Pokemon Scarlet

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3.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3197 Ratings

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  1. starrywhale
    Nov 19, 2022
    1
    This game is utter trash, I’m trying my best to love it I really am, but it is HARD!!! Beyond the graphical glitches and all that (which are extremely notable and upsetting, but we know about those) this game is clearly completely rushed and unfinished. For the first time i’m series history you cannot enter a single NPC house, and what few shops you can enter, 90% of them are menus. TownsThis game is utter trash, I’m trying my best to love it I really am, but it is HARD!!! Beyond the graphical glitches and all that (which are extremely notable and upsetting, but we know about those) this game is clearly completely rushed and unfinished. For the first time i’m series history you cannot enter a single NPC house, and what few shops you can enter, 90% of them are menus. Towns are empty and lifeless, and have nothing fun to run around an d look at, most of the npcs have little to nothing to say at all, shops are copy and pasted all over in the main town with nothing else to do at all!!

    the pokémon and player models look really good actually,,, unless you’re more than 3 inches away!! Get a few feet away and they turn into laggy stuttering low poly distractions, even further back and they start to flicker in and out like a sad ghost. it’s downright distracting.

    Don’t even get me started on the battles, IMO legends arceus fully perfected the battle system, perfectly streamlined fast and exciting, with engaging new modes and ways to spice things up. animations were on point, interactive, and excepting, this game completely guts every single aspect of that in favor of a slow, bogged down, un interactive boring back and forth that is boring and a chore. Also they removed the ability to throw poke balls in the wild you have to initiate battle again ://

    I want to love this game so much, I truly do, and there are parts of it that feel fun, but it is all wrapped in a package of horrible optimized, completely underbaked (I would go as far as to say fully uncooked) embarrassingly atrocious .. I don’t even know what.    … Expand
  2. Kiyi
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Calificar a este juego es muy duro, pero lo es más tener que ver la pereza y la poca dedicación que le pusieron al crear el juego, no tienen vergüenza al ponerte este juego a 60€ y sacarlo en el estado en el que está, parece una pre alfa, no tiene buenas texturas, caidas de fps a cada rato, no hay subida de nivel exponencial de los lideres de gimnacio, los gráficos dan pena, teniendo enCalificar a este juego es muy duro, pero lo es más tener que ver la pereza y la poca dedicación que le pusieron al crear el juego, no tienen vergüenza al ponerte este juego a 60€ y sacarlo en el estado en el que está, parece una pre alfa, no tiene buenas texturas, caidas de fps a cada rato, no hay subida de nivel exponencial de los lideres de gimnacio, los gráficos dan pena, teniendo en cuenta que hay juegos como el Zelda Botw que corren con gráficos hermosos y sin caidas de fps cada segundo, hay bugs y glitches por doquier, errores en las animaciones de los personajes, animaciones de los npcs que parecen sacadas de un zoo Tycoon, la personalización de la vestimenta es pobre, te obligan a llevar entre 4 uniformes que a mi parecer solo te hacen lucir como otro npc más y un sin fin de cosas negativas que existen en este juego

    Por otro lado, también está lo positivo, que realmente solo es la historia y el modo cooperativo online, más allá de eso, solo es un producto decepcionante al cual no le han puesto ni el más minimo esfuerzo ni amor para hacerlo

