end love your art and would love to see u do a drawing stream sometime but by all means: Enjoy yourself, take your time, and express yourself freely. And have a merry Christmas and a happy near year!
I think if Game Freak took a year off next year and then made a new game in 2024, they would have a pretty well polished game given how ambitious SV were.
If we ignore all those bugs, performance issues and ugly graphics, I still wouldn't call the game a "Masterpiece", not by any stretch. Not counting those problems, Scarlet and Violet is still the bare mimimum for what a "just ok" turn based JRPG should be.
@Mane Wow, that is really condescending - Despite the issues graphically and mechanically, I still found them to have flaws, the fact that you had the gall to say that in this review that pointed out a lot of issues, that really says a lot about you.
@@HeeHungersForHos He does have a point, thought. Matias is saying that SV is still the bare minimum for what a "just ok" turn-based JRPG should be, but he doesn't tell what are the things that should be improved. He could say "the area is kinda dead, give it some life by adding more stuff", or "add some minigames that can improve the experience". Things that are simple, but add more spice to a game.
"You ruined my childhood" Okay now on to my actual comment, I think you're 100% spot on with this critique of the game and aside from fixing all the glitches if I had to make one alteration to the game it would be to have the Pokemon actually closing in to make contact like they did in Legends Arceus, and the level scaling, but other than that I can't really think of much... I haven't played the game myself but I love the potential it has for great storytelling. The primary reason I haven't bought it is because I was just too burned on certain past entries and I need some time to recover...
I don't like the argument that glitches "aren't bad" when they're funny and not intrusive. In saying that, you're literally telling Gamefreak that their game can be a buggy mess as long as it's still playable. Ideally, a game will have little to no glitches whatsoever, and players should have to try very hard to find the glitches it does have. I shouldn't be in the middle of a Pokemon battle and see a bodiless and eyeless head phase through my opponent's Pokemon. Yeah, it technically doesn't affect the gameplay, but I still don't want to see it.
It took me about 50 hours to pretty much catch every pokemon in the game barring trade evolutions, Scarlet exclusives and Palizen. Just missing the 4 legendaries. I got the other starters from surprise trades
I often feel like generation 7 is dismissed way too often when talking about great Pokemon stories. The entirety of everything relating to the Aether Foundation was just one of the best stories in the series (at least in base Sun and Moon), and people who shove off Hau as just another happy go lucky rival when I feel like there was more nuance to him than what people give him credit for (especially in USUM) only to say Hop is one of the best rivals when he's just Hau but again... idk, I feel like too many dismiss Gen 7 because people dont enjoy how dialogue heavy it is but like... thats what a story is? You can show more with less I get it, but Generation 7 has one of the best stories next to Gen 5 and now Gen 9
I’m actually interested in getting this compared to Sword and Shield which lost my interest due to the whole NatDex fiasco. I will get it after some patches. I think we can all agree that they should stop yearly releases. At most I’d be fine with DLC for Scarlet and Violet, BDSP, Legends Arceus, and/or even Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee rather than a new game for 2023-2024. The state of SV upon release is proof of that.
the only reason why i think they still will do the yearly releases is because of how much sword and shield made. those games basicly got to near red and blue number of sales numbers and dollars. and gen 8 was a whole heap of mess of contraveries.
The line lays somewhere in-between, imo. Nintendo/gamefreak/whathaveyou has the resources for us to receive excellent new games as well as remasters. Yet clearly they haven't been able to use those resources effectively. If it means substantially better games, I'm happy to wait. I just think they have the resources to give us both meaningful sequels as well as great sequels/remakes. The difference between ORAS and BDSP is borderline vomit inducing, but the existence of ORAS itself proves they can give us both. We buy whatever they feed us, so it's plenty possible that has led to complacency on the development end.
SV fixed a lot of the issues I had with recent Pokemon games to be honest. Pokemon was always the type of game to me that let's me "make my own story" so to speak - the types of mons you add to your team, the blank slate character, the very sparcely told story. All of that helped in me feeling like I'm making my own adventure all through Gen1 to 3 - and even 4 and 5 still had this. It also made the games very replayable. As the games got more and more scenes to flesh out other characters though, that vastly decreased - Gen7 is the peak of this problem for me and SwSh actually kind of held back on it. SV, however, is the first Pokemon game that somehow manages to have the unbstructive story of the first couple gens married with characters I actually care about. Arven's story was great, and the Team Star members, as clumsily as their story is told, all had some element I could latch onto. That's leaps and bounds beyond other Pokemon games. Coupled with the fact that you can catch a huge variety of mons at any point and especially at the start, these games really are everything I need from a Pokemon game and as someone who thought he was finally growing out of it, that's a pretty great feeling. It's just a shame the games feel incredibly rushed in other areas. In a perfect world, this generation would have had another year or so to iron out the tech issues and add actual interior to houses, but I guess corporate be corporate. I'm just surprised how much they managed to overhaul in the tight time frame.
I like battle crazy Nemona, she is one of my favourite rivals so far tbh. I think it would be an amazing feature if we could rebattle her with her different teams and competitive strategies, like, give her a rain or sand team, a double battle tatsugiri and the big one, and maybe one with Pokemon from other regions only. That would mean a bit more work, but in my opinion it would make for such an entertaining feature that would keep people going back to the game even after they finish what they want to do. I actually quite like all of the side characters we got this generation
Call it wishful thinking, but I'm hoping GameFreak would ditch the yearly releases, or maybe even have them team up with another game company like Bandai Namco.
I agree with that sentiment, at least in fall of 2023 year wise, and I’m sure a lot of people also feel the same way. These games should not have come out when they did
I'm pretty sure Dendra and Tulip have a relationship of some sort. They both have a medicham, and Dendra seems like the type of friend to do anything for Tulip, but seems less than confident about explaining it to us duong the Alfornada Gym test.
My experience with PKMN will forever not be bizarre, because of how I mostly know about it from the anime and its fans. I've tried the games multiple times, and usually dropped them; with emerald being the only one I've gotten close into. I wouldn't really consider myself a fan, yet I still find myself enjoying the designs and even knowing about what's going on in the community (as much as that knowledge is usually forced onto me). So, watching this video was pretty damn interesting, because it does kinda confirm that these games do seem to be great, but were have issues due to being rushed out way too hard bc of typical business shit. Kinda sucks, cause that seem to also be the same thing that ended up happening with another pretty major release (Sonic Frontiers). Anyway, I would be lying if I didn't want to buy this game, especially after hearing the praise it has gotten. I just fear that i'll end up falling back on that PKMN curse of mine and just drop it halfway through. Oh, btw.: YOU RUINED MY CHILDHOOD!
One nice thing about the issues with Gen 9 stemming almost entirely from the glitches is that they can be patched out in the future, unlike the core gameplay. Not saying they will do this, but it’s not beyond possibility
I absolutely adore these games and I find bugs absolutely hilarious to find they don't bother me one bit especially since it didn't put a dampener on the gameplay all I got issues were with: my hat disappearing, climbing up terrain backwards (it's not a bug it's a feature), and a couple crashes but thank goodness for auto saves, all in all for the first advent into a fully open world game it's quite astonishing how polished it is. Although I know most of the bugs were in co op so there's that i played solo.
the only glitches i really had were some frame drops and weird shadowing and honestly....that still didn't really detract from my enjoyment all too much. This game's story full stop rivals black and white. I never cared about the story and characters in a Pokémon game the more i do here. The ending questline alone blew me away. I truly think if Pokémon can keep and refine this direction for games, we truly have a bright future for this franchise. But dear god please give them more time in the oven.
I don't think flat level scaling is a good idea. I'd have it be a base level that's slightly higher for the ones further up the progression ladder if you wanted to go ahead and do a harder one first. Let's say that the second gym leader has a flat level of 13 unlike the first one which was 8. With level scaling, you can go to the higher one for slightly higher difficulty, but then the previous one gets bumped up to the same level with scaling.
Another example of corporate meddling/rushing a game out ruining what could be a good, maybe great game. Even if they fix it now, it will have that scar and stain that other bad games have and lost goodwill because of it.
First time watcher! But I loved your take on the game. And your critiques of it too. Especially that fashion should have been unlocked with team star badges. It would have been the great balance. Exploration unlocked with Arvin. Fashion unlocked with Penny. And Pokémon obedience with gym badges/Pokémon league. School classes could have unlocked certain things too. Like berry farming, picnic breeding, a passive tera shard farm/grinding feature.
What's nice is the amount of failsafes in the game. There's a spot near Porto Mariana where you can get stuck in an endless falling animation which would be a soft lock, if not for the fact that the game can pick up when you get stuck and teleport you to a safe area. Also this game has backup saves.
Many of the JoJo characters wear their uniforms as their main outfits for the whole series Josuke wears several pins, leaves the top part unbuttoned and a yellow shirt with two zippers underneath Okuyasu straight up doesn't even use the school blazer, just something that kinda resembles it and attaches several different pins as well, he even wears two separate belts that serve no purpose other than looking cool Jotaro doesn't even bother buttoning his blazer at all and he also wears a belt just for the purpose of it looking cool... Oh, and yeah, he also snapped the 8-link golden chain to the collar for no reason other than, again, looking cool There's also the simpler ones, like Kakyoin just wearing the cherry earrings, but Pokemon does fine in letting you were hats and stuff And no, I'm not counting Koichi wearing a uniform with a different color in the anime, that's more to do with Araki not really giving anything a definitive color All their uniforms look different, even for the people that are meant to go to the same school, even if we could say Koichi's is kinda bland
I love your response to Scarlet and Violet. I had no problem with it except the floor disappearing and my game crashing once but other then that it’s an awesome game and I also think they should’ve added more to the uniform then just the 4 we had by default, hopefully next generation or dlc (if they will implement this) they’ll add more stuff we can do or try on
One small thing I noticed playing the game is during the path of legends when arven gives mabosstiff a piece of the sandwich he actually breaks off a piece visually and then puts it up to mabosstiff's mouth (this is a 12:39 in the video btw). This isn't all that crazy at first but in SwSh the screen would probably fucking cut to black or something instead of animating it. SwSh had so many moments where the screen would cut to black when something was happening. Towards the end of SwSh sonia had her yamper shock the elevator buttons so they would function but instead of showing yamper moving and using a move on the elevator the screen faded to black, a little sound was played and then it went to normal. Just the fact that they animated something small like a sandwich in Scarlet and Violet vs literally one gen ago when they wouldn't even animate a yamper shocking an elevator or give pokemon a proper turning animation (they just played the pokemon's walking animation while it awkwardly rotated on the spot.) shows how much they were really trying to improve the games in small ways going into gen 9.
finally a take i agree with!! i couldn't even convince my gf to keep playing it with me, even though i kept telling her the glitches were minimal and i was still having a really good time as well as a solid pokemon experience. i even shiny hunted my whole team!! thank you for giving those of us who still love these games while acknowledging their flaws a voice amongst the overwhelming hate💖
1st...... Fr. Cursed Intro. The amount ideas i'm getting from the glitches in these games. Why is there still no voice acting? 6:08 That is one of my fav scenes in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Especially with the JP voices.
honestly, ive been taking it slow with pokemon Scarlet, i did the same thing with Zelda BotW and its really help me make the most out of the game, and i think that helps a lot, so many people especially content creators thats entire careers is pokemon, they always rush, to figure everything out. i personally havent had many glitches besides the "seeing under the world" glitch you had, but as the older fan i am, its not a big deal for me personally. great video, love your content and oh... "YOU RUINED MY CHILDHOOD!!!"
