Pokémon Scarlet and Violet honest review
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
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If you click on one of the joysticks while on the map, the map orientates to always point north. That’s really helps
it took me like 15 hours to find that but it is helpful >_>
Dafuq? Thanks mate! The map rotation shite was one of the more annoying part of the game for me.
omfg THX
Literal hero, thank you
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
So shocked they didn't do level scaling. Remember in the Pokemon Origins animated show, Brock chose pokemon specifically for the number of badges the challenger had? It just seemed so natural, I assumed that was how it worked. Imagine my surprise when I faced the Grass gym for my fourth badge, and everything was lv 16...
@@Ihatevideogames334 Geez, what are you doing watching videos about Pokémon then?
I thought this same thing and was waiting to fight Iono til last. Team is lvl 50 and I come to fight her and her lvl 20s, very disappointing
@@Ihatevideogames334 it sounds like an Skill issue
Thats my largest criticism even more so than the performance issues
i'm sure they can add it as a mod somewhere. Level Scaling and Teams + Your Opponent actually uses Battle Items.
Regarding the cities, it sucks not being able to go into anybodys houses anymore. That was a big part of exploring cities in the past.
and I wouldn't even mind not entering houses that much if there was ANYTHING else to do in these cities
but there is NOT!! in Mesagoza I found ONE npc in the streets worth talking to! ONE!
multiple shops are copy/pasted, you can't even enter them, stuff like icecream feels totally pointless/postgame...
compare with Lumiose City - cities in Scarlet/Violet look nice but they are an unfinished, alpha-stage MESS
What's the point of Pokemon if I can't be a danger to myself and others by breaking and entering people's homes?
Honestly I don’t mind it that much mainly because you couldn’t really do much in the homes anyway
@@tuney7319 again, if there was other stuff to do in cities/towns it would be such an issue. but there is not. they are just absolutely empty and useles..
@@charliez077 well there’s gyms, and some stores..
“There’s one gym leader in particular I really liked”
Big man Larry stays winning lol
Office worker difference baby!
Common Larry W
Larry carry
I love that when you battle wild pokemon, there are other pokemon just chillin' in the background watching it makes the world feel so much more immersive. And I love Nemona she's fun.
So exactly what legends arceus did?
@@BowmansWorld Except Legends Arceus would actually have groups of pokemon join a battle and gang up, a welcome mechanic which made things way more challenging. That appears to be nonexistent in SV for whatever reason? Gamefreaking constantly going backwards ...
Immersive until they randomly disappear or get stuck in walls.
@@SchmergDergen I haven't had those types of glitches at all. Wonder why some people have had such bad experiences. I just have lag here abs there
@@dapperdabber13 I’m just lucky the game hasn’t crashed on me. Hopefully for patches because there is an amazing Pokémon experience in there.
Nemonia is by far the best rival imo. If you lose to her in battle, you don't have to rematch her till you beat her. She just takes the fckn W. That's so funny and new.
Bruh she made me so mad sometimes i one shotted her team everytime and she kept saying im gettin serious now just to get one shotted again
@@ReidnReactn To me she’s really funny because she’s genuinely not a bad trainer and her team is good, she just goes down to your level and acts all condescending unintentionally
@@asprinjuice8877 nah i dont hate her she just made me mad and her team didnt feel that strong to me
With
Lucario
Grass starter
Garchomp
Ttar
Corvinight
Amorouge
I kinda one shotted all of her mons
That's not a new thing tho
I mean if you go with pseudo legendaries of course battles are easy. Use a nerfed team lol
I might be the only one but the soundtracks are actual fire, especially team star boss, tera raid battles and gyms. Can't wait to finish the game and see all it has to offer
The ruinous legend song slaps
AI Sada/Turo is absolutely goated
It didn't really hit with the Elite Four or for the final championship though which was disappointing
You're not the only one. Area Zero theme also slaps.
@spacecookiez5045 Nah the e4 and champ themes hit different dawg.
At first, I felt so overwhelmed. I wasn't sure where to go or what to do, so I just said "fuck it" and went wherever I please without the map. I discovered most of the story stuff from randomly finding it while I get distracted by every new thing. It's been a blast and I still have a few gyms and 1 team star group left to beat. I haven't been in the snowy area in the north yet, so I'll be moseying my way up there eventually. Despite the graphical issues, this really is one of the best Pokemon games to date.
@@Ihatevideogames334 coolio
I ran north after a friend told me there was a Chansy spawn up there lol, ended up finding a Cloyster swarm and killed them with auto battle, and after filling the seas with Cloyster shells, I was 15 levels higher lol
That’s usually how I felt when playing open world games, the moment you just let loose and just explore whatever comes your way it makes it all the more enjoyable
This has to be a joke 😭
Lol right😂
I really liked how Arceus did with being able to throw pokeballs outside of battle and the shinies making an audible noise and visual cue when they spawned in. I really wish they kept those two features
Throwing pokeballs out of battle wouldn't make that mutch sense in this game cause there's no reason to catch that many of the one pokemon
@@number1ivysundewfan it made catching running around catching whatever Pokemon I desired much more entertaining than past gens imo, where it's all just the same fornula. I also liked playing ninja with smoke bombs and baits and backstabbing them with pokeballs. Plus honestly doing all that extra stuff for the dex honestly made the dex even more fun, although longer, but gave me more depth and a reason to use Pokemon that I caught rather than just boxing them away sometimes
Also streamlining the stat changes instead of forcing you to watch each stat raise/lower.
