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  1. Nov 19, 2022
    1
    Terrible performance would ruin this game even if it was pleasant as a game. Even in curated cutscenes in small rooms with a small number of characters on-screen, their animations drop to literal slideshows where you can count 2-3 individual frames in their looped animation.

    Beyond being essentially non-functional on the technical side, the game's another creative downgrade. Player
    Terrible performance would ruin this game even if it was pleasant as a game. Even in curated cutscenes in small rooms with a small number of characters on-screen, their animations drop to literal slideshows where you can count 2-3 individual frames in their looped animation.

    Beyond being essentially non-functional on the technical side, the game's another creative downgrade. Player customization in terms of clothing has been almost entirely removed. The little bits we have left, like socks, hats and gloves clash with the game's uniforms.

    Cities are basically empty. 90% of houses are inaccessible facades. And 90% of the remaining 10% are shop menus. You don't even enter a shop anymore and see customers/mannequins. It's just a menu where you select purchases from.

    Lacking around half of all Pokemon is, of course, still a major turn-off from the franchise that, for over 2 decades, said "Gotta catch 'em all".

    Awful games.
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  2. Nov 19, 2022
    2
    This game was specifically made for this console and is worse then many better looking and better playing ports.
  3. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    an irredeemable mess from a multi billion dollar franchise, Crashes/frame rate issues poor texture quality poor pop in poor texture pop in, dreadful music. the first game in the series I will be refunding.
  4. 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
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  5. 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.
  6. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    I'm a huge Pokemon fan, but the performance in these games are unacceptable. It almost never hits a steady framereate with terrible memory leak and slowdown. There is almost no anti aliasing anywhere in the game. This is an embarrassment for Nintendo who used to be about delivering a quality game. The graphics look comparable to games 20 years ago. I don't need photorealism, but thisI'm a huge Pokemon fan, but the performance in these games are unacceptable. It almost never hits a steady framereate with terrible memory leak and slowdown. There is almost no anti aliasing anywhere in the game. This is an embarrassment for Nintendo who used to be about delivering a quality game. The graphics look comparable to games 20 years ago. I don't need photorealism, but this doesn't even meet basic quality standards that most AAA games have. Shame on Gamefreak and Nintendo for releasing this abortion of a Pokemon title. Expand
  7. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Filled with bugs, glitches, horrendous graphics, poor performance, tons of lag, buggy and bad animations, litteraly an unfinished game.
    If this is standars for pokemon games in 2022 its embarassing.
    Not worth 60$, not even worth 10$. If you want a pokemon game for nintendo switch i recommend legends arceus instead of this crap. Really dissapointing game coming from the grossest media
    Filled with bugs, glitches, horrendous graphics, poor performance, tons of lag, buggy and bad animations, litteraly an unfinished game.
    If this is standars for pokemon games in 2022 its embarassing.

    Not worth 60$, not even worth 10$.

    If you want a pokemon game for nintendo switch i recommend legends arceus instead of this crap.

    Really dissapointing game coming from the grossest media franchise ever.
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  8. Nov 19, 2022
    4
    Pokemon Violet will literally shift my behavior to purchase a hard copy in the future. It is nonrefundable with the digital version. I looked through hundreds of posts on twitter and decided to refund my preorder the day before it released, but it forced me to download. Even though I knew it would not be so great, the real game nevertheless is even worse than my expectation. The starters'Pokemon Violet will literally shift my behavior to purchase a hard copy in the future. It is nonrefundable with the digital version. I looked through hundreds of posts on twitter and decided to refund my preorder the day before it released, but it forced me to download. Even though I knew it would not be so great, the real game nevertheless is even worse than my expectation. The starters' designs were not fantastic, no access to any buildings except for those in the storyline, rigid motions, too many bugs. GF is absolutely deluded by feedbacks from Arceus. Indeed, players were saying that they wanted an open world doesn't mean you have to follow an advice from laypeople. Game Freak, you guys are the game producers afterall, and you don't even know what to do with this game. That's horrible. Expand
  9. Nov 19, 2022
    1
    We are beta-testing a Pokémon open world for them.

    Technical Issues: - Performance is atrocious for a triple-AAA company releasing on a stable console OS. - The game has serious fps drops on my new Switch OLED. I get drops that feel as low as 4-8 fps, and the game seems to barely be above 25 fps. It’s giving me a headache. - There are shadows flickering all over the place. NPC and
    We are beta-testing a Pokémon open world for them.

    Technical Issues: - Performance is atrocious for a triple-AAA company releasing on a stable console OS.

    - The game has serious fps drops on my new Switch OLED. I get drops that feel as low as 4-8 fps, and the game seems to barely be above 25 fps. It’s giving me a headache.

    - There are shadows flickering all over the place. NPC and Pokémon shadows are barely 10 pixels each. It feels like trying to run a PC game on low because you do not meet the recommend specs.

    - NPCs move around like robots at 3 FPS like a slideshow, unless you are very close to them. - Many times the camera clips underground and you can see the abyss below. This happens often in trainer battles that are on elevated ground. - On several occasions I have fell through the floor and had to reset my Switch OLED because I was stuck in the “falling” animation.

    - Character movement is so weird and clunky. You move like a robot too, snapping into a locked position when ascending/descending. Movement isn’t fluid and realistic. - Lighting is as bad as it gets. Many times the time of day causes your character to look pitch black (even though you are white). Other times the lighting causes your character to look completely white like a ghost.

    Weird Graphics:
    - Graphics are atrocious in my opinion. I’d rather have the more cute, bright and “cartoony” style of SwSh than this more “realistic” style mode. It’s creepy because Pokémon now look like actual real animals.

    Empty World:
    - The world is big but barren and depressing. There is no depth and detail to anything. The world is as big as the ocean but as deep as a puddle. There is just nothing to see or do, other than traverse large distances that are empty of content. The cities are entirely dead, the majority of the NPCs can’t be interacted with, and all the stores pop-up Trade UI menus to buy and sell. There are no store interiors any more. The lazy failures didn’t even design a simple clothing shop. Character: - Character customization is terrible. There are only 4 outfits that are just ugly. Tights pants that are orange with stripes? Who thought of that? It’s like you are wearing clown pants. Every player looks the same now. There is zero diversity. Zero role playing value. The accessories you can change (gloves/hat/bag) are a few recolors that feel pointless since the main attire is disgusting. SwSh had the best clothing options, especially with the DLCs. You could role-play as anything. Not any more. You are stuck wearing clown-pants with suspenders throughout the game. Pokémon: - The new Pokémon are mediocre. They are literally a pig, a flamingo (named Flamigo), and a few birds. It looks like Animal Planet. Not a Pokémon game.

    Verdict:
    This is definitely an early alpha version of the game released to the public. People need to start getting fired at Game Freak because this garbage is not a video game. This is really sue-able; especially if they do not offer refunds.
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  10. Nov 19, 2022
    1
    Worst graphics and glitchy as hell
  11. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    People who give more than 6 don't know a sheep about videogames. When Cyberpunk released, everywhere get mad and called it a failure. Pokemon is full of bugs and glitch, worst game of 2022 because it has empty space, bad designed pokemon and FPS drops. How can anyone play this trash?
  12. Nov 19, 2022
    1
    Their arrogance went too far. It is a clear fraud to launch into the market without even doing basic testing.
  13. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Gamefreak has scammed everyone with a $60 piece of garbage, they should be ashamed and promptly fix all the bugs. While theyre at it, finish the game because it was obviously incomplete.
  14. Nov 19, 2022
    2
    As a long pokemon fan, i find this game insulting in many ways. I had always tried to find the good in all the last pokemon games to find em more enjoyable and fun, but this is just unacceptable.

    First, let's pretend this is a finished product (when it is clearly not) subjectively find the design of the new pokemon really lame and poorly inspired, the worst generation by far. Too much
    As a long pokemon fan, i find this game insulting in many ways. I had always tried to find the good in all the last pokemon games to find em more enjoyable and fun, but this is just unacceptable.

    First, let's pretend this is a finished product (when it is clearly not) subjectively find the design of the new pokemon really lame and poorly inspired, the worst generation by far. Too much humanoid evolution and so many weird evolution. That is just my taste though so it wont matter much in the score.

    The story and narrative is good at times but quite bad and messy overall.
    The difficulty is completely unbalanced, since level scaling dont exist and as such you can trivialize most of the challenges simply chosing a certain order.
    I dont expect much from a pokemon game in these two categories though, so i can let that slide.