The next Pokemon games probably won’t be fully open world because of people saying this cam is a complete disaster when it’s not and that sucks if your a Pokemon fan
Ironically, this dosen't seem like Gamefreak or Nintendo's fault. It's The Pokemon Company's. They refused to delay the merch and media deadlines (the stuff that makes a majority of Pokemon's profit) which required BDSP, PLA and SV to be released in a certain (possibly quarterly) timeframe regardless of the human and reputational cost. It seems that Gamefreak, Creatures and Nintendo wanted to delay, but TPC pushed the original schedule through anyway, only relenting when they realized the merch and card sales based on PLA would decline if PLA was released as unfinished as it was. To take a line from biggering: If the customers are buying The money is multiplying The PR people lying And the Lawyers are denying! Who cares if some things (pokemon franchise) are dying? This is all so gratifying!
The most consistent big issue I’d bring up is Pokémon that are behind walls. Like, spawn into unreachable areas. You can still lock onto then to fight them, but I can imagine a lot of Pokémon being missed because of this. Strongest example to me was-I couldn’t find a Frigibax around center between Medali and Zapapico, but I noticed I could lock onto something in the walls- to this day I haven’t found a Frigibax there that wasn’t in the walls.
Im borrowing Scarlet rn and I remember a lot of people not liking the new pokemon, the terra abilities, etc etc. Sure, some of the pokemon are super lack luster (Looking at you, dundunsparce) or doesn't appeal to my preference, and of course there's a shit ton of glitches. However, the bad rep is so overexaggerated it's kind of funny and sad - My only gripe is that the terraforms look really silly/stupid and I can't change my actual outfits. Then again, I'm not the pickiest person when it comes to games.
The game’s story was surprisingly good and the characters themselves were decent to an extent, the Pokémon designs were hit and miss especially the starters such as the fire Roblox Alligator and High-Asf Jester Cat, Quaquavul took some time getting used to but he did grow on me and I do like him as a starter though I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t miss the awesome final starter evolutions that we got like with Greninja and Decidueye. I will freely admit though that Meowscarada herself is probably the second best starter after Quaquavul, if there’s one thing this game got right with both of them, it’s giving them such vibrant personalities.
Imma be real I'm kinda in the middle for these games While I did enjoy playing my copy of scarlet from my sv double pack From the three stories (even if I did spoil a bit for myself at the time I was still playing) the characters and Pokemon I still came across a few issues on the overworld (ie: clipping shadows,The frame rate dipping to name a few To be perfectly I'd say the games are a 5½ The five being the genuine good from the games Like the 3 stories, Characters,Music,the New monsters and the quality of life improvements with the decent overworld (textures could've used some work though) While the ½ represents the obvious issues like the performance issues, Glitches (apparently there's a chance for a memory leak as shown with the elite four and Geeta's team) and Kinda little post game with no real way to rematch the league (but that's probably lesser than the others) And the fact the game can Crash Does hurt it a little more Again I Did enjoy the games and think there are good elements but some could've been improved
Am I the only one who really did not care for this game’s story? I liked Arven and Nemona and Area Zero was solid but that’s literally the last hour of the game. The rest was meh at best, even for a Pokémon game. Team Star is a cool idea on paper but in execution they are uninteresting and just flat out unlikable. The grunts are a joke and Penny is a complete asshole. I feel like Gamefreak shouldn’t have made a character that you’re supposed to sympathize with a complete prick
Completed scarlet a week ago and right now working on violet and have to say... I like them alot, aside from the technical problems and the crashes (5 in scarlet, 2 in violet) i love the characters and like the story. I give it a solid 8 out of 10
As someone who thought FNaF Scurity Breach was a funny mess, SV is quite entertaining and the glitches (even though I never experienced really any of them) are honestly quite funny. Besides, unlike Security Breach, SV’s glitches don’t completely break the game like Freddy being able to open any door, Camera Canceling, walls with just no collision for no reason, etc.
Glitches that shouldn’t have been in the game at launch. Patches should be for small glitches and touch ups and NOT for game breaking and obvious glitches that could be seen after playing the game for 10 minutes that should’ve been fixed in the main development process and not AFTER release.
9:30 me when my almost dead Hyperdimension Neptunia party is about to face an enemy that not even considered strong but still can smack me to the game over screen.
At 2:40 conection about animal crossing in the US they use those images outside of the US it's still boy and girl I remember a twitter images were it showed from other countries/languages.
My take on scarlet and violet is story-wise it's fairly... safe. It doesn't take much risks or tread new ground that much when it comes to characters or rivals or villain teams. Even without the bugs, it has numerous flaws beyond what you touched on: The region is pretty bland and uninteresting, a wide open sandbox with nothing in it. Characters lack voice acting... still. Pokemon animations and camera work is still very lacking making them feel lifeless. The only real thing I thought was novel was literally something shoved in at the very back end of the game as if Nintendo was embarrassed to include it and sadly as it's included as a one-off encounter it doesn't really carry weight versus if it was something shown midway through the game and expanded during the second half. Also you ruined my childhood, but not really. Main thing is when I play pokemon fangames, despite their much more limited graphics and scope, they tend to feature stronger more interesting characters and story than most other games. Even the meme game that is Pokemon Clover has a more engaging story and characters.
From someone who has pretty much leaved the franchise since Gen 2 due to various reasons (not having the platforms and discovered other RPG series that interested me more than Pokémon) seeing this game in action is....... kinda bittersweet. The moment I saw Legends Arceus I bought it because I saw something different. This one...... ehhhhh kinda ? Still not enough to make me go back to the mainline series. Because even with some of the good stuff this game introduced the stuff that lacked and the obvious performance problems we've seen makes me think "this ain't worth my money" and also that either someone between GF, Pokémon Company and Nintendo needs to realize that they really need to polish this much more. But they are making a f ton of money anyway, they won't care that much. Not completely ignore but it won't be their main priority given how much they already gained with the games and the rest of the merchandise.
"also that either someone between GF, Pokémon Company and Nintendo needs to realize that they really need to polish this much more" Pretty, pretty much this. Like really, Game Freak should get more time to polish their games, and TPC and Nintendo should give a better time for GF to release said games.
You ruined my childhood. I really enjoyed your review it was a good balance between praising the game and critiquing it's faults. You were very fair and that made it a lot more bearable then people just shiting on the game. I'm glad you enjoyed team star a lot of people don't seem to like them for some reason. They are definitely one of my favourite evil teams.
Personally, I think the series is moving a little too fast from a visual perspective. If they slowed down a little, they could iron out all the kinks and make the games better. It's part of the reason I refunded sonic frontiers, it felt so half baked with a very disjointed story
Honestly, I can't really say I liked this game that much. I enjoyed it more than SwSh and maybe Let's Go, but that's about it. It just has so many things would and should be good, but just aren't. The open world gets kinda boring after a bit since it's mainly raids and a bunch of wild Pokémon. Towns are forgettable with just a few exceptions, but they all just feel like pitstops to grab a badge if they have a gym, buy groceries, then leave. Hell, Grushas' Town is just a Gym, not even a little ski lodge nearby. The stories are fine, nothing to write home about, but it works. The fact that their's no semblance of a battle tower in the game almost made me not buy it, only thing keeping my attention after learning about that was Nemona memes, which is funny because with characters like her and Geeta, you'd almost expect to see a battle something around, but no. The new Pokémon are good, though perhaps too good since I was having a hard time picking who I wanted on the team and ended up with 3 teams by the end. Soundtrack was also good, quite a few standout songs. Characters were pretty good, can't say I had a problem with anyone besides the gym leaders. Oddly enough, I didn't expect to like the elite four as much as I did, they're not too important, but they somehow left a good impression on me. The end is the highlight of the game to me, where everything good about the game is cranked up a notch and genuinely shows the potential this game had. It's just a damn shame the rest of the game leading up didn't keep that same quality. It just feels like the good parts of the game get spaced out by a pretty bare bones open world, which oddly enough was the selling point, and the good parts get spoiled by technical issues, leaving me feeling like I'm just wasting my time.
29:09 I didn't notice my Quaxly was female either, so I have a Quaxquaval named Donald that's a female. I found it funny. At least you had a chat to tell you tho, I found out I think around the terastilization tutorial with team star
This is especially sad for me because growing up, I never had anyone to play Pokémon with because I was a girl; boys didn't want to play with me because they felt I was invading their spaces and girls didn't play with me because they thought it was a boys only game (even though they watched the show), and I left the Pokémon fandom because of it. By the time it was becoming more normalized to have nerdy hobbies, the Gameboy devices were too advanced from my memory and still couldn't get back into it (I have difficulty adapting) but also I was in a high school that was very strict on taking away technologies. Pokémon GO got me back into it but I ended up moving to a rural area with very little pokestops that makes it even harder to play it. And now I've got this... I still enjoy the game; running around, collecting Pokémon, trading and playing with my boyfriend and our friends we meet up with at fan clubs but man, I can't seem to catch a break. 😞
I will say this. Scarlet & Violet are good games. But the game play leaves too much to be desired to be worth my time. They are not good enough for me to play. Starmie is also excluded from the Pok'emon set. That killed my interest in playing them completely.
I personally had very little trouble with glitches. I only got stuck in a wall once (and managed to wiggle out with some effort), and I only recall it crashing once. Never saw any freaky people-bending glitches, and my ride only disappeared from beneath me when he was too close to the camera. That said, I play with a physical copy on a switch lite and almost always solo/offline; the only time I played with another person was with my older brother... while we were in the same irl room together. And one thing I keep hearing is that most of the glitches happen in multiplayer mode, so maybe that's why I never ran into them?
Awesome review, it was very fun and intelligent. :) Honestly my biggest problem is the lack of level scaling. I don’t want to end up doing things at the wrong time because I get too weak or too strong. It honestly would not be that hard to do implement scaling and I hate that gamefreak just won’t do their level system properly. It really ruined things for my in BDSP and it will probably ruin things here it I ever get around to the gams.
Getting down to the nitty gritty! (Oops, the style of tics I use for the game LP channels I watch leaked onto here) As for a few of my own thoughts: 1. While I'm not bothered by the lack of level scaling, I can see how others would want it. I wouldn't like it if were a 1-to-1 match, though(That would be boring). Making the badges raise it is a good idea. 2. Voice acting for important scenes would have been nice(I remember a Vtuber voicing Iono while playing the 3rd gym, her voice was a great match). 3. The Tera-mechanic is fine. Also: Tera-raids have been far less frustrating than Dynamax was for me(Hunting Shiny Tapu Lele in Dynamax Adventures about broke me). Overall, I'm enjoying the games, but I have noticed how rough its performance is. While I haven't bumped into any particular glitch(Outside of camera adjustment for battles, if that counts), the FPS issue has stuck out. The games would have benefitted from some extra time and/or some extra help that have experience with open world mechanics. 28:42 - 29:15 - I usually don't get that lucky. Although it didn't matter with my choice, Sprigatito; since I had two names ready. Male: Gadabout , Female: Chloe (After Chloe Sakamata)
My biggest criticism is a combo of the split versions and the dex. They could make more people happy and cull dex(s) if they split versions by regions. SwSh and this gen are totally blurred into one in my mind, but what if that's how they culled the dex? Each region would be locked into their respective dex's and the game wouldn't be pay to win? I can see why they didn't do that lol.
One thing that bothers me about the character models are the fingernails. They're so brightly colored, it looks like nail polish, so I wore gloves the whole game.
In regerds to those thoughts at the end, I honestly think it's a case where it should be worth the trouble but in retrospect will probably just sound like blown smoke. It's been awhile since I've been on board with a Pokemon generation since it starts and it was only because after seeing the faults of the game in contrast to the amount of units sold it's where I just threw my hands and said "I give up". To that I think it leads to a terribly nihilistic outlook on the series, especially when I can agree that SV has qualities about it that I think are good. The stories aren't so self indulgent like SM and SwSh, the newer Pokemon designs are (for the most part) refreshing, they did a good job tieing the objectives with the open world albeit with jank balancing. The negatives such as the poor optimization, the lack of stuff to do after the game is gone, the fact that Dexit is just set in stone at this point has just built up to this. The game is pretty close to what I feared Pokemon would become after seeing fans hand wave Dexit, the graphical quality, general pacing and balance issues that SwSh presented which only playing that relatively recently just to get some transfer only mons ready only made me feel reassured on my outlook of that game when it came out. I'd argue some of these problems were also being built up across BDSP (I know ILCA was mainly responsible but Game Freak still had SOME hands in that games development) and even PLA since whilst praise is commonly given to PLA's general gameplay flow, some aspects of it were still pretty rough (the strong/agile system flow can feel inconsistent at times) along with the art direction coming off pretty muddy due to poor graphical presentation in a good handful of instances. Would I say it's because Game Freak doesn't care? Not entirely. The only thing I'd say they don't seem to care about is having the proper time and resources that don't exceed a 10 man group. I'm not sure where this philosophy of them came from but I recall that the heads and old guard at Game Freak have a kind of indie complex where they don't want to expand or accomidate for these newer games. With how despite there being new textures on the Pokemon, older mons still use the same ones they had since they were introduced in whatever 3D game they were in (barring some new sleep animations) and particular moves just no longer existing, I do get that they still care but I also can't help but find the indie complex statement all the more eerily convincing. I'd definitely imagine in a perfect world where the developers had proper time and polish, issues brought up such as dexit, poor graphical textures and performance wouldn't be much of an issue. These are issues that stem from the same stance the notions of these games being rushed come from and as much as things like this get handwaved I honestly can't help but to see actual merrit in bringing them up whenever they do arise. I like to think I've been a Pokemon fan for over a decade and a half but it's been especially hard to really say much good about recent games and SV is just a bitter reminder that despite the enjoyable aspects, the more problematic aspects are just going to build up more and more.
2:37 That's kinda a ridiculous statement, since the character selection has always been that way since Gen 6 and ditched the "Boy or Girl" bit since Gen 7. Just this time the Hairstyles are no longer Gender Locked. I agree that it was annoying in the past (and Iconic), but now Gamefreak believe we are competent enough to tell which one is Male and Female just by looking, it's not that deep.
You know it’s funny, despite all of its flaws (performance issues, bugs, least than stellar graphics, etc) I honestly enjoyed this installment more than at least the last three main installments of the franchise. It felt like the first meaningful step that the mainline games took in a long time, I wish they had made it a little more like Pokémon Legend: arceus but beside that, I really enjoy my time with this game. I hope with next mainline installment, they further improve the formula
honestly i want to live scarlet and violate but like with fnaf security breach it'll forever be known as botched mess of "funny haha" glitches and unfinished bullshit, regardless if there is a good game to be had no one is gonna care enough to give it a fair shot and thats the sad truth of not just the internet but gaming in general
I feel the way they handle time is the main problem. If we stuck with 2d pixels instead of 3d then these game would have been far better. Once you go 3d you need the time to actually make the game great.
I was devastated when this game ended up failing. It had so many ideas and concepts that I loved from the trailers. I remember gushing over Meowscarada’s design and looking forward to starting potentially the most exciting and ambitious game in the series for years. And instead what we got was an incomplete mess.
I'll be honest, I don't really want voice acting In Pokemon. If they did have it I'd want the option to toggle between English and Japanese. The games never had voice acting, and I'm fine with that. But God these games do need more time in the oven.
Under all the dirt this games got , i can see something , a GOOD STEP for pokemon .....the issues is that every game and Gen we hear this every single time , good step in this cicler Pokemon walk for years now We don't want A tier VA, even giblis like in Animal crossing il do , the fact the characters and pokemon have textures , but that's under ghlish grafics that look like a last gen console ... and ps even on Olde is shame issues , if Nintendo announce there do refunds that have to mean something for Pokemon and GF side And is not just pokemon is every high know IP that still expect to pay 60-70 bucks for less quality ... And i bet many know that the dev team still treat the IP as indie , i say is not at this scale , this 3 year cicler il eventuly be the downfall of pokemon in a shape or another. Kamen your not ruin my childhood...
@@kingrippzard2027 Which is annoying at times. Battle gimmicks I get because it will make battles too complicated if they're all carried over in every gens.
@@gamerhero9559 not even battle mechanics specifically. Dynamax and Z moves I’m glad are gone. Gonna suck when terrastilization goes in the next game, and most people still miss Megas. Just for example: all the quality of life features in Arceus. Or that online menus peaked in XY. Things like that.
Oh yeah I forgot to say, Idrc if a game has VA or not. I think the power of a game's story is how it presents itself WITHOUT the actors talking. Its why Undertale is so great at storytelling, because the music carries it despite 0 VA. As well, I think that I prefer no VA simply because of the fact that YOU the player control wtf they sound like meaning it could be funny. And in a gaming age in which players have little control, its appreciated. Also cus...I don't wanna hear "I LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE" or something along those lines being said a bajillion times or the VA being cringe AF
Visual and FPS aside. Man. This game was an absolute blast for me. This game besides PLA. Has made me complete the Pokédex. Which I never did because for me. It was a chore. And story wise. I definitely enjoyed it. I do definitely prefer Nemona over the rivals we had recently in the past. Arven is a sweet boy that needs love. And Penny is relatable. And the final ending at the end. Was a twist that I was glad to see.
I worked around the lack of world leveling by just using Pokémon of about the same level as wild Pokémon inhabiting the surrounding area of whichever challenge I was about to take.
Hearing the OP for GX gave me so much PTSD of binging that after my binge of DM, so thanks for that! Now onto the video, I'm glad that people are enjoying these games, but I was burned hard by Gen 8 and decided to skip this generation so I could just observe from the sidelines. Petty, but I know that. Whenever I saw people talk about these games before release, I could see the pitfalls that GF would fall into, and how things wouldn't go the way people wanted. "The cat is gonna be on all fours!" Nope, it's a furry "We have an Open world Pokemon game, it's gonna be amazing!" While yes it is open world, there is no LS, (from what I can tell) and it's unoptimized for the Switch "Terastalization is such a cool gimmick!" I'm not 100% sure how the gimmick works, but basically, it sounds like you get a weaker/stronger Arceus or Silvally and, whenever you want to, can give it the Plate/Memory so it can change it's type. As someone who played a lot of online Pokemon, I can say for a fact this sounds like an amazingly horrifying nightmare. The opponent can turn your check into a check of their own, and you'd have no way to counter it unless it's an obvious Meta pick. Not related to the games, but moreso towards competitive. What I never expected to see was a AAA game, from the highest earning series in the world, release a game that has the likelihood of being entirely unplayable from the lack of proper coding, power of the console, and optimization of the game. While I complained about no Z for the XY trilogy, no BF in ORAS, Dexit in SWSH, and the entirety of BDSP, it came from a place of genuine care of the quality and enjoyment of these games. Once L:A came out, hearing the hype and praise around the community over SV genuinely made me want myself to be wrong, no way they can screw up 3 mainline games in a row, right? ... Well, here we are, I was right. Am I happy? No, I thought I would be, but I was wrong there. I'm disappointed, and I feel bad for the people who got their hopes up. I didn't want people to feel burned like I felt I was, but, C'est la vie. I usually attribute "failure" of a game to one of three things, which are a Lack of Passion/Effort (343 Halo), a lack of time/resources (Cyberpunk 2077), and Corporate/Management interference. It seems like a combination of the first two is most likely in this case, and this seems to have become a recurring problem at GF once Shigeru Ohmori took over as head director of the series. I'll keep this extremely short, but I'm not saying that the employees at GF don't care about making a good Pokemon game, what I'm saying is that because of the complacency of Ohmori and the current state of rushing out games as the current generation is just releasing, it's about time that something like this happened. I don't really know how to end this, but thanks for the video, and I hope that GF and the execs over there get their act together and focus on quality over money. As I said before, I'm just observing, so I could be wrong, I would be welcome to anyone correcting me in my assumptions/arguments.
I think GF need to take time to look at what made SV good and instead of pumping out another game for next year, they instead take time to flesh out the game in order to not have its good stuff be overshadowed by bugs that can be easily fixed
I'm conflicted on level scaling. On one hand, there are times where I went into areas far overlevelled. On the other hand, one of the funnest parts of violet for me was trying to tackle the game slightly out of order and doing difficult stuff first. Level scaling would rob you of that choice, to try challenge yourself against tougher gyms/titans/whatever. (also incredibly hot take, I don't really want voice acting, I prefer reading text at my own pace and just imagine their voices in my head.)
I took on my first gym when I was level 30 something, last when I was level 70, I like killing stuff in a single hit, I don't like being robbed off of that satisfaction. I want to beat legue 4 with multiple level 100 pokemon.
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I mostly agree that they should have implemented a level scaling system, but a SIMPLE level scaling system is not a perfect solution either. This is bc players would not be able to challenge themselves by taking a harder path. The ideal solution is to implement a level scaling system but still have some battles be higher level than others regardless of the number of badges you have. For example, the level of the gym leaders will go up with the number of badges you have but Ryme will always be 3-5 levels higher than larry.
No.
God, I wished they had voice acting. But no, Game Freak just won't let us have that.😔
@@LunaP1 They don’t have those assets. It would cost too much to justify from a business perspective.
I don't like your new MC pics some of them look kind of too feminine...sorry it has nothing to do with the video. Sorry.
This is when the yearly releases finally caught up to them. People love to cry "unfinished" because of no Battle Frontier or expansive post-game, or because of Dexit. That's just a game having a lack of content you specifically want. THIS is what an unfinished game ACTUALLY looks like. Something being held together with spit and one drop of hot glue.
It's a shame too. I got Violet and it's some of the most fun I've had. I even started team building for competitive, something I've never done before.
I get annoyed when they said that this game had 3 years of development, cause it didn’t.
@@red14carbluebattleship76 It actually did.
@@plumali_youtube163 those 3 years were split between this game and legend arcues a game that actually looks like it had love,passion and time put into it despite its flaws. This game seemed more like gamefreak was like”S*** WE NEED A NEW GAME FOR THE ANIME AND TOY LINE AND WE ONLY HAVE LIKE 11 MONTHS UHHHHH JUST RELEASE THIS AND HOPE IT MAKES DOUGH”.
@@ragewireloki6213 Also you know, a pandemic also happened, which effected a lot of games.
@@red14carbluebattleship76 YEAH THAT TOO!
can i just say it is SO relieving to find someone who actually loves team star’s story. so many other youtubers completely disregard it and then call it bad despite them skipping over half the dialogue :( the story is actually engaging and the characters are so lovable, so i thank you for giving them the love they DESERVE
i started to read the dialogue and got bored after the 2nd guy
@@X3nophiliac that sounds like a personal problem
@@eattheranchnot really no. Just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s fantastic. Just because someone else doesn’t mean it’s their fault.
Your opinion is just that. An opinion it’s not a fact. Your opinion doesn’t have any more weight than someone else’s.
Just because everyone likes trash doesn’t mean trash is good.
@@X3nophiliacwhat I said accounts here too. :3 I’m not implying ya’ll were being toxic, I just am wanting to help assure a nice civil exchange. We can all agree to disagree on what we liked/disliked.
Because it is bad. All the bosses have the same rehashed garbage backstory about being bullied. Aside from designs and basic personalities they are essentially just copied and pasted. Not to mention Penny is just straight up unlikable and uninteresting. Team Star is absolutely pathetic
I really liked this game's story.
I never thought I'd have a personal attachment to a box art legendary that goes beyond "cool and strong mon" but the sandwich loving lizards with Toothless like personalities changed that.
I feel kinda bad for GF they've been accused of lazy, unambitious and mediocre developers since Sw/Sh but then they started working on two of the most ambitious and fun pokemon games yet and because they couldn't get more time people are shiting on them harder than before.
I'm not defending the state the games came out, it's embarrassing how many bugs and performance issues the game has, but I wouldn't call the developers lazy, unambitious or mediocre GF still has what it takes to make good pokemon games but not the time
i wouldnt call them lazy either, but if anything it does seem quite rushed
hasnt even been a year since legends arceus, one of their more ambitious and unique games launched so im sure noone wouldve cared had this released a few months later, which said few months couldve been crucial for fixing such bugs and performance issues
@@TakiyaTalon Yeah exactly
More reason Legends Arceus should have been the holiday release this year and Scarlet and Violet should have been the ones for next year!
I wouldn't let them off the hook so completely. I am a former game dev, and I find it mind boggling just how amateurish this game is. 11 months to make an open world switch game is crazy, but small teams have done far more with far less. I've seen university projects with 6 devs and ~10 months of development which, with about 3 or 4 more months in the cooker, would have been at this point. So I consider them to have the equivalent manpower of 9 competent but inexperienced developers, to judge by what they produced. But this is one of the oldest and most profitable franchises: they should be a sizable team with a huge amount of experience. Something is *very* wrong, I believe, on all levels.
@@some_random_wallaby All in his mind?
I guarantee that if Pokemon ever does have voice acting the Pokemon fandom will complain that it doesn't sound exactly how they wanted it too.
Isn't there, like, Pokémon generations, twilight wings, master sex?
I feel they're quite beloved.
All they have to do is not take 60 dollar's for a disgustingly optimized game that looks worse than free genshin impact on my Xiaomi phone.
For the quality we are getting this is at most 5 bucks.
Nah I disagree. LoZ breath of the wild was the first one with voice acting in the series and most people liked it
I dont see why it would be different for Pokemon
@@blackdragon3748 hey at least the game looks better then a ps1 game
I'll just say it outright: I don't see voice acting coming to the mainline games with the current way operations are run. Even with just English and Japanese, I do think that it would add too much organisational overhead. Who to voice and who not to left aside, you still need a localised translation somewhat earlier than you do now. Which will likely come with its own share of issues. But Pokémon is built on mass appeal, so only two voiced languages probably won't be enough. And once one European language (aside from English) is voiced, you have to do the others.
I'd love to see it, but I'll only believe it when it happens.
One thing that bothers me with the story is how it feels like Scarlet was the basis of the game and Violet was made afterwards. Since Koraidon feels more believable with eating food, licking people, and being territorial. And the idea of a ride pokemon being better with Miraidon since it actually uses reasonable transportation methods. And one thing I really dislike in this game is the Tera raids, they are so uninteresting and buggy. I don’t know how they even let that out in the state it is in and think people wouldn’t care or complain about it. I really like this game, but besides comp there isn’t much to do after beating the finale which really sucks, hopefully there will be more interesting things to do in the future like with SwSh
Also, the idea of prehistoric Pokémon hiding in uncharted lands makes a lot more sense than futuristic Pokémon.
Here’’s my opinion:
To Nintendo and TPC:
*GIVE THEM A YEAR OFF!!!*
correct. in 2020 MIYAMOTO SLEPT FOR LIKE 2 HOURS A DAY AND ONLY ATE LIKE CHEAP INSTANT NOODLES AND MICROWAVE MEALS WITH ALMOST NO NUTRIENTS OR CARBS WHICH WOULD BE ONLY SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN WHAT WE DID EXCEPT HE WAS STILL WORKING ALMOST NOSTOP FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
These games can be summarized as "It's great, BUT..."
in case you wanna know, the "styles" thing for your character is english version only, in other languages (or at least in spanish) it still asks if you're a boy or a girl
I have no idea why people see removing "Gender" is somehow a "progressive" thing. Your basically either a Boy now, or a Femboy. Not able to select any Girls Clothes has just set us back to one Gender while somehow claiming we have none. Its all so stupid and I cant wait for all this to just stop.
Localization strikes again!
I can’t believe they did that to us English speakers.
@@mitchryan257 For me personally this whole more then two Gender thing is dumb, but if its such a big deal to some players why not just have a Third Option for it? Instead we went from having two, back down to one, while somehow saying we gained more. This is some messed up Math if you ask me.
@@nobalkain624 agreed, although if they do add a third option, are they going to code all million “genders”? I don’t even think they should be giving preferential treatment to such a minority and it opens the door for others wanting preferential treatment, then that alienates others since it’s inherently biased.
4:57 Even setting aside the "highest grossing franchise" part, Pokemon Masters, a _mobile_ game has voice acting. There's no excuse for a main series to not have voice acting when a mobile spinoff has voice acting.
I mean Piers still didn't sing in that one event quest but still, it's more than the main series has.
Technically, Pokemon Master is handled by DeNa, where they held the voice acting themselves. Even New Pokemon Snap is made by Bandai Namco who have voice acting. Both Pokemon games are not made by GF. If GF did have voice acting in their old games...yeah, there is no excuse. However, they don't.
Im just waiting for legends arceus characters to get added
Wanna hear their voice now lol
SV will take some time
@@IvenHor123 Doesn't matter who made it, that's entirely beside the point.