    No recomiendo gastar tu tiempo y dinero en juegos como este, solo queda esperar a que saquen un parche que por lo menos arreglen el rendimiento tan pobre que tiene.    … Expand
  3. Rarel
    Nov 19, 2022
    1
    Problemas con texturas, los Pokémon salvajes casi ni los ves, bajadas de fps, animaciones quedan grima ... Y mucho más. Aunque podría a ver sido un gran juego, por el cambio en el estilo de juego y la liberta, la falta de tiempo de desarrollo o la tranquilidad de saber que van a forrarse ha jodido este juego. Sólo queda esperar que Game freak de la cara y se pongan a parchear y poder asíProblemas con texturas, los Pokémon salvajes casi ni los ves, bajadas de fps, animaciones quedan grima ... Y mucho más. Aunque podría a ver sido un gran juego, por el cambio en el estilo de juego y la liberta, la falta de tiempo de desarrollo o la tranquilidad de saber que van a forrarse ha jodido este juego. Sólo queda esperar que Game freak de la cara y se pongan a parchear y poder así disfrutar de la experiencia que se nos prometió y por la que hemos pagado. Como fan de la saga el como ha salido este juego me ha dolido.… Expand
  4. blueThunder00
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    I've been a fan of the Pokémon franchise from a while (more than 20 years) now.
    This game is just unacceptable.
    I could have accepted the perfomance issues, the glitches and the bugs if the game was actually fine. However the open world is a dead and empty huge map with nothing to do. Dungeons are a joke, they are just go from point A to point B. You cannot even explore cities and    I've been a fan of the Pokémon franchise from a while (more than 20 years) now.
    This game is just unacceptable.
    I could have accepted the perfomance issues, the glitches and the bugs if the game was actually fine.
    However the open world is a dead and empty huge map with nothing to do. Dungeons are a joke, they are just go from point A to point B.
    You cannot even explore cities and villages, as you cannot enter in most of the buildings and the shops are just UI menus copied and pasted all over.
    No fun, no challenge, poor performance, bugged as hell. I won't buy Pokémon games anymore if this is the quality they propose.    … Expand
  5. Rakounne
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    I'm a very huge fan of the license since the first, but sadly it will be the last pokemon game I buy. The game is full of bug, lag and aliasing that just ruin my experience. The new mechanics are really cool but sadly i can't really enjoy them because of how ugly and laggy the game is. Please Gamefrek take your time to finish game properly.
  6. YMHNaiken
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    The game is a straight up **** show... The Pokémon Company, Gamefreak and Nintendo should be ashamed of them selves putting this game out like this.

    - Terrain glitches - Lighting glitches - Background glitches - Texture glitches And the game runs on a average far bellow the 30fps... I don't think it runs on a 20 fps. Huge disappointment. I bought the dual pack so that is 120eu    The game is a straight up **** show... The Pokémon Company, Gamefreak and Nintendo should be ashamed of them selves putting this game out like this.

    - Terrain glitches
    - Lighting glitches
    - Background glitches
    - Texture glitches

    And the game runs on a average far bellow the 30fps... I don't think it runs on a 20 fps. Huge disappointment.

    I bought the dual pack so that is 120eu down the drain! They are never going to be able patch this.    … Expand
  7. Phazanor
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    This game is years behind what is possible on the Switch. It is fine for children but if you're an older fan you might be disappointed. The story is bland, there is no difficulty, the graphics are not on par with what's expected today and there are lots of glitches, even if minor.
    I liked the new designs but not the new gimmick.
  8. web8823
    Nov 21, 2022
    1
    I have no ideas how could this buggy, semi-finished game score 77 from critic reviews (44 reviews).

    I could literally feel the disrespect and arrogance from Game Freak during playing. This disgusting attitude shall not be forgiven and abetted, or fans would just continue being suffering from paying-for-sheets. The only one score I gave was due to more handy UX for bags and tools in    I have no ideas how could this buggy, semi-finished game score 77 from critic reviews (44 reviews).

    I could literally feel the disrespect and arrogance from Game Freak during playing. This disgusting attitude shall not be forgiven and abetted, or fans would just continue being suffering from paying-for-sheets.

    The only one score I gave was due to more handy UX for bags and tools in contrast to SwSh's; accessing the Pokemon boxes and navigating are laggy tho.