    The real problem is: the game is totally void. It is big in its scope, but devoid of any type of activity, sidequest, interaction with npc. City are totally empty and useless, the open world is big without a level design. You just roam around to pick items at some point, since if you challenge all the trainer you will fing yourself overlevelled, unless you constantly change your party making it weaker on purpose. I am not even talking about team star base and "boss", such a disappontment

    The quality of life is reduced from some of his previous interaction, you cannot turn down the animation and fight style is fixed on set, so you cannot decide to turn it down from option, just like the exp share.

    Honestly, a pokemon game even in its lowest moment managed to be fun since its core gameplay is extremely rewarding and functional per se, even considering its poor story, childish character development, low difficlutybut and mid to low level design in puzzle and exploration. This time they manage to make a pokemon game almost boring, even as a die hard fan.

    That would be a 6 for me, if not for the fact that this game is not finished. It should not have been sold in this state, it is like a alpha rather than a finished product.
    Aside for the low quality res and texture, except for the pokemon model which are greatly improved from the previous game, everything is a mess.
    Performance is really bad, 15 fps in some moment even lower, despite being few object on screen,
    camera angle problem, glitch, soft lock and some real issue about lighting and npc modeling.

    The switch is not the problem, optimization is.
    This is the first time i am asking for a refund, it should be illegal to sell a game in this state.
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  15. Nov 19, 2022
    2
    The main game is fun enough for Pokémon, the open world is nice and allows for lots of freedom, some of the battles were genuinely hard, but the presentation is just off. The game severely lacks polish with its terrible graphics, bad performance and unacceptable amount of glitches. Ignoring the technical issues, the game lacks the kind of content that made the older games so beloved. TheThe main game is fun enough for Pokémon, the open world is nice and allows for lots of freedom, some of the battles were genuinely hard, but the presentation is just off. The game severely lacks polish with its terrible graphics, bad performance and unacceptable amount of glitches. Ignoring the technical issues, the game lacks the kind of content that made the older games so beloved. The postgame amounts to an extra 40 minutes of story to conclude the game, a **** battle facility (calling it that is not even really accurate), 6/7 star raids and a wild area-esque area for catching Paradox Pokémon. **** GSC had more content than this, and that was on a 2 MB cartridge for a 20 year old console. Hell, Crystal even has a Battle Tower, which this game lacks. There's no excuse.

    Honestly, I haven't even touched on the various problems I have with this game, but pointing out the main ones should be enough to tell you everything you need to know about it. It is not acceptable for a game from the biggest franchise in the world to be released in this state at full price, and if there isn't a series of patches to fix the numerous issues with the game, then I would be very dissapointed. I give Scarlet/Violet a rating of 2 purely because I got some form of enjoyment out of playing it, which is more than I can say for SwSh, but I had to bring the score down due to the aforementioned issues.
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  16. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    This game is extremely expensive. The greedy developers are charging a ridiculous price of $120 to get the complete experience of this broken game. I had already written a review of Pokemon Scarlet. I don't think I need to repeat myself. The game is a broken piece of garbage full of bugs, glitches, pop-ins, awful framerate, crashes, freezes, stuttering, clipping issues, stuck on blackThis game is extremely expensive. The greedy developers are charging a ridiculous price of $120 to get the complete experience of this broken game. I had already written a review of Pokemon Scarlet. I don't think I need to repeat myself. The game is a broken piece of garbage full of bugs, glitches, pop-ins, awful framerate, crashes, freezes, stuttering, clipping issues, stuck on black screen, you name it. Metacritic needs to bundle these games together for reviews, because it is the exact same trash. Just because the developers cut the game in half doesn't make it a different game. It is still the same game split in half.

    The graphics are a joke. They are charging $120 for goodness sake, we should expect much better graphics at that premium price. Stray was $30 at launch and Dakar Desert Rally is $40, both of these games look 100 times better. Game Freak has more money than Stray and Dakar devs combined by a landslide, and this game cost way more than those 2 games combined. Nintendo and Pokemon make billions of dollars meaning there is literally no excuse for such puke-worthy graphics from these cheap and lazy developers. It's funny how Pokemon fans make fun of Call of Duty for being the same game every year. What does that make Pokemon then? At least Activision doesn't charge $120 upfront for a shovelware game.

    As of right now with the insane price of $120, I can honestly say without a shadow of doubt that this is the worst game I have ever played in my life. Keep in mind that I have been playing video games since the Atari days. Nintendo, you better start contacting those retailers about refunds because I expect a full refund. You will not get away with the biggest heist of the video game industy. Speaking of which, this game is the laughing stock of the video game industry. I am beyond infuriated with this scam. I don't recommend this joke of game at all.
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  17. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Someone should pay you to play this absolute garbage game. The graphics are the same as some random bad game from 2005.
  18. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    This game is unplayable, and all it does is crash, stutter, or freeze, at 5 frames a second.
  19. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    This game is is extremely broken in many ways. The game itself is a broken and buggy mess. The game meta is broken from the get go with recovery nerfed, a OP gimmick and a lot of offensive new threats and online still rubbish. Fix your bloody game GF!!
  20. Nov 19, 2022
    3
    Rose colored pokemon goggles shouldn't save the performance dumpster fire of Scarlet and Violet.

    Characters and animations often move at a robotic 3fps, clipping, pop ins, stuttering, pausing between actions, ugly textures, wonky camera - and it happens non-stop. Whilst the aging switch hardware is a limitation, there many other better looking and more expansive games that run way
    Rose colored pokemon goggles shouldn't save the performance dumpster fire of Scarlet and Violet.

    Characters and animations often move at a robotic 3fps, clipping, pop ins, stuttering, pausing between actions, ugly textures, wonky camera - and it happens non-stop.
    Whilst the aging switch hardware is a limitation, there many other better looking and more expansive games that run way better than this.

    If somehow you can get past all the performance issues (I couldn't) the game play itself feels mediocre at best. A lot of the innovation introduced by Arceus is ignored here.

    Music and sound is poor with weird silences throughout and the lack of voice acting for a fully realized 3D adventure is disappointing.

    If you want to play a Pokemon game I recommend any other in the series over this. After the "fresh air" of Arceus, this game is a new stifling all time low.
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  21. Nov 19, 2022
    4
    Game just is a buggy mess and runs extremely poorly. Not at all indicative of what this system is capable of. It's clear this wasn't given enough time. Framerate drops, pop-in, visual bugs, etc. Any other first party Nintendo title would've been delayed in this technical state.
  22. Nov 19, 2022
    2
    Game is borderline unplayable in its current state. Absolutely shameful of Nintendo to allow it on the shelves. Speaking As a huge Pokémon fan, please don’t buy this
  23. Nov 19, 2022
    0
    Honestly I don't know why Nintendo with Game Freak keeps doing games like this. Besides the technical issues from glitches and bugs (you can already know that from other reviews) the story is nothing new, nice music, nice models, bad animation and map interactions(textures), if you are a casual player a who is willing to pay 60 bucks for a demo version go ahead, it might be your game then,Honestly I don't know why Nintendo with Game Freak keeps doing games like this. Besides the technical issues from glitches and bugs (you can already know that from other reviews) the story is nothing new, nice music, nice models, bad animation and map interactions(textures), if you are a casual player a who is willing to pay 60 bucks for a demo version go ahead, it might be your game then, or maybe if you are a 7 year old kid who doesn't really care. Expand
  24. Nov 19, 2022
    1
    After ignoring the unacceptable graphics of pokemon the cuts on the dex and the previous realised pokemon remakes of diamond and pearl this game made all of that look pretty good games yes I love the fact pokemon scarlet and violet is open world it is mo excuse for the performance of the game the glitch of the camera and more and I found all of this with only 3h of gameplay
  25. Nov 19, 2022
    1
    Poor graphics, glitches, fps drops, there's a lot of games with better graphics on switch than this and don't haven 10% of problems pokemon scalet has. Lacking of PT-BR localization, again.
  26. Nov 28, 2022
    0
    N64 textures, bugs, glitches... You name it. Pokemon Violet has it all. I can't believe this was made by a multi-billion dollar company.
  27. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    HOW DID POKÉMON VIOLET PASS GOLD CERTIFICATION?! Everything SUCKS!! I only liked the music's and pokemon new designs but.. GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE SUCKS BUTT!!
  28. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    I did everything in my power to like the game, I even made like 15 videos explaining everything about the game...