And why the hell did they remove the battle style choice?
@@number1ivysundewfan legends arceus made catching pokemon fun
in every other pokemon game I have always felt doing the pokedex was an annoying chore to get the shiny charm
in arceus i completed the pokedex cuz it was fun
@@HeilRay the battle style was a gimmick for PLA. It's super fun in that game, but it's not balanced for competitive, which is a huge part of the franchise. It was never going to stay. It might come back in other legends games, if we get those.
The co-op feature is nothing to sleep on. My friends and I were able to join each other's worlds seamlessly and continue our own errands and story missions while being in the game with each other.
Do you know if I need Nintendo's subscription for local multiplayer as well? Is that even a thing rn?
You don’t need Switch online to play locally :) My friends don’t have it, and three of us sat on a couch and played together through wireless mode. It was lots of fun!
@@ralfsstuff you definitely need it if you're in different houses, me and my cousin from Europe have been playing this since release day together, it requires both to have online membership tho (or one family membership plan)
It was real fun u-until my friend grew bigger…idk how…I think I’m scared for life-
Can you each advance your own stories/gym progress while in multiplayer mode?
One note about the map: I noticed that there’s a toggle for being able to rotate it vs. keeping it locked in a fixed orientation. I found that keeping it locked really helped prevent me from getting lost and kinda fixes that issue you mentioned.
@@Ihatevideogames334 here have some engagement since you crave it that much, now go be pathetic somewhere else
how do u do that?
ARE U SERIOUS
Tera type really expands the pool of options. My brain is broken trying to think of the best ones. And they use it really well for making gym battles interesting.
imo only the electric gym used terra in a cool way
My dream tera is a tera flying Gardevoir. looking forward to that.
Me and my brother have been playing through the games with us doing a battle against each other after every 3 “points” which are gained by beating a gym, Titan, or Star base. And because we’ve both been going separate ways, developing different teams, and doing things our own way before converging in a battle to show what we’ve found to the other, the experience has increased tenfold
Holy fuck, now THATS a pokemon journey. Shame I got only one switch, one game and unfortunately, my bro aint interested in pokemon
shit dude, now i wish i had a brother like you
I’ve done something similar with a few friends where we go through every generation. We started at gen 3 and worked our way through gen 4. It’s such a breath of fresh air to games you’ve gone through many times before and i can easily see that working just as well in scarlet/violet. I highly recommend to anyone who is able to do this with a friend or family member
@@italy4047 im jealous, really am. None of my parents are free, my bro is more interested in fps games (we used to watched Pokemon everyday back in the day ;)) and none of my friends are into the game as well.
how can I reboot my brother :((((
Still think it is odd they removed set mode as an option, removing qol options is always a point dock for me.
While I agree, its also unobtrusive enough where you can just not look at what the next Pokemon coming out is, press no for switching, and then react accordingly after.
@@frostcloud09 Thats what I did, but its kind of a waste of time every time.
Here's to hoping it still exists when battling other people lol...
what's qol? set mode? huh?
@@thetafritz9868 qol is quality of life, or options and such they add to make games nicer to play
Set mode and switch mode are options that have existed in every main pokemon game since red and blue. It changes whether the game lets you switch pokemon or not after knocking out an opponent's pokemon in singleplayer, with set mode making it function like multiplayer battles do. It just adds extra challenge really.
They also removed the option to turn off attack animations.
My favorite QoL I’ve seen them take from Legends Arceus is the remember/forget a move mechanic so you can change previously known moves without needing a move tutor and a heartscale. I wouldn’t mind new moves being learned via that method but seeing previously known moves easily accessible helps me a lot.
WolfeyShills
For the map navigation, there's a way to set it so the map is only pointing north... SUPER helpful. I believe you click one of the sticks while in the map to do this
This is game changing. THANK YOU.
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I think I'm going insane, I'm 100% sure my map was locked by default lol
Tip for the map: Click the right stick. It locks the map to pointing North, and it doesn't come undone between opening and closing the map or even the game. Made the map much easier to use for me.
Thank you! Was getting aggravated with it switching on me!
Came here to say this! It makes it soo much easier!
they say this right when you get the map btw
So funny how many people overlooked this
i cant press my right stick gg
I was just always 10 levels below the fight I was about to take on, but I actually think that this was a positive since it really made a Pokemon game difficult for the first time in generations.
Ah hes so you have never played white black pokemons or even fought against cynthia?
@@larrystrk6496 he said “in generations” and both games you mentioned were many generations ago lol.
@@prestonjones8672 Too be fair, the last time a pokemon game was difficult for me was back when pokémons actually used status moves and trainers used items which haven't been a thing since.. what generation 4 or 5?
@@larrystrk6496 ah, so you've never felt the touch of an intimate partner? noob...
@@Professor.Farnsworth *To 🤓
Performance is really the only major gripe. The only other thing i wanted was an actual idea of which gym order was "preferred" instead of just the first gym. If you aren't going to scale, the game should at least tell you to some extent the order the gyms "should" be handled. The starfall street and titan pokemon being a mystery is fine.
It does tell you though. On the map each gym has a description which gives you hints for the order
@@MrDrakeDamage pokemon center lady also helps with the recommended path
@@tonyochoa4312 Don't listen to her she's a scam. She just points you to the nearest story objective.
you can read about each gym leader on the map. It gives you a general idea of their strength.
