Pokemon Violet

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 2050 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 635 out of 2050
  2. Mixed: 205 out of 2050
  3. Negative: 1,210 out of 2050
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  1. Obiwanshenobi1
    Nov 20, 2022
    2
    Great story, I like the idea and concept, but game freak should be embarrassed for letting such an un finished and untested game release to the public. We paid 60 dollars for a game that feels like it skipped beta. I feel like the massive fan base would have understood and even welcomed a delay in release if it meant a solid product. The fact that game freak hasn't even acknowledged theGreat story, I like the idea and concept, but game freak should be embarrassed for letting such an un finished and untested game release to the public. We paid 60 dollars for a game that feels like it skipped beta. I feel like the massive fan base would have understood and even welcomed a delay in release if it meant a solid product. The fact that game freak hasn't even acknowledged the technical issues to the public to ease minds while they come up with a patch feels like a slap in the face to a long time fan. Save your money and wait like I and lots of others should have.… Expand
  2. Eduguerod
    Nov 20, 2022
    2
    There is a big worldmap but empty and soulles. The pokemon sprites ara so tiny that you don't see them and constantly touch them, moving is difficult.
    Shadows, npcs and some animations glitch a lot making this game a shame for nintendo and Gameftrak.
    Its. It's shame that old GC videogames look more developed than this game. Its 2022 and pokemons can't talk (only pikachu or evee), neither    There is a big worldmap but empty and soulles. The pokemon sprites ara so tiny that you don't see them and constantly touch them, moving is difficult.
    Shadows, npcs and some animations glitch a lot making this game a shame for nintendo and Gameftrak.
    Its. It's shame that old GC videogames look more developed than this game. Its 2022 and pokemons can't talk (only pikachu or evee), neither the characters. It seems the can't paid for voice actors. The combat music was great in sword and shield, not in this one.
    It looks like only moneymaking is the goal of the company, they don't hide their intentions at all.
    As a 35 y. Old pokemon fan, this was my last attempt on the Franchise.
    Surely The DLC will add more content and "fun" for an unfinished game.
    See you game freak    … Expand
  3. Asragot
    Nov 21, 2022
    2
    Bajo un gran número de problemas técnicos y baja calidad gráfica se encuentra un buen juego con interesantes mecánicas, innovación dentro de la franquicia y geniales nuevos pokémon.
    El gran problema de esta entrega es la dificultad que tenemos los jugadores para poder disfrutar todo lo bueno que nos ofrece ya que, y desde experiencia personal, hay un gran número de problemas técnicos como    Bajo un gran número de problemas técnicos y baja calidad gráfica se encuentra un buen juego con interesantes mecánicas, innovación dentro de la franquicia y geniales nuevos pokémon.
    El gran problema de esta entrega es la dificultad que tenemos los jugadores para poder disfrutar todo lo bueno que nos ofrece ya que, y desde experiencia personal, hay un gran número de problemas técnicos como quedarse atascado en una posición extraña, que puedas ver bajo el suelo un vacío al batallar, que al lanzar una pokéball el mundo empiece a cargar en el fondo relentizando todo el proceso. El "lag" que se ve cuando llegas a un lugar con más objetos o personajes e incluso dentro de una sala de clases, que sólo esta cargando una habitación, presenta un "lag" y baja notable de FPS. Al parecer no todos sufren los mismos problemas ya sea por la consola o modo de juego, jugando en el modo portátil en una consola más reciente favorece pero aunque menos recurrente los problemas siguen presente. Y lo más extraño es la demora de carga de los iconos de pokemon en las cajas, algo que no debería ser.
    Ahora dentro de lo gráfico los pokémon se ven genial, las texturas y animaciones en el mundo abierto lo hacen sentirse más real y vivo... pero el mundo le quita todo esa emoción con texturas de baja calidad, sombras pixeleadas que parecen más un trabajo abstracto, caminos desérticos o con pocos detalles. Simplemente parece un mundo echo por un estudio indi hace más de 10 años. Se entiende que es la primera experiencia de Gamefreak en este estilo pero con todos los recursos y conocimientos actuales pareciera que el orgullo de hacerlo a su manera destruyó cualquiera visión que tuvieran de un MUNDO Pokémon.
    Jugabilidad, interacciones, los pokémon en sí son los mejores hasta la fecha. SI no fuera por estos problemas el juego sería la mejor representación de pokémon.
    Notas: La obligación de compartir experiencia y el retiro del modo fijo es bastante molesto, el minijuego de los bocadillos es muy general y parece más un simulador de subway de baja calidad. El que al batallar tu personaje tenga que saltar sin una buena transición entre dos posiciones se ve mal, que los pokémon ya no cierren los ojos al estar dormidos se ve mal, aún pero cuando tienen animaciones para dormir en el mundo abierto. La demora de tomar decisiones en el juego donde el cuadro de dialogo se repite cada vez sólo ayuda a hacer más tedioso el proceso.
    ¡El que ya no hayan edificios donde poder entrar! las tiendas son sólo menús y las casas parecen cubos de relleno.    … Expand
  4. TT_Hipster1941
    Dec 7, 2022
    2
    In all my 30+ years of playing and reviewing I ever saw such a disaster. Been playing Cyberpunk since day 1. Still playing No Man Sky doing expeditions with friends rn. Which proves it is possible to redeem yourself. Pokémon Violet got returned and reimburse by my local Videogame store to cite them : This is worst than Battlefront and No Man Sky, this is unacceptable.
  5. NeroHao
    Nov 21, 2022
    2
    I can't believe this is a game coming out in 2022, even worse than some indie games. Is gamefreak using your feet to develop games? I have played for 20 hours so far, and encountered no less than 10 bugs, and some bugs even happened repeatedly. Gamefreak has been spoiled. As a fan for 20 years, I would buy and play every Pokemon game. This time I was very disappointed and angry, I'm 30I can't believe this is a game coming out in 2022, even worse than some indie games. Is gamefreak using your feet to develop games? I have played for 20 hours so far, and encountered no less than 10 bugs, and some bugs even happened repeatedly. Gamefreak has been spoiled. As a fan for 20 years, I would buy and play every Pokemon game. This time I was very disappointed and angry, I'm 30 years old this year, and I'm not sure if I will buy the next Pokemon game, maybe it's time to keep the good memories in my childhood.… Expand
  6. zachi2
    Nov 21, 2022
    2
    Right now, the technical issues make playing this a little jarring. The jerky models, low frame rate, camera not liking slopes and at times, your player model can break that get you stuck.
    I also feel alot of the personality they added in Sw/Sh was taken away. The NPCs just feel so stiff and emotionless.
    The review may change if TPC/GW patches this rushed mess, but we will have to wait and see
  7. Siderium
    Nov 21, 2022
    2
    Una decepción absoluta. Después del respiro que significó Leyendas Arceus, Gamefreak vuelve a sorprendernos con un lanzamiento inaceptable, apresurado y desprovisto de cualquier atención o cariño. Pokémon se corona, una vez más, como la franquicia que pese a haber calado tan hondo en la cultura (al punto de convertirse en el símbolo de una época) sigue decepcionando.