@@No_pro_bro Bruh, they haven't even added Chase, Elaine or Green yet. TPC called these games "main series" but they _absolutely aren't._
@@mattwo7 No it's not. You do need to consider who's behind the production of the games, as well as what assets they have access to.
5:22 WOAH. Y'know, I really didnt care about not having voice acting, but this little clip really does make it THAT much better...and its fanmade...
for the postgame they could have a button that just says "battle nemona" since she apparently raised several different teams and it would be a good way to see her original team + make for good postgame content
they could even have penny "hack" your phone and add that button, knowing nemona she'd probably come running if [protag] asked her to battle
I was burned hard by sword and shield, a good bit my own fault cause the writing was clear as day, but still hurt.
So I decided to emulate this one at first and I saw a lot more care with added animation, better models, and better texture especial on the pokemon. Saw what they where doing with the open world saw the patch that improved the 5fps walk cycle of npcs and fixed some bugs and it really inspired me so i bought it and I've really been enjoying it so much so that I actually wanna play it again.
Its just so refreshing to get from this franchise and I can only hope they continue in this direction and studios learn to give game devs time to work on their projects
Defiantly a 7/10 from me just not enough water
3/10 from me good game ruined by fps going down so low i have to wait over 1 minute for a confused pokemon to do anything.
Funny enough ppl shit mostly on the story and by far this has been one of the best stories we had in a long time so i just think the pokemon fanbase cant tell whats good or bad XD
How were you burned hard from Sword and Shield. I played that game, felt it was one of the best games I played.
@@clarity2199I can put together a laundry list of Sword/Shield’s issues, but if you (somehow) managed to enjoy it that much, then more power to you.👌🏽At the very least, I did find the DLC quite solid, even it simply made an underwhelming game slightly less so.
@@clarity2199I’m Sorry But Sword/Shield Were Terrible , You Literally Need To Start Paying Attention To The Writing In These Games !
@@melvondrewhite2674Outside of like… Gen 5 and SV… does anyone really play Mainline Pokémon Games for the Plot?
Making the crystalization color coded wouldn't have worked really. Besides color blind people having issues there is the fact that there are 18 types who do have quite some overlap in terms of color. I mean Ice, Steel, Water and Dragon are all blue and psychic and fairy are both pink.
I'm pretty sure Steel is gray
Dragon leans into purple more
I feel like people forget Gen 7s story. I think it’s excellent and I loved it. (Specifically Sun and moon, not USUM). I’d say SV’s story is third place to BW and SM, but still great
24:45 Look at this man.
Look at the chad energy this man gives off. He's just strolling through a pokemon battle. no fear whatsoever.
Level scaling is the one thing that would have fixed so much. Because no matter what path you do or how you do it, you'll eventually out-level the other paths in one form or another.
Not really, many people can tell stories of cheesing fights where they were underleveled; its part of the fun.
@@Pikaclev Do you mean the player is underleveled?
@@randomduck8679 Yes.
there is no "No matter what" here, as you don't get too much xp from the story mode fights.
@Stephen George I'm glad other people are cheesing fights. I'm talking from a basic perspective. If I wander off and go exploring, fight the first titan, and then go to the first gym with most my team already nearing level 20, that's over-leveled.
As Manga said. A basic level scaling system would have made that much less an issue.
Professor Oak will forever be a based icon in the modern age.
I kinda wish that team star had more to do with the concept of locking PokeBalls that just sort of appears in the end game
Like since Penny's a super hacker she could have figured out how to make a device that locks trainer ID's and wanted to use them to teach bullies a lesson but ultimately didn't want to take away their Pokemon. However the rest of team star would become radicalized by the idea of them being able to choose who can and can't use Pokemon.
This way it introduces the locking concept sooner while also making Team Star an actual threat.
While that's a good idea... It would also be used against Team Star as well.
Actually, that concept of locking pokeballs would help other villainous teams, and screw them over at the same time.
@@bombtails how would it be used against them if they're the only ones that know how to do it?
@@pickedceasar1216 Let's say that someone manages to get into the main device that locks the trainer's IDs, and decides to screw the team by locking their trainer's IDs. This would prevent the team to use their mons, because of their own device being rigged to do so.
@@bombtails but how would someone get access if team star and Penny are the only ones that know how to do it? They could also make it so the locking device itself can only be used by certain trainer ID's
I could see a skeleton key get developed that bypasses all ID but that sounds like an endgame item or something only a main character should have
@@bombtails I feel like you're putting too much realism on a Pokemon plot
I for one love the art you make for your thumbnails.
Art is as everyone knows a way for people to express themselves.
And I for one can appreciate the work people do to make their work a little more interesting.
I am also for one don’t really mind if someone does something special for their thumbnails but I appreciate it nonetheless for their work.
And I really really love your art Kamen.
So I actually look forward what art you put out for your thumbnails and such.
As you all heard I believe you’re quite the artist.
Your art is way better than I can ever make.
So please, don’t mind what people say to you Kamen.
Express yourself as you see fit and enjoy yourself to the end.
I in the end love your art and would love to see u do a drawing stream sometime but by all means: Enjoy yourself, take your time, and express yourself freely.
And have a merry Christmas and a happy near year!
They're so shiny!
I think if Game Freak took a year off next year and then made a new game in 2024, they would have a pretty well polished game given how ambitious SV were.
I love the way you draw Meowscarada; she's so adorable! ♥️
Thank you :)
Same! I especially love how he drew her in the pokemon designs vid
I agree, Meowscarada is definitely up there among my favorite Starter Pokémon
It's an elegant Pokemon with a unique design lore; it is like, my second favorite starter. I love kitties.
If we ignore all those bugs, performance issues and ugly graphics, I still wouldn't call the game a "Masterpiece", not by any stretch.
Not counting those problems, Scarlet and Violet is still the bare mimimum for what a "just ok" turn based JRPG should be.
@Mane Wow, that is really condescending - Despite the issues graphically and mechanically, I still found them to have flaws, the fact that you had the gall to say that in this review that pointed out a lot of issues, that really says a lot about you.
@Matias and what exactly is 'bare minimum' for you? What's the qualifier here?
@@HeeHungersForHos He does have a point, thought. Matias is saying that SV is still the bare minimum for what a "just ok" turn-based JRPG should be, but he doesn't tell what are the things that should be improved. He could say "the area is kinda dead, give it some life by adding more stuff", or "add some minigames that can improve the experience". Things that are simple, but add more spice to a game.
"You ruined my childhood"
Okay now on to my actual comment, I think you're 100% spot on with this critique of the game and aside from fixing all the glitches if I had to make one alteration to the game it would be to have the Pokemon actually closing in to make contact like they did in Legends Arceus, and the level scaling, but other than that I can't really think of much... I haven't played the game myself but I love the potential it has for great storytelling. The primary reason I haven't bought it is because I was just too burned on certain past entries and I need some time to recover...
I don't like the argument that glitches "aren't bad" when they're funny and not intrusive. In saying that, you're literally telling Gamefreak that their game can be a buggy mess as long as it's still playable. Ideally, a game will have little to no glitches whatsoever, and players should have to try very hard to find the glitches it does have. I shouldn't be in the middle of a Pokemon battle and see a bodiless and eyeless head phase through my opponent's Pokemon. Yeah, it technically doesn't affect the gameplay, but I still don't want to see it.
Good thing I didn't make that argument.
@@Mangakamenway too many people do, though. I’ve seen people who bought the game just to laugh at the glitches.
@@Mangakamen it’s still an implication though you have to admit. If the fans don’t mind it much what real incentive is there to work on it.
It took me about 50 hours to pretty much catch every pokemon in the game barring trade evolutions, Scarlet exclusives and Palizen.
Just missing the 4 legendaries.
I got the other starters from surprise trades
I often feel like generation 7 is dismissed way too often when talking about great Pokemon stories. The entirety of everything relating to the Aether Foundation was just one of the best stories in the series (at least in base Sun and Moon), and people who shove off Hau as just another happy go lucky rival when I feel like there was more nuance to him than what people give him credit for (especially in USUM) only to say Hop is one of the best rivals when he's just Hau but again... idk, I feel like too many dismiss Gen 7 because people dont enjoy how dialogue heavy it is but like... thats what a story is? You can show more with less I get it, but Generation 7 has one of the best stories next to Gen 5 and now Gen 9
The game is single-handedly held up by clodsire.
The new best Pokémon
I disagree.
Wrong, it is Tinkerton
@@Droidking13 I liked tinkerton until I saw that attack stat.
I’m actually interested in getting this compared to Sword and Shield which lost my interest due to the whole NatDex fiasco. I will get it after some patches.
I think we can all agree that they should stop yearly releases. At most I’d be fine with DLC for Scarlet and Violet, BDSP, Legends Arceus, and/or even Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee rather than a new game for 2023-2024. The state of SV upon release is proof of that.
the only reason why i think they still will do the yearly releases is because of how much sword and shield made. those games basicly got to near red and blue number of sales numbers and dollars. and gen 8 was a whole heap of mess of contraveries.
The entire national dex controversy was stupid in my eyes as it was going to happen eventually, at some point it becomes too much.
The line lays somewhere in-between, imo. Nintendo/gamefreak/whathaveyou has the resources for us to receive excellent new games as well as remasters. Yet clearly they haven't been able to use those resources effectively. If it means substantially better games, I'm happy to wait. I just think they have the resources to give us both meaningful sequels as well as great sequels/remakes. The difference between ORAS and BDSP is borderline vomit inducing, but the existence of ORAS itself proves they can give us both. We buy whatever they feed us, so it's plenty possible that has led to complacency on the development end.
SV fixed a lot of the issues I had with recent Pokemon games to be honest. Pokemon was always the type of game to me that let's me "make my own story" so to speak - the types of mons you add to your team, the blank slate character, the very sparcely told story. All of that helped in me feeling like I'm making my own adventure all through Gen1 to 3 - and even 4 and 5 still had this. It also made the games very replayable. As the games got more and more scenes to flesh out other characters though, that vastly decreased - Gen7 is the peak of this problem for me and SwSh actually kind of held back on it. SV, however, is the first Pokemon game that somehow manages to have the unbstructive story of the first couple gens married with characters I actually care about. Arven's story was great, and the Team Star members, as clumsily as their story is told, all had some element I could latch onto. That's leaps and bounds beyond other Pokemon games.