"Performance is really the only major gripe" - wow the amount of copium. no seriously - I would love to praise SV to heaven and back but it is easily one of the most rushed games I have EVER played. is it still fun in many ways? yep. but to say performance is the "only major gripe" - I feel like you are either biased AF or haven't played truly great games which have great gameplay, good performance, great graphics, are full of content and aren't half-finished.
Fun fact: if you press the right stick while in a battle, the camera becomes fixed behind your pokemon, similar to past games. Though the angle doesn't always work well (big pokemon or flying types being kinda off camera), it's a nice option to have
Dondozo is too huge for these games lol
Fun fact - S&V is the best Pokémon game I’ve ever played
hold zl to zoom onto the opponent
I love it because if you use Tinkaton then the enemy pokemon ends up CONSISTENTLY hiding behind Tinkaton’s hammer and i found it absolutely hilarious
You can also right stick click on the map ui to lock it in normal cardinal directions. It gets rid of the need to rotate the map
What I love about this generation's legendary, is you immediately have a bond with Koraidon or Miraidon. Like it's your friend. You help it, and it helps you. I wonder how that's gonna translate to the anime considering the anime usually does one of two things: take aspects of the game story and puts them into segments of the anime, or strays from the game completely. Gen 9's mons are very well done, and I can't wait to dive back into competitive. It's a pretty ambitious game, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
Exactly. I’m so glad someone actually gave this compliment and appreciated the life they brought to the legendary. Instantly felt connected and you could tell it’s thoughts or emotions.
Koraidon is precious and must be protected at all costs. I've never really been one to bond with legendaries considering we don't get the time to but this time....I love the precious boi.
Gen 8 mons are well done?? This gen has the laziest looking Pokémon, there is a dead ass flamingo in the game, it’s straight up a flamingo no other design changes, other than fuecocco the other starters just look bad, they look bland and forgettable, design wise this gen took a huge step back
You could say that "it makes them less special or somenthing" but i think it was a fun new idea
Miraidon is my boy and I love him
How much did Pokémon pay you?
have you ever played anything else beside pokemon?
Tbh, the stories in SV (I’ve done 4/5 Star Bases, all titans, and half the badges) are honestly pretty good. The Titan’s one I started getting really attached to after the second one, and the Team Star one is really hooking me. I really hope this does become the future for Pokémon cause they nailed basically everything we could want from an open world Pokémon game (only thing I would want is TRUE level scaling for the gym leaders because I wanted so badly to wait and fight Iono last so she could be at her strongest).
Half the badges? You are gonna be overleveled as fuck now for the rest of them…
@@tehCostHD I mean, Iono's was the only low-level gym I hadn't fought yet in hopes she would become harder. Psychic was much harder than Elec, but they were still a little below my level and I still got Ice and Ghost to deal with, along with the Fighting and Fairy Star Bases so I hopefully wont be overleveled for everything. Besides, im so confident in my team that being underleveled shouldn't pose too much of a challenge for me.
@@the_godbodor7026 if you beat the final titan you will literally be overleveled for anything that isn’t the fighting team star boss. None of the gyms will pose any threat at all
@@tehCostHD I was quite underleveled for the dragon titan when i beat it (around lvl 40) and my team is now about 43-45. If this is still way too high then I must've misjudged since I got a brief whooping by Arven and his lvl 60 team and I thought at least the final gym might be comparable, even if slightly weaker.
@@the_godbodor7026 that arven fight is ment for you to beat it after beating all the other stores
I was here while wolfe was on lunch
Same
Same
Me too!
I was here while Wolfie chose his starter
Same
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its not a scam
@@gavin3760 It’s a scam depending on how you viewed it. If, like me, you saw it strictly as a nolvelty item to give a friend or family, then it’s not a scam. Although yoy could make what they print out yourself for so much less, but I digress.
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@@gavin3760 Except it is
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@@amunago080 Who ever said it was real? Lol
At first I didn’t like a lot of the Pokémon but the more I played I grew to love them. Many of them are weird and changed my expectation of what a Pokémon is.
The Titan storyline, especially when you get to understand Arven's reason for hunting them, is the most "emotional" storyline in any Pokémon main game I've played. That's not saying a lot, since the stories don't tend to be too deep or emotional, but that caught me off guard a bit.
The game really needs a competitive mode such as a Battle Tower or something else. Anything that incentivizes min/maxing your setup/team. The only way to do that currently is online mode, but it would be nice to have something offline as well.
Sadly for a lot of games and I think pokemon now as well, post game single player stuff will probably be relegated to being DLC down the line. I feel like a lot of games that used to have this kind of thing started dropping it in favor of 1. online versus for the min-maxers or 2. putting it, if at all in the first place, into dlc for min-maxers that don't enjoy competitive online play/versus modes.
Personally I like playing versus other people and will happily play ranked mode to scratch this itch but I get that it's disappointing to not have a battle tower equivalent in the base game.
Ever played gen 5?
@@redemption5763 🤓🤓🤓
@@elmes3i771 🤡
Facts. Especially the last ending. Wasn’t expecting that part. Haven’t felt that caught up since gen 5
This game has been a blast, and I'll never forget when a staraptor sweeped my team two times with facade terastylize, it was hilarious to see a normal type gym be so terrifying to me to the point where I had to catch a fighting type
I was glad I had a ghost croc to chuck out after he took down 2 of my mons in 1hkos XD
I had a pawmot with close combat at that stage, so I breezed through this battle hahaha. I was also almost double their level due to enjoying pokedex collecting so much in each area hahaha.
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@@1001History double their level??? Bruh I don’t understand how anyone finds enjoyment from that. Every single boss trainer I fought in this game I was either one par or 1-2 levels below because I actually wanted to enjoy my experience. Over leveling and just beating everyone up easily was never and will never be fun for me. And I don’t understand how it can be for others. Just playing normally and going to the different battles without over leveling was the most fun I’ve ever had in a Pokémon game and I lost more fights than I’ve ever lost before. Mela kicked my ass the first time because I went to her first before the dark one, but beating her underleveled was so much fun. Same with the poison boss and the normal gym. Incredible experience.
@@tehCostHD he said he was over leveled because he was catching mons. Catching mons give equal exp to genocide. Thus he was over leveled. Just because someone enjoys collecting doesn't mean he's not having fun.
My favorite part of the game is walking to class and saying hi to my buddy Tim and his Pokémon walking at 3fps
My biggest problem is overleveling. This game is about exploring, and That’s what I have been doing the most. Because of that I’m overleveled for pretty much whole story. Everytime I’m going back to the story I’m sweeping with 1 pokemon. They should scale and the fact they don’t is stupid and joykilling.
I know I'm late, but you should take that oportunity to use different Pokemon. I always catch at least one of each new Pokemon I see (so when it's time to complete the Pokedex its just a few left) and what I did is if my party was lvl 50 and I entered a lvl 30 area, I just change the team to lvl 30 Pokemon. That was actually really fun because I got to use so many different Pokemon in just one playthrough.
@@tarkus1056 i think thats a good way to solve this problem. Thanks.
Despite the huge performance / fps issues and a couple of bugs, I am enjoying this game WAYYY more than Sword and Shield!
Me too. I have a great feelings they'll be fixed though which will be nice. But I love the upgrade systems, the Tera raids, Nemona, other characters and the bosses (team star and gym leaders). I even like the school stuff and there's some form of like "friendship thing" with your professors like it says you get close to them. I think that's cool. And the new pokemon are awesome. I avoided most of the spoilers for the game, and im so happy I did.
@@Matthew-xf1bw yea I also avoided spoilers, best decision ever! :D
@@Nako3 I wish I could avoid spoilers, sadly I don’t have the will to constantly avoid them 😭
That's pretty much my feeling. The performance issues are noticeable and kind of annoying at times, but they also don't mar the experience that much for me. The exploration and actually being able to JUMP in a mainline Pokemon game is just too fun to ignore, and I love that you can catch all the Pokemon you want for your team really early on unless it's the paradoxes. That's a bit of a shame, I'd love to use Great Tusk to fill the essential Ground and Fighting slots on my team with a single Pokemon, but I get why they're deemed too strong to let you get them early. Would still nice if you could actually breed them to get low-level ones, then you could at least get usable ones for your team on a second playthrough.
@@TyrantWesker Yea the exploration is fun, I had caught over 30 Pokemon before I even got to the school haha
Thank you for this it’s very hard to find non-spoiler content about scarlet and violet and I haven’t got them yet so I really appreciate this
You really don't have to worry about spoilers, most reviewers of Scarlet and Violet don't even play the game, they see that the framerate drop a little and they immediately give it a 1/10.
@@RGC_animation 1/10 💀🤦♂️this looks good to great game to me
@@RGC_animation the game is a 5/10 at best
@@mihaimercenarul7467 I would like to hear your opinions on it, why would it be a 5/10?
One of the things I really love this Gen is how there is basically no RNG involved with getting a specific team. If you want a competitive Dudunsparce, you can just go catch one and then EV train and IV train it, get it any of the "egg moves" via mirror herb, patch in its Hidden Ability, set its Tera-type to whatever you want and you are good to go. Sure, that may be a bit grindy to achieve, especially the Tera-type changing, but none of them overwhelmingly so. Your first two competitive teams require very little effort because of how much the game rewards you the necessary items early on and after that I think it's pretty fair to expect players to put in some extra effort.
I'm a little confused over the 10/10 score. You start by saying these are the best Pokémon games yet, so maybe you mean that the 10/10 is relative to other Pokémon games? ...because the rest of your review is mostly "this is the best it's ever been in Pokémon, but it could still be better". Like "the story is way better than gens 6, 7 and 8, but it's not a high bar to cross", or "the game gives you a lot more freedom, but the lack of level scaling makes it annoying to play".
You seemed very enthusiastic over the new Pokémon and also positive about terastillization, but in general, it feels like you're describing an enjoyable game with significant flaws, while 10/10 is a score more fitting for an almost flawless masterpiece. It only makes sense to me if the score is meant to be relative to past Pokémon games or if you're just being a contrarian, because this game's had a lot of negative critical reception by players.
You don't even mention the most criticized aspects of this game which are the pathetic graphics, lack of fluidity (caused by performance issues), and the very rough state of the game. I grew up with games that looked worse than SV, and games that were more glitchy too, and I think many of those old games are great, and maybe you're like that too, but if that's the case you should've said so in your review, since that's kind of the elephant in the room here. A lot of modern gamers expect more than me and you in those areas, so it is important to mention it. As for the performance issues, you do mention them, but only briefly and you downplay them a lot. SV are some of the worse-performing video games of all time, including no-budget indies and the like. They are the only post-2000 commercial games I have ever seen that can't keep a smooth FPS in *cutscenes*.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the way you talk (and don't talk) about the game makes it really hard for me to follow, and this review is more confusing than helpful in my opinion.
Also some people are saying that your sponsor is a scam. I wouldn't know because I skip sponsors but I think you should look into that. Ok I spent forever typing this now I go do something else bye.
He is a hardcore Fanboy or he got paid.
The only thing I thought was a little weird was the fact that "y" opens the map. I am surprised how few times I accidentally opened the map before getting used to it though.
same lol, still happens haha
I still press the - button to open the map.
Man, I keep pressing all of the wrong buttons. I really wished you could just rearrange the buttons
I thought I was the only one!! That key mapping is so annoying lol
I like it, back in the dppt days y was the button you could bind a key item to and i would usually have my map on y during main story hahaha
one thing i find so interesting about the game is how they still split up the areas into “routes” kind of. it’s hard to explain but it gives me hope that they can adapt this style into a more traditional region potentially
I thought people disliked this feature because they expected it to be fully open world
@@ooo8188 i like it because it’s still open world, you can still venture outwards
@@ooo8188 you can still have routes in open world games, since to be an open world just means you can go ANYWHERE at ANYTIME, and while we do have routes in s/v, we arent limited TO those routes, and can choose to leave or follow whenever we like and explore them without any barriers
@@Oh-Ho-Hello Calm down
@@ronh7424 sorry?
Hey Wolfe, not sure if you've heard about this or not by this point but you might take a closer look at Established Titles. The organization was recently found to be a massive scam : /
I think since you are a competitive player you are legally obligated to like the new games since that is how you will be making money 😂
obviously the graphics have issues, but the gameplay itself this generation is really fantastic. the story is the strongest since gen 5, and there're so many quality of life upgrades that just make it more enjoyable.
in germany so many people are toxic about the graphics of the game which i understand but they completely overlook the story and gameplay it's nice to read that there are people who also see the good side of the game
Me when I lie
10 fps isn’t “fantastic” damn you poke fanboys are insane
The story sucks. Wdym. I feel like I have a pacifier in my mouth the entire time. They tried to make an adventure game and made it more cringe than a slice of life anime dub.
@@user-op8pf3uf8s we like the game even with its problems, we’re huge pokemon fans DEAL WITH IT! If you dont like it and are turned off my frames dont play it!
SV is the first Pokémon game where I’ve had many Pokémon on my team I cycle between since there are so many great ones. So many times I thought my team was great, and then I’d find new ones and just think “oh shit, who is going to be on my team now?” And going in blind to non-officially revealed Pokémon has been amazing. I also want to know how many of these will fare in competitive like the new double-battle focused guys (absolutely love both of them and have loved using them against friends with their double battle gimmick)
fr i always think my team is cracked but then another stronk pokemon comes to me and says hi
Same, I also had to bench my starter duck( last evo sucks)
Same! I had a set team (was trying to go paldean only) and that team was broken up only halfway in. Even now it’s being changed and I just finished lol.
When you're starving even a crumb is a feast
Have you played the game, it's very fun
I recommend forming an opinion for yourself and not being gaslit by the internet. Leads to a happier life.
-Hasn't finished the game
-Makes a review about it and calls it the best ever
Gotta earn the paycheck, huh?
I like that the levels were all over the place. It made the game way harder than I thought it would be and having a challenge in a fun Pokémon game like this was fun!
Yea I did was was clearly the 4th gym second, and the 3rd titan 2nd, and it was a blast. The boss battles feel like boss battles. Even at level the boss battles are pretty good.
same thing for me, exploring high level areas or fighting late game trainers/titans is so daunting now and its a breath of fresh air
even with exp share permanently on it still didn't feel like it made the game easier
I'm fine with the Titans, Team Star, and the wild Pokemon not being level scaled, since that does make the world feel more complete. But when your own levels are limited based on how many badges you have, the gyms' strength should be based on how many badges you have (not full on level scaling, just each leader having 8 different teams). Plus there's that one scene in the anime where Brock chooses his team based on how many badges Red has, so there's precedent in the Pokemon world for this.
The online is literraly the best part of the game. Everything is just so much funnier with the homies
Think the funniest thing that happend to me playing with friends was that a friend off mine was chilling beside a shiny mareep, not seeing it because he was looking the other way, so I snatched it and asked why he didn't go for it. He was like "THERE WAS A SHINY 2 STEPS AWAY FROM ME?" He started to joke that I was team rocket the rest off the LAN party. 😂
@@trueredpanda1538 this made me cracked up lmfaooo
@@trueredpanda1538 That's freaking hilarious!
Nice
Unfortunately online feels a little unplayable to me just because it's not really worth it that only one player can catch a specific pokemon. If you're with 3 homies and find a shiny, it's pretty annoying that you have to choose who gets it. Whereas if all 4 are playing alone, you're effectively quadrupling your shiny odds.
REALLY doesn't help that the shiny noise and sparkle are gone. That shit needs to be patched immediately, or I'm modding my switch JUST to get a mod that adds that back in the moment such mod exists.
So hardly any criticism towards the technical side of it?
Is this sponsored? Game's unplayable running at a smooth 5FPS if it's not crashing
His income depends on people watching his content. He financially needs people to be excited about this game.
Opinions exist people.
@@realgreengib opinions exist, but 10/10??? 😂😂😂
@@realgreengib so do delusions
I really loved that the Pokémon can choose what moves they want to replace when learning new moves.
and you can remember moves without anything
@@Ihatevideogames334 good for you
@@Ihatevideogames334 Remember, it's not targeted if you hate everyone.
@@RGC_animation lol I've seen references to this guy all over the comments section but haven't seen any of his posts lol. Spooky
@@zernst2798 Well his post is basically he hates everything about Pokemon, everything about Gamefreak, everything about Nintendo, and even everything about JRPG and RPG in general.