    But you can't, you simply can't ignore how insulting the gameplay and NPC design is.
  29. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    Ok i'm still halfway through the story and have not finished the game but man, the graphics and performance really ticks me off. I feel really scammed into buying this game. Everything else is nice and good but i should not have been made to pay full price for this game. At the get go you will really feel that you are playing a browser game. The lag is framerate drop is really noticeableOk i'm still halfway through the story and have not finished the game but man, the graphics and performance really ticks me off. I feel really scammed into buying this game. Everything else is nice and good but i should not have been made to pay full price for this game. At the get go you will really feel that you are playing a browser game. The lag is framerate drop is really noticeable when you are in cities and when in the open world, i dont notice the pokemon spawn since there is a spawn delay. I also have experienced crahes early on so it really destroys the experience. i would not recommend buying this game nor celebrating the developers due to the unpolished nature of the game. Yes it is going to be fixed but its not supposed to be that way. They shouldve charged way less for this game. Expand
  30. Nov 25, 2022
    3
    La manera en que hicieron el cambio a mundo abierto fue muy buena, desafortunadamente el trabajo entregado al final fue mediocre, caidas de cuadros constantes, calidad gráfica pobre que lo hace parecer con escenarios sacados de Nintendo 64 y un sin fin de bugs. Una lastima que Nintendo haya entregado al público un producto en tan terribles condiciones.

    Y para aqueyos que tanto lo
    La manera en que hicieron el cambio a mundo abierto fue muy buena, desafortunadamente el trabajo entregado al final fue mediocre, caidas de cuadros constantes, calidad gráfica pobre que lo hace parecer con escenarios sacados de Nintendo 64 y un sin fin de bugs. Una lastima que Nintendo haya entregado al público un producto en tan terribles condiciones.

    Y para aqueyos que tanto lo defienden, no olviden que hay Breath of The Wild o Xenoblade 3
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  31. Dec 13, 2022
    4
    So I’ve played the game around 100hrs now it’s crashed more then a dozen times on me. The game is fun but the performance is atrocious something needs to be done immediately about it the frame rate regularly drops to the 15s and make it seem like your trying to move through muddy water had it crash three times when I was doing the water gym. The game could be good but the performance isSo I’ve played the game around 100hrs now it’s crashed more then a dozen times on me. The game is fun but the performance is atrocious something needs to be done immediately about it the frame rate regularly drops to the 15s and make it seem like your trying to move through muddy water had it crash three times when I was doing the water gym. The game could be good but the performance is seriously holding it back fix your game gamefreak. Expand
  32. Nov 26, 2022
    0
    The game is unplayable with all theses bugs... Also, the graphics are horrible.
  33. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    Crashes, bugs and 2 fps... it is annoyingly bad. I played around 8 hours, with 10 Crashs. No minute without bug. It is so ugly. Every mobile game looks better. Traveling around is so annoying. It is so slow paced. Everything is so so so so so slow....
  34. Nov 26, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ok once you get through the first hour but 120 billion franchise should have been better! Expand
  35. Nov 25, 2022
    3
    For a AAA game and the biggest franchise ever, it’s unacceptable, i dont care much about the graphics but performance wise, its just bad,
  36. Nov 26, 2022
    0
    it’s supposed to be a nintendo game on 2022? not only it looks 30 years behind, but it’s full lf bugs and problems and it has nothing good, plot, music, even the pokemon design this time isn’t on point as it always (at least that) was
  37. Nov 27, 2022
    2
    Worst Pokémon game until now, hands down.
    Funny to play, difficult to enjoy
  38. Nov 27, 2022
    1
    the worst of the Pokémon games in the main series. There are nice ideas, but they are placed in such a horrible and wrong context as to be in vain. it's basically a pre-alpha game, lag, graphical render, all wrong. this game needed at least another year before it was released
  39. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    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 and I hope that things will improve in the future, and pokemon company will consider our complaints and fulfill our request. Expand
  40. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    worst game of pokemon ever.there are a lot of bugs,it's lagging in the entire game,the story is the same of all the others pokemon, the difficulty is too easy and the pokemon interaction with the other pokemon and the word interaction still missing and the open word isn't real because you can't go in all parts off the map at the beginning.loks like a beta of the real game and i don't knowworst game of pokemon ever.there are a lot of bugs,it's lagging in the entire game,the story is the same of all the others pokemon, the difficulty is too easy and the pokemon interaction with the other pokemon and the word interaction still missing and the open word isn't real because you can't go in all parts off the map at the beginning.loks like a beta of the real game and i don't know how this is an actual buyable game. Please dont buy this. Expand
  41. Nov 27, 2022
    3
    Muy entretenido, mala optimization, historias aburridas, música aburrida, multijugador no optimizado, raids bastante lentos para entrar.
    Batallas de gimnasios son un poco más difíciles que entregas como sword pero el hecho de tener raids que dan mucha experiencia hace que todo el juego en general sea bastante fácil de pasar, recomendaría no usar esa opción para disfrutar más del juego
  42. Nov 27, 2022
    1
    Unpolished buggy release that constantly crashes. It's a disappointment that they released a game in this state.
  43. Nov 27, 2022
    4
    I really wanted to give this game a better grade, it was incredibly fun, I became addicted to the game for 4 days until I finished it. However, it has serious issues in the whole structure which were too impactful to ignore. Therefore, just to clarify, this review and grade do not exactly reflect my real experience, bc I'm considering the whole production context (pokemon is the **** mostI really wanted to give this game a better grade, it was incredibly fun, I became addicted to the game for 4 days until I finished it. However, it has serious issues in the whole structure which were too impactful to ignore. Therefore, just to clarify, this review and grade do not exactly reflect my real experience, bc I'm considering the whole production context (pokemon is the **** most expensive intelectual property in history) and comparisons with other games in the market. Also, I'm taking from a perspective played of a franchise fan who played all games since diamond/pearl (except lets go pikachu/eevee, BD/SP and Legends Arceus).

    1. Grafics/performance 1/10 - I really don't know how the **** this game was let to be launched like that but even for pokémon paterns this game is surprisingly broken. It really impact the player's experience in a way that in the beginning of the game I really wanted to take a refund due to this issue. It's almost impossible to play at 30 fps, thats **** ridiculous, and also the background grafics are at the same level of a ps1 game, without exaggerations, which contrast with the main character's grafics that are far better.

    2. Story 7/10 - It really is the best pokemon game in terms of story, however it still is far worse and non-sense compared to other games in the market and also nintendo ones, just as zelda. Although the character's are far more engaging and relatable which is a strong point of this game.

    3. Gameplay 7/10 - I don't have much to talk about this segment, it is better and more fun than usual because it's a open world game. The amount of things to do in the game is huge and it really improve the experience but is not enough to overshadow the issues of the game.