    Just avoid this game if you don't wanna get disappointed, especially after watching all the trailers, and don't forget how much effort GF put into promoting this title, then you would realize how dare they:) sell us this semi-finished product.    … Expand
  9. megayadoran
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    This game just doesn't feel finished. GameFreak did an incredible job with PLA. They had us wondering what they could truly pull off with a 3D game if given proper feedback, but now it seems like they've taken a step back in every way possible.
  10. am_ZM
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Je joue a tout les jeux pokemon depuis leurs sortie sur game boy, j'ai découvert les amélioration technique et scénaristique, les jeux ont changer depuis XY qui à mes yeux est le vrais dernier jeu pokemon avec de beau graphisme, de bonne idée de gameplay et un bon scenario, pokemon scarlet est tres mauvais, visuelement moche avec énormément de texture floue, des models 3D ultra simplisteJe joue a tout les jeux pokemon depuis leurs sortie sur game boy, j'ai découvert les amélioration technique et scénaristique, les jeux ont changer depuis XY qui à mes yeux est le vrais dernier jeu pokemon avec de beau graphisme, de bonne idée de gameplay et un bon scenario, pokemon scarlet est tres mauvais, visuelement moche avec énormément de texture floue, des models 3D ultra simpliste et une construction de l’environnement maladroit avec des montagnes qui ne ressemble a rien, un énorme aliasing surtout visible sur dock, du poping, des pnj qui ont un cycle d'anime qui se remet a zero quand on regarde ailler, et surtout d'énorme baisse d'fps
    Pour l'histoire maleureusement on reste toujours tres bas, il n'y a aucun dialogue doublé rien à changer de ce coté là depuis l'épisode game boy, nous avons aussi dans ce jeu des personnages tres insuportable qui font constamment des intervention ou arrive de nullepart pour nous parler avec toujours cette ambiance niaise

    Le jeu est TRES TRES facile, je n'ai pas encore vue un seul obstacle, notre rival nous donne constamment des objets de soin à chaque obstacle, aucun dresseur nous propose de combat au contraire nous devons allez leurs parlé pour avoir un combat ce qui est une énorme erreur à mes yeux, on n'a plus le stresse de ne pas réussir une arène ou réussire a arriver a la prochaine ville, d'ailleur pour la difficulté j'ai remarquer que les pokemons sauvages ont moins tendances à te foncé dessus te risquant d'avoir un combat, on peut facilement les esquivé.

    Pour la cohérence de l'univers en dehors des doublages inexistant, il n'y a pas de bonne mise en scene, les pokemons sauvages ne semble pas avoir de volonté propre et ne font que se déplacé sur la map là ou les dévelopeurs ont posé leurs spawn, aucun pokemon n'attaque d'aute pokemons par exemple, ou fait des grand trajet juste une mini zone et on va les voir pour en capturé un ...
    Les pnj aussi sont plat, allé retour, sur place avec une boucle d'anim totalement visible, des pnj qui se resembles les un les autres, aucune fluidité ou réaliste est apporté là dessus, ce qui donne l'impression d'etre entouré de robots

    Les villes sont malheureusement juste là pour faire beau, la plus part des bâtiments sont copier collé, avec aucune possibilité de rentré et discuté avec les habitant, meme la grande ville est vide avec des escalier géant, des rue aussi grandes que des stade de foot, et des magasin copier collé sans intérieur, simplement un menu ...

    Notre personnage principal est ... bizarre, très neutre pour avoir qu'un seul style d'animation, le garçon et la fille ont pratiquement la meme tete et les mêmes proportions, ce qui donne une mauvaise impression de garçon manqué, ou de fille garçonne, ce qui ne plaira ni a fan des anciens personnages féminin ou masculin,qui avais chacun leurs charisme (parfois on relancer une partie juste pour joué l'autre personnage) Pour notre personnage et les pnj tout semble etre fait pour aller vite, les enfants et ado ont les memes animations, les femmes et homme aussi, et ils ont meme mis des femmes ultra costaux sans aucune explications sauf pour recyclé les animations des hommes musclé

    Les musiques sont aussi tres mauvaise, composé par un indépendant, qui a fait des jeux que certains peuvent aimé, mais ça n'en fait pas un mec super fort en musique sachant qu'il y a beaucoup d’excellent compositeur déjà pressant dans la série, toby fox à surement son style de musique, mais elles sonnes plates et répétitive quand on joue, surtout dans un open world comme celui ci.

    Le jeu soufre principalement des choix de gamefreak, une petite équipe qui n'a pas envie de faire du gros jeux, peut de temps ce qui fait maleureusement de mauvais jeux chaque année, là avant sur console portable certains choix pouvais etre accepté, sur une console de salon de nombreus souci ne sont plus excusable surtout quand on sais qu'ils peuvent faire mieux et qu'il n'y a aucune pression financière sur le projet, j'espere que les critiques négative vont permettre au studio de changé , proposer des jeux meilleurs    … Expand
  11. Sayoshy
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    There's no excuse for a switch game to look this bad. Zelda breath of the wild which came out in 2017 with the first version of switch in comparison looks like a game on par with GOW graphically speaking not to mention the presence of numerous bug glitches. Why they rely on Game Freak when an amateur developer would do better. The only good things is the lore and the new game system
  12. Diegolas1991
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El peor juego de pokemon realizado en mucho tiempo, tiene 2 o 3 buenas ideas muy mal implementadas, las 3 historias son terribles, o las realizas todas simultaneamente o te encontraras en combates con 30/40 niveles de desnivel. Las ciudades se sienten vacias, tecnicamente es un desastre, la teracristalizacion otra mecanica absurda y estupida como los gigamax movimientos z etc. En resumen un juego vago sin real innovacion pues esa se la llevo leyendas arceus.… Expand
  13. Jmack01
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Where to start, this game and its quality are appalling and to be released in this state is tragic, the frame rate is atrocious, the texture load in and out, the pop in is terrible all this package for the price of $60 is an absolute joke, a complete cash grab and clearly lazy sloppy work from incompetent developers, disgusting.
  14. Supercarrozzato
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Really bad technical condition. Graphics make even my dog ​​cry. I hope one day they can fix this with a patch.
  15. naproxenoo
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Jogo com muitos bugs, gráficos muito ruins e com serrilhados e preço muito alto para um jogo assim
  16. Muna21
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    The fact that this game was launched in this state and with a full price is embarrassing.
    Set aside the 2005 graphics, and the barely acceptable animations, the game has very little to offer.
    The region of Paldea is incredibly sterile: there is almost no indoor spaces, even in the big city int he middle of the region. NPCs have nothing to add tot he depth of the world, dialogues and    The fact that this game was launched in this state and with a full price is embarrassing.
    Set aside the 2005 graphics, and the barely acceptable animations, the game has very little to offer.
    The region of Paldea is incredibly sterile: there is almost no indoor spaces, even in the big city int he middle of the region. NPCs have nothing to add tot he depth of the world, dialogues and lines mean absolutely nothing. Animations of the characters are barely acceptable.
    If the artistic direction is problematic, well, the optimisation of the game in the console is unacceptable. The game struggles a lot: frame rate drops drastically in the most randome moments, characters/props and pokemon flickers constantly, and the animations of what's on the map is so slow that it looks like you're playing a stop motion videogame.
    I am shocked at all the journalists and critics that gave a score higher than 4 to this game.    … Expand
  17. Nancii
    Nov 21, 2022
    1
    Ho un nervoso tale che non mi va manco di tradurlo dunque usate Google Lens. Voglio seriamente capire come si fa a valutare questo gioco con voti che vanno oltre alla sufficienza, la critica dovrebbe essere la prima a dire che è un gigantesco ammasso di fango e invece vanno a mettere voti come "100".
    Non nego che ci sta una piccola perla in questo gioco ma sapere che per raggiungere questa    Ho un nervoso tale che non mi va manco di tradurlo dunque usate Google Lens. Voglio seriamente capire come si fa a valutare questo gioco con voti che vanno oltre alla sufficienza, la critica dovrebbe essere la prima a dire che è un gigantesco ammasso di fango e invece vanno a mettere voti come "100".
    Non nego che ci sta una piccola perla in questo gioco ma sapere che per raggiungere questa "perla" devo infilare il braccio nel fango (per essere gentili) mi fa venire un senso di schifo inammissibile. Carissimi new entry del franchise a sto giro game freak e tutto ciò che ci sta dietro ha esagerato e non stupitevi se una buona parte dei fan sono stufi , dopo continue prese per il culo è pure gentile dare 1 o 2 a questo gioco non finito . Il continuo lag sarà molto difficile da risolvere se non impossibile che vada a sistemarsi con una patch, è dovuto a codici di gioco dunque non sperateci troppo    … Expand
  18. Robyjes
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    The Game have a lot of bugs and tecnical problems. The npc's animations hane no fps and in general the entire game run below 25 fps in certain places drop to less than 10 fps. A major part of the new pokemons are ridiculous. Game freak is a junk developer.
  19. mmiller
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    From the very start, this game is riddled with bugs, awful textures and animations, and absolutely embarrassing landscapes. I've seen student made games with more polish, so I expect far more from the most profitable franchise in the world. The fact that this was released 6 years after Breath of the Wild on the same hardware is so astounding that it's almost funny.
  20. Futurnildo
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    The worst pokemon game ever. The minimap works at 2 fps. Nothing about the pokemons over the world, they look like the gba game sprites...60€ of real **** at the point that P Legends Arceus looks like a good game now. The concep of the game it's really nice but the performance is awful taking into account that in the Switch you can play Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade, The Witcher 3... NOTThe worst pokemon game ever. The minimap works at 2 fps. Nothing about the pokemons over the world, they look like the gba game sprites...60€ of real **** at the point that P Legends Arceus looks like a good game now. The concep of the game it's really nice but the performance is awful taking into account that in the Switch you can play Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade, The Witcher 3... NOT RECOMMENDED.… Expand
  21. Puppycuddles
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    I am beyond disappointed. I bought the double pack and wow… I should have waited to read reviews and even spoil the game for myself just to save myself from GameFreak doing a cash grab on this Alpha Status Game! How do you go from legends arceus to this?? How is this okay? This is shameful.
  22. Sadlamps
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    A incredibly huge disappointment. Both in comparison to PLA and on its own. How this got greenlit to be sold is beyond me....
  23. Azath12
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Los peores $60 dolares invertidos en mi vida, no se lo compren. Juego roto y una completa estafa
  24. Benjaminavon
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    I’m not gonna go in detail because all that can be said has been said already.

    One word: unacceptable.

    It’s 2022. Biggest franchise in the world. First party triple a game. How is this even happening?

    If the issues get fixed - easy 8/10

    But at this state? 1/10.
  25. Johnnythorpe198
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    I keep trying to find redeeming features in these games, but I don't think I've truly enjoyed a Pokemon game since Black and White, or the Ruby Saphire remakes. Each game twists a little further away from the qualities which the original games captured so well. I've barely started this but it feels like it's half finished, a sparce open world which is empty of any charm, intrigue or fun.I keep trying to find redeeming features in these games, but I don't think I've truly enjoyed a Pokemon game since Black and White, or the Ruby Saphire remakes. Each game twists a little further away from the qualities which the original games captured so well. I've barely started this but it feels like it's half finished, a sparce open world which is empty of any charm, intrigue or fun. Packed full of bizzare features, world breaking loading screens and unrelatable characters. I'm sad to say it might well be the last pokemon game I buy.… Expand
  26. Joseolmos6491
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Muchos bugs, las texturas popean y son de baja calidad, las áreas abiertas están muertas, la historia aburrida, etc etc etc
  27. Zjaczx
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Is bad optimitazion and bad reference graphics deberian de darnos lo que los fans se merecen… Expand
  28. Untamedduck
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    It’s like they didn’t have a single quality tester. Game runs absolutely horribly.
  29. JRBissett
    Nov 20, 2022
    1
    Graphic fidelity and performance are atrocious. A massive step back for the franchise
  30. Mint11037
    Dec 13, 2022
    1
    Una completa basura de juego, bugs horribles, gráficos de Nintendo 64, diseño de Pokémon y personajes pésimo, y una historia aburrida y predecible.
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Metascore
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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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