You started streaming your first time experience playing the game like 2 days ago.
You currently have your hair way shorter, as seen in the streams
But in this video you clearly have longer hair
So you pre-recorded your "no spoiler" review based on your playing experience that didn't even happen yet?
Can someone explain?
He's a sellout shill that was paid 5k to promote this game thats the explanation
Wolfey if you press the right joystick in on the map it locks it in place so you don't have to spin it. Just orient it so the north is facing up and then lock it. Perfect map!
You Name yourself Best pokemon Player of All times? Thats a little odd to say i feel and im normally a huge Fan of yours
He got arrogant
@@Xhanatos Gave up hiding it rather
He's arrogant af I don't understand why people watch him still
Biggest recommendation for the map, you can change the mode to have the map always face north, which is so much better
Liked this so other people can see it
I love that you can take on gyms, team star bases and titans in any order. I just chose the next task without looking at the proper order. So i often found harder battles i actually felt difficulty
and then you'll sweep the previous ones, this pro is also a con
@@alexandregehin8665 being overleveled with your main team just means you can pull out some weaker things in your box (which you have on you at all times). If the level of the Gym Trainers is low or the nearby wild Pokemon are suddenly weaker, just switch up your team
@@researchinbreeder very true, but I personally like using a single, main team throughout my entire playthrough. Makes me feel super close to my chosen pokemon that way, seeing them take on harder and harder battles instead of just switching to random mon I have boxxed. Easiest way to please everyone would simply be level scaling everything; but hey, it's all personal preference anyways, and doesn't bother me too much as pokemon has always been fairly easy in difficulty ^_^
@@kairoikki6981 ye, I have nothing against personal preference. I'm just annoyed by ppl who will complain about the permanent exp share, and in the same breath say they never switched up their team. Even though every game with permanent exp share has also put the PC in your bag.
@@researchinbreeder I honestly do feel like there should be a choice to turn it on/off, as restricting players to one playstyle is a little off putting. It's nothing major to me but I can see why it irks people that just want to play with their faves, yet can't because they have to keep switching things up in order to have at least *some* difficulty in game. On one hand I get why they'd want you to use different mons, but why force that choice yknow?
Are we playing the same game bro...
The nice thing is, tutorials are more optional in this one. There are entire features and facts that I don't think even regular fans are aware of if they do the optional tutorials/ classes the school offers. It is also builds in some very beefy Exp Candy rewards if you do all the classes. 30 S, 30 M, 5 L Exp candies just from an optional tutorials.
"The tutorial is the quickest in the series"
It took me like 45 minutes to an hour. Of course, with lots of exploring and catching in between but still. The quickest in the series? I'm pretty sure gen 2's tutorial is just "Here's how to use your phone. Walk across some grass and have an old man give you a phone app"
def the shortest of the 3d games and black/platinum
You have to do the thing with the togepi egg too
when did he say it was the quickest? all I heard was that it was the least intrusive, as in you’re not bombarded with cutscenes telling you how to click the b button ever 5 seconds
When Wolf called the rival Pneumonia I burst out laughing.
My main problem is that our ability to mark our map is stripped. This is honestly such a small feature that can do tonnes of good. What baffled me is that this mechanic is present in PLA, so why remove it in S/V?
Just coming back to Pokemon after stopping halfway through Sun and Moon and loving your content! Hopefully I can learn to step out of my mindset from all the previous gens of "Stat boost moves= weak". Any chance you could do a back to basics video about status boosts and basic strategies for both campaign and PVP?
RUclips is filled with videos of people already explaining all that. Just look em up! Nathan Likes Chicken has some videos for basics.
Stoked to see the competitive videos coming out. You and Cybertron were pumping out VGC content nonstop
I love the game too but theres 1 big problem i have with it: shadows dissapearing when you dont look at the thing that the shadow comes from. Its really distracting and i hate it
blink twice if game freak is holding you hostage
10 out of 10? You cant get this dude seriously
It deserve it, this game is amazing
@@trappedcosmos I have to ask, is this the first game you've ever played??
@@Zer0--Zer0 Nowhere even close, I have played several of the pokemon games before, have played tons of other games before. It's honestly how I spend most of my free time. This game is one of my favorite of all times, people are complaining about inconsequential technical issues that don't matter
@@trappedcosmos the game is suffering from a memory leak....it's not a small problem this shit leads to lower fps and game crashes etc. My game crashed 2 times already. With this games performance and graphics it's a 7/10 at most
7.8/10 too much world
At one point in a battle in a city, people were just walking through the battlefield in the middle of an attack.
Gotta say it made me laugh
The framerate and optimization issues bother me a bit, but I can definitely overlook them for how enjoyable these games are to actually play through the story. I'm totally with you on this review.
This is the first I've heard about being able to change your Tera Type! That's extremely helpful
Seeing a 10/10 sank my heart. I have been grasping for confirmation that these games are worth it and deserve the support. But from what I have seen from by sitting next to my friends playing through the game. This must be the most poorly optimized pokemon game of all time. Flicking shadows, frame freezes, lag, 3 fps npc's walking not far away, polygon buildings and 240p resolution pokemon when in battle with pokemon in certain areas. These are some inexcusable things we have found just playing through the game, the last couple of days.
Im ranting here, because im a super hardcore pokemon fan, playing every game, every fanmade game, remembering pokemons base stat totals, ect. I really love pokemon and I REALLY want to buy the next generation of the mainline games and see the new pokemon, story and region. So im glad that the story seems to be good, but these issues I mentioned is scaring me off from buying a copy of either game.
I don't want us to support unfinished games from our favorite franchise, and seeing these games. I think they would need another 1-2 years of development and/or cleanup of their code and optimization.
What made my heart sink, was seeing that with reviews like this, that seems to disregard these issues, and still give the game a 10/10. Almost solidifies the fact that we will keep buying the next pokemon game, regardless of how rushed its release is.
Im not trying to be rude to anyone with this, and I don't blame you if you bought the games and enjoyed them. I just worried that we will always hear, that the next pokemon game is a step in the right direction. Instead of hearing that we have finally arrived at the best game (not just pokemon game) of all time. Regardless of the pokemon games, "reputation", I do still believe that the number 1 franchise in the world, should be able to produce the number 1 gaming experience in the world.
Well said brother
Tbh wolfey is a fkin 🤡. The story while good don't even come close to Unova and Alola. It is far from the best game and for him to even claim that shows what a dunce he is. He really should just stick to VGC content
It's a 10/10 because it's a really fun game. Like how Skyrim was broken at launch and has been game of the year every year since release 😂
that’s the annoying thing about this game, you see all the issues since they are very clear and abundant but you are just having too much fun to care. brb gonna go complete the pokédex
Playing violet after arceus, it really feels like while developing new tools for S/V, they ended up with a ton of stuff, some of which didn't fit what they wanted in a mainline game. But the tools and mechanics were so good (like catching in arceus), they ended up making a whole spinoff using them.
Which is all to say, I'm actually excited to see what the next generation game brings
Both games were developed at the same time which is why none if the legends arceus stuff is in s/v
I actually like that areas have fixed levels instead of scaling based on how many badges you have or whatever. To me, being able to wander into an area that’s above my level, or cakewalk through a lower level area is part of the fun of open-world exploration. If everything adjusts itself to your level, it feels like it doesn’t matter where you go, which kills my desire to explore. Plus, having higher level areas makes it feel more rewarding when you can come back and take on an area that used to be too tough for you when you first came across it.
I just wish the gyms scaled
Gyms are pretty pathetic. They need more pokemon too.
Just the trainers and titans needed to be scale. The wild is fine.
Strong agree. Creates organic gameplay moments out of mismatched difficulty that I think is a feature of open world games, not a bug. Just got hosed by Arven and it felt good getting his last Pokémon into the red with my underprepared, underleveled team.
@@andrewp6738 but it feels bad when you are overpower and face up a gym.
On the map gripe: that was one of my biggest issues, too. Apparently, you can actually lock it to always face north by pressing the right stick. It's just that the button for this isn't clearly labeled in the map app, and the game only tells you this through the dialogue of some random NPC.
My biggest issue is that, if you zoom out and move the cursor to somewhere else on the map, then zoom back in, it recenters the map on your character. Not on the level where you can set destinations.
(As for the level scaling - I believe it was said in promotional material that the levels would not scale. And, honestly, I personally find it more interesting unscaled. You can skip a gym you're disadvantaged against and come back to it later without having to just grind past it, or you can tackle a gym early if you have the right pokemon for it and reap the rewards. And, there's just something satisfying about delivering a well-earned curbstomp battle, y'know? Much better than dealing with GF's idea of scaled battles - you saw what that looked like the wild area and in Isle of Armor, and it wasn't at all pretty...)
Just throwing it out there, you can lock the map orientation by pressing down on the right joystick. It will always point North once you do it, hope this helps your experience ^^
meanwhile it has 2.8 user score on Metacritic.... the truth is somewhere in the middle. 10/10 is pushing it. Maybe mechanically it's a step up from pokemon games (which are stagnant for decades) but as a game, i've been more impressed by indie projects of 1-10 devs with the budget of a grocery cart.
5/10,7/10 probably
My BIGGEST gripe with the map is that it doesn't always just orientate North. I think it sets the maps orientation to whichever direction you're facing.
Click the right stick. (Map screen, not minimap)
Press in the Right stick. Really helps and it orientates it north.
Big con for me was the fact that you can't change clothes
Yeah. I understand the student theme but… cmon don’t give us 3 gems with hella options then take so many of them away lol
oh hey, not even 15 seconds in and apparently its the mario odyssey of pokemon
how can you give it 10/10 when the performance is so horrendous? yes the gameplay is good, but it's overshadowed by horrible frame drops and laggy UI, especially in boxes
It's the opposite for me. For me, the good gameplay overshadows the technical issues.
@@brandedbybryant1144 yeah youre right, maybe i phrased it wrong, i do also enjoy the game, but im not gonna say it's a 10/10, maybe 7/10
The only thing I currently don’t like about the game is how few buildings in towns you can actually enter, and with all the shops it brings you to a purchase screen right away rather than having an interior. Other than that the games have been perfect to me so far!
Agreed. I’ve been exploring the wild areas far more than towns which sucks. I like talking to NPC’s in cities and seeing what they’re up to but the ones in this game are just so bad.
It took me like 5mins to realize this wasn’t satire lol…
Probably pay sponsorship
With the map thing, press the right stick to make everything point in a locked direction (north up, south down, west left, etc)- helped me TREMENDOUSLY, so hopefully that helps you in the future
Ay! Toxiquid!!
I’ve only played enough to beat the first gym but so far I’ve loved the game. Although some things such as animations and certain movements could be sped up.