Coupled with the fact that you can catch a huge variety of mons at any point and especially at the start, these games really are everything I need from a Pokemon game and as someone who thought he was finally growing out of it, that's a pretty great feeling. It's just a shame the games feel incredibly rushed in other areas. In a perfect world, this generation would have had another year or so to iron out the tech issues and add actual interior to houses, but I guess corporate be corporate. I'm just surprised how much they managed to overhaul in the tight time frame.
I like battle crazy Nemona, she is one of my favourite rivals so far tbh.
I think it would be an amazing feature if we could rebattle her with her different teams and competitive strategies, like, give her a rain or sand team, a double battle tatsugiri and the big one, and maybe one with Pokemon from other regions only. That would mean a bit more work, but in my opinion it would make for such an entertaining feature that would keep people going back to the game even after they finish what they want to do.
I actually quite like all of the side characters we got this generation
Call it wishful thinking, but I'm hoping GameFreak would ditch the yearly releases, or maybe even have them team up with another game company like Bandai Namco.
You're not fooling me with that Eevee backpack Futaba! I KNOW IT'S YOU!!!
I always thought that Pokémon scarlet and violet should’ve came out in 2024
I agree with that sentiment, at least in fall of 2023 year wise, and I’m sure a lot of people also feel the same way. These games should not have come out when they did
I'm pretty sure Dendra and Tulip have a relationship of some sort.
They both have a medicham, and Dendra seems like the type of friend to do anything for Tulip, but seems less than confident about explaining it to us duong the Alfornada Gym test.
My experience with PKMN will forever not be bizarre, because of how I mostly know about it from the anime and its fans. I've tried the games multiple times, and usually dropped them; with emerald being the only one I've gotten close into. I wouldn't really consider myself a fan, yet I still find myself enjoying the designs and even knowing about what's going on in the community (as much as that knowledge is usually forced onto me).
So, watching this video was pretty damn interesting, because it does kinda confirm that these games do seem to be great, but were have issues due to being rushed out way too hard bc of typical business shit. Kinda sucks, cause that seem to also be the same thing that ended up happening with another pretty major release (Sonic Frontiers).
Anyway, I would be lying if I didn't want to buy this game, especially after hearing the praise it has gotten. I just fear that i'll end up falling back on that PKMN curse of mine and just drop it halfway through.
Oh, btw.: YOU RUINED MY CHILDHOOD!
One nice thing about the issues with Gen 9 stemming almost entirely from the glitches is that they can be patched out in the future, unlike the core gameplay. Not saying they will do this, but it’s not beyond possibility
I absolutely adore these games and I find bugs absolutely hilarious to find they don't bother me one bit especially since it didn't put a dampener on the gameplay all I got issues were with: my hat disappearing, climbing up terrain backwards (it's not a bug it's a feature), and a couple crashes but thank goodness for auto saves, all in all for the first advent into a fully open world game it's quite astonishing how polished it is. Although I know most of the bugs were in co op so there's that i played solo.
It has Arven in it 10/10
the only glitches i really had were some frame drops and weird shadowing and honestly....that still didn't really detract from my enjoyment all too much. This game's story full stop rivals black and white. I never cared about the story and characters in a Pokémon game the more i do here. The ending questline alone blew me away. I truly think if Pokémon can keep and refine this direction for games, we truly have a bright future for this franchise. But dear god please give them more time in the oven.
I don't think flat level scaling is a good idea. I'd have it be a base level that's slightly higher for the ones further up the progression ladder if you wanted to go ahead and do a harder one first. Let's say that the second gym leader has a flat level of 13 unlike the first one which was 8. With level scaling, you can go to the higher one for slightly higher difficulty, but then the previous one gets bumped up to the same level with scaling.
Another example of corporate meddling/rushing a game out ruining what could be a good, maybe great game. Even if they fix it now, it will have that scar and stain that other bad games have and lost goodwill because of it.
First time watcher! But I loved your take on the game. And your critiques of it too. Especially that fashion should have been unlocked with team star badges. It would have been the great balance. Exploration unlocked with Arvin. Fashion unlocked with Penny. And Pokémon obedience with gym badges/Pokémon league. School classes could have unlocked certain things too. Like berry farming, picnic breeding, a passive tera shard farm/grinding feature.
Koridon has nothing going on in his head but SANDWICH. I love it.
What's nice is the amount of failsafes in the game. There's a spot near Porto Mariana where you can get stuck in an endless falling animation which would be a soft lock, if not for the fact that the game can pick up when you get stuck and teleport you to a safe area.
Also this game has backup saves.
Makes you wonder if they are there because the devs didn’t have enough time to fix the bugs OR didn’t want to
@@Isuream6331 who knows, the devs might have known that tpc won't allow the game to be delayed
Many of the JoJo characters wear their uniforms as their main outfits for the whole series
Josuke wears several pins, leaves the top part unbuttoned and a yellow shirt with two zippers underneath
Okuyasu straight up doesn't even use the school blazer, just something that kinda resembles it and attaches several different pins as well, he even wears two separate belts that serve no purpose other than looking cool
Jotaro doesn't even bother buttoning his blazer at all and he also wears a belt just for the purpose of it looking cool... Oh, and yeah, he also snapped the 8-link golden chain to the collar for no reason other than, again, looking cool
There's also the simpler ones, like Kakyoin just wearing the cherry earrings, but Pokemon does fine in letting you were hats and stuff
And no, I'm not counting Koichi wearing a uniform with a different color in the anime, that's more to do with Araki not really giving anything a definitive color
All their uniforms look different, even for the people that are meant to go to the same school, even if we could say Koichi's is kinda bland
I love your response to Scarlet and Violet. I had no problem with it except the floor disappearing and my game crashing once but other then that it’s an awesome game and I also think they should’ve added more to the uniform then just the 4 we had by default, hopefully next generation or dlc (if they will implement this) they’ll add more stuff we can do or try on
One small thing I noticed playing the game is during the path of legends when arven gives mabosstiff a piece of the sandwich he actually breaks off a piece visually and then puts it up to mabosstiff's mouth (this is a 12:39 in the video btw). This isn't all that crazy at first but in SwSh the screen would probably fucking cut to black or something instead of animating it. SwSh had so many moments where the screen would cut to black when something was happening. Towards the end of SwSh sonia had her yamper shock the elevator buttons so they would function but instead of showing yamper moving and using a move on the elevator the screen faded to black, a little sound was played and then it went to normal. Just the fact that they animated something small like a sandwich in Scarlet and Violet vs literally one gen ago when they wouldn't even animate a yamper shocking an elevator or give pokemon a proper turning animation (they just played the pokemon's walking animation while it awkwardly rotated on the spot.) shows how much they were really trying to improve the games in small ways going into gen 9.
finally a take i agree with!! i couldn't even convince my gf to keep playing it with me, even though i kept telling her the glitches were minimal and i was still having a really good time as well as a solid pokemon experience. i even shiny hunted my whole team!! thank you for giving those of us who still love these games while acknowledging their flaws a voice amongst the overwhelming hate💖
1st...... Fr. Cursed Intro.
The amount ideas i'm getting from the glitches in these games.
Why is there still no voice acting?
6:08 That is one of my fav scenes in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Especially with the JP voices.
honestly, ive been taking it slow with pokemon Scarlet, i did the same thing with Zelda BotW and its really help me make the most out of the game, and i think that helps a lot, so many people especially content creators thats entire careers is pokemon, they always rush, to figure everything out. i personally havent had many glitches besides the "seeing under the world" glitch you had, but as the older fan i am, its not a big deal for me personally. great video, love your content and oh... "YOU RUINED MY CHILDHOOD!!!"
The next Pokemon games probably won’t be fully open world because of people saying this cam is a complete disaster when it’s not and that sucks if your a Pokemon fan
Ironically, this dosen't seem like Gamefreak or Nintendo's fault.
It's The Pokemon Company's.
They refused to delay the merch and media deadlines (the stuff that makes a majority of Pokemon's profit) which required BDSP, PLA and SV to be released in a certain (possibly quarterly) timeframe regardless of the human and reputational cost.
It seems that Gamefreak, Creatures and Nintendo wanted to delay, but TPC pushed the original schedule through anyway, only relenting when they realized the merch and card sales based on PLA would decline if PLA was released as unfinished as it was.
To take a line from biggering:
If the customers are buying
The money is multiplying
The PR people lying
And the Lawyers are denying!
Who cares if some things (pokemon franchise) are dying?
This is all so gratifying!
The most consistent big issue I’d bring up is Pokémon that are behind walls. Like, spawn into unreachable areas. You can still lock onto then to fight them, but I can imagine a lot of Pokémon being missed because of this.
Strongest example to me was-I couldn’t find a Frigibax around center between Medali and Zapapico, but I noticed I could lock onto something in the walls- to this day I haven’t found a Frigibax there that wasn’t in the walls.
Im borrowing Scarlet rn and I remember a lot of people not liking the new pokemon, the terra abilities, etc etc. Sure, some of the pokemon are super lack luster (Looking at you, dundunsparce) or doesn't appeal to my preference, and of course there's a shit ton of glitches. However, the bad rep is so overexaggerated it's kind of funny and sad - My only gripe is that the terraforms look really silly/stupid and I can't change my actual outfits. Then again, I'm not the pickiest person when it comes to games.
The game’s story was surprisingly good and the characters themselves were decent to an extent, the Pokémon designs were hit and miss especially the starters such as the fire Roblox Alligator and High-Asf Jester Cat, Quaquavul took some time getting used to but he did grow on me and I do like him as a starter though I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t miss the awesome final starter evolutions that we got like with Greninja and Decidueye.
I will freely admit though that Meowscarada herself is probably the second best starter after Quaquavul, if there’s one thing this game got right with both of them, it’s giving them such vibrant personalities.