    There are much more things to say but I don't really know if they are as important as the other points. Although I would like to enlighten a problem across all the pokemon franchise, WHERE THE **** ARE THE VOICE ACTORS, it is unacceptable that the multi-billionaire pokemon company can't give the budget necessary to hire some voice actors, the game 'd be so much better, I think I'd even cry in some scenes, like arven with his dog or the last ones of operation starfall, if there were some dubbling.
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  44. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    The technical performance of the game is terrible.
    Nintendo Switch heats up like an oven.
  45. Nov 27, 2022
    0
    El juego es una autentica basura en todos los sentidos, los graficos, el rendimiento, como conseguir a los legendarios, el reciclaje, el no poder entrar a las casas, los nombres de los pokemons, su diseño... Pura basura
  46. Nov 28, 2022
    3
    Assolutamente insufficiente, pieno di bug grafici, un netto downgrade con l'interazione dei Pokémon rispetto a Leggende Arceus, città vuote e dimenticabili, interni delle case non più visitabili, dialoghi con npc sparsi per la regione inutili ed estraniati dalla storia del gioco. Vergogna Game Freak e The Pokémon Company. Un fan estremamente deluso. Do 3 perché si salva la storia, laAssolutamente insufficiente, pieno di bug grafici, un netto downgrade con l'interazione dei Pokémon rispetto a Leggende Arceus, città vuote e dimenticabili, interni delle case non più visitabili, dialoghi con npc sparsi per la regione inutili ed estraniati dalla storia del gioco. Vergogna Game Freak e The Pokémon Company. Un fan estremamente deluso. Do 3 perché si salva la storia, la battaglia finale, e le musiche. Altrimenti sarebbe 0. Expand
  47. Nov 28, 2022
    0
    Its so damn bad, Arceus is so good in comparison.
    They rushed it and didnt polish it enough.
    Its really embarrassing to say the least.
    Its really unfortunate, because i really enjoy most of the Pokemon games.
  48. Nov 28, 2022
    0
    Capita di sbagliare è vero, nessuno è perfetto. Ma perseverare è diabolico e questa serie ha raggiunto il punto più basso dell'inferno ottenendo un posto direttamente vicino a Lucifero. Non c'è un pregio nella nuova opera di Pokemon, niente di niente. Pnc che sembrano vuoti e con dialoghi imbarazzanti che al confronto i copioni dei film dell'Asylum dovrebbero essere ritenuti una delleCapita di sbagliare è vero, nessuno è perfetto. Ma perseverare è diabolico e questa serie ha raggiunto il punto più basso dell'inferno ottenendo un posto direttamente vicino a Lucifero. Non c'è un pregio nella nuova opera di Pokemon, niente di niente. Pnc che sembrano vuoti e con dialoghi imbarazzanti che al confronto i copioni dei film dell'Asylum dovrebbero essere ritenuti una delle Mervaiglie Del Mondo, storia insulsa , banale e arida come il comparto tecnico e visivo , la stessa minestra dei giochi precedenti rimescolata in una chiave di lettura pessima e con una realizzazione finale da mettersi le mani nei capelli. Expand
  49. Nov 28, 2022
    3
    This damages Nintendo's brand for polished, fun games. For a AAA game franchise the performance issues and game design decisions here are abysmal. This should never have been released in this state. I'd refund if it was not a present for my kid.
  50. Nov 29, 2022
    0
    The pokemon company really needs to realize that they are ruining one of the most beloved game franchises ever, they need to invest more in tech and give devs the tools and resources to make better games instead of this garbage full of tech issues.
  51. Nov 29, 2022
    0
    giocando a questo gioco mi sono divertito si ma per i bug ci sono talmente tanti bug che si può solo ridere
  52. Nov 29, 2022
    2
    The game is very fun, but it has so much performance problems that I can't give it a good score.
    It feels like Gamefreak is insulting me with this unfinished product that have AAA price. Performance is bad, really bad. Stable 30 fps is the minimum requirements to launch a game, and GF launched it with A LOT of lag, all the time.
  53. Nov 29, 2022
    4
    The newest edition to the mainstream Pokemon game family is a disappointment. On a technical level the frame-rate, character animation, and general graphics are poor enough as to be unacceptable. 95% of buildings cannot be entered and an equally poor number of NPCs can be interacted with. It looks and plays like an alpha. The amount gameplay is skeletal. No post game to speak of, hugeThe newest edition to the mainstream Pokemon game family is a disappointment. On a technical level the frame-rate, character animation, and general graphics are poor enough as to be unacceptable. 95% of buildings cannot be entered and an equally poor number of NPCs can be interacted with. It looks and plays like an alpha. The amount gameplay is skeletal. No post game to speak of, huge empty zones, a worthless new gimmick, trainers rarely have more than two Pokemon, the gym challenges are creatively bankrupt, and Team Star content consists of slow, stiff animations and a bizarre mini-game in which you just repeatedly press the right bumper until your Pokemon defeat enough opposing Pokemon by bump into them.

    The game can be fun for those first few hours of exploring a new Pokemon game, just like it always is, but expect your enjoyment to run dry after a few days. If you can borrow a friend's copy give it a try and have what fun you can. If the only way you can play it is to buy it I highly suggest you give Pokemon Violet a pass.
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  54. Dec 6, 2022
    2
    Bad frame-rate. Misses button presses. Looks below average. Bland gym challenges. Good pokemon design. Missing features. Neat plot twist. Well below its potential.
  55. Dec 6, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Horrible, aburrido, los gimnasios aburridos ... la liga pokemon un aburrimiento, tan solo 3 combates con 3 don nadie... 0 emoción... El legendario no es un legendario, sino q es un terminator q viene del futuro, si si es un pokemon que vino evolucionado del futuro... osea ... ¿por q lo llamamos legendario? Una estafa ambos juegos. Chau nunca más me roban. Expand
  56. Dec 6, 2022
    1
    Terrible graphic with a lot of bugs. Ew... I enjoyed the story, but everything else is just not it
  57. Dec 8, 2022
    0
    this mess was someone's 1st Pokémon game.we will lose many new Pokéfans to terrible broken games like this
  58. 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...
  59. Dec 6, 2022
    4
    There's no such thing as a "bad" Pokemon game, but this one still isn't great. While there are a lot of really cool improvements, none more so than the open-world gameplay expanded from PLA, this game, even after the recent patch, has HORRIBLE performance.

    The pop-in, the dropped framerate, the terrible slow loading of assets when switching camera perspectives (such as when throwing a
    There's no such thing as a "bad" Pokemon game, but this one still isn't great. While there are a lot of really cool improvements, none more so than the open-world gameplay expanded from PLA, this game, even after the recent patch, has HORRIBLE performance.

    The pop-in, the dropped framerate, the terrible slow loading of assets when switching camera perspectives (such as when throwing a Poke Ball at a wild Pokemon in combat) are all jarringly bad and constant.

    I'm sure things will improve somewhat over time, as they at least want to iron out most of the performance issues, but even if they actually FOR ONCE fully fixed a Pokemon game to run well instead of just being good enough (PLA still crashes the game when shiny Giratina uses its signature move, btw; every single time), it is still UNACCEPTABLE for a game to be in this state at launch. There is no reason to have pushed this game out this soon in this state instead of just taking more time to develop it.

    Beyond the general incompetence Game Freak has shown over the years, this game release is just proof of their laziness.
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  60. Dec 27, 2022
    4
    Negatives:
    1. Game lags, barely running above 20fps when moving around.
    2. Even when running fine, gameplay and movement feels slow, cheap and sluggish compared to PLA 3. Game stutters/glitches/freezes/crashes, player clips through walls, random flashes on background 4. Why do boxes take FOREVER to load Pokemon Sprites? Can't describe how awfully annoying that is. 5. Let's Go feature
    Negatives:
    1. Game lags, barely running above 20fps when moving around.
    2. Even when running fine, gameplay and movement feels slow, cheap and sluggish compared to PLA
    3. Game stutters/glitches/freezes/crashes, player clips through walls, random flashes on background
    4. Why do boxes take FOREVER to load Pokemon Sprites? Can't describe how awfully annoying that is.
    5. Let's Go feature is bugged, my pokemon might be cycling around wild pokemon and then returning to you instead of attacking (not talking about encountering shinies)
    6. Online raids are broken, constantly glitching, even after 1.1.0 patch.
    7. Many uninspired new pokemon and shinies.
    8. No set mode really? What kind of genius made that decision?
    9. Pokemon don't fit in the screen when battling, especially on double battles, and battle stages are boring.
    10. Any texture other than the Pokemon's is low definition and looks outdated.
    11. Elite four felt cheap, and you can't battle them again. Champion was indifferent. The whole experience was underwhelming, felt as if I'm fighting on my backyard.
    12. No Battle Tower equivalent.
    13. You can just clip through your Pokemon, they act as holograms.
    14. Still no voice acting. It's the first game of the franchise (and a little bit in PLA) that I really noticed the lack of and wanted voice acting.
    15. No shiny indicator in the overworld. Sound and sparkle from PLA was a bit too much but they could add something like a sparkle from the shiny every 2 seconds or something.
    16. Post game just doesn't exist. They will sell it next year with DLC for 50$.
    17. Mass Outbreak Pokemon have random IVs. It would be way better if it was like PLA.
    18. So many features and mechanics from PLA didn't make it. Outfits, aiming, no random wild battles, throwable items etc.They're supposed to be different genres but still, PLA did some amazing things. Why can't a mainline series be action rpg? No one would complain.

    Positives:
    1. Story is is great for the first time in years
    2. Seamless world, you can traverse the map without loading in and out of towns caves etc which is fantastic (for a Pokemon game). Although I dont like the fact that you can go everywhere from the get-go I'd like more restriction.
    3. Kept the mass outbreaks and raids.
    4. Music was good most of the time except when it glitched.
    5. Pokemon textures are great they did a good job.
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  61. Aug 24, 2023
    4
    This game killed any hope I had left for Pokémon. Wether it be Pokémon Presents full of mobile game ads for 25 minutes with absolutely no substance, the lack of effort & passion from GameFreak & the mentally ill take that we NEED a Pokémon game yearly. You could be fooled by the disgusting amount of money these games made, but this franchise has ROTTED from the inside out. The sense ofThis game killed any hope I had left for Pokémon. Wether it be Pokémon Presents full of mobile game ads for 25 minutes with absolutely no substance, the lack of effort & passion from GameFreak & the mentally ill take that we NEED a Pokémon game yearly. You could be fooled by the disgusting amount of money these games made, but this franchise has ROTTED from the inside out. The sense of hope that Legends gave me was obliterated, I really can’t put into words how much Violet crushed me. At least the music is still good even tho I wouldn’t put it in my top 5 of the franchise’s OSTs. Area Zero is my favorite area in the history of Pokémon with it’s Xenogears-like theme. There’s some new Pokémon that have good designs but I wouldn’t call most of them super memorable.
    But this is easily the worst looking “modern” game on the market & the worst optimized. It’s been talked about to death but these games are nearly a year old with ZERO updates to fix the CONSTANT frame drops. It turns my stomach that they’re selling $35 DLC before addressing a SINGLE ISSUE that got this game clapped in review scores. Nothing will change either, cuz YOU IDIOTS keep buying these broken PS1 products. Sorry Nintendo d*ck eaters, merchandise deadlines are NOT a valid excuse for how these games were released. When you really want to suffer, just play online! The raid system & online functionality + interface is *somehow* even worse than Sword & Shield. Raids are simply broken, they weren’t even fun for a short time like D-Max in the last gen, they are a SLOG to this day & you’re better off doing it with AI trainers offline. After playing other RPGs this year like Final Fantasy X & Xenosaga III, there is no reason the battle & catch systems are so SLOW in these games. Those are PS2 games that I could do 2-3 battles in by the time the slogs in Violet were done. BTW, Legends Arceus fixed this issue LITERAL MONTHS EARLIER, if they didn’t have time to implement the QOL features from PLA, MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE DELAYED THESE PILES OF CRAP. Why ditch PLA’s lighting fast catching mechanics? Why ditch PLA’s shiny spawn noise when this game forces you to look at the 240p environments for the slightest difference in a Pokémon’s model, some being too small or indistinguishable to even notice? Especially when a lot of them don’t spawn until you are LITERALLY RIGHT ON TOP OF THEM, WASTING EVEN MORE TIME GETTING IN & OUT OF BATTLES WHEN THIS WASNT A PROBLEM IN PLA. The gulf in quality between the 2022 games are staggering. This game seems custom made to waste more of the player’s time than ever. Fans had the nerve to overlook the CONSTANT technical issues cuz “the game is still fun”. This is the most MISERABLE I’ve ever been playing one of these horrid modern Pokémon games. Were they going for a Death Stranding ripoff? Cuz 90% of this game was mind numbingly boring, an entertaining ending doesn’t save the rest of the game. But I’m giving it too much credit, who thinks this Jurassic Park wannabe plot was well written? You’re telling me SCIENTISTS wanted to bring Pokémon from the past & future to live among the present? I shouldn’t even bother talking about a Pokémon plot but this is the same franchise that gave us the Unova games & we’ll never get a level of quality like that again from these duds.
    The sad part is I saw the potential, open world is a direction that can work for Pokémon. But TPC needs to close GameFreak’s doors & get a dev team that has a shred of competence. THEN give the team enough time to make a complete game instead of these yearly proof of concept games we keep getting. A console that’s not weaker than an Xbox 360 would help too! In a just world, we’d get Legends style games as the new norm instead of outdated copy & pasted garbage. Sword & Shield are still worse games, but I can’t lie & say I wouldn’t rather play them than S/V ever again. At least they had a playable frame rate!
    My love for Pokémon is 6 feet under by now, year after year of trash followed by a bit of hope in PLA, only for it to crash back down in the grave again with S/V. Unless we get a Legends style direction for the series, I’m leaving this toxic relationship I have with Pokémon. I’d rather play games that are made with a shred of passion, from people with a shred of dignity. Pokémon Violet is the last Pokemon game I’ll ever touch otherwise. I just wish more fans would’ve stood for something & followed suit in wanting better from a franchise that IS capable of such, instead of giving Nintendo their biggest paycheck yet. The biggest media franchise of all time only has this skidmark to show for itself. Self inflicted wounds tend to suck like that.
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  62. Aug 27, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. One of the biggest pieces of trash I’ve ever played. A dead world, uninspired gameplay (lol at the gym where you just roll an olive), and bugs from the moment I started. And once again Pokemon won’t let me do anything for two hours because it forces me through the same tutorials I’ve been doing for 25 years. It’s worse now because your rival is this annoyingly friendly pest rather than a rival who is a jerk, but at least interesting. I’m giving this game a 0/10. Not because of a protest or anything, but because it genuinely deserves a zero. Expand
  63. Jan 8, 2023
    4
    Hält nicht was es versprochen hat, das erste Start hat mir echt Spaß gemacht, weil´s was Neues war. Ich war von anfang an nicht so von der Idee, dass man sich aussuchen kann, wo man lang möchte, überzeugt, da ich mir sicher war, das es nie im Leben funktionieren kann, es scaled halt nicht wie in The Elder Scrolls Online oder anderen RPG´s. Da folge ich vom ersten legendären Pokémon mit demHält nicht was es versprochen hat, das erste Start hat mir echt Spaß gemacht, weil´s was Neues war. Ich war von anfang an nicht so von der Idee, dass man sich aussuchen kann, wo man lang möchte, überzeugt, da ich mir sicher war, das es nie im Leben funktionieren kann, es scaled halt nicht wie in The Elder Scrolls Online oder anderen RPG´s. Da folge ich vom ersten legendären Pokémon mit dem Sohn vom Akademieleiter einfach dem Pfad zum nächsten Dorf und biete 3 Meter rechts vom Pfad ab und zack hab ich einen Kampf mit meinem Level 16 Pokémon VS ein LVL 50 BLITZA ! WTF ????

    Außerdem läuft das Spiel mit 3 FPS und anfangs hat man sich nach einigen Minuten fast die Finger verbrant und selbst die Play Station war nicht mehr zu hören!
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  64. Nov 30, 2022
    1
    Es muy divertido,no puedo decir que no, pero le falta muchisimas cosas, que claro la iran poniendo de a poco mas los fallos, así no, para eso sigue haciendolos estilos nds, y nos va a gustar mucho con un montón de cosas
  65. Nov 29, 2022
    2
    This game has an awful art style. It’s not mandatory for me drop a game without bugs and problem, but this is unacceptable.

    The Monster design is sufficient.
  66. Nov 30, 2022
    3
    Un buon finale e una decente narrazione non riescono a salvare il gioco. Ambientazioni anonime e cattivo bilanciamento. L'open world promesso è inesistente, sei costretto a esplorare alla fine del gioco per non rovinarti l'esperienza con l'overleveling. Il fatto che le main battle non abbiano livelli scalari vincola l'esplorazione. Le 3 storie non si possono affrontareliberamente in quantoUn buon finale e una decente narrazione non riescono a salvare il gioco. Ambientazioni anonime e cattivo bilanciamento. L'open world promesso è inesistente, sei costretto a esplorare alla fine del gioco per non rovinarti l'esperienza con l'overleveling. Il fatto che le main battle non abbiano livelli scalari vincola l'esplorazione. Le 3 storie non si possono affrontareliberamente in quanto i Pokémon non obbedirebbero e koraidon non otterrebbe powerup necessari ad esplorare. Prestazioni orribili Expand
  67. Nov 30, 2022
    3
    Worst pokemon game in history by far. the plot is almost nothing and not very engaging with the exception of the ending which mixes everything a bit and is pleasant. The lore is literally zero, the graphics are bad, the pokemon design is successful but only halfway, some are well done and original, others are outrageous or the usual additional evolution of a first generation pokemon. TheWorst pokemon game in history by far. the plot is almost nothing and not very engaging with the exception of the ending which mixes everything a bit and is pleasant. The lore is literally zero, the graphics are bad, the pokemon design is successful but only halfway, some are well done and original, others are outrageous or the usual additional evolution of a first generation pokemon. The frame drops are bordering on the ridiculous, and the journey in search of spices is nothing more than a classic search for the HMs of the old games, as it unlocks the various surf, flight, etc. Also, I wanted to clarify that it's not an open world, given that you're not free to choose where to start from since the game's difficulty doesn't adapt based on where you go, but remains static so it forces you to follow a path. Expand
  68. Dec 5, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Violetto mi ha tenuto incollato allo schermo per più di 50 ore senza staccarmi, con tanto interesse e solo un po' di noia qua e là.
    Bellissimo come sempre scoprire i nuovi pokemon e le nuove evoluzioni. La trama ti spinge a capire cosa ci sia dietro questa fantomatica voragine al centro della mappa e ricatturare vecchi pokemon a cui eri affezionato con nuovi modelli 3D non ha prezzo. Belli i modelli dei pokemon e anche dei vari personaggi.
    Bello il sistema di raccolta strumenti in giro per la mappa siccome, fino a metà gioco, comprarli è davvero troppo costoso. Davvero carine le palestre con le sfide che variano un po' dal passato (sono però anche molto brevi e facilissime) e molto carina la musica di battaglia contro i capipaletra che si modifica mentre continui la lotta, top.
    Carina l'idea di fare una scuola dove impari, con tanto di esami alla fine dove devi ricordare le cose. Ancora di più mi ha sorpreso la verifica iniziale della lega, prima di accedervi, dove devi ricordare alcune cose sui capipaletra che hai affrontato. Ti stimola ricordare le cose è bella meccanica ma rimasta purtroppo molto superficiale.
    È più facile trovare gli shiny e io senza impegnarmi ne ho trovati due, ottimo.
    Bello girare in groppa a miraidon e davvero bello il suo design, a me piace. Ma c'è una cosa che mi ha stupito più di tutte, e vale solo per noi italiani. La prima superquattro è una donna e parla dialetto romano molto stretto. Appena ho visto i dialoghi sono rimasto shockato, una cosa molto cringe, però l'ho apprezza mi ha fatto morire dalle risate e ha dato valore a una cosa che qui da noi non viene quasi mai riportata in un videogioco ovvero i vari dialetti delle nostre regioni.

    Ora le cose negative...
    La grafica, è già stato detto mille volte, è terribile, tipo un gioco della playstation 2. Ma ancora peggio è la poca distanza di rendering che porta alla sfocatura dei modelli, cosa che invece non deve succedere in un mondo dove devi guardare pokemon che molto spesso sono piccolissimi...
    Oltre a quello i modelli distanti, pokemon o persone, cadono di framerate e si muovono a scatti manco fosse un gioco degli anni 90.

    La mappa è.... Vuota. Letteralmente vuota. Riempita di pokemon che si ripetono e oggetti messi casualmente, basta, niente d'altro troverai andando in giro.
    Le città sono carine ma mancano di profondità e dettagli. Alcune città sono praticamente vuote senza niente. Le palestre sono solo una stanzetta con reception e i negozi per le città si ripetono all'unico fine dei picnic e del grinding, tranne quelli per vestire il personaggio dove ho trovato una buona varietà di vestiti e accessori. Carina la macchina per le MT ma non ne senti mai il bisogno di usarla, servirà solo per il competitivo online. I personaggi mancano di profondità nella loro trama ed è tutto piatto e spento, oltre a essere anche molto infantile come pokemon ci ha sempre abituati, ma qui ha raggiunto un livello limite dove è davvero troppo infantile ed estremamente guidato con la manina. La facilità con cui diventi overlivellato è imbarazzante, è stato tutto facilissimo tranne verso la fine dove finalmente si è bilanciato. Le vicende con i pokemon dominanti si ripetono uguali identiche e sono anche facilissimi da battere. La trama con Pepe è davvero imbarazzante e stupida...
    Il team star è anch'esso imbarazzante. La meccanica della sfida nelle loro basi è orribile, lanciare i pokemon e fanno tutto loro, è facilissimo. Mentre invece i capi sono equilibrati e più difficili da battere. Ma il loro pokemon finale è sempre lo stesso con colori e tipi diversi e lasciatemelo dire revavroom è orribile.
    Il modo in cui si trovano i quattro leggendari non ha nè profondità e nè patos, sono messi li in un buco che apri togliendo dei paletti random per la mappa...
    Tanti, ma tanti tanti bug e glich ovunque ti possono capitare mentre giochi e alcuni anche molto fastidiosi.
    I raid teracristal sono inutili se non a specifici fini per le competizioni online. IA nelle lotte molto scadente, non tengono conte delle mosse del giocatore e non curano i propri pokemon con pozioni. Non puoi andare sott'acqua.
    E infine la trama generale. Prevedibile, superficiale e stupida. Una volta finita senti che non ti ha dato nulla se non una grande delusione. Aaah... I robot....

    Concludendo Pokemon Violetto è letteralemente un gioco in pre-alpha, un gioco che è stato rilasciato non completo, con tanti problemi e una superficialità generale nella storia e nei personaggi con palesi riempimenti atti a nascondere tale evidenza. 60€ sono un enorme furto.
    Qui si è raggiunto proprio il fondo della bruttezza e della piattezza nei giochi pokemon.
    Io spero soltanto che la Nintendo si riprenda e non faccia più 3 giochi l'anno ma dia il tempo, anche due o tre anni, di fare un Pokemon completo, profondo e fatto bene.
    Ps. Mi manca la qualità delle musiche che c'era nei giochi precedenti...
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  69. Dec 8, 2022
    0
    Again GameFreak have let the fans down by not coding in all the Pokémon thus people are not getting the experience they're paying for, Pokémon from 6 years ago still stuck in the Limbo of Pokémon Home!

    The game is a mess, not just because of the disgusting state it was released. We were sold on freedom of playing the game in any way we choose, this was false. Areas all have level
    Again GameFreak have let the fans down by not coding in all the Pokémon thus people are not getting the experience they're paying for, Pokémon from 6 years ago still stuck in the Limbo of Pokémon Home!

    The game is a mess, not just because of the disgusting state it was released.

    We were sold on freedom of playing the game in any way we choose, this was false.

    Areas all have level variances so do gyms, titan Pokémon, team star bases etc.

    The experience does not scale to your personal progress, which would have made the games actually great, since you get badges for completing elements of the game those badges should affect the levels of the content you play, but NO! They took the easy lazy option, what's worse is the Pokémon centres are supposed to guide you through the content to give you a smoothe experience but they send you to content that's closest to you regardless of what level you are, it's not good...

    To play the game and have half a decent experience you need to use a guide to follow the true route, oh and you thought you could skip doing certain content you don't want to do because it's monotonous and boring? Guess again, you have no choice but to do it because you need to do it all to complete the main story.

    Honestly I've been playing Pokémon since the beginning in the 90s, the switch games have been a slap in the face, hoping things will improve in the next game, that GF actually listened to feedback and would correct their mistakes, but nope, they've gotten lazy and complacent and worse! because they know their game will sell record numbers regardless.

    I'm done with the series on the switch, I'm not paying into this franchise anymore until GF do better!
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  70. Dec 8, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Je mets une note en moins pour le graphisme mais sinon ça reste vraiment le meilleur Pokémon que j'ai joué. Le gameplay est une pure merveille il est vraiment très agréable à jouer, et c'est un réel plaisir de remplir le Pokédex. Bref c'était mal parti mais une fois que j'ai commencé à jouer, je n'ai plus réussi à décrocher du jeu Expand
  71. Dec 8, 2022
    3
    What would can been an amazing game... Gone, Gamefreak is now a company that only meets deadlines and slowly patches them later on. They now only focus profit margins rather than create a stable game. Even though the game had so much potential, the performance is terrible. The online play is devastatingly bad.
  72. Dec 8, 2022
    1
    Where do I start, the buggy glitchy mess, the unstable 20ish frame rate, the dull pixel environment or the bad graphics and the lazy Ui. we know this game not gonna be fixed anytime soon if any at all giving the history of Game Freak and yet still charge a full AAA price tag.
    Shame
  73. 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.
  74. Dec 8, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No god game terible sounds Not all pokemon ,New sh*t feature Nintendo pleas bring Bach Mega Expand
  75. 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
  76. Dec 9, 2022
    0
    It would have been an acceptable game if it was not for the ridiculous lag and the obvious uncompleted parts of the game do to a lack of time for the development.
  77. Dec 9, 2022
    0
    Why am I still forced to have exp share on?
    Pokémon really outdid themselves trying to power creep this Gen, can’t wait for the 40 dollar dlc that ransoms peoples favorite Pokémon behind paywalls.
    On top of the huge buggy mess that they released it in.
  78. Dec 9, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Omg. Just let us play the game without the 3 hours of prolog stories. This is getting ridiculous Expand
  79. Dec 10, 2022
    3
    Who gave more than 5 to the game was paid by GF. No challange, no dungeons, no real bad team, there is no point on give free roaming when there isnt lv scaling on gyms.This is just a game for kids, and maybe not even a kid will appreciate that.The only good part is the post game.5 step back from legend arceus. It was hard to do a worse game than SwSh, gg to GF
  80. Dec 10, 2022
    4
    El juego esta muy bien en cuanto a concepto, pero no puede estar bien puntuado con los errores que tiene, texturas que van a 2fps, sombras muy pixeladas, da la impresión de que es un juego indie.

    Me gusta mucho la libertad, y los escenarios.
    Echo en falta una banda sonora en condicones, y los preciados puzzles que caracterizaban pokemon.
  81. Dec 10, 2022
    0
    Abilty patch giving you ability to change pokemons ability back destroys many people spend time on previous games
  82. Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Honteux 60 euro pour un jeu non terminer remplie de bug.juste parceque c'est pokemon la mauvaise foie et de mise.honte à vous de défendre se jeux sous seul prétexte que vous avez eu du fun en sachant tout les probleme et la qualité technique au fraise en tout point.sa serait ubisoft ect vous seriez les premiers à crier au scandale reiveiller vous...
  83. Dec 11, 2022
    0
    The game is unfinished. I don't get it why they just released like this.
    Also graphic looks so ugly. In game artwork also ugly.
  84. Dec 14, 2022
    0
    As a dedicated pokemon fan myself, I cannot recommend this game. This recent pokemon title is broken to the point of being unplayable--near Sonic 06 levels of bugs and performance issues, which is the real reason I can't genuinely score this game. Beyond that, it's also the ugliest game on the Nintendo Switch. It looks to be in its alpha state, and most Gamecube games look better and haveAs a dedicated pokemon fan myself, I cannot recommend this game. This recent pokemon title is broken to the point of being unplayable--near Sonic 06 levels of bugs and performance issues, which is the real reason I can't genuinely score this game. Beyond that, it's also the ugliest game on the Nintendo Switch. It looks to be in its alpha state, and most Gamecube games look better and have more polish by comparison. I've seen many people say things like "but the game is still fun!" but so are many other games.

    If you're hungry for a pokemon experience, just dust off your copy of Emerald, Black or White, ORAS, or any other pre-SW/SH pokemon game, and you'll have a much better experience with the same gameplay.
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  85. Dec 30, 2022
    0
    Game Freak should stop rushing the release of Pokemon Games and Nintendo should have common sense about their online signature's problem.

    I always loved pokemon, been playing them since gen 2, but, they got greedy and are getting away with it because people always buy their games. I'm never getting another pokemon game after this one and here are the reasons: The performance is
    Game Freak should stop rushing the release of Pokemon Games and Nintendo should have common sense about their online signature's problem.

    I always loved pokemon, been playing them since gen 2, but, they got greedy and are getting away with it because people always buy their games. I'm never getting another pokemon game after this one and here are the reasons:

    The performance is horrible, and this isn't because it runs on a switch! There are other titles of the same console that are a lot more beautiful and run smoother;

    The graphic quality overall is poor, NPC's and pokemons appear and disappear out of nowhere.

    There are a lot of camera clipping issues.

    The animations are laggy even when you're not too far from things, some of them are extremely ugly, like when you fall from a high place, your character bounces on the ground berofe popping out the levitating phone to save you.

    THE ONLINE GAMEPLAY. Pokemon is all about trading pokemons with your friends and battling them. Nintendo makes you pay a triple A price for a horribly made game and you still need to sign their horrible subscription to play pokemon how it should be played. This should never have been allowed.

    Also, there are a lot of problems with how the open world was made. You can exploit the teleport to battle feature to go to places where you shouldn't, I got to the psychic gym (lv45) without even finishing the tutorial. Also, it is an open world game that punishes you for exploring, since you can go to all areas, including the ones with extremely high level pokemon without a warning.

    Please Nintendo, take your time and make a good pokemon game, this one could've been the best pokemon yet, but because of your hurry to make money out of kids you're killing what could be a really good experience for everyone.
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  86. Jan 1, 2023
    0
    Is this an alpha? Even 1/10 would have been too much for a software unable to work properly. Not to mention the usual missing challenge: the one and only struggle you experience is to find your way between bug and glitches, trying to get to the end of an entertaining plot.
  87. Jan 5, 2023
    1
    Goofy graphics & animations. The design is terrible and the storyline is weak. Nothing like what Pokemon used to be.
  88. Jan 6, 2023
    3
    For me there are WAY too many errors in a game from 2022. So extremely disappointed with the graphics, new Pokémon and general glitches. The ideas they have/had with the game are great. The execution now so much.
  89. Sep 4, 2023
    0
    Junk, buy anything Generation 1-7 instead. Tell Nintendo to revive the 3ds and throw the switch in the garbage.
  90. May 26, 2023
    0
    Ganz ehrlich, dieses Spiel ist die Definition von Abzocke, 60
    Euro. Als N64 Spiel wäre das ganze nichtmal 20 Euro wert. Die Grafik ist lächerlich, hässlich und auch die Abstürze sind bodenlos. Einfach richtig schwache Leistung Gamefreak :(
  91. Jun 13, 2023
    2
    I only created this account to give this game a bad review, I hate it that much. As a passionate fan of the Pokemon franchise this pile of 10 fps garbage really hurts my heart, hardly ever was I that disappointed.
    I dont even want to mention the few things this game actually does right or at the very least okay, because there is nothing that this game does better then any other of the
    I only created this account to give this game a bad review, I hate it that much. As a passionate fan of the Pokemon franchise this pile of 10 fps garbage really hurts my heart, hardly ever was I that disappointed.
    I dont even want to mention the few things this game actually does right or at the very least okay, because there is nothing that this game does better then any other of the Pokemon games and that could motivate me to play past the relieving credits.
    First, as everyone knows who saw eally anything of the game, its a technical desaster. I have a really high tolerance for pretty bad technical performances, I played Fallout New Vegas on a day 1 PS3 and loved it, but this game doesnt convince me to look past the absolutely horrible technical issues it has on mass.
    And, as nearly every Pokeom game is, this game is way to easy, even for Pokemon standarts. You can just blast through absoluitely everything and even skip earlier stroy events for the entire game, what makes them an absolute joke when you finally engange with them.
    Why tf does the player ride a god damn motorcycle?! I theorize they did it because some people found it awesome in Botw, I hated it anyways, but they forced the two weels on pokemon even. The cover legendaries! It is not even hilarious anymore, that is outright a war crime.
    And they really took too much inspiration from Botw and worked it out very, VERY poorly. The nuture zone in Pokemon Sword and Shield worked quite well because it wasnt so big and sprawling, thus never as empty as Paldea feels. Everything looks uninteresting, you can interact with nothing and it looks like they just let a toddler spam Pokemon onto a plain. It isnt fun to traverse these leftovers of a landscape, it feels like the worst thing you could do with a modding tool.
    And adding to that, all of the cities that should act as the islands of interaction and fun in that desolate wasteland, are as bland as it could get. You can go into non of the buildings, restaurants are now just a menu on your screen, the arenas are at their absolute lowest point and not a single character really stands out.
    Nearly all of the gym leaders are absolutely interchangable, the champ is a joke and the cheepest Cynthia ripoff I couldve imagined, and your two companions are either extremely forgettable and cosplay your neighbors kid from Hoenn or their extremely annoying. Pepper is annoying as hell. At least I think so, my friends really liked his story line in fact. I just guess that I was so pissed off by everything I played through that I couldnt bring up the patience for his stroy line at all.
    And coming back to the fact that everything feels remote, empty and meaningless, none of the characters, not Team Star, not your companions, not anyone interacts outside their little pockets of camps or cities. The "evil" team is never really established as a serious threat, they mocked one student, but thats it. Every other game has the evil team cause trouble here and there, sometimes even very serious one. But Team Star isnt presented in that manor at all so they hust are a bunch of children who are missing out on school and drive monstertrucks. (Seriously wtf)
    And going further, a factor that contributes to the overworld feeling so boring, which is the main selling point of the game, is that they feel like the exact same location with another bucket of paint on them. That is heavily supported by the usage of the same music piece throughout several different areas. The music in Pokemon in general is really, really good and has a lot to do of how we feel about the games, in my opinion. But this game has not really that great music, only the theme from the east zone really stuck with me.
    Back to the samy areas, all of them feel the same because nearly all of them are equally wide and empty and there never is a unique route like, for example route 8 and 5 in Galar. You never have a different expireince, you just bike through everything and thats about it.

    I wont buy the DLC for the game, it already disappointed me more than enough. It just makes me angry what GameFreak has become and that their garbage games are selling so damn good. It really angers me as I sencerely love Pokemon and what it can and could be. I just hope that the ones responsible got fired or something.
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  92. Jul 11, 2023
    3
    If this game proves one thing, it`s perhaps that it had not enough developing time, they have to take more time producing games like this...entering open world is fine, but with enough preparation.

    They didn´t put out an apology and refunded many people for nothing, this is justified and whoever liked this game, im genuinely happy for them, in fact i also enjoyed it, that doesn`t
    If this game proves one thing, it`s perhaps that it had not enough developing time, they have to take more time producing games like this...entering open world is fine, but with enough preparation.

    They didn´t put out an apology and refunded many people for nothing, this is justified and whoever liked this game, im genuinely happy for them, in fact i also enjoyed it, that doesn`t automatically make it a good game, they didn´t live up to their potential..i will sell my used copy soon, i looked up prices it goes for ca. 25€ used right now, think about it.
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  93. Jul 16, 2023
    3
    You already know how people think about this game, and I'm just here to approve it. It's poorly made and so on. Please rethink it if you are planning to buy the DLC and buy yourself something useful instead... The final battle was neat, though.
  94. Aug 23, 2023
    4
    As a Pokémon fan since 1996 ( Pokémon Red first Game ), I began to disaffect myself from the saga as the games began to become increasingly immature, repetitive and therefore boring starting with Pokémon X/Y.
    The level of immaturity and qualitative degradation has reached such a point that I have been forced to stop buying Pokémon games.
    These two chapters: Pokémon scarlet and violet are
    As a Pokémon fan since 1996 ( Pokémon Red first Game ), I began to disaffect myself from the saga as the games began to become increasingly immature, repetitive and therefore boring starting with Pokémon X/Y.
    The level of immaturity and qualitative degradation has reached such a point that I have been forced to stop buying Pokémon games.
    These two chapters: Pokémon scarlet and violet are horrid games, both for the level of quality (very low) and for immaturity. Avoid them like the plague.
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  95. Aug 9, 2023
    2
    Perhaps the single-most soulless, bland and pathetic Pokémon entry thus far, that only insults the beloved franchise as a whole.

    The now-infamous performance problems and visual issues aside, here are some criticisms of the game design itself; - The game is presented as 'open-world', this is only true conceptually, not in practice. The lack of a level-scaling system for wild Pokémon,
    Perhaps the single-most soulless, bland and pathetic Pokémon entry thus far, that only insults the beloved franchise as a whole.

    The now-infamous performance problems and visual issues aside, here are some criticisms of the game design itself;

    - The game is presented as 'open-world', this is only true conceptually, not in practice. The lack of a level-scaling system for wild Pokémon, trainers, and gym leaders effectively gates the player into following a linear path around the map, otherwise you are very quickly defeated or trapped in encounters you can't run from.

    - The 'open world' is purely transversal, where no thought has gone into making it in any way unique or interactive. It's simply a stretch of empty space between locations, with the occasional building ruin or broken down pickup truck that serves no purpose other than to try and break the monotony.

    - Pokémon on the overworld only exist to move around, there is little to no interaction between them with each other nor with their environment, they move and lie down to sleep, that's about it. Biomes are poorly constructed and weather systems don't affect species that appear; fire types are present in rain, water types wander around on grass under the sunshine, dark types are found in caves rather than rock or ground types, ghost types appear at night - this is the only attention to detail found within the spawn system. What's worse is that spawns usually result in dozens of the same species appearing and saturating the area, rather than smaller numbers with more species diverse.

    - Pokémon designs themselves are still reminiscent of balloon animals with no depth or discernible features, eyeballs for example are still white orbs with a black dot, slapped on to the face rather than sculpted into it. Some surface textures have been improved slightly, but we're a long way off from believable skin, fur, scales, and feathers.

    - Catching has now reverted back to the battle screen interaction format, despite PLA introducing the widely-praised overworld Pokéball throwing system. Weirdly enough, you can aim and throw a ball at Pokémon here, but only to initiate a battle, not to attempt to catch the Pokémon you're targeting.

    - The gym challenge has gone back to the old format of inconsequential interactions with uninteresting characters that treat the gym leader role as merely a side-hustle. This is a huge step back from the previous generation, which reimagined the gym challenge as a national sport, broadcast all over the region, with battles taking place in sold-out stadiums full of high-energy spectators, with gym leaders characterised as pro-athlete celebrities who were the pride of their hometown/home city.

    - Towns and cities all adhere to the exact same aesthetic, constructed from duplicated assets using the same boring grey-block buildings. Despite having the largest locations in the entire series, buildings generally can't be entered or interacted with in any meaningful way, you can approach the door of some shops or cafés and it instead opens up a menu displaying clothing/accessory assets that take several seconds to load as a preview. Some towns have the exact same shop or café pasted several times in a row and they think you won't notice. All towns are full of copy-pasted static NPCs that again can't be interacted with, instead only displaying a text-box above their heads.

    - Battles are horrifically slow, no QoL changes whatsoever have been made to the combat system which at this point is beyond archaic. "It's supereffective!", "It's not very effective...", "Critical hit!" etc. along with status effects each still require their own unskippable text box following the move used, rather than simply being incorporated as a splash effect upon use of the move itself. Animations are recycled from generations past and have not been streamlined in any way.

    - The in-game camera is pitifully slow and there are no options to change its speed. The camera itself has a fixed active preset so it constantly moves against your own inputs to face in the direction your player faces. The camera can also be controlled in battle, yet defaults to a flat overhead view and resets your movements after every turn, the dynamic camera system with multiple angles from the previous generation is now gone too.

    - Cutscenes cannot be skipped without changing an in-game setting to skip them *all*. Rather than simply provide a means to skip a specific scene as it's happening, as most other games do, your options are binary - you must either watch all cutscenes or none of them.

    - The lack of voice acting and the text box with the chiming sound effect is no longer a quirk of the series but an example of how far behind the times it is. Emotional scenes are completely diminished by the lack of spoken line delivery, music is used constantly and inappropriately to cover up the lack of voice acting, otherwise there would only be silence.
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  96. Aug 25, 2023
    0
    I've played almost all the Pokemon games over the years and this is the worst game ever, it has nothing to offer, an almost completely empty open world with nothing to do, short and boring plots with nothing to do with each other, stupid challenges, very easy battles, terrible graphics and terrible performance. A huge downfall from the previous games, you can't enter houses, or talk toI've played almost all the Pokemon games over the years and this is the worst game ever, it has nothing to offer, an almost completely empty open world with nothing to do, short and boring plots with nothing to do with each other, stupid challenges, very easy battles, terrible graphics and terrible performance. A huge downfall from the previous games, you can't enter houses, or talk to people, the character design is minimal. Expand
  97. 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
  98. Sep 2, 2023
    2
    This game is an insult in so many ways. Pokemon has always been a very low effort concept but they can't even keep up with that..

    - Low render distance and FPS. Pokemon literally spawn inside you because the render distance is so short. - The whole theme of this game is visiting an academy. You enter the academy a total of TWICE in the main story for a total of 10 minutes. Must've
    This game is an insult in so many ways. Pokemon has always been a very low effort concept but they can't even keep up with that..

    - Low render distance and FPS. Pokemon literally spawn inside you because the render distance is so short.

    - The whole theme of this game is visiting an academy. You enter the academy a total of TWICE in the main story for a total of 10 minutes. Must've graduated off screen!

    - There are barely any new Pokemon introduced in this "new" generation.

    - There is no post game after finishing the story. None at all! Stop looking! Or pay 30€+ for the DLC!

    - All characters have zero personality. They are just happy residents of the continent. How interesting, right?! Even the "villain" team is just a bunch of misunderstood nerds.

    - You can ride a Pokemon like a bike, even glide on it. Sounds good right?! NO. The faster you travel, the more problems you see with the render distance and FPS drops mentioned previously.

    - You can customize your character! Only problem, the majority of outfits straight up suck massive D!

    - There are barely any legendary Pokemon. The only ones you can find are hidden behind a stupid mechanic that forces you to explore the whole map to look for stakes in the ground. 32! Placed so badly, half of them you probably won't find without a guide!

    If Game Freak continues like this they deserve to go bankrupt. Sword and Shield at least got the performance and looks part right. This one doesn't even get that done. Hope they either pull their heads out of their asses or another franchise takes up the dropped torch.
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  99. Sep 5, 2023
    3
    Not 0 ONLY because i like the way they tried a real open world .

    But still , this game looks unfinished , tons of bugs , horrible graphics and exept Nemona all the characters are lame to be honest..
  100. Nov 23, 2022
    0
    The technical level of this game made me quit it four hours in. It’s unthinkable that a brand this big is capable of publishing this piece of crap after all the other amazing titles that have smoothly run on the Switch console. It’s time for us to put aside the “but it’s Pokémon” (I’ve been playing since gen 1 and I am a TCG collector) and stop accepting everything they throw at us.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 118 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 118
  2. 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. 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.
  3. 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.