The gyms/battles are really underwhelming imo. I do like the exploration, but the graphics are about as good as many games I played on the gamecube.
@@michaelbread5906 that was my problem when I first started playing, the textures look so bad sometimes
@@michaelbread5906 The gamecube is far too weak to process something like SV. The ONLY thing that looks similar to a gamecube game are the low res textures of the ground and many buildings, but everything else is clearly far beyond gamecube games. Graphics are way more than just the textures. We have shader effects, far render distance, high polygon count, higher res model textures. All those things are too much for a gamecube. Only the ground and bulding textures are on gamecube level.
@@Saroku1000 bro, characters run at 7 fps if they’re more than 10m away. The graphics are horrific in terms of resolution texture. The frame rate and performance has to be the worst of any game to come out in the past 10 years. Maybe tied with cyberpunk on last gen consoles. I think this is worse. How can BotW, Monster Hunter Rise and Xenoblade chronicles run on the Switch but this Dreamcast looking game can’t? Mind boggling.
@@enzog1078 That wasnt my point. My point was that the low res ground and building textures are the only thing that is on gamecube level, everything else is clearly not possible on a gamecube.
The cities are so lame. None of them have anything worth visiting for. You can’t even enter any of the buildings. It sucks. Exploring buildings and talking to people was one of my favorite things about pokemon
I'm surprised u spoke very little of the optimization of the game. To essentially say "its a Pokemon game so it doesn't matter that much" really says a lot about the bias of this review.
How does a game with glaring flaws, not all of which were mentioned in this video and imo almost purposefully skipped over, given a 10/10? A low baseline for Pokemon games as a whole was mentioned so is it just a 10/10 relative to other Pokemon games? Just using the frame rate as an example, which is obviously a problem shared by a vast number of people, allowing something like this to slide because "it's gamefreak and they're just not good at it" gives them a free pass to continue delivering par-baked products which is a privelage virtually no other studios enjoy. This game was delivered to the public in a "one step forward five steps back" philosophy because no one is really willing to give a damn and they'll buy it anyway then give it comically high ratings because it's Pokemon. Lots of frustration that they just continue to be paid for subpar work.
Thank you. Summed up my thoughts. A 10/10 score to even be considered is ridiculous with the obvious issues like frame rate and also the many little details that are missing.
Hey Wolf! You need to watch out with Established Titles! They don’t do anything that you claim. It’s a scam
Thid guy just said 10/10 on this game?? Bro i had been 15 fps for one hour straight on this frickin game, 10/10?????
Yeah I give it an 8/10 but easily a 10/10 if I can run smoothly without a vivillon flapping it’s wings at 2 fps
He has literally only played Pokemon games his whole life and never touched another game franchise or genre ever, his standards are the lowest a gamer can ever have lmao
I'm honestly do happy to finally find someone who liked sv, because I adored it but everyone was so negative that it made me feel like I couldn't enjoy a game I enjoy
I’ve found that the game is really lazy and borderline unplayable given the performance problems, however, I’m really glad that some people are able to look past the problems I have with them and enjoy the games.
The Pokémon models have never looked better. At least in the 3D era. I still love the simple yet nostalgic 2D sprites from the early games, but I can’t believe how good of a job they did in SV. For example, primeape has never been a favorite of mine but it just looks so badass in this game
I really enjoyed this entry personally, but this is far from a fair take. The 10 seconds spent on visuals and performance issues here is unacceptable. Despite the fun I’ve had it’s objectively the worst visual and performance experience I have ever had in a full price game. It’s not just that the visuals are bad, it’s that there bad and don’t even run well for being that cheap. Makes it hard to trust much of the rest of this review as fair.
Your really into yourself hey?
Fun fact: You can press the right stick to lock the map. Meaning the north is always towards the north.
One thing I noticed, while its a very very minor point, but the few times I was forced into double battles with an AI partner the partner was actually more than competent. Helpful, even!
Something I really liked is that I can switch my Pokémons and try new ones really quick because it’s much more easy to keep up them on the level and is way less grinding
10/10? Established Titles sponsorship? Please tell me this is satire.
I got really into surviving on the road and have been living off the items I’ve found on the way. I ended up in a high level zone and been struggling, but that’s what I always wanted from these games, a challenge.
There is no challenge lmao, you're self-imposing one to yourself. The game is as easy as the last 6 or 7 they released
@@Mikhaii_64 Well that’s what I was trying to say, I’m enjoying the fact I went off track a little and found it difficult.
@@lcdany0153 my bad I thought you meant you found it hard because of the self-limitation of only using the items you pick around. But yeah, you can go to the hardest areas or gyms and still beat them with the right mons and strategy, even if you are underleveled.
True true, I loved stumbling into a new area, finding out it was high levelled,and trying to stick it out as long as possible.
You can lock the map to always have north being up by pressing R3. I know the map still sucks but that helps a little at least
Fought Grusha for my 3rd badge thinking I was going in order of the badges. Had mid to high level 30s and was thinking "I'm about to 1 shot their entire team with my Skeledirge"...come to find out they were all high 40s. I ended up managing to pull off the upset, but soon realized everything was scattered and not linear like we're used to in a Pokemon game.
This game is great, don’t get me wrong but saying its a 10/10 is a massive overstatement the frame drops and the choppy gameplay is really bad and it’s game freaks fault for delivering and unpolished gam
I love the variable themes, every zone has a wild, and trainer theme, and four variants of each, day night, and a rain and shine variant for all of them.
Just like Arceus then, i'll be listening to each one!