    Pokémon no es    Una decepción absoluta. Después del respiro que significó Leyendas Arceus, Gamefreak vuelve a sorprendernos con un lanzamiento inaceptable, apresurado y desprovisto de cualquier atención o cariño. Pokémon se corona, una vez más, como la franquicia que pese a haber calado tan hondo en la cultura (al punto de convertirse en el símbolo de una época) sigue decepcionando.

    Pokémon no es cualquier cosa; es, de hecho, la franquicia más lucrativa de toda la historia y, sin embargo, por razones incomprensibles, recibimos una obra rota, injugable y con un apartado artístico mediocre. La entrega roza lo delictual, sobre todo si consideramos el peso económico que tiene la saga tras de sí.

    Con cada entrega siempre albergo la esperanza de que Gamefreak y The Pokémon Company viren el rumbo. Pero mientras Pokémon pueda sacar cualquier trasto y venderlo sólo por tener un Pikachu, la excelencia —acostumbrada en Pokémons antiguos— está perdida.    … Expand
  8. valedgo69
    Nov 21, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. la teracritalizacion es un asco ... esta muy roto no tiene sentido tener los objetos potenciadores si con teracristalizacion se bufea mucho, la tematica inclusiva es un asco, graficamente esta bien tienen q arreglar bugs y lags ... despues d unