Pokemon Scarlet

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3.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3197 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 2,152 out of 3197
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  1. LyshXD
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    este juego es una mierda, enserio es infumable, está rotisimo pero aunque no tuviera bugs es un juego de mierda, enserio es mas divertido no jugar a nada que jugar este insulto a los fans de la saga.
  2. Armynd
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    It makes Pokémon Arceus a good game if we compare it, They sold us a beta for $60
  3. WahleeBoi
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    The graphics are absolutely terrible.Please take your time and release optimised games from next time
    .Its such a downgrade from Legend Arceus
  4. Standri
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    Ils se foutent de vous, RÉVEILLEZ VOUS!!!!! La licence la plus lucrative du monde qui pond des jeux comme ça alors qu'on mérite mieux nous les fans et joueurs qui veulent du bien de cette licence qui malheureusement va droit au mur grâce à NINTENDO et ses fans aveugles sans esprit critique.
  5. Reez96
    Dec 8, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Die grafic im spiel ist eine Katastrophe und die glitsche sind auch müll pokemon kassirt nur geld wegen die marke.… Expand
  6. Fati15
    Dec 9, 2022
    0
    Il gioco pokemon peggiore di sempre: grafica arretrata, bug e glitch e un gamplay legnoso
  7. Rooster93
    Dec 9, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Add an option to turn off exp share. Why do end game trainers have less than 3 Pokémon? Why does Penny get off scot-free for stealing the equivalent of $4,800?… Expand
  8. sharakor
    Dec 9, 2022
    0
    Pokemon is the highest-grossing media franchise on the planet - they should be ashamed to release a game in this state. Without the crippling technical issues (even in handheld mode!), the game would easily be one of the best in the series, right after Black/White 1 and 2 in terms of story.

    But constant framerate dips way below 20 fps, pop-in centimetres in front of the player,    Pokemon is the highest-grossing media franchise on the planet - they should be ashamed to release a game in this state. Without the crippling technical issues (even in handheld mode!), the game would easily be one of the best in the series, right after Black/White 1 and 2 in terms of story.

    But constant framerate dips way below 20 fps, pop-in centimetres in front of the player, animations that reduce to 2 fps or even 0 fps (static) literally right next to the player, extremely bad shadow handling, etc, pp. make this just atrocious to play.

    I'm not a graphics nerd and Pokemon has certainly never been renowned for state of the art graphics. But if a new flagship game not only looks worse than most PS2 games, but also has extreme performance issues, that is just unacceptable.

    Give these games more time to mature, a better team to help development along (as has happened before in the franchise). And, above all, quality over quantity. It is truly sad how Legends: Arceus was criticised for technical shortcomings, yet next to Scarlet/Violet looks like Far Cry.    … Expand
  9. BreaSpirit
    Dec 10, 2022
    0
    Thecnical problems everywhere, low quality engine, bad graphic, a too much simple plot and a lore which is limited only to the library.
    In other words, a bunch of ideas and an unfinished work
  10. Jukainxx
    Dec 10, 2022
    0
    Abilty patch giving you ability to change pokemons ability back destroys many people spend time on previous games
  11. Kakashi45000
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Juste honteux.comment vouloir aimer avec des graphiques et des buts en veut tu en voilà sa serait un autre jeu à 60 euro il serait détruit il ne faut pas laisser passer sa en 2022 le jeu n'est pas aboutie et fini correctement.
  12. Gold_Lion
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Semplicemente un insulto per i videogiochi, pieno di bug, senza una trama (ma vabbè non c'è trama quasi in nessun gioco pokemon ), risparmiatevi i soldi.
  13. Noshin
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Horrible framerate, glitches everywhere, lacking features (no clothing customisation ?? Come on !)... Need I say more ? This game is unfinished and a shame to the Switch. Game Freak shouldn't developping games anymore. Paying 60$ for this failure is a fraud. Don't waste your time and money like me.
  14. Zio_inopportuno
    Dec 12, 2022
    0
    This game is messy production, a scam that made 10.000.000 of victims in the first week. It doesn't even feel like a Pokémon game, it feels like a rip-off, a fan made game, from a fan that doesn't know how to program. The lazyness is unprecedented even for Game Freak. The game is broken in terms of bugs, crashes and so on. Animations, even in cutscenes are terrible. There is nothing toThis game is messy production, a scam that made 10.000.000 of victims in the first week. It doesn't even feel like a Pokémon game, it feels like a rip-off, a fan made game, from a fan that doesn't know how to program. The lazyness is unprecedented even for Game Freak. The game is broken in terms of bugs, crashes and so on. Animations, even in cutscenes are terrible. There is nothing to explore in this world, or in its cities because there are no caves, no maze, no interns (yes, there are no buildings where you can enter). Pokémon are thrown in the environment without any interactions with it, or with eachother. The league is an empty room where you battle four puppets with no character. The story that the pokesub still want to praise, is trivial. Bullism because you are beautiful, or intelligent or strong? This is an insult to whoever got bullied. Also, the evil character has no motivation, she likes the past, that's why she does things. That's it, the past is, I don't know, beautiful? Better than the present? Yeah, why? Why does she think that. Complex characters and story, my ass.
    Don't buy this game, it's a 60$ scam.    … Expand
  15. Anotheruser6
    Dec 13, 2022
    0
    Demand more from AAA games. The visuals are some of the worst I've seen for a "AAA" game. The story is patchy and lackluster. Catching Pokémon is Legends Arceus is infinity better. What a sad excuse of a game.
  16. Rimuru12
    Dec 30, 2022
    0
    its like a cheep low buget game for how big Pokémon is and how much money they make the pokémon game should be some of the best games on the switch
  17. Garde_Mystik
    May 8, 2023
    0
    You would be doing the Pokémon community a favor by avoiding Scarlet/Violet and Sword/Shield. We've proven that Pokémon is profiting more off releasing extremely unpolished, lackluster games deprived of heart, soul, originality, and content, than they do off releasing remotely finished games filled with lots of original ideas/creativity, exploration, fleshed out content, and at leastYou would be doing the Pokémon community a favor by avoiding Scarlet/Violet and Sword/Shield. We've proven that Pokémon is profiting more off releasing extremely unpolished, lackluster games deprived of heart, soul, originality, and content, than they do off releasing remotely finished games filled with lots of original ideas/creativity, exploration, fleshed out content, and at least decent performance. Don't expect the series to get much if any better from here for as long as people keep defending them. I'll even go as far as to say that 3.3 is too high of a score for these games.

    I genuinely feel bad to be a Pokémon fan in this era. These games are a complete joke. At this point, the only good thing about modern day Pokémon is that old generations exist, and I say this in full belief that the 3DS games are no longer modern. This is about Gens 8-9.

    Scarlet and Violet are the first Pokemon games in which I feel Pokémon's soul has completely died.

    Pokémon went on its major downfall in overall reception starting with **Sword and Shield**. This is supported by google reviews, metacritic user reviews, and official critic reviews across the board. All of the first seven generations were made at least decently for their time. Some are great, some are okay but passable. They were all Pokémon games made well with the necessary (minimum+) content needed for their time, solid performance, solid visuals, and a solid amount of gameplay options. They all made a lot of great changes to the series in some aspects and left room for lots of interesting things to talk about. I personally think the DS era was overrated and no better than the 3DS era, since plenty of the games contained a lot of flaws contributing to the stagnation of the series and decline of its popularity at the time, but really, almost all of Gens 1-7 in Pokemon was something to look up to, but this review isn't about that.

    SwSh deprived the series very hard from what the 3DS games had to offer, which is a strong part why these games are very hated, we just don't realize it yet, but this was on top of the games having blatantly unfilled promises Gamefreak made and heavily rushed development time.

    Scarlet and Violet are a complete joke for a Pokémon game for multiple reasons outside the obvious graphical issues, bugs, and issues with exploring the overworld with too many inaccessible buildings. They no longer even have a battle facility this time, it took them months to bring back the 60 minute battle timer, there is no set mode, option to turn off battle animations, or option to toggle off EXP Share. Scarlet and Violet failed to flesh themselves out at all and couldn't even get their main appeal right, which is the open world. There is no level scaling for this open world game. These Pokémon games now even lack basic lore for what makes their mascots legendary this time. That's a first! We have to pay an extra 35 bucks to possibly find that out. In addition, the marketing for Scarlet and Violet was incredibly scandalous. Gamefreak tryharded for these games to receive as much attention as possible by giving us well-presented trailers, one of which even had voice acting, hiding the errors of their game beforehand, and they even designed a truckton of characters and Pokémon to follow some kind of trend, trope, or other familiar face recognized in media. Turo is literally gigachad, we got a Pokémon named "LeChonk", we got a Minecraft golem thing, Meowscarda is literally everything Pokémon fans asked the cat starter not to be, the legendaries are just unimaginative amalgamations of everything that seemed cool about previous box arts, shoved together into two creatures, we got a vtuber, we got NPCs who resemble actual youtubers, we have the most unimaginative mechanic ever, but an idea that was obviously going to be the hopes and dreams of your average Pokémon fan.

    I could list more examples, including how elements of the story include a fight against bullying and saving a dog from dying, more relatable situations than what Pokemon was meant to be for, but I'll just say Pokémon knew what they were doing. Gamefreak is relying on a bunch of tropes, social trends, 'wokeness', popularized faces in media, engineering the new Pokémon, characters, and trailers to look as visually appealing as they could possibly be, while even going as far as to add signs of misleading elements to the trailers like voice acting and lack of explored gameplay for the sake of creating more appeal. Doesn't matter if anything they do lacks substance, lack meaning, is sacrificing any form of structure the series have provided that had to be made for the sake of gameplay. It's now "haha this looks cool so it's good". They made everything look as glamorous as possible in order to excuse releasing a pile of garbage. An overwhelming amount of people have pre-ordered SV off this. In other words, we have been hardcore baited and are still accepting these games!    … Expand
  18. Flishy
    Dec 16, 2022
    0
    what the **** Let's go model, it's just a waste of time. I have to waste my time to walk with the stupid Pawmo，but there is no clue to remind me how many steps I have already walked. besides, the evolutionary condition is i have to walk 1000 steps in one time. what the **** I have endured poor optimization, inexplicable crashes, sudden freezes and frame drops throughout the game. This gamewhat the **** Let's go model, it's just a waste of time. I have to waste my time to walk with the stupid Pawmo，but there is no clue to remind me how many steps I have already walked. besides, the evolutionary condition is i have to walk 1000 steps in one time. what the **** I have endured poor optimization, inexplicable crashes, sudden freezes and frame drops throughout the game. This game is just piece of ****… Expand
  19. Giuse
    Dec 19, 2022
    0
    Maybe the worst Pokémon game I ever played (and I played like every Pokémon games). The plot is terrible, childish, incomplete, stupid, trivial, boring, ridiculous, anticlimactic. The open world thing is a lie since if you don't have all the Koraidon/Miraidon features you can't reach all places around the map, also the level design is very bad and embarrassing. There are giant empty fieldsMaybe the worst Pokémon game I ever played (and I played like every Pokémon games). The plot is terrible, childish, incomplete, stupid, trivial, boring, ridiculous, anticlimactic. The open world thing is a lie since if you don't have all the Koraidon/Miraidon features you can't reach all places around the map, also the level design is very bad and embarrassing. There are giant empty fields where you can find random creatures groups putted there with no sense at all. Creatures don't interact with you nor with other pokémons, they just stand there and walk around. I don't want to talk about bugs and stuff like that cause everyone talked about it already before. The academy place is just a group of rooms in which you can follow like 3 interesting lessons and A LOT of useless dialogues about futile and trivial subjects. Also this is a clear declaration from The Pokémon Company to make fun of fans and buyers, they don't care about our fun, enjoyment, entertainment, they just think about their schedule and don't give a f*ck about people. I'm very disappointed (cause I can talk about these games problems like for a week) and I really hate to feel zero in front of the brand I love since I was a very young kid and in which I spent time and money. I think I won't buy any Pokémon games in the future. It's sad to see such a big and talented company destroying itself with its own hands.… Expand
  20. jailsondx
    Dec 23, 2022
    0
    A quantidade de bugs que estragam a experiência é inaceitável para um jogo com preço tão alto AAA, além de se quer contar com legendas em PT-BR.
    Nota-se que a GameFreak está apenas disposta a colher dinheiros dos fanáticos da franquia sem se importar em produzir e entregar um produto de qualidade.
  21. ProjectHMF
    Dec 24, 2022
    0
    Game sucks cock and balls

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  22. KingPaladin5591
    Dec 24, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I can't even explain the pain I feel about this sad excuse of a pokemon game the main function and gimic take so long in battle by time it's finished I've lost the match and the no way you can enable skip battle animation like in sword and sheild pokemon can spawn in the wall. This seems more like a poorly made fan game than a actual addition to the pokemon title lineup and its sad Nintendo and game freak should feel ashamed they forced this pile of trash out… Expand
  23. metajol
    Dec 31, 2022
    0
    Dead world might be a better descriptor than open world. A soulless disappointment. Buildings are menus, interacting with npcs as you would in previous games is out the window. Plenty of what character dialogue is there is already painfully dated upon release, and despite an academy setting begging to be loaded up with sidequests, they dropped the ball there. It feels like an expositionDead world might be a better descriptor than open world. A soulless disappointment. Buildings are menus, interacting with npcs as you would in previous games is out the window. Plenty of what character dialogue is there is already painfully dated upon release, and despite an academy setting begging to be loaded up with sidequests, they dropped the ball there. It feels like an exposition dump followed by 'b line towards x for y, or b line towards c for d'. As someone who loves cooking systems in games, the sandwich mechanic and food animations are a lugie in the face treated as a snowcone. People praise the bland blorbo-bait characterization in this game, forgetting that the world of pokemon is meant to have character too.… Expand
  24. GamefreakGoAway
    Jan 3, 2023
    0
    This is one of Gamefreaks most uninspiring games. Lagg, slow gameplay, Glitches, Team star is just an copy paste, gyms arent even inside of the gyms, people keep interupting your traveling, no fun caves towers etc, Story = mid, map design and emptyness. Im a pokemon fan but this is the worst one of the games. Gamefreak and pokemon should be ashamed! I want the old games back not the open world...
  25. Jantarrago
    Jan 10, 2023
    0
    Tremenda cagada 0/10 y zzz
    Una mierda, mapa vacío, un montón de bugs, gráficos de la Wii y bajones de fps
    Un mierda como una catedral
  26. YamiStef
    Jan 11, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sche*** Game. Ich dachte schon mit /SWSH oder Legenden Arceus ging es den Bach runter. Aber das??
    Benötigt keine Erklärung.    … Expand
  27. WarioLandFan
    Apr 17, 2023
    0
    This game is breathtakingly horrible. If you want an RPG with love and effort put into it, play Earthbound, Mother 3, Paper Mario, Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, Super Mario RPG, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, Chrono Trigger, Golden Sun, Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5,This game is breathtakingly horrible. If you want an RPG with love and effort put into it, play Earthbound, Mother 3, Paper Mario, Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, Super Mario RPG, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, Chrono Trigger, Golden Sun, Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5, Fallout New Vegas, Deus Ex, Mass Effect 2, Secret of Mana, and a ton more I'm forgetting. And if you desperately need to experience a Pokemon game, play Pokemon Black & White and Pokemon Black 2 & White 2, they provide entertaining gameplay and the best story in the series, and of course they actually are quality games unlike the pile of garbage called Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. The game is so bad, there's no point in even reviewing the actual gameplay, but I'll do a brief rundown anyway. It's much like the previous games, Pokemon Sword & Shield, but worse. The graphics make me want to stop playing the game, nearly every GameCube game looks better than this. And before anyone thinks "It's on the Switch they're limited by the hardware waaaah" look at other Switch games, like Super Mario Odyssey or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, nearly every minute detail in those games looks good, despite the hardware being inferior to the competitors. Now the gameplay, if I had to describe it with one word, would be "mindless". Getting experience was already easy with the overpowered exp share item that's unable to be turned off, but now with the auto battle mechanic, there's no need to even play the game to level up, just auto battle and sit back and relax. The trainers are hilariously weak, and they don't even battle you when they see you like the previous games, you have to walk up and talk to them to battle them. However. despite all my hate for these games I must admit if they had another year, Hell, a few more months of development time, they would've been much better. The quality of the series has been dipping more and more ever since they started with annual releases, and I can't blame them for doing this. Pokemon fans will buy and defend any pile of **** that their lord GameFreak puts out, so no matter how horrid the games are, they'll sell well, and it will continue until the fans actually use their brain. In conclusion, don't buy this game, it blows.… Expand
  28. HirschiPuffi
    Feb 2, 2023
    0
    Tut mir echt leid für jeden der das Spiel gekauft hat. Hab mir das Spiel ausgeliehen weil sind wir ganz ehrlich dafür sieht Gamefreak nicht einen müden Cent von mir. Alles in allem die gute alte Pokemon Formel nur das auf alles andere g*******en wurde. Wer gerne 2 Stunden Textboxen durchklickt um dann ein unglaublich verbuggtes Spielerlebnisse zu haben ist in dieser Generation ganz genauTut mir echt leid für jeden der das Spiel gekauft hat. Hab mir das Spiel ausgeliehen weil sind wir ganz ehrlich dafür sieht Gamefreak nicht einen müden Cent von mir. Alles in allem die gute alte Pokemon Formel nur das auf alles andere g*******en wurde. Wer gerne 2 Stunden Textboxen durchklickt um dann ein unglaublich verbuggtes Spielerlebnisse zu haben ist in dieser Generation ganz genau an der richtigen Stelle. Mehr gibt's dazu eigentlich nicht mehr zu sagen außer das ich hoffe das Gamefreak langsam Mal sein Fett weg bekommt und realisiert das sie jetzt endlich abliefern müssen oder bankrott gehen. Da bei deren Fangemeinde aber eh genau das Gegenteil der Fall sein wird freu ich mich schon auf den Weltrekord für die lächerlichste IP auf diesem Planeten mich haben sie jeden falls ab diesem Punkt komplett verloren.… Expand
  29. vlaadi06
    Jun 26, 2023
    0
    it's gamefreak, what do you expect. don't buy any of their newer games if you're looking for a game with acceptable graphics without many bugs or glitches
  30. BlueStarGundam
    Feb 9, 2023
    0
    Absolutely garbage of a game any one who says other wise has never played the game or likes mobile games and has the lowest standard in the world
  31. ZeroNoKami
    Feb 27, 2023
    0
    Literalmente un juego lleno de limitaciones, no puedes hacer nada, las teraincursiones son un refrito de las incursiones gigantomax, y para más inri, no puedes conseguir los legendarios en Shiny por un estúpido shiny lock, que no tiene ningún sentido.


    Eso ni hablar de qué no puedes pillarte de primeras un starter en shiny... Poca vergüenza es lo que tienen.
  32. Ale98
    Mar 14, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's been 5 years in a row, yet another **** Perhaps the worst. Non-existent game. Open World empty, objects dropped at random and useless on the map, npc useless and add nothing, badly done and unexplorable cities. Unexplorable houses and shops copied and pasted over and over again. 0 experimentation, leveling handled terribly, you can start wherever you want, right or left, but once you finish one or the other part, pokemon are too strong compared to pokemon, trainers and gyms on the other side of the uncharted region. Biomes are obscene, empty, careless. There is no exploration, the caves are tunnels with textures that are all the same and applied very badly. The pokemon are only half or a little more beautiful, the others are lazy, lacking in originality. Future forms, on the other hand, are garbage. Pure garbage. The Pokemon League is done with your feet, the 4 coaches all challenge you in the same room which however resembles a public latrine with those horrible tiles that you see. Reflections are very bad, if you reflect in a crystal inside the cave, your reflection is in the wrong place. Rehearsals before gyms are dumb gimmicks. The olive roll is the most cringey and fake stuff I've ever seen. The boss battles in general are all super easy, like the rest of the game. The graphics are obscene, but as if that weren't enough, the framerate is really the straw that breaks the camel's back. A total disappointment, from a generation that really shouldn't have come out. This game, indeed this beta is an insult to the intelligence of consumers. To be kind, those who gave big votes don't objectively understand anything about video games.

    Sono 5 anni di fila, ennesima presa per il culo. Forse la peggiore. Gioco inesistente. Open World vuoto, oggetti droppati a caso e inutili sulla mappa, npc inutili e non aggiungono nulla, città fatte male e inesplorabili. Case inesplorabili e negozi copiati e incollati più e più volte. 0 sperimentazione, il leveling gestito malissimo, puoi iniziare da dove vuoi, destra o sinistra, ma una volta finita una o l'altra parte, i pokemon sono troppo forti rispetto a pokemon, allenatori e palestre dall'altra parte della regione inesplorata. I biomi sono osceni, vuoti, senza cura. Non c'è esplorazione, le caverne sono tunnel con texture tutte uguali e applicate malissimo. I pokemon sono belli solo per metà o poco più, gli altri sono pigri, privi di originalità. Le forme future invece sono spazzatura. Pura spazzatura. Le Lega Pokemon è fatta con i piedi, i 4 allenatori ti sfidano tutti nella stessa stanza che assomiglia però ad una latrina pubblica con quelle piastrelle orribili che si vedono. I riflessi sono fatti malissimo, se ti rifletti in un cristallo dentro la grotta, il tuo riflesso è nella parte sbagliata. Le prove prima delle palestre sono espedienti stupidi. La rotolata dell'oliva è la roba più cringe e farlocca che io abbia mai visto. Le boss battle in generale sono tutte strafacili, come il resto del gioco. La grafica è oscena, ma come se non bastasse, il framerate è davvero la goccia che fa traboccare il vaso. Una delusione totale, da una generazione che non doveva proprio uscire. Questo gioco, anzi questa beta è un insulto all'intelligenza dei consumatori. Per essere gentile quelli che hanno dato votoni non capiscono oggettivamente nulla di videogiochi.    … Expand
  33. Fraafont
    Jun 13, 2023
    0
    Really poor game.. as a fan of the Pokemon franchise ad all of its game i was very disappointed while i playing this really bad game.
  34. Yeahwh7
    Apr 8, 2023
    0
    This game is sooooo bad! its sooo **** boring you cant do anything in it. graphic suckso badly, you cant go into houses or explore or do anything everything feels dead. No voice acting its **** slow and the raids are a absolut laggy disaster. this game is literally so bad i,m speechless. i create extra an account to write this cause i feel scammed beyond for my 65 euros. what an absolut shame!
  35. Vxxid
    Apr 13, 2023
    0
    it's just **** the worst game I've ever played. **** Game Freak. It is not even worth 9 dollars
  36. Okdan
    Apr 28, 2023
    0
    **** trash, better play the og diamond and pearl bro. Or if you want to play comp just play showdown.
  37. JoeSnickens
    Jun 11, 2023
    0
    the graphics look like dogwater and it's basically the same thing as sword and shield with a goofy ahh new mechanic (terrastilization) and some goofy new pokemon. I mean pokemon really only 2 games: mainline and legends arceus. The game sucks.
  38. honkailoser
    May 28, 2023
    0
    bo ditemelo voi.. ........................................................................................
  39. Adoviron
    Aug 2, 2023
    0
    I made this account to warn all of you who are thinking of buying this game.
    I regret every penny I spent on it.
    It's a horrible cashgrab low quality game. Animations in some scenes are in 3-5 FPS! Gameplay and storyline is empty and without a soul. Every aspect of this game is a complete trash. Some textures are as low as in Nintendo 64 and right next to it it is mixed with hires    I made this account to warn all of you who are thinking of buying this game.
    I regret every penny I spent on it.
    It's a horrible cashgrab low quality game. Animations in some scenes are in 3-5 FPS!
    Gameplay and storyline is empty and without a soul. Every aspect of this game is a complete trash. Some textures are as low as in Nintendo 64 and right next to it it is mixed with hires texture of a tree for example. Complete chaos, empty world full of meaningless tasks.
    It's the worst game I've played on a Switch so far and i've had it for 5 years now.    … Expand
  40. Impe97
    Aug 29, 2023
    0
    People that vote good have serious problem, that game its almost a scam and a ruin for pokemon, like all the pokemon switch games
  41. crebilosvaldo
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game sucks i dont like it i think its smelly bad and the fos drops even more then my grades did when i got in college… Expand
  42. TreasureOrTrash
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  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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