Pokemon Scarlet

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3.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3197 Ratings

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  1. Klusterx
    Nov 24, 2022
    1
    Has a good game on It's base but runs awfully and the graphics are atrocious
  2. TJD2
    Nov 24, 2022
    7
    The game is fun to play and the Pokemon designs are pretty good. That said, the game is marred by technical issues and poor performance. The framerate will stutter and the game will slow down to a crawl even when nothing is going on. It feels like a power point at times. The open-world ambition is offset by these issues and they are too glaring to overlook. I wanted to absolutely loveThe game is fun to play and the Pokemon designs are pretty good. That said, the game is marred by technical issues and poor performance. The framerate will stutter and the game will slow down to a crawl even when nothing is going on. It feels like a power point at times. The open-world ambition is offset by these issues and they are too glaring to overlook. I wanted to absolutely love this game, and I like it enough not to return it, but Pokemon Legends Arceus is a much better game that does not suffer these problems. If a patch is not released soon I may not even end up beating this one.… Expand
  3. TimmoUK
    Nov 24, 2022
    8
    Technical issues aside the game is worth playing with fun gameplay and a great open world.
  4. plop159
    Nov 24, 2022
    1
    the poor technical aspect ruins the whole game !! And even if it's super ugly, the framerate is always below 30FPS....
  5. Pathor
    Nov 24, 2022
    6
    Empecemos con los aspectos positivos.

    Es el mejor juego de Pokemon a nivel jugable nunca hecho. Llevo 30h de juego y solo había sentido ese cosquilleo cuando empecé a jugar la saga con el Esmeralda y el Platino. Me encanta perderme por el mundo abierto y explorar hasta el último rincón, por eso llevo 30h y todavía no he completado la historia. Lo que llevo de historia me está    Empecemos con los aspectos positivos.

    Es el mejor juego de Pokemon a nivel jugable nunca hecho. Llevo 30h de juego y solo había sentido ese cosquilleo cuando empecé a jugar la saga con el Esmeralda y el Platino.

    Me encanta perderme por el mundo abierto y explorar hasta el último rincón, por eso llevo 30h y todavía no he completado la historia.

    Lo que llevo de historia me está gustando mucho, quizá la historia del team Star es la mas aburrida. La vía del campeón es normalita pero bueno es ganar los gimnasios y la liga pokemon me gusta, soy un clásico. Y la historia de los pokemon dominantes es preciosa mis dieces ahí.

    Los pokemon en el mundo abierto se sienten mucho mas vivos e integrados que en el Arceus, aunque todavía haya mucho que mejorar si se siente que estoy en el mundo pokemon y eso me encanta.

    El sistema este de lanzar al pokemon y que combata solo esta chulo, no me parece la revolución de la industria, pero oye es un añadido más que se siente fresco y funciona guay. Eso sí, las bases del team star de lanzar a tus 3 pokemon a porron es un toston, es literalmente moverte y pulsar la R, no he tardado más de 2min en ninguna. Hay que darle una vueltecita a esto.

    Los personajes son todos muy carismáticos, ayuda a amenizar las historias.

    Para mi el juego, a nivel jugable es un 8 - 9, ¿ que me faltaría para ponerle un 10?

    - Me faltan misiones secundarias para ampliar el mundo, era algo que se agradecía mucho en Arceus y simplemente no meterlas aquí me da la sensación que es por falta de tiempo.

    - La captura, el sistema introducido en Arceus es inmejorable, me parece un paso atrás aunque esto parece ser más una decisión corporativa para separar las sagas.

    - No se cómo será el post game así que no voy a criticar mucho por aquí, pero que quiten el frente batalla en algunos juegos siempre me parecera un error grave.

    - Sigo sin aceptar que no esten TODOS los pokemon, no hay excusas. Es cuestión de echarle tiempo y Pokemon Company tiene los recursos.

    Con esos 4 puntos el juego sería un 10 indiscutible a nivel jugable.

    Vayamos con lo malo:

    Por que pongo al juego un 6, porque está absolutamente roto.

    Cuando juego Pokemon no busco un portento gráfico, ok, asumo que los gráficos van a ser malos y no voy a juzgar ese aspecto, me gustaría que fuesen mejores, pero no me resta a la experiencia.
    (A esto hay que decir que le salva un poco la paleta de colores y el estilo artístico que le han querido dar con lo poco que tenían.)

    Pero por dios, ya que haces un juego que visualmente es horrible lo mínimo que se puede pedir es una fluidez mínima.

    Por un lado están los bugs, que si bien es cierto que te sacan mucho de la experiencia de inmersión, no es algo que afecte mucho a nivel jugable. Al final si te quedas atascado siempre puedes usar el taxi volador por ejemplo. Lo que más me molesta a nivel visual son algunas montañas que son malditos triángulos horrendos, sombras que aparecen y desaparecen por todas partes y pokémon que entras en combate y cargan con polígonos super triangulares.

    Pero hay dos cosas que me sacan de quicio a nivel jugable y que son intolerables:

    - Los fps en algunas zonas, dios he llegado al líder del team star de hada (zona nevada) y el juego iba a pedales, cómo cuando tienes un móvil de más de 5 años y quieres abrir el whatsapp y te tarda muchísimo. La misma sensación horrible, de verdad me estaba tirando de los pelos.

    - Cuando entras en combate con un pokemon salvaje. Dios en el Arceus esto iba perfecto le tirabas al pokemon parpadeabas y ya estabas combatiendo. Aquí parece que se queda pensando unos segundos muy molestos, el pokemon salvaje tarda tiempo en cargar. Me jode mucho el ritmo y no entiendo este paso atrás cuando en el Arceus iba espectacular este apartado.

    Mis conclusiones, si te gusta Pokemon este juego te va a encantar si o sí, el que te diga que es mal juego miente. Es un juego de pokemon divertidisimo de verdad me da mucha rabia no ponerle un 8 o 9, pero de verdad se ve lastrado por un rendimiento terrible y cómo seas una persona que se le atraganta ese tipo de rendimiento vas a querer tirar el juego a la basura.    … Expand
  6. metta_love
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    It can be one of the best game on Nintendo Switch, but now physical version will be for ever broken - when servers will be down!
  7. LonelyAutomata
    Nov 24, 2022
    3
    This can't be considered a finished product. The presentation is closer to bad shovelware than an actual First Party Nintendo game. I usually expect a high level of care of polish among Nintendo games, but this is the one that has broken the expectations. This looks like an early access beta that was rushed into retail when it was not remotely finished. It's the equivalent of getting toThis can't be considered a finished product. The presentation is closer to bad shovelware than an actual First Party Nintendo game. I usually expect a high level of care of polish among Nintendo games, but this is the one that has broken the expectations. This looks like an early access beta that was rushed into retail when it was not remotely finished. It's the equivalent of getting to the deadline and saying "Fudge it, let's release it anyways, I'm sure the client won't care that much", rather than asking for a extension.

    I expected more from you, Nintendo. Score will go up when updates are released and the game is in a finished state, if that ever happens.    … Expand
  8. BUBATZO
    Nov 24, 2022
    8
    Pokemon Scarlet and Violets open-world game-play is the next step in the direction of the Pokemon franchise, its game-play is extremely fun and very addicting. Sadly it has many bugs, which gives the player the feeling of playing a beta-version of the finished game. Yet the bugs don´t really matter to me, therefore im giving 8 out of 10 stars.
  9. Cronodougs
    Nov 24, 2022
    5
    Pokemon Legends Arceus even with its problems is a masterpiece close to that, deserving reviews between 7 to 8. Scarlet & Violet have constant stutters, fps 15~20, bad rendering distance, poorly applied textures, empty world AND FULL OF BUGS! A $60 game for those competitive crybabies where quality doesn't matter. Where do fanboys think something like this deserves an 80~100? XenobladePokemon Legends Arceus even with its problems is a masterpiece close to that, deserving reviews between 7 to 8. Scarlet & Violet have constant stutters, fps 15~20, bad rendering distance, poorly applied textures, empty world AND FULL OF BUGS! A $60 game for those competitive crybabies where quality doesn't matter. Where do fanboys think something like this deserves an 80~100? Xenoblade Chronicles 3 destroys this game.… Expand
  10. Araune
    Nov 24, 2022
    10
    What is wrong with these reviews? I had zero bugs, the overworld is nice, we have three storylines, and it's the first good story in my opinion. I really don't know why this game gets such negative reviews. I love it.
  11. rizrizriz
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    The worst Pokemon game I've ever played. Empty, flat, and bland open world ridden with bugs. Not worth your money and I wish I could get a refund.
  12. 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.
  13. Stevethepopo
    Nov 24, 2022
    1
    A hot fuming mess GF should be ashamed of. Ugly design, bug everywhere. GF need to swLlow the pride and make other better at 3d code game entity work on the IP
  14. Izanagiin
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    Ignore the paid critics. Need I remind everyone that Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade 2, and Super Mario Odyssey exist on the same console and all three released 5 years ago ON THE SAME YEAR THE SWITCH CAME OUT. It's absurd and unacceptable to think we've regressed and gone backwards. There's zero excuse to have a game as buggy and messy as this in the current year. It's even worse toIgnore the paid critics. Need I remind everyone that Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade 2, and Super Mario Odyssey exist on the same console and all three released 5 years ago ON THE SAME YEAR THE SWITCH CAME OUT. It's absurd and unacceptable to think we've regressed and gone backwards. There's zero excuse to have a game as buggy and messy as this in the current year. It's even worse to consider the fact that fans and critics turn a blind eye just for the very reason that it's a series as massive as Pokémon. What a joke. They should consider going back to the drawing board and actually giving this game and the fans the polish they deserve. Too bad that won't happen, and people will continue to consume this lousy excuse of a product.… Expand
  15. PawOfLaw
    Nov 24, 2022
    5
    The story is interesting, the new pokemon kind of cool and i like the new characters the story introduces. But thats it for the good stuff.

    The technical point of the game is really terrible. It lags, animations get choppy when you are further away, the textures for the ground cant even hold up to Pokemon Arceus. If you look at a comparision you might even think that another developer    The story is interesting, the new pokemon kind of cool and i like the new characters the story introduces. But thats it for the good stuff.

    The technical point of the game is really terrible. It lags, animations get choppy when you are further away, the textures for the ground cant even hold up to Pokemon Arceus. If you look at a comparision you might even think that another developer team did the new game, since its just really blank in contrast to Arceus. The fluid transition from running in the open world to a battle we had in Pokemon Arceus is just gone, which takes the flow out of the game.

    I really love the story and want to keep going, but currently the game doesnt pull me in like Pokemon Arceus did, since the whole game just seems way to bland.    … Expand
  16. Leroidesglaces
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    C'est le pire jeux de la décennies des bug a tous va un visuel moche a se crevé les yeux pokemon après se jeux pourrais faire un partenariat avec des vendeur de lunettes tellement le jeux est flout.

    Le jeu en lui même a part le graphisme les pokémon on n'a déjà vu mieux les légendaire il s'ont aucun charisme a part Miradon et Koridon La maps est grand même trop grand pour faire jeu comme    C'est le pire jeux de la décennies des bug a tous va un visuel moche a se crevé les yeux pokemon après se jeux pourrais faire un partenariat avec des vendeur de lunettes tellement le jeux est flout.

    Le jeu en lui même a part le graphisme les pokémon on n'a déjà vu mieux les légendaire il s'ont aucun charisme a part Miradon et Koridon
    La maps est grand même trop grand pour faire jeu comme Ubisoft des grand maps vide et pas bien optimisé avec plein de bug.

    Les points positifs Les visuels 3d des Pokémon et des personnages aussi des intérieurs des bâtiments très travaillé
    Les combats un plus difficile pour moi c'est bien
    Le plus important c'est la fin avec l'histoire des légendaire Koridon et Miradon qui était bien explicite mais un petit moment dommage.    … Expand
  17. jpruedag
    Nov 23, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game seems like an old man’s desperate attempt to modernize a franchise. Beyond bugs and uneven graphics, Game Freak still struggles to take Pokémon to the state games look and work in 2022. The game is evidently unfinished. You can no longer access buildings, and even stores are no longer 3D rendered spaces, as they have been turned into flat menus that break into your screen when you “go through a door”. They couldn't even bother to give a background to the Elite 4 members and went for a generic battle arena where you wait for the next one to show up. The open world is fun enough to explore, but the map is almost impossible to work with, zooming in and out returns you to the place you’re at, forcing you to start over if you’re looking for a specific city or area you need to go to, there’s so little information or clues to help you navigate, you’re left alone, forced to get lost and move around Paldea with no sense of what an ideal progression should be (unless you take it to yourself and look it up online, but games shouldn’t give us homework). Ok, honestly, exploring a Pokémon world with no compass might seem like a fun thing to do, and it would be, if the game’s difficulty would adapt to the player’s level, thus becoming a unique experience for every user and an overall gratifying playthrough. It doesn’t. If you take the “wrong path” you’ll be facing tough challenges at first (a nice change of pace for a game that loves to hold hands and treat everyone like a 2 year old), but then again, if you do so, everything else will be so ridiculously easy it’ll become a chore to actually finish the game. This time around they decided to mix up the formula by threading 3 different storylines into the main game. And I was excited at first. Then I realized it’s the same 3 challenges over and over and over again. Gyms are a joke as usual, easy to defeat with one move. Titans have the exact same mechanic 5 times in a row: fight, defeat, follow the titan two steps further, fight again. Arven shows up. He prepares a sandwich. He gives you a sandwich. You give the sandwich to Koraidon. Arven gets mad at koraidon. Arven gives his sandwich to his own Pokémon. The Pokémon feels a bit better. Every single time. Same animation. Same dialogue. It’s infuriating. And finally there’s team star. Where you get into a base and run around pressing the R button for a challenge they pretend is harder than it looks. Then face the leader, defeat with one super effective move, listen to the story of how they were bullied into leaving the academy. And that’s that. Repetitive, unimaginative, it doesn’t ask us to be creative or strategic. Just learn one move that’s super effective and keep pressing that A button. To be fair, the new Pokémon do introduce new mechanics, new abilities and new moves that will make battling with friends more exciting. But if that’s what you’re selling, then cut out the mediocre storyline you force us into. Is it better than Gens 6, 7, and 8? Yes. Is it thousands of years away from the original 5? 100%. Pokémon used to push the boundaries of handheld systems. Now it’s the punchline of how bad a game can be and still sellout in stores.… Expand
  18. aemrvw
    Nov 23, 2022
    8
    Fun and entertaining new Pokémon game, that is restrained by outdated graphics, bugs and performance issues.
  19. fiziasso
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    As a pokemon genre it is pretty good. New pokemons are great. World is interesting. Problem is the game itself. Unpolished, unfinished, unplayable at some points. This should be in production for one more year or more. Performance is really bad, many problem with COOP, hollow cities, npc that are just standing. Move too good direction but the game is rushed. I think they do not predictAs a pokemon genre it is pretty good. New pokemons are great. World is interesting. Problem is the game itself. Unpolished, unfinished, unplayable at some points. This should be in production for one more year or more. Performance is really bad, many problem with COOP, hollow cities, npc that are just standing. Move too good direction but the game is rushed. I think they do not predict Legends of Arceus will be so good with people and then rushed new project on few months. Its a shame.… Expand
  20. Kasra-Hakimi
    Nov 23, 2022
    0
    It's not even a complete game in my opinion, they just added some new pokemon and a motorcycle pokemon and then released the game with many technical issues
  21. 777g
    Nov 23, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game is extremely buggy, lighting is choppy and doesn’t generally work, and the amount of framerate dips is appalling. Otherwise the game can be decently fun in a perfect situation.… Expand
  22. jkaloy
    Nov 23, 2022
    10
    best pokemon game ever. yeah, the game has some performance issue blah blah blah but you can't deny the fact that this game is the most enjoyable game by far. coming from a guy who plays all pokemon genaration
  23. moonlight3000
    Nov 23, 2022
    10
    Best Pokémon entry so far. Does many things that should have been present in the 3D titles long ago. Very buggy at the moment but still very playable and I recommend to any fan of Pokémon.
  24. Wolfw00d
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    The gyms are boring, the other quests not much better, the game is linear. the ai is like a baby, no skill at all. Frame rates are is shocking, my file corrupted three times, last time literally as I was winning the champion battle. Things like using sunny day doesn't stop rain. It's like an early access beta version
  25. JacalGames
    Nov 23, 2022
    10
    Grandísimo juego, muy bueno, llevo 10h de juego 0 fallos nada de lo que dicen y muestran por las redes. Ni caso solo están buscando opacar un juego muy bueno.
  26. Nintenderek
    Nov 23, 2022
    8
    I have been a Pokemon fan since nearly day 1 and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are the games that give me the closest feeling to playing Pokemon Red for the first time in all of the right ways, but also in all the bad ways as well.

    First the new Pokemon designs are great. There are a lot of new Pokemon that I really enjoy and there's a lot of new favorites for me. Palafin, Greavard,    I have been a Pokemon fan since nearly day 1 and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are the games that give me the closest feeling to playing Pokemon Red for the first time in all of the right ways, but also in all the bad ways as well.

    First the new Pokemon designs are great. There are a lot of new Pokemon that I really enjoy and there's a lot of new favorites for me. Palafin, Greavard, Scovillain, Revavroom, Baxcalibur, Nacli, Iron Thorns, Armarouge, Ceruledge, Tinkaton are all personal favorites of mine. That being said, for a Pokemon that's based on time travel, it's kind of weird that we don't have new fossil Pokemon, nor a new version of Porygon, in fact Porygon isn't even in the game. That being said, the selection of returning Pokemon is quite good and I think most people will find at least a few of their favorites have returned.

