Pokemon Scarlet

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3.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3197 Ratings

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  1. GinoIlpaninaro
    Nov 26, 2022
    1
    This game sucks.This game would have been nice if it was for a ps2.There's nothing good about it ,only a few pokemon are nice.
  2. IcyElon
    Nov 26, 2022
    1
    How could a game look so bad?

    This was an open world but made it feel small because everyone wore the same outfit for the school. You can’t do an open world game but not coach someone where to go. This isn’t elden ring, if my Pokémon is level 30 and I somehow end up in a level 50 zone, I can’t just “git gud”. All character designs looked absurd. You have characters like the women brutes,    How could a game look so bad?

    This was an open world but made it feel small because everyone wore the same outfit for the school. You can’t do an open world game but not coach someone where to go. This isn’t elden ring, if my Pokémon is level 30 and I somehow end up in a level 50 zone, I can’t just “git gud”. All character designs looked absurd. You have characters like the women brutes, the weird lankey predator looking mountain guy, the rapper gym leader which just felt… racey? The mechanics were almost interesting, until you made the Pokémon into my grandmothers crystal glass collection. Leave it to game freak to cram two polar opposite great ideas, future and past, and shove into one game where nothing makes sense anymore, you can have dinosaur Pokémon on the same level as a robot, like come on. Pokémon are not unique anymore, you can find them at a later point in the game, and then they pop up more after your battle so you’re stuck into call of duty’s spawn kill situations. You couldn’t even catch any of the paradox pokemon right away or anything like everything just leaves with the question, why did I pay 100 CAD for this? Broken game and broken franchise, game freak needs nothing to do with anything.    … Expand
  3. Spicytuna16
    Nov 27, 2022
    1
    Insane how Nintendo fans will defend unoptimized and literally broken Pokemon games when you can play Doom Eternal, Witcher 3, No Man's Sky, and Nitro Automata NATIVELY ON THE SYSTEM AND THEY RUN BETTER THAN SCARLET/VIOLET WHICH IS A SWITCH EXCLUSIVE LMAO. This is something they could’ve easily fixed but they don’t care plus there’s tons missing from the game. This is objectively the worstInsane how Nintendo fans will defend unoptimized and literally broken Pokemon games when you can play Doom Eternal, Witcher 3, No Man's Sky, and Nitro Automata NATIVELY ON THE SYSTEM AND THEY RUN BETTER THAN SCARLET/VIOLET WHICH IS A SWITCH EXCLUSIVE LMAO. This is something they could’ve easily fixed but they don’t care plus there’s tons missing from the game. This is objectively the worst Pokémon game with all the lacking content like no battle tower, tms going back to one time usage, smallest pokedex we’ve ever had, game being the slowest Pokémon game to date etc, but they have no incentive to make them better because there will always be people that defend what bare bones they put out no matter what.… Expand
  4. The_real_King
    Nov 27, 2022
    1
    Gives me Cyberpunk vibes. Performance is bad and many bugs. In my opinion the worst Pokemon game.
  5. Jonathanavarro
    Nov 27, 2022
    1
    Bugs and glitches grotescos. O jogo obviamente não estava finalizado. Sombras, texturas, tudo horrível. Um passo maior na direção do que deveria ser, mas totalmente errado e inacabado .
  6. TREMbalaSuicida
    Nov 27, 2022
    1
    I've been a fan of the pokémon franchise since I was a child, but it's impossible to accept the terrible service that the company is giving us! A huge amount of bugs and glitches, constantly dropping frames, extremely expensive games and on top of that to enjoy 100% of the game we always have to buy both versions that are released simultaneously,bad customer service pretending that theI've been a fan of the pokémon franchise since I was a child, but it's impossible to accept the terrible service that the company is giving us! A huge amount of bugs and glitches, constantly dropping frames, extremely expensive games and on top of that to enjoy 100% of the game we always have to buy both versions that are released simultaneously,bad customer service pretending that the problems we report do not exist and other negligence with the fans, in addition to other problems with the company that is extremely strict with copyright, and can even sue fans for using digital arts or even game soundtracks. Honestly a disappointment with the company, this game is not even worth half of its value and here I leave my note of repudiation.… Expand
  7. conorp137
    Nov 29, 2022
    1
    Despite being a 4 billion dollar company, the quality of Violet and Scarlet is bad. Bad performance, bugs and glitches, and honestly, it's clear that Nintendo and Gamefreak care solely about profit at this point, not about making an enjoyable game. If Breath of the Wild was possible on the Switch 5 years ago, then why do we pay for a game like this? Improve Pokemon, Nintendo and Gamefreak,Despite being a 4 billion dollar company, the quality of Violet and Scarlet is bad. Bad performance, bugs and glitches, and honestly, it's clear that Nintendo and Gamefreak care solely about profit at this point, not about making an enjoyable game. If Breath of the Wild was possible on the Switch 5 years ago, then why do we pay for a game like this? Improve Pokemon, Nintendo and Gamefreak, and surely the ratings will go up.… Expand
  8. jolio_kujo
    Nov 29, 2022
    1
    Please create a normal game, lags anywhere, horrible animations, the only reason i suggest to buy it is for the competitive
  9. ShrekXGrinch
    Nov 30, 2022
    1
    Very annoying characters, poor graphics quality, bad animations, lots of pokemon characters removed, too easy, insultingly babyish dialogue, features removed, poor story. Game functionality breaking glitches, godawful pop in. Save breaking errors and glitches. Memory leak makes switch overheat and CAUSE HARDWARE DAMAGE
  10. dobandoba
    Nov 30, 2022
    1
    Lots of bugs, DESING OF THE NEW PKMNS ARE SO BASIC, sincerally prefer the fans arts r more complete and creative. Game Freak i though this game had been the best but not.
  11. werewolfman
    Nov 30, 2022
    1
    This is a slap in the face to a majority of the long-running fan base. The amount of support and revenue that has been given to Pokémon and GameFreak just for them to throw this hot garbage in our face and expect us to consume? No thanks, try again.

    Insanely poor graphics and performance even for the Switch standard, the pixel games were much more detailed and better optimized than this    This is a slap in the face to a majority of the long-running fan base. The amount of support and revenue that has been given to Pokémon and GameFreak just for them to throw this hot garbage in our face and expect us to consume? No thanks, try again.

    Insanely poor graphics and performance even for the Switch standard, the pixel games were much more detailed and better optimized than this mess.

    The lack of immersive quality, the towns, buildings, the npc's, just about every part of this open world game felt completely devoid of personality and life. Just a bunch of random poor quality textures and models filling this dull space.

    I will say the Pokémon designs of this generation were interesting and fun to discover, if anything good at all in this game. But as for the gameplay and this terralization system, not so much. Nothing really innovative or well thought-out, just another quick gimmick that doesn't really do much for the gameplay. Yes you can change the Pokémon type with this mode and power up moves that share that type but that's it. No new move sets, no interesting compelling gameplay. Just a lot of fluff around the same old formula.    … Expand
  12. Bkeenan
    Jan 7, 2023
    1
    I waited quite a while after release hoping for a patch for all the known issues, as of January 2023 the game is still bad. Frame rate is still awful, people and pokemon just appear right in front of you, you see through the floor with any battle on an incline, koraidon gets stuck in falling animation, object textures pop in and out etc...

    The game has crashed several times and throughout    I waited quite a while after release hoping for a patch for all the known issues, as of January 2023 the game is still bad. Frame rate is still awful, people and pokemon just appear right in front of you, you see through the floor with any battle on an incline, koraidon gets stuck in falling animation, object textures pop in and out etc...

    The game has crashed several times and throughout the entirety of the time that I've owned a switch, no other game has crashed even once for me, none. Then there's the actual game, the story is boring. I quickly skimmed through most conversations, you know what's about to happen because every part of each quest is just a repeat of the previous part. The open world is barren, the cities/ towns are basically all the same. The only thing that differs is the biome. And the Pokemon, like seriously Flamigo? Lazy isn't a strong enough word. Honestly you could have slapped a second head on it or gave it a spiky butt, hell anything, they literally just put a flamingo in, removed the n from the name and that was it. Pokemon fans deserve better than rubbish. It's clearly unfinished and unoptimized. Either the devs were lazy and didn't care or more than likely were under pressure to release it by a certain date, finished or not.    … Expand
  13. SenninGo
    Dec 4, 2022
    1
    A nintendo é uma empresa bilionária e possui muitos recursos para lançar jogos muito bons, porém nao é o que acontece neste jogo, há uma falta de respeito com o consumidor que paga um valor alto por um produto que se encontra incompleto e totalmente bugado, sem dublagem e legenda em português.
    Existem sim as novidades que são muito bem vindas mas por conta dos inúmeros problemas a gameplay    A nintendo é uma empresa bilionária e possui muitos recursos para lançar jogos muito bons, porém nao é o que acontece neste jogo, há uma falta de respeito com o consumidor que paga um valor alto por um produto que se encontra incompleto e totalmente bugado, sem dublagem e legenda em português.
    Existem sim as novidades que são muito bem vindas mas por conta dos inúmeros problemas a gameplay se torna algo cansativo e muitas vezes frustrante acontecendo muitas vezes do jogo fechar sem qualquer explicação.    … Expand
  14. mambo60
    Dec 5, 2022
    1
    thi game Is terrible under every single point of view.
    The caracter design of the Pokémon Is actually se single thing that i apreciate, the story Is awful and completely empty, the Word Building Is horrible, i've never seen a Word of Pokemon so empty.
    the NPC dialogue are terrible and the graphics looks like a game for Nintendo Ds. The new Pokemon introduced are strange bit i can deal with    thi game Is terrible under every single point of view.
    The caracter design of the Pokémon Is actually se single thing that i apreciate, the story Is awful and completely empty, the Word Building Is horrible, i've never seen a Word of Pokemon so empty.
    the NPC dialogue are terrible and the graphics looks like a game for Nintendo Ds.
    The new Pokemon introduced are strange bit i can deal with It, and most importante thing Is full of bugs, literally in everything, and It proves that the game Is incomplete.
    Gamefreak should review his next projects because, if they are going to continue this way , they will destroy One of the biggest franchise that ever existed    … Expand
  15. JeremyvT98
    Dec 6, 2022
    1
    You can easily spot the difference between a game based on actual quality compared to a game based on bad marketing strategy. The latter one unfortunately compels to this one. It's a rubbish game, even the concept of 'terastillization' is just a joke. It's utterly too weird to be a good thing. I don't plan on buying any future pokemon again unless they add all 1000+ pokemon and supply theYou can easily spot the difference between a game based on actual quality compared to a game based on bad marketing strategy. The latter one unfortunately compels to this one. It's a rubbish game, even the concept of 'terastillization' is just a joke. It's utterly too weird to be a good thing. I don't plan on buying any future pokemon again unless they add all 1000+ pokemon and supply the game with post mainstory content.… Expand
  16. Nxtace190
    Dec 6, 2022
    1
    Fully expected this game to be bad, but not this bad. Graphics are at the level of PlayStation 2 games coming out in 2005, except the PS2 didn’t have framerate issues nearly this bad. Also, anyone notice there’s a slight delay after selecting anything? Seems like every time I press “A” to make a selection the game has to stop and think about it. Every battle. Every time the momentum stops.Fully expected this game to be bad, but not this bad. Graphics are at the level of PlayStation 2 games coming out in 2005, except the PS2 didn’t have framerate issues nearly this bad. Also, anyone notice there’s a slight delay after selecting anything? Seems like every time I press “A” to make a selection the game has to stop and think about it. Every battle. Every time the momentum stops. Constantly feels like I’m waiting, definitely wait til this game is patched before buying. If they patch…… Expand
  17. htoygar1987
    Dec 6, 2022
    1
    Game look like a student work and it is sold 10 million copies what is wrong with you guys. You encourage the game companies to make bad games like this way.
  18. Jsteven
    Jan 29, 2023
    1
    El dibujado del juego es horrible, los pokekom salen por montones no hay que hacer ningun esfuerzo pars buscarlos y salen practicamente los mismos todos los dias, eñ mundo no es realmente abierto hay pantalñas de carga en ciertos lugares, el mapa es horrible no tiene una buena estructura ni curiosidades para explorsr en el mundo abierto
  19. ZulianPlay
    Dec 6, 2022
    1
    Pokemon é uma das minhas franquias favoritas.
    O game anterior, Legends Arceus, eu zerei com gosto, amei, o mundo aberto é incrivel...
    Já seu sucessor, tinha tudo para ser tão bom quanto ou melhor, afinal voltaria para a formula original, mas dessa vez com o mundo aberto incrível... e de fato ele é incrível, divertido e cheio de vida... Mas o que me faz dar uma nota tão baixa é a    Pokemon é uma das minhas franquias favoritas.
    O game anterior, Legends Arceus, eu zerei com gosto, amei, o mundo aberto é incrivel...

    Já seu sucessor, tinha tudo para ser tão bom quanto ou melhor, afinal voltaria para a formula original, mas dessa vez com o mundo aberto incrível... e de fato ele é incrível, divertido e cheio de vida...

    Mas o que me faz dar uma nota tão baixa é a quantidade abusiva de bugs, o jogo roda a 1 fps em algumas partes... mano, ele não é um porte, ele é feito para um único console, não tem justificativa para isso, ainda mais em um console que roda o zelda brath of the wild...    … Expand
  20. Alebernard
    Dec 8, 2022
    1
    GF didn't take advantage of what worked in Legends Arceus, movement in attacks during battles, mounts that didn't lock like Koraidon and Miraidon. There is a drop in fps and polygon that irritate and disturb the fluidity. Not to mention characters, grass, trees, mountains that just suddenly appear at a certain distance. And to finish in my opinion the terastal mechanic is ugly with thatGF didn't take advantage of what worked in Legends Arceus, movement in attacks during battles, mounts that didn't lock like Koraidon and Miraidon. There is a drop in fps and polygon that irritate and disturb the fluidity. Not to mention characters, grass, trees, mountains that just suddenly appear at a certain distance. And to finish in my opinion the terastal mechanic is ugly with that clumsy thing in the head. All shameful for Nintendo and TPC in an unfinished game that costs $60.00… Expand
  21. drguilt
    Dec 17, 2022
    1
    So ugly graphic and modeling. Framedrop sucks.
    I just don't get why they made the game like this.
  22. brianchanxyz
    Dec 15, 2022
    1
    One of the main event Tera Raid Battle is lag as hell, cant press any command as got attacked twice in a roll to death.
  23. Ghostpumkin
    Dec 20, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mostly all about this game, but what's really messing with my patience is the bugs and the broken tera raids. Sometimes I press a move to use in battle and the teralized pokemon does 3 different moves before I could even inflict some damage. Sometimes the health bar doesn't even go down, with some of my strongest moves. Sometimes I attack and the health bar gets higher without the pokemon doing any healing moves. And the timer is the worst of all, it keeps on losing time whenever I teralize a pokemon or when the text is in display, Sometimes I can only attack 3 times in a battle because the rest is just text blocking me from the battle button. If yall fix this I can guarantee the reviews will go up cuz everyone is tired of this same thing. Until then, 1 star review it is.… Expand
  24. BancaEliteGames
    Dec 21, 2022
    1
    Lots of bugs. It has no language in Portuguese, with Brazil being one of the biggest consumers of Pokemon.
  25. GreenTekken42
    Dec 27, 2022
    1
    Pokemon never really stood out to me. Its insane how a series this Popular can get away with recycling objects and models from previous games as well as being a buggy mess
  26. OwenBingChillin
    Dec 26, 2022
    1
    I can't believe that people still support GameFreak. They've released so many crappy games.
  27. Thegamedev
    Dec 29, 2022
    1
    The game was filled with bugs and glitches and was poorly disgined the textures looked plan and the game ran at what looks to be 24 frames per second the story was average at best everything felt like a chore to play I do not recommend playing this game . If u want a good game to play with amazing story I recommend pokemon black and white or final fantasy or even something like elden ring
  28. 00Zet
    Jan 4, 2023
    1
    THIS F*CKING ONLINE
    the post game is only raid, and they **** this up so much !
    Since Nintendo still doesn't want to invest in server in facking 2023, the peer to peer is a facking nightmare. the game just freeze for no reason and doesn't let you play. Horrible when the battle has a TIMER. Sometime you can skip 3 to 5 turn before being able to access the menu Sometime the game just    THIS F*CKING ONLINE
    the post game is only raid, and they **** this up so much !
    Since Nintendo still doesn't want to invest in server in facking 2023, the peer to peer is a facking nightmare.
    the game just freeze for no reason and doesn't let you play.
    Horrible when the battle has a TIMER.
    Sometime you can skip 3 to 5 turn before being able to access the menu
    Sometime the game just randomly add HP to the boss
    On some raid we had to put the boss at 0 hp SEVEN time and it still won't facking die
    every time his HP dropped to 0, the game freeze and just put it back at 10 to 15% HP like nothing happened, and we just lost to time
    This is unacceptable for a game that sold 10 millions.
    between this and the terrible graphic, bug and everything that needed at least a YEAR of development, GameFreak just blatantly spat on the fanbase.
    with the EndGame litteraly unplayable, i don't recommend the purge that this game is at the moment.
    And I pray the gods, every gods, even the Flying Spaghetti Monster, that it will get better with the dlc.
    Otherwise, it will stay the biggest development i ever had in Pokemon.    … Expand
  29. Jzx88
    Jan 7, 2023
    1
    Terrible performance, terrible textures, terrible pop-in, terrible animations and a bland empty open world lacking anything interesting. The only redeeming quality is the gameplay loop of catching, training and battling pokemon. A formula that's worked since gen 1 and apparently also the bare minimum a pokemon game needs to sell these days
  30. Matsu96
    Jan 19, 2023
    1
    This game is bland and unpolished, Sword and Shield were far better in terms of performance, graphics, and general Pokemon experience. I don't think adding an open world justifies such a lacking game from a technical point of view. Nothing feels natural, nothing is coherent, Just a bad and frustrating experience overall.
  31. thinktempest
    Jan 31, 2023
    1
    In the Olive themed gym, you push around a giant olive, and there's a section where you fight a gym trainer to unlock a shortcut. The shortcut is obviously longer and slower than the regular path. In that same gym, the floor collision is accidentally placed too high, so all characters awkwardly levitate 2 inches off the ground. The game is filled with moments like these, where the devs putIn the Olive themed gym, you push around a giant olive, and there's a section where you fight a gym trainer to unlock a shortcut. The shortcut is obviously longer and slower than the regular path. In that same gym, the floor collision is accidentally placed too high, so all characters awkwardly levitate 2 inches off the ground. The game is filled with moments like these, where the devs put zero effort or thought into anything. It's such a poorly designed game from all aspects that I want to believe this game is a parody and everyone claiming to like the game are in on a joke like the Morbius fan base.

    Critics may hyper-focus on the bugs and graphics, which are valid critiques, but it distracts from this game lacking quality and care in ALL aspects. For example, the new "auto battling" feature lets you essentially skip trainer battles entirely, it's an embarrassingly broken progression system. Adding a meat ingredient sandwich in a game world that has no animals is an example of terrible world building, it seems the devs forget that adding food with meat in it implies that Pokemon are slaughtered and eaten by people. And are we going to ignore how uncreative "making sandwiches" is as a signature mechanic? Especially because the last game had a big focus on "making curry".

    This is an unquestionably a product of laziness. And if you are capable of lowering your standards to enjoy a game as poorly made as this one, the question remains why you don't play a cheaper alternative? If you have standards low enough to enjoy this game you shouldn't be shelling out 60+$ for any game.    … Expand
  32. saplign
    Feb 2, 2023
    1
    everything is bad besides the catching system‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
  33. Boots_Stank
    Mar 31, 2023
    1
    Will say I liked the story a little bit but thats all

    Thought I'd at least enjoy the meta but it requires so much grinding of tera raids which a lot of time include stall and **** mechanics which aren't fun when you do 20+ a day so maybe you can get the battle item you need to actually level the playing field competitively. This was an unenjoyable mess. There is nothing I would consider    Will say I liked the story a little bit but thats all

    Thought I'd at least enjoy the meta but it requires so much grinding of tera raids which a lot of time include stall and **** mechanics which aren't fun when you do 20+ a day so maybe you can get the battle item you need to actually level the playing field competitively. This was an unenjoyable mess. There is nothing I would consider fun about this game in post. It had the same feel at first of enjoying a new world and learning about the new pokemon and characters. But its quickly dashed by the "everything else" about the game.
    Graphics are so bad they pull you out of the game half the time. Like I get what they were TRYING to do but the execution was just so awful.
    A lot of the mechanics aren't old favorites or new and exciting, the Terastal phenomenon is so underwhelming that half the time I don't use it because of the massive downsides that come with locking your pokemon to a single type for a mid damage increase is often not even worth the extra few seconds of animation.
    Also tying THE legendary pokemon to your bicycle seems fun but uh, its super **** annoying when you try to use it as a pokemon because you are so conditioned to ride it and when you do it stops being a battle pokemon. I gave up on ev training it and spent the fortune on vitamins cause I couldn't train them otherwise.
    Over all even if I ignored the performance issues the game is a chore and everything feels half assed.
    Also, quit expecting everyone to have multiple friends handy. The 5 and 6 star raids have the items I need but are unbeatable without either getting INCREDIBLY lucky with randoms or the perfect stack of npcs

    My first Pokemon game was yellow, I've been in this for a long time and too see what I thought was the most stable franchise kow tow to investors to push out an unfinished game even months later was just so much of a disappointment I have no hope for the future of the Pokemon gaming franchise and game-freak itself    … Expand
  34. 13luejay
    Apr 1, 2023
    1
    Visual wise, everything was barely polished and obviously rushed through. The switch shows its unfinished coding by choking on loading even the most basic of entities into the game. The only good brag this game could have is its character design and story potential. It's apparent that they focused primarily on these two elements in the game compared to everything else. When you beat theVisual wise, everything was barely polished and obviously rushed through. The switch shows its unfinished coding by choking on loading even the most basic of entities into the game. The only good brag this game could have is its character design and story potential. It's apparent that they focused primarily on these two elements in the game compared to everything else. When you beat the game and credits role, hundred of names are shown below character designing and story lining yet every other department is lacking even double digits worth of names… Expand
  35. TwistedVelocity
    Apr 5, 2023
    1
    It's is disgusting what GF has presented us with. A raw "bare minimum" is too nice for this trash product. Any Alpha in existence is better than this.
    The game is buggy and unfinished in every single area. The "Patching saves" take an eternity to come out and are not an excuse for "celebration" when patches do come out. Or should I sell you a bike that is lacking brakes, a wheel and    It's is disgusting what GF has presented us with. A raw "bare minimum" is too nice for this trash product. Any Alpha in existence is better than this.
    The game is buggy and unfinished in every single area. The "Patching saves" take an eternity to come out and are not an excuse for "celebration" when patches do come out. Or should I sell you a bike that is lacking brakes, a wheel and lighting? No? Then why is it okay for Pokemon to deliver the equivalent of that and anyone paying full price?
    The "Open World" is boring and effing stupid. No discernible landmarks aside "lag lake", no care and a crappy draw distance to boot really make me hate walking through the game. And this being the game that depends the most out of any other Pokemon-Game to have "enjoyable" movement.... nope, not this.
    The only good thing about this game is that there is a really good story in S/V. One of the 3 best stories in Pokemon and that is the only reason I don't wanna give this game a 0. Or would have stated "would give minus score if possible".

    Released full-price products are not to be judged by "potential", they are solely to be based on what they offer. Pokemon S/V offers a great story, disgustingly **** "open world" with a pathetic bad online features, a lot of love missing and the code also not being up to par. This is supposed to be combated by GF by releasing fan-favorites in the early lifespan of this game to create FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) so people buy the new games to get their faves.
    And I sincerely HATE TPC for doing this.
    The patches won't save it
    The DLC won't save it

    Because the core premise is so trash that there can't be any excuses    … Expand
  36. dancarvalhodev
    Apr 17, 2023
    1
    Ok I’m finish pokemon scarlet and … man my rating for the game is midle for bad (4 if I use numbers) Very bad graphics and optimation, not pleasure dex, very repetitive gameplay with frequent slow down and poor narrative
    Some moments I have fun but these moment was ofuscated by big problems. In the end I never play this game once and probably I’m not buy next games if gamefreak not correct    Ok I’m finish pokemon scarlet and … man my rating for the game is midle for bad (4 if I use numbers) Very bad graphics and optimation, not pleasure dex, very repetitive gameplay with frequent slow down and poor narrative
    Some moments I have fun but these moment was ofuscated by big problems. In the end I never play this game once and probably I’m not buy next games if gamefreak not correct your gaming development On my mouth only rest a bitte taste for pay for this absurd    … Expand
  37. dbegonja18
    May 16, 2023
    1
    Very bland. Nothing like arceus. Very glitchy seems rushed. The environment is boring.
  38. gignokumle
    Aug 19, 2023
    1
    There's no excuse for a switch game to look this bad. This is a billion dollar company making worse looking games then solo developers.
  39. Joxsund
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    the world is extremely bland while dialogue and characters are written so poorly. each generation the pokemon games get so much worse.
  40. kaioser
    Nov 25, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. wow what a game? they failed to deliver yet again. graphics and performance issues.… Expand
  41. nix1331
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    wow so gamefreak got so annoyed with us complaining that they barely improve their games so instead they are taking big steps backwards to insult the fans LOL

    i knew it was going to be rough when my "rival" took the pokemon who is weak to mine...wtf, well it really sets the tone for how incredibly easy this game is. Smashing titan pokemon with my level 10 makes a lot of sense.    wow so gamefreak got so annoyed with us complaining that they barely improve their games so instead they are taking big steps backwards to insult the fans LOL

    i knew it was going to be rough when my "rival" took the pokemon who is weak to mine...wtf, well it really sets the tone for how incredibly easy this game is.

    Smashing titan pokemon with my level 10 makes a lot of sense.

    Motorcycle pokemon...there have been some lazy concepts before, but this is a joke. Why make motorcycle pokemon to then have them run with terrible animations using their legs??? has to be a joke

    Ignoring praised QoL improvement from Arceus because the goal of this game is to insult the fans.

    On top of all that it is one of the ugliest and poorest performing games to launch recently even on the switch.

    I would have been happy if this came out on N64.

    At the time of writing this review many of the 10/10 reviews are clearly part of an astroturfing campaign as several have identical 66 our of 112 users found this helpful    … Expand
  42. Velkezar
    Nov 27, 2022
    0
    One of the most bugged games ever. Cyberpunk 2077 launch of 2022.
    If this is a new standard for Nintendo games the company is doomed.
  43. NuVanDibe
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    I went into this game with low expectations, but it somehow still failed me. This is absolutely atrocious. Broken, poorly-thought-out mechanics, and a lack of polish that results in laughably awful moments. Moments at which the game's pure awfulness makes you put the controller down and smile at just how far this entire franchise has fallen. This is a glitchy mess that wouldn't be fun evenI went into this game with low expectations, but it somehow still failed me. This is absolutely atrocious. Broken, poorly-thought-out mechanics, and a lack of polish that results in laughably awful moments. Moments at which the game's pure awfulness makes you put the controller down and smile at just how far this entire franchise has fallen. This is a glitchy mess that wouldn't be fun even if it weren't broken.… Expand
  44. Hecatom
    Dec 9, 2022
    0
    The gameplay is good, but the performance is kind of atrocious.
    Also, the customization options are terrible, and the npcs are ugly as sin, being either old or androgynous in some form of capacity.

    Not a single f***ing skirt?
    This kind of s**t is getting f***ing annoying.

    Is the 1st pokemon I buy since the gameboy advance era and is disappointing.
  45. Fweb34
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Arceus took mamy steps forward into the world of open world pokemon that created a smooth, fast paced, and incredibly fun experience. I couldnt wait until I played the new main line game that would take the lessons learned from Arceus and bring them into a main line. Enviros were still low quality and hollow feeling like in Arceus and every awesome QoL improvement and open world mechanicArceus took mamy steps forward into the world of open world pokemon that created a smooth, fast paced, and incredibly fun experience. I couldnt wait until I played the new main line game that would take the lessons learned from Arceus and bring them into a main line. Enviros were still low quality and hollow feeling like in Arceus and every awesome QoL improvement and open world mechanic that was good in Arceus was either gone or done really badly. Movement is terrible, game looks terrible, cant go in buildings, city is unlived in and ffilled with the same weird sandwich stores pasted around.

    Really just such a low effort attempt at a game that it isnt even funny    … Expand
  46. AshaiTides
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    The game is unfinished. Awful framerates, bugs, and glitches are present in minute-to-minute gameplay. Quality-of-life features like Set mode in other Pokémon games were cut for seemingly no reason. Don't buy this game until they fix it.
  47. jetkser
    Nov 21, 2022
    0
    I bought the game for pokémon, everything sucks but the pokemon graphics also got worse and that was the only thing I bought this product for.
    I hate you game freak and I've bought every pokemon game for the past 20 years.
  48. Mogki
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Everything is destroyed by how poor this game runs and how many bugs I've encountered already in the first region. The only reason I thought to put up with any of it was the hopes of playing co-op with friends but even that is a wet slap in the face not expanding on any of the mechanics from SwSh, you can see each other and help with overly easy raid battles but that is it; You can't helpEverything is destroyed by how poor this game runs and how many bugs I've encountered already in the first region. The only reason I thought to put up with any of it was the hopes of playing co-op with friends but even that is a wet slap in the face not expanding on any of the mechanics from SwSh, you can see each other and help with overly easy raid battles but that is it; You can't help with a friend who might need help with a battle or harder wild pokemon. Right now it's a HARD miss if not a refund.… Expand
  49. masterx1234
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    I dont understand how the game released in this state, I consider myself a super casual gamer, I'm not a guy who gives a crap about graphics all that much but man, This game is just something else. I've seen better textures and shadows on the PS2 over 20 years ago. I have ran into non stop framerate hitches and camera bugs that it would be considered game breaking, I fell through the worldI dont understand how the game released in this state, I consider myself a super casual gamer, I'm not a guy who gives a crap about graphics all that much but man, This game is just something else. I've seen better textures and shadows on the PS2 over 20 years ago. I have ran into non stop framerate hitches and camera bugs that it would be considered game breaking, I fell through the world twice in the span of an hour in the open field area. I also had several bugs where the pokeball landed in an entirely different area for some reason, There are so many bugs I cant possibly list them all here. This game is just a mess. I am very worried for the future of Pokemon games if this is what Gamefreak will keep delivering us. I cant recommend this game at all and that's coming from a 32 year old Pokémon nerd whos been playing since the 90's.… Expand
  50. Lucasmduarte
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    I'm sorry but until they patch this game it is getting 0 from me!! Such a massive step down!! Fully messy crash grab! 120 Billion franchise!!
  51. TwilightWind
    Nov 28, 2022
    0
    Everyone who defended, apologized for, excused or otherwise allowed Sword/Shield to be the highest selling entries in the Pokemon series shares blame for how Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are. This utterly broken, buggy mess does not deserve to be placed in the same league as games I would consider a 2/10.
  52. Doughkey
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Unplayable frame rate, glitches and crashes constantly, content is lacking compared to previous installments
  53. Nitja
    Nov 21, 2022
    0
    Good Game for the mobile loveling Gen Z.....btw thanks for killing Pokemon Game Freak.
  54. TomasLacerda
    Nov 23, 2022
    0
    Nintendo and Game Freak just gave up. This game is insulting, such low effort in everything. Mother of god. Shocking.
  55. dr_heartless
    Nov 21, 2022
    0
    After being let down by Arceus I was VERY wary of this game and I'm lucking that I was able to test it out before buying. This game is trash. Plays like an old cell phone game with the bad visuals to match. This is a massive IP from one of the biggest names in gaming and what we got was the laziest of cash grabs.
  56. Tequilae
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Hay tanto que ya se ha dicho, y solo quiero reiterar lo feo que se siente como fan de Pokémon ver estás entregas con tanta falta de cuidado... Sin duda este juego sería un 7~8 sin las fallas técnicas, pero me siento responsable de alzar la voz como los demás con el desacuerdo que siento.
  57. kems
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    I give it a 0 to average the 74 from critic. The game is probably around 35-40.
    It's unprecedented an AAA game this unfinished. There's no excuse for this, it needs AT LEAST one more year of development.
    I didn't want to believe it was this broken, but after trying it by myself, at least I can say I've laughed a lot at how bad the game runs, so that's a good point. The only reason this    I give it a 0 to average the 74 from critic. The game is probably around 35-40.
    It's unprecedented an AAA game this unfinished. There's no excuse for this, it needs AT LEAST one more year of development.
    I didn't want to believe it was this broken, but after trying it by myself, at least I can say I've laughed a lot at how bad the game runs, so that's a good point.
    The only reason this game score is above 40, it's because it's called Pokémon.    … Expand
  58. rsaadi28
    Jan 12, 2023
    0
    A franquia Pokémon tinha tudo para ser a melhor franquia de jogos de todos os tempos, mas infelizmente a desenvolvedora se acomodou no sucesso que o jogo já tem e os lançam completamente mal feito. O jogo parece frágil, que a qualquer momento vai dar crash, mal polido, texturas porcas, objetos que ficam piscando na tela, iluminação que aparece e desaparece, o chão do jogo ao olhar de pertoA franquia Pokémon tinha tudo para ser a melhor franquia de jogos de todos os tempos, mas infelizmente a desenvolvedora se acomodou no sucesso que o jogo já tem e os lançam completamente mal feito. O jogo parece frágil, que a qualquer momento vai dar crash, mal polido, texturas porcas, objetos que ficam piscando na tela, iluminação que aparece e desaparece, o chão do jogo ao olhar de perto é cortado e aparece tudo que está em baixo etc. È uma pena, pois esse jogo evoluindo do jeito que merecia , sendo até com esses gráficos mesmo, mas bem feito, bem otimizado e atualizado, seria com certeza o jogo ano em todos os anos. Um fato que me incomoda é que até hoje o jogo não tem falas, não tem reações naturais e não é localizado para outras línguas. Vão acabar perdendo os fãs de Pokémon, o que pode ser bom, pois ai troca de desenvolvedora, podendo ir para uma que realmente sabe fazer jogos de verdade.

    The Pokémon franchise had everything to be the best game franchise of all time, but unfortunately the developer accommodated in the success that the game already has and launch them completely poorly. The game seems fragile, that at any moment it will crash, poorly polished, dirty textures, objects that keep blinking on the screen, lighting that appears and disappears, the game floor when looking closely is cut and everything below appears etc. . It's a shame, because this game evolving the way it deserved, even with these graphics, but well done, well optimized and updated, would certainly be the game of the year in all years. One fact that bothers me is that even today the game has no lines, no natural reactions and is not localized into other languages. They'll end up losing Pokémon fans, which could be a good thing, as they change developers and go to one that really knows how to make real games.    … Expand
  59. Predator_GK13
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Probably one of the worst performing Nintendo game of all time, they are straight up scamming people by charging $60 for this unfinished mess, hope they fix it over time but doubt they will knowing gamefreak's record, definitely don't recommend it at all, not even for $5.
  60. Sandman83
    Nov 23, 2022
    0
    I like that they are trying to evolve the Pokemon formula but performance issues just destroys the experience. Feels like it needed a bit more time before being released. Because of this I can't recommend the game before they patched this.
  61. strom-z
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    I wrote a lenghty review but because of metacritic being currently even crappier than Gamefreak I am one of the thousands of ppl getting a "404 not found" error for an unknown reason...

    But anyways - this is not a 0/10 game, more like a 6/10 game, but even though I don't like reviewbombing, this is one of those cases where my anger towards Gamefreak/Pokémon Company (I don't know who's    I wrote a lenghty review but because of metacritic being currently even crappier than Gamefreak I am one of the thousands of ppl getting a "404 not found" error for an unknown reason...

    But anyways - this is not a 0/10 game, more like a 6/10 game, but even though I don't like reviewbombing, this is one of those cases where my anger towards Gamefreak/Pokémon Company (I don't know who's the bigger culprit and frankly I don't care) has reached its limit.

    You guys had one chance after you delivered a rushed-as-hell, mediocre Sword/Shield. You then actually delivered your first good pokégame on Switch in Legends: Arceus. But then you announced ANOTHER game for the SAME year - and of course you blew it again! This game SCREAMS "should be released late 2023"!! A rushed, unfinished, buggy, slow mess with a thousand cut corners. There's a good, perhaps great game underneath, but it is by FAR the worst performing pokémon game ever released, it is rushed as hell, returns to many mistakes Legends: Arceus already repaired, has tons of cut corners just like Sword/Shield (slow as hell battles again, RIDICULOUSLY empty cities...)

    It's just too much at this point, there honestly needs to be some kind of a revolution when it comes to these pokémon games.

    Also: it is NOT acceptable for a game like Pokémon in 2022 to not have difficulty options AND voice acting.    … Expand
  62. HellGateVI
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    A disappointment as always. I gave Sword/Shield a pass but not this garbage... even Wii or Wii U game are more technically amazing! Kind of hard to understand how it is like that when then milk the franchise like savage from years now.
    How can some people give the game a good score ????? Aren't you tired of getting garbage for your money ?????
  63. Rhadnar
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    The game is really terrible, there's not many things to tell that could be used to defend it in any way, its a big disaster to the fans.
  64. steven121
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    una asco de juego no se pueden seguir burlando del consumidor de esta manera, un juego lleno de bugs, caidas de fps es horrible no se puede disfrutar de ninguna manera y se nota el poco empeño que hizo GameFreak y TPC
  65. ptrack92
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    why should we be expected to alpha-test the newest game from what is the largest franchise in existence? it may be fun underneath running at 10 FPS and the myriad glitches, but this won't change until we collectively do. i'm a huge pokesimp and can't believe nintendo allowed this to go public. please vote with your wallets and don't support this shady type of business/game development!
  66. atebites
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    This is Gamefreaks Sonic 06 or Final Fantasy XIV (Pre- a Realm Reborn) moment. Played 20 hours and 100% the game less the Pokédex. Save your money and vote no with your wallet. Game breaking bugs will cause you to lose your favourite shiny and makes the game ungrindable since it’ll crash mid catch or other stupid bugs that simply make it impossible to play. Gameplay wise it’s not an openThis is Gamefreaks Sonic 06 or Final Fantasy XIV (Pre- a Realm Reborn) moment. Played 20 hours and 100% the game less the Pokédex. Save your money and vote no with your wallet. Game breaking bugs will cause you to lose your favourite shiny and makes the game ungrindable since it’ll crash mid catch or other stupid bugs that simply make it impossible to play. Gameplay wise it’s not an open world. It’s a sandbox. Sandbox games don’t cost $AAA they are usually half that and far more enjoyable than this. Game should have been sold by Steam Greenlight not a publisher like Nintendo and the Pokémon Company. You can expect gamefreak producers are getting angry phone calls from their partners at Pokémon company and Nintendo HQ as this level of failure will cause lasting brand damage.… Expand
  67. Adryax
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    There are no excuses here, they deserve to be fired from the first developer to the last developer, including the board of directors who decided to bring this game to market.
  68. qchick
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    A soulless cashgrab, that was rushed to get it to release before Christmas. It's honestly sad what Pokemon has become.
  69. Robo_Steve
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    Embarrassingly bad performance issues. Do not support products like this or it will just keep happening.
  70. k4lls
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Never got so disappointed in a game due to the overwhelming hype.

    How can such a top tier company be so bad at making games? I played the game for 5 minutes and encountered bugs, battle ui felt cheap. The game itself was boring in the first 45 minutes and couldn't get myself to keep playing. Pokemon Arceus is just way better and more polished. I will have to set the bar low for    Never got so disappointed in a game due to the overwhelming hype.

    How can such a top tier company be so bad at making games?

    I played the game for 5 minutes and encountered bugs, battle ui felt cheap. The game itself was boring in the first 45 minutes and couldn't get myself to keep playing.

    Pokemon Arceus is just way better and more polished.

    I will have to set the bar low for upcoming pokemon games is this is what is to be expected from gamefreak.    … Expand
  71. Barrator
    Dec 27, 2022
    0
    The game is very good but unfinished. It's still unplayable, 1.5 month after release.
  72. samather
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    This game is very enjoyable. I haven't really had any performance problems other than in handheld the framerate is a bit low. It really looks nice to me too. It is the only Pokemon game I've truly found to be joyous and beautiful. It's well worth playing. It makes every other Pokemon game seem like a tedious slog, whereas this is only fun if you play it the way it is intended to be playedThis game is very enjoyable. I haven't really had any performance problems other than in handheld the framerate is a bit low. It really looks nice to me too. It is the only Pokemon game I've truly found to be joyous and beautiful. It's well worth playing. It makes every other Pokemon game seem like a tedious slog, whereas this is only fun if you play it the way it is intended to be played (catch and train lots of Pokemon, take your time, slow down to appreciate your Pokemon, etc.) Recommend 5.6/7… Expand
  73. Kazukiwoof
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Lazily made, this bugfest disguised as a full priced game is simply a testament on how Nintendo just doesn't care anymore bc people will buy any crap they make.
  74. Johnnybravo812
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    There's no excuse for a switch game to look this bad. This is a billion dollar company making worse looking games then solo developers.
  75. Alepernicolo
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    A little foreword:
    I grew up with Pokémon and always bought games on release. PLA was a masterpiece in my eyes as it brought fresh new mechanics and a new way to experience Pokémon. Of course I was delighted when I saw Scarlet and Violet being announced and being open world. This must have been a dream come true. So fast forward to a bad marketing company, the games content leaking early    A little foreword:
    I grew up with Pokémon and always bought games on release. PLA was a masterpiece in my eyes as it brought fresh new mechanics and a new way to experience Pokémon. Of course I was delighted when I saw Scarlet and Violet being announced and being open world. This must have been a dream come true. So fast forward to a bad marketing company, the games content leaking early and finally the game releasing.

    Now, I was never the person to blatantly insult a game despite bad graphics and low frame rates but god damn. This is just something else. I played it for 8+ hours and it really saddens me seeing my favorite franchise ending up in such a state. The performance issues were so bad that we were literally thinking that my switch was broken. We tried it on my girlfriend's for about 2 hours just to see that it is in fact the game. Additionally information has come out that there is a memory leak in the game. As a long time software developer myself I was stunned to see that a game gets shipped / released without proper testing. I knew that this was common for triple A studios such as CD Project Red with Cyberpunk but as a first party developer of Nintendo this might be the worst release of a Nintendo exclusive title. I already set the bar low when it comes to Game Freak but this time they need to sit down and reflect and maybe consider expanding or handing the Mainline games to someone that actually cares. I will ask for a refund and will not be part of the problem anymore. And no I won't buy it again after they fixed it. I am done.    … Expand
  76. Cupcake214
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    They’ve taken out most of the clothing options so I’m stuck in a school uniform. It’s as bad as the PE kit from sword and shield.
  77. therockman
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Awful games! Skip them. Millions of bugs, low-res textures, poor optimization and just plain bad.
  78. asso21
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    Ever since tge first pokemon on gameboy i wished to have an open world esperience an almost 30 years later this is what we get. Shame on game freak for even thinking this game was done. Shame on nintendo for publishing it, and shame on me for buying this crap. Do yourself a favor and ask for a refund. Money is the only language these people understand
  79. Jbx
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    How can one fail so extremely with the technical? Greed, bro, greed. Too bad
  80. Mcdaidde
    Nov 21, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The concept and world are great. The ge is borderline unplayable. Crashes, 5 fps (constantly) clipping through the environment. It's totally unacceptable that this game shipped in this state. Honestly ******* unacceptable.… Expand
  81. JeremyLohan
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Não tem como defender mais, jogo preguiçoso e mal feito em todos os sentidos, pokemons horriveis, historia péssima não da. LIXO TOTAL
  82. Inviction
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    This game is as unfinished as they come. Any game that gives headaches is a nightmare, and this is the worst of them all. A patch won't fix these issues, it's structural.
  83. OnlyOneHere
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    This game is an absolute huge steaming pile of worthless garbage. The greedy developers are charging $60 for a game that is completely broken. It doesn't even have the AAA quality to justify the $60 price tag. Wait, did I say $60? These greedy developers continue the Pokemon tradition by cutting the game in half and selling it separately for $60 each. So in reality this game is worth $120.This game is an absolute huge steaming pile of worthless garbage. The greedy developers are charging $60 for a game that is completely broken. It doesn't even have the AAA quality to justify the $60 price tag. Wait, did I say $60? These greedy developers continue the Pokemon tradition by cutting the game in half and selling it separately for $60 each. So in reality this game is worth $120. Imagine charging $120 for an indie quality game, not to mention how broken it is. This outrageous greed makes EA, Activision, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Sony, Microsoft, CDPR, Square Enix, and just about any greedy game company I can think of look like literal saints in comparison. They should have delayed the game, but these greedy developers clearly rushed it out for that Christmas money.

    Not only is this game a buggy mess, it is full of game breaking glitches. The FPS is beyond horrible, I even had a section of the game where it ran 1 frame every 5 seconds. I had the game crash on me multiple times. The textures are absolutely terrible. The ground textures are laughable. It literally look like they were taken from a Nintendo 64 game. Did I forget to mention how late these textures load in? This is literally PS2 quality for $120. Too many performance and clipping issues. I saw NPCs walking towards invisible walls. Speaking of which, some of my Pokemon turned invisible. There is too much freaking lag, and keep in mind that I wasn't even playing multiplayer when I was experiencing all this lag. I could write a novel on the amount of glitches this game has, but I think I made my point. Even if this game gets fixed, that doesn't change the fact that these greedy and lazy developers had the audacity to charge $120 for a mobile game.

    The AI is incredibly stupid. The physics are a complete joke and so is the soundtrack. The animations are so terrible, it literally looks like a shovelware game. Those stupid pokemon monsters that turn into bikes is the most cringeworthy thing I have ever seen in my life, not to mention how horrible the bike mechanics are. I played shovelware and mobile games with better motorcycles physics and animations than these piece of trash bikes. That is embarrassing. The sand literally looks like it was made with Microsoft Paint. The combat is boring and repetitive. I should be seeing combat that has the detail and animations of the Pokemon anime. All the lazy developers did is put pretty lights during every move, to give players the illusion that the game is fun. None of that is fun for me. There is loading screens when entering interiors. That is pathetic. This is a 2022 $120 game, I should be able to enter the interiors in real-time at that outrageous price. The floors are magically floating in a black sky. The developers heavily advertised the ability to make a sub sandwich, which is nothing more than a gimmick that gets old. How about the spend time actually improving the gameplay instead of coming up with gimmicks. Better yet, how about they fix this joke of a game.

    The multiplayer is complete trash. These developers are so cheap, they can't even be bothered to spend their budget on voice acting. This isn't the 90's. Voice acting should be a staple on $60-$120 games. I demand a full refund for this game. I don't recommend this poor excuse of a game at all. I don't know anyone in their right mind that would think this broken garbage is worth $60, let alone $120. Game Freak are the greediest and laziest penny-pinching cheapskate developers ever known to mankind.    … Expand
  84. ireinert
    May 2, 2023
    0
    the worst pokemon ever, really looks like a n64 game, game freak is sooooo lazy
  85. Garchomp64
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    This has to be the worst main-series Pokémon game launch ever from a technical standpoint. Slow fps and framerate drops, blurry models, odd battle transitions, lighting issues, constant clipping, and pop-ins; the game can also crash randomly, which may cause you to lose hours of progress, so be aware. The overall performance is not smooth at all. The visuals and textures are also of veryThis has to be the worst main-series Pokémon game launch ever from a technical standpoint. Slow fps and framerate drops, blurry models, odd battle transitions, lighting issues, constant clipping, and pop-ins; the game can also crash randomly, which may cause you to lose hours of progress, so be aware. The overall performance is not smooth at all. The visuals and textures are also of very poor for a media franchise like Pokémon. The game has so much unnecessary, padded dialogue, especially near the start of the game and the lack of voice-acting makes the experience less interesting. There is a lot to be desired for player customization. Questionable choices like removing set mode were made. Overall, I would not recommend buying this game, especially for $60.… Expand
  86. KorbenX9
    Nov 21, 2022
    0
    What a sad excuse for a full price AAA game... Gamefreak has to have so many resources available to them owning the Pokemon IP, yet we constantly get these barely functional messes that they try to pass as games.. I suppose they know that because it has "Pokemon" in the title that they don't have to make an effort at all and people will buy it anyway. So disappointing
  87. FluffySpartan
    Apr 5, 2023
    0
    This is an alpha... It's pretty much a cash grab. Parents should get theyr kids something better worth these money and ppl who like pkmn should get the pearl and diamond remakes instead... They at least are finished games.. Ppl should stop buying these games just because of the name on it
  88. DeadSmack
    May 17, 2023
    0
    While on paper it is a great effort, it simply don't deliver what they wanted. The bugs, the poor optimization, the emptiness of the world can't take this game to the higher grounds. It's such a shame to see my beloved franchise in this matter. Simply not good enough. GameFreak, Nintendo, Investors, someone needs to change.
  89. freakbot
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    It's an insult to the gaming world that a game like this is on the market. GF have no affection for their IP and have no minimal courtesy towards their customers. Perfect crap, save your money.
  90. asdfgrand
    Nov 25, 2022
    0
    Nothing to praise, Pokemon now is synonym for terrible quality game. No optimization, no actual "non-linear" gameplay, no Natdex back, no great post game, not even well designed new Pokemons, only some gross ripoffs from Digimon, Megaman and Minecraft.
    I can not believe GF could make something worse than BDSP. The dev team should hang themselves, shame on those retards.
  91. dark0153
    Dec 30, 2022
    0
    Broken online gameplay
    Frame skipping animations for NPC
    Low stability (crashes)
    **** pixelated graphics
  92. LastHope17
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    Myriad of bugs. Open world highlights the worst things about the genre. Gyms aren't gyms, they are little trials of what the devs were testing and not fleshed out ie: slope mechanics, rythym mechanics, collecting mechanics. Go back to Sword and Shield or Moon, or anything else for a better experience. They took out the best things about Arceus no catching pokemon by throwing the ball atMyriad of bugs. Open world highlights the worst things about the genre. Gyms aren't gyms, they are little trials of what the devs were testing and not fleshed out ie: slope mechanics, rythym mechanics, collecting mechanics. Go back to Sword and Shield or Moon, or anything else for a better experience. They took out the best things about Arceus no catching pokemon by throwing the ball at them. You have to battle everytime.

    Some character designs were great, but the first black woman I meet has to be a an slightly overweight rapper? A white girl is a skiier, never seen that before.    … Expand
  93. killermichiZ
    Nov 20, 2022
    0
    greedy, lazy company releases a new game

    not worth it at all, its extremly lackluster in almost every way
  94. greninjaX
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    another disappointing pokemon game. these games are being rushed out way too fast. their bare bones, dumbed down, and don't even function properly. gamefreak learned nothing from the SWSH controversy.
  95. QueDuBonheur
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    A game shouldn't be released in this state. Currently, it's just a buggy mess that distract the player every second from enjoying it. It reminds me of Cyberpunk, Fallout 76 or No Man's Sky when they launched. What happened to the Nintendo Seal of Quality ?
  96. Technickle
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Why? It's almost disrespectful at this point. It's as if a fever dream was a nightmare. Please release me from this pain. It's like being brutally stabbed in the eyes, except its 5 FPS and you can feel all 5. Real-Life looks better than this and I'm not even joking this time. Trying doesn't even describe this hideous game. If this is trying, I've been lied to.

    0/10
  97. Hugo1919
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    Just not s finished game. Just a money grab. Play a old game you will have more fps on your Gameboy color
  98. Ic3_winterhell
    Nov 30, 2022
    0
    No se puede hacer reseña de un juego que no está terminado, el juego se cae a pedazos cada 30 segundos, ya sea por texturas que no cargan, poping a 1 metro, geometría que colapsa, elementos que corren a 10 fps, teletranportaciones por falta de coalisiones en los poligonos ... etc etc un desastre!! hay juegos indies Early access con mucho mas trabajo que está basura. Amo pokemon peroNo se puede hacer reseña de un juego que no está terminado, el juego se cae a pedazos cada 30 segundos, ya sea por texturas que no cargan, poping a 1 metro, geometría que colapsa, elementos que corren a 10 fps, teletranportaciones por falta de coalisiones en los poligonos ... etc etc un desastre!! hay juegos indies Early access con mucho mas trabajo que está basura. Amo pokemon pero apoyar lo que están haciendo aquí hace que Gamefreak cada día sean mas mediocres y lo somos tambien nosotros al comprar su porqueria de juego. Los invito a jugar Dragon quest 8 de playstation 2 ya sea en 3ds o emulado y se van a dar cuenta que hace 20 años Level 5 hacia cosas muy superiores a esta cosa del 2022 y ni que decir de ni no kuni de ps3 que aplasta a este juego en todo. Quieren una muestra de un buen JRPG contemporáneo, hay muchas propuestas, Tales of Arise, YS 8, DQ11 en fin si alguin prefiere jugar este pokemon en lugar de verdaderos juegos de calidad, después no se quejen de que desaparezcan sagas emblemáticas porque no las apoyaron.… Expand
  99. 360barrier
    Nov 19, 2022
    0
    jesus christ how long did it take for them to make this game? 3 weeks? what on earth are these animations man its absolutely atrocious. lazy, unfinished and is not worth the money.

    and now for the usual Awful graphics, awful controls, awful camera and bad theme. This is a pretty mediocre release in every way. Graphics are like welcome to five years ago. Were they blindfolded when    jesus christ how long did it take for them to make this game? 3 weeks? what on earth are these animations man its absolutely atrocious. lazy, unfinished and is not worth the money.

    and now for the usual

    Awful graphics, awful controls, awful camera and bad theme. This is a pretty mediocre release in every way. Graphics are like welcome to five years ago. Were they blindfolded when making the camera? Main character is boring. Hopefully this is the last game in the series    … Expand
  100. Ughduty
    Dec 5, 2022
    0
    The game is really badly balanced making it even easier than any other Pokemon game and most of them where already too easy. I don’t understand why they ignore players and again did not implement the possibility to change difficulty or even built in some Nuzlocke settings. Besides that even after the first patch the game is still buggy, foremost in the graphics department. Talking aboutThe game is really badly balanced making it even easier than any other Pokemon game and most of them where already too easy. I don’t understand why they ignore players and again did not implement the possibility to change difficulty or even built in some Nuzlocke settings. Besides that even after the first patch the game is still buggy, foremost in the graphics department. Talking about graphics, Pokemon and characters look good but most of the rest look at best mediocre. Landscape textures are sometimes extremely blurry and ugly. This game is overall the worst looking Pokemon game of all time at its time and I played them all! And don‘t get me startet with the story, it‘s as atrocious as it can get. It‘s the first time in a Pokemon game that I skip dialogues! Really unfortunate.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 118 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 118
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 118
  3. Negative: 2 out of 118
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    60
    Not a bad game. It still has its solid core, new Pokémon, and what's worked for years continues to work. The open world is a questionable addition in my opinion. [Issue#324]
  2. VideoGamer
    Dec 14, 2023
    70
    Pokemon Scarlet and Violet take the long-awaited step into a fully open-world, but one poorly implemented and marred by frustration. A compelling story and characters are a saving grace in what is ultimately a fun game, but Pokemon's attempts at modernising continue to fall disappointingly short.
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  3. Het Nieuwsblad
    Jul 31, 2023
    20
    A square wheel spins more smoothly and fluidly than this game. If three Pokémon or characters come into view at once, the whole game creaks and falters. Edge-off unplayable. And that's a shame. Because the addition of an open world is "on paper" a puffy idea to refresh the franchise. No more linear walking that takes you past gyms and ever stronger and different Pokémon, gotta catch 'em all. You can go wherever you want. With some tactics, you can take on some very tough challenges with Pokémon that aren't nearly strong enough. Fun! Except this game just wasn't ready. It's shameless that Nintendo and Game Freak are still throwing it on the market. Nevertheless: 10 million games sold in just three days.
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