Imma be real I'm kinda in the middle for these games
While I did enjoy playing my copy of scarlet from my sv double pack
From the three stories (even if I did spoil a bit for myself at the time I was still playing) the characters and Pokemon
I still came across a few issues on the overworld (ie: clipping shadows,The frame rate dipping to name a few
To be perfectly I'd say the games are a 5½
The five being the genuine good from the games
Like the 3 stories, Characters,Music,the New monsters and the quality of life improvements with the decent overworld (textures could've used some work though)
While the ½ represents the obvious issues like the performance issues, Glitches (apparently there's a chance for a memory leak as shown with the elite four and Geeta's team) and Kinda little post game with no real way to rematch the league (but that's probably lesser than the others)
And the fact the game can Crash
Does hurt it a little more
Again I Did enjoy the games and think there are good elements but some could've been improved
Am I the only one who really did not care for this game’s story? I liked Arven and Nemona and Area Zero was solid but that’s literally the last hour of the game. The rest was meh at best, even for a Pokémon game. Team Star is a cool idea on paper but in execution they are uninteresting and just flat out unlikable. The grunts are a joke and Penny is a complete asshole. I feel like Gamefreak shouldn’t have made a character that you’re supposed to sympathize with a complete prick
Completed scarlet a week ago and right now working on violet and have to say... I like them alot, aside from the technical problems and the crashes (5 in scarlet, 2 in violet) i love the characters and like the story. I give it a solid 8 out of 10
As someone who thought FNaF Scurity Breach was a funny mess, SV is quite entertaining and the glitches (even though I never experienced really any of them) are honestly quite funny. Besides, unlike Security Breach, SV’s glitches don’t completely break the game like Freddy being able to open any door, Camera Canceling, walls with just no collision for no reason, etc.
Hopefully the glitches get patched so we can enjoy the game for what it is.
Glitches that shouldn’t have been in the game at launch. Patches should be for small glitches and touch ups and NOT for game breaking and obvious glitches that could be seen after playing the game for 10 minutes that should’ve been fixed in the main development process and not AFTER release.
@@ragewireloki6213 for what it’s worth, all I’ve run into so far have been graphical. I’ve not run into any game breaking bugs so far.
@@JIreland1992 Me nether.
9:30 me when my almost dead Hyperdimension Neptunia party is about to face an enemy that not even considered strong but still can smack me to the game over screen.
At 2:40 conection about animal crossing in the US they use those images outside of the US it's still boy and girl I remember a twitter images were it showed from other countries/languages.
My take on scarlet and violet is story-wise it's fairly... safe. It doesn't take much risks or tread new ground that much when it comes to characters or rivals or villain teams. Even without the bugs, it has numerous flaws beyond what you touched on: The region is pretty bland and uninteresting, a wide open sandbox with nothing in it. Characters lack voice acting... still. Pokemon animations and camera work is still very lacking making them feel lifeless. The only real thing I thought was novel was literally something shoved in at the very back end of the game as if Nintendo was embarrassed to include it and sadly as it's included as a one-off encounter it doesn't really carry weight versus if it was something shown midway through the game and expanded during the second half.
Also you ruined my childhood, but not really. Main thing is when I play pokemon fangames, despite their much more limited graphics and scope, they tend to feature stronger more interesting characters and story than most other games. Even the meme game that is Pokemon Clover has a more engaging story and characters.
Sadly, I feel this will be the last Gen I'll take part in.
From someone who has pretty much leaved the franchise since Gen 2 due to various reasons (not having the platforms and discovered other RPG series that interested me more than Pokémon) seeing this game in action is....... kinda bittersweet. The moment I saw Legends Arceus I bought it because I saw something different. This one...... ehhhhh kinda ? Still not enough to make me go back to the mainline series. Because even with some of the good stuff this game introduced the stuff that lacked and the obvious performance problems we've seen makes me think "this ain't worth my money" and also that either someone between GF, Pokémon Company and Nintendo needs to realize that they really need to polish this much more. But they are making a f ton of money anyway, they won't care that much. Not completely ignore but it won't be their main priority given how much they already gained with the games and the rest of the merchandise.
"also that either someone between GF, Pokémon Company and Nintendo needs to realize that they really need to polish this much more"
Pretty, pretty much this. Like really, Game Freak should get more time to polish their games, and TPC and Nintendo should give a better time for GF to release said games.
Here's hoping Nemona's original team will be in DLC
My theory was that they originally thought about voice acting an just decided not to because of time restraints.
You ruined my childhood. I really enjoyed your review it was a good balance between praising the game and critiquing it's faults. You were very fair and that made it a lot more bearable then people just shiting on the game.
I'm glad you enjoyed team star a lot of people don't seem to like them for some reason. They are definitely one of my favourite evil teams.
Personally, I think the series is moving a little too fast from a visual perspective. If they slowed down a little, they could iron out all the kinks and make the games better. It's part of the reason I refunded sonic frontiers, it felt so half baked with a very disjointed story
when small niche japanese titles can have both english and japanese voice acting (decent ones at that) i cant see why we couldnt have that option
Honestly, I can't really say I liked this game that much. I enjoyed it more than SwSh and maybe Let's Go, but that's about it. It just has so many things would and should be good, but just aren't. The open world gets kinda boring after a bit since it's mainly raids and a bunch of wild Pokémon. Towns are forgettable with just a few exceptions, but they all just feel like pitstops to grab a badge if they have a gym, buy groceries, then leave. Hell, Grushas' Town is just a Gym, not even a little ski lodge nearby. The stories are fine, nothing to write home about, but it works. The fact that their's no semblance of a battle tower in the game almost made me not buy it, only thing keeping my attention after learning about that was Nemona memes, which is funny because with characters like her and Geeta, you'd almost expect to see a battle something around, but no. The new Pokémon are good, though perhaps too good since I was having a hard time picking who I wanted on the team and ended up with 3 teams by the end. Soundtrack was also good, quite a few standout songs. Characters were pretty good, can't say I had a problem with anyone besides the gym leaders. Oddly enough, I didn't expect to like the elite four as much as I did, they're not too important, but they somehow left a good impression on me. The end is the highlight of the game to me, where everything good about the game is cranked up a notch and genuinely shows the potential this game had. It's just a damn shame the rest of the game leading up didn't keep that same quality. It just feels like the good parts of the game get spaced out by a pretty bare bones open world, which oddly enough was the selling point, and the good parts get spoiled by technical issues, leaving me feeling like I'm just wasting my time.
29:09 I didn't notice my Quaxly was female either, so I have a Quaxquaval named Donald that's a female. I found it funny. At least you had a chat to tell you tho, I found out I think around the terastilization tutorial with team star
This is especially sad for me because growing up, I never had anyone to play Pokémon with because I was a girl; boys didn't want to play with me because they felt I was invading their spaces and girls didn't play with me because they thought it was a boys only game (even though they watched the show), and I left the Pokémon fandom because of it.
By the time it was becoming more normalized to have nerdy hobbies, the Gameboy devices were too advanced from my memory and still couldn't get back into it (I have difficulty adapting) but also I was in a high school that was very strict on taking away technologies.
Pokémon GO got me back into it but I ended up moving to a rural area with very little pokestops that makes it even harder to play it.
And now I've got this...
I still enjoy the game; running around, collecting Pokémon, trading and playing with my boyfriend and our friends we meet up with at fan clubs but man, I can't seem to catch a break. 😞
I will say this. Scarlet & Violet are good games. But the game play leaves too much to be desired to be worth my time.
They are not good enough for me to play. Starmie is also excluded from the Pok'emon set.
That killed my interest in playing them completely.
I personally had very little trouble with glitches. I only got stuck in a wall once (and managed to wiggle out with some effort), and I only recall it crashing once. Never saw any freaky people-bending glitches, and my ride only disappeared from beneath me when he was too close to the camera.
That said, I play with a physical copy on a switch lite and almost always solo/offline; the only time I played with another person was with my older brother... while we were in the same irl room together. And one thing I keep hearing is that most of the glitches happen in multiplayer mode, so maybe that's why I never ran into them?
Awesome review, it was very fun and intelligent. :)
Honestly my biggest problem is the lack of level scaling. I don’t want to end up doing things at the wrong time because I get too weak or too strong. It honestly would not be that hard to do implement scaling and I hate that gamefreak just won’t do their level system properly. It really ruined things for my in BDSP and it will probably ruin things here it I ever get around to the gams.
Ah but the problem with level scaling is that you don’t feel the sense of growth you get in RPG’s.
Getting down to the nitty gritty! (Oops, the style of tics I use for the game LP channels I watch leaked onto here)
As for a few of my own thoughts:
1. While I'm not bothered by the lack of level scaling, I can see how others would want it. I wouldn't like it if were a 1-to-1 match, though(That would be boring). Making the badges raise it is a good idea.
2. Voice acting for important scenes would have been nice(I remember a Vtuber voicing Iono while playing the 3rd gym, her voice was a great match).
3. The Tera-mechanic is fine. Also: Tera-raids have been far less frustrating than Dynamax was for me(Hunting Shiny Tapu Lele in Dynamax Adventures about broke me).
Overall, I'm enjoying the games, but I have noticed how rough its performance is. While I haven't bumped into any particular glitch(Outside of camera adjustment for battles, if that counts), the FPS issue has stuck out. The games would have benefitted from some extra time and/or some extra help that have experience with open world mechanics.
28:42 - 29:15 - I usually don't get that lucky. Although it didn't matter with my choice, Sprigatito; since I had two names ready.
Male: Gadabout , Female: Chloe (After Chloe Sakamata)
My biggest criticism is a combo of the split versions and the dex. They could make more people happy and cull dex(s) if they split versions by regions. SwSh and this gen are totally blurred into one in my mind, but what if that's how they culled the dex? Each region would be locked into their respective dex's and the game wouldn't be pay to win? I can see why they didn't do that lol.
15:55 When I was younger, I got into a fight with a bully and was suspended but the bully wasn't. I emphasize heavily with Team Star.
One thing that bothers me about the character models are the fingernails. They're so brightly colored, it looks like nail polish, so I wore gloves the whole game.
In regerds to those thoughts at the end, I honestly think it's a case where it should be worth the trouble but in retrospect will probably just sound like blown smoke. It's been awhile since I've been on board with a Pokemon generation since it starts and it was only because after seeing the faults of the game in contrast to the amount of units sold it's where I just threw my hands and said "I give up".
To that I think it leads to a terribly nihilistic outlook on the series, especially when I can agree that SV has qualities about it that I think are good. The stories aren't so self indulgent like SM and SwSh, the newer Pokemon designs are (for the most part) refreshing, they did a good job tieing the objectives with the open world albeit with jank balancing. The negatives such as the poor optimization, the lack of stuff to do after the game is gone, the fact that Dexit is just set in stone at this point has just built up to this. The game is pretty close to what I feared Pokemon would become after seeing fans hand wave Dexit, the graphical quality, general pacing and balance issues that SwSh presented which only playing that relatively recently just to get some transfer only mons ready only made me feel reassured on my outlook of that game when it came out.
I'd argue some of these problems were also being built up across BDSP (I know ILCA was mainly responsible but Game Freak still had SOME hands in that games development) and even PLA since whilst praise is commonly given to PLA's general gameplay flow, some aspects of it were still pretty rough (the strong/agile system flow can feel inconsistent at times) along with the art direction coming off pretty muddy due to poor graphical presentation in a good handful of instances.
Would I say it's because Game Freak doesn't care? Not entirely. The only thing I'd say they don't seem to care about is having the proper time and resources that don't exceed a 10 man group. I'm not sure where this philosophy of them came from but I recall that the heads and old guard at Game Freak have a kind of indie complex where they don't want to expand or accomidate for these newer games. With how despite there being new textures on the Pokemon, older mons still use the same ones they had since they were introduced in whatever 3D game they were in (barring some new sleep animations) and particular moves just no longer existing, I do get that they still care but I also can't help but find the indie complex statement all the more eerily convincing.
I'd definitely imagine in a perfect world where the developers had proper time and polish, issues brought up such as dexit, poor graphical textures and performance wouldn't be much of an issue. These are issues that stem from the same stance the notions of these games being rushed come from and as much as things like this get handwaved I honestly can't help but to see actual merrit in bringing them up whenever they do arise.
I like to think I've been a Pokemon fan for over a decade and a half but it's been especially hard to really say much good about recent games and SV is just a bitter reminder that despite the enjoyable aspects, the more problematic aspects are just going to build up more and more.
The intro just keeps reminding me... THE GAMES NEED VOICE ACTING!
2:37 That's kinda a ridiculous statement, since the character selection has always been that way since Gen 6 and ditched the "Boy or Girl" bit since Gen 7. Just this time the Hairstyles are no longer Gender Locked. I agree that it was annoying in the past (and Iconic), but now Gamefreak believe we are competent enough to tell which one is Male and Female just by looking, it's not that deep.
You know it’s funny, despite all of its flaws (performance issues, bugs, least than stellar graphics, etc) I honestly enjoyed this installment more than at least the last three main installments of the franchise. It felt like the first meaningful step that the mainline games took in a long time, I wish they had made it a little more like Pokémon Legend: arceus but beside that, I really enjoy my time with this game. I hope with next mainline installment, they further improve the formula
honestly i want to live scarlet and violate but like with fnaf security breach it'll forever be known as botched mess of "funny haha" glitches and unfinished bullshit, regardless if there is a good game to be had no one is gonna care enough to give it a fair shot and thats the sad truth of not just the internet but gaming in general
I feel the way they handle time is the main problem. If we stuck with 2d pixels instead of 3d then these game would have been far better. Once you go 3d you need the time to actually make the game great.
I was devastated when this game ended up failing. It had so many ideas and concepts that I loved from the trailers. I remember gushing over Meowscarada’s design and looking forward to starting potentially the most exciting and ambitious game in the series for years. And instead what we got was an incomplete mess.
I'll be honest, I don't really want voice acting In Pokemon. If they did have it I'd want the option to toggle between English and Japanese. The games never had voice acting, and I'm fine with that. But God these games do need more time in the oven.
Under all the dirt this games got , i can see something , a GOOD STEP for pokemon .....the issues is that every game and Gen we hear this every single time , good step in this cicler Pokemon walk for years now
We don't want A tier VA, even giblis like in Animal crossing il do , the fact the characters and pokemon have textures , but that's under ghlish grafics that look like a last gen console ... and ps even on Olde is shame issues , if Nintendo announce there do refunds that have to mean something for Pokemon and GF side
And is not just pokemon is every high know IP that still expect to pay 60-70 bucks for less quality ...
And i bet many know that the dev team still treat the IP as indie , i say is not at this scale , this 3 year cicler il eventuly be the downfall of pokemon in a shape or another.
Kamen your not ruin my childhood...
The gripes I have with how many great features they just don’t carry over in between games is immense at this point.
@@kingrippzard2027 Which is annoying at times. Battle gimmicks I get because it will make battles too complicated if they're all carried over in every gens.
@@gamerhero9559 not even battle mechanics specifically. Dynamax and Z moves I’m glad are gone. Gonna suck when terrastilization goes in the next game, and most people still miss Megas. Just for example: all the quality of life features in Arceus. Or that online menus peaked in XY. Things like that.
Oh yeah I forgot to say, Idrc if a game has VA or not. I think the power of a game's story is how it presents itself WITHOUT the actors talking. Its why Undertale is so great at storytelling, because the music carries it despite 0 VA. As well, I think that I prefer no VA simply because of the fact that YOU the player control wtf they sound like meaning it could be funny. And in a gaming age in which players have little control, its appreciated.
Also cus...I don't wanna hear "I LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE" or something along those lines being said a bajillion times or the VA being cringe AF
Visual and FPS aside. Man. This game was an absolute blast for me. This game besides PLA. Has made me complete the Pokédex. Which I never did because for me. It was a chore. And story wise. I definitely enjoyed it. I do definitely prefer Nemona over the rivals we had recently in the past. Arven is a sweet boy that needs love. And Penny is relatable. And the final ending at the end. Was a twist that I was glad to see.
I worked around the lack of world leveling by just using Pokémon of about the same level as wild Pokémon inhabiting the surrounding area of whichever challenge I was about to take.
Hearing the OP for GX gave me so much PTSD of binging that after my binge of DM, so thanks for that!
Now onto the video, I'm glad that people are enjoying these games, but I was burned hard by Gen 8 and decided to skip this generation so I could just observe from the sidelines.
Petty, but I know that.
Whenever I saw people talk about these games before release, I could see the pitfalls that GF would fall into, and how things wouldn't go the way people wanted.
"The cat is gonna be on all fours!"
Nope, it's a furry
"We have an Open world Pokemon game, it's gonna be amazing!"
While yes it is open world, there is no LS, (from what I can tell) and it's unoptimized for the Switch
"Terastalization is such a cool gimmick!"
I'm not 100% sure how the gimmick works, but basically, it sounds like you get a weaker/stronger Arceus or Silvally and, whenever you want to, can give it the Plate/Memory so it can change it's type. As someone who played a lot of online Pokemon, I can say for a fact this sounds like an amazingly horrifying nightmare. The opponent can turn your check into a check of their own, and you'd have no way to counter it unless it's an obvious Meta pick. Not related to the games, but moreso towards competitive.
What I never expected to see was a AAA game, from the highest earning series in the world, release a game that has the likelihood of being entirely unplayable from the lack of proper coding, power of the console, and optimization of the game.
While I complained about no Z for the XY trilogy, no BF in ORAS, Dexit in SWSH, and the entirety of BDSP, it came from a place of genuine care of the quality and enjoyment of these games. Once L:A came out, hearing the hype and praise around the community over SV genuinely made me want myself to be wrong, no way they can screw up 3 mainline games in a row, right?
...
Well, here we are, I was right.
Am I happy?
No, I thought I would be, but I was wrong there. I'm disappointed, and I feel bad for the people who got their hopes up. I didn't want people to feel burned like I felt I was, but, C'est la vie.
I usually attribute "failure" of a game to one of three things, which are a Lack of Passion/Effort (343 Halo), a lack of time/resources (Cyberpunk 2077), and Corporate/Management interference.
It seems like a combination of the first two is most likely in this case, and this seems to have become a recurring problem at GF once Shigeru Ohmori took over as head director of the series. I'll keep this extremely short, but I'm not saying that the employees at GF don't care about making a good Pokemon game, what I'm saying is that because of the complacency of Ohmori and the current state of rushing out games as the current generation is just releasing, it's about time that something like this happened.
I don't really know how to end this, but thanks for the video, and I hope that GF and the execs over there get their act together and focus on quality over money.
As I said before, I'm just observing, so I could be wrong, I would be welcome to anyone correcting me in my assumptions/arguments.
I think GF need to take time to look at what made SV good and instead of pumping out another game for next year, they instead take time to flesh out the game in order to not have its good stuff be overshadowed by bugs that can be easily fixed
Can we talk about how epic the final boss battle is in S/V tho??? Say what you will about the issues it has but that fight was AWESOME
That voice acted edit was so charming
I'm conflicted on level scaling.
On one hand, there are times where I went into areas far overlevelled.
On the other hand, one of the funnest parts of violet for me was trying to tackle the game slightly out of order and doing difficult stuff first.
Level scaling would rob you of that choice, to try challenge yourself against tougher gyms/titans/whatever.
(also incredibly hot take, I don't really want voice acting, I prefer reading text at my own pace and just imagine their voices in my head.)
I was under leveled for most gyms and the first Team Star battle, Mela, and I'll do it again. I hate level scaling.
I took on my first gym when I was level 30 something, last when I was level 70, I like killing stuff in a single hit, I don't like being robbed off of that satisfaction. I want to beat legue 4 with multiple level 100 pokemon.
Hey Kamen, whats your favorite new Pokemon this gen?
My top 3 would be Tinkaton, Meowscarada and Bombirdier
That's a pretty easy question since I didn't like most pokemon lol, but my favorite was Iron Valiant and I also love Meowscarada
That's a pretty easy question since I didn't like most pokemon lol, but my favorite was Iron Valiant and I also love Meowscarada