    I do like the music and sounds. The sound track is one of the best of any game on the Switch and the sounds all come out perfectly clear. The environments are also generally quite nice, but we should probably mention the elephant in the room. The performance of these games are not great. There are FPS dips. There are graphical glitches. Pokemon is a game series that became popular due to glitches from the very start. Things like Missingno in Red and Blue and the clone glitch in Gold and Silver are part of what made those games so easy to talk about and there are glitches like that here, like one that allows you to make your character run faster. However, the overwhelming amount of glitches and performance issues in this game are bad and can be distracting at times.

    As for exploring the world, I also have mixed feelings here. If you are just exploring the world, looking for whatever as you wander around you'll have quite a bit of fun. There's LOTS of pokemon to see and catch and there's lots of other sights to see and things to do. It's just plain and simple fun. The problem comes in if you are looking for a specific location to go to. The map AI in this game is horrible. When you first open it up, it sometimes rotates around until you realize there's a setting to turn that off. They do not make it super clear that you can turn it off however and the button that shows you can could mean a lot of different things. Even besides that though, the map still isn't good. There's no way to toggle icons off, making it difficult to find the specific one you want to put a waypoint on it and it doesn't make it easy to figure out how to get from one location to the next. Towns barely feel like they matter anyway with the open world being built the way it is. Each town you'll beat the gym and possibly never care to visit again.

    Speaking of gyms, the gym leaders and characters of this game are quite impressive. I find all of them to be unique and interesting. The story is also very good. I would say it's not quite as good as Black and White, but that's the games that it closest compares to. Certainly better than most Pokemon games. Outside of world exploration, the story is probably the strongest part of the game.

    There's also a new mechanic called the Terastal phenomenon. I think casual players will quite enjoy this and I generally found it fun but competitive pokemon battlers will probably hate it. Raiding is also quite fun and the random raid battles is one of the best new quality of life features. Speaking of quality of life features, I'm a big fan of the EXP ALL and I'm glad it's in the game, but it is disappointing that once again there's no option to turn it off. It's always better to have more options and it's disappointing that again and again, this is something the Pokemon Company keeps getting wrong. I'm a big fan of it, but I do understand why some people don't like it and this is something that needs to be fixed.

    Character customization is also not great here. It's weird that they chose to advertise that everyone could wear anything but then take out most of the clothing options. In fact, there's also a bunch of other small issues. The beginning is tedious due to the handholding and due to the lack of transversal options at the start. Given how huge of a factor that is to this game, it probably shouldn't even be something you have to unlock. Lacking signs on certain buildings is also an issue as you have to keep going inside to figure out what each building is. The difficulty is also kind of weird. Boss battles are too easy at times but catching Pokemon is too difficult. It shouldn't take 10-15 ultra balls to catch a level 30 or so Pokemon.

    All that being said, once you really get playing, this is a VERY fun game. You should not let the performance issues get in the way of your enjoyment of this game and there's so much to enjoy. The open world is very fun to explore and this is what I think most people want Pokemon to be. If you've been waiting for the big Breath of the Wild moment for Pokemon, simply put, this is indeed it    … Expand
  27. Marcuskosyou
    Nov 23, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The games are so fun the post game is so fun that I am surprised that the game does not run slower. I get people who say the games are buggy but have you gotten to the post game. If you haven't then play more the first 2 hours are slow I get it but play more. The other pokemon games we are relating these game to are not open world it is almost impossible to compare to pokemon games like bdsp or pokemon red or even legends arceus because they are not open world they play so different so play moreof the games to really get into it or even play with the multiplayer these games are not like cyberpunk.… Expand
  28. TioTeo
    Nov 23, 2022
    10
    I love this game! It has been so much fun exploring and experiencing the story. The game has not been at all glitchy for me!
  29. NotzMafiaBoy
    Nov 23, 2022
    7
    Scarlet was a fun game. I loved the story and like the new pokemon. There are some performances issues that I hope they fix other than that the game is great. Open world is fun and the school setting is interesting.
  30. JamesA1ves
    Nov 23, 2022
    0
    Jogo muito bugado, feito de qualquer jeito, e até quando ficaremos sem a tradução para o português Br? Decepcionado com tamanho descaso de uma empresa tão grande com uma das suas franquias mais valiosas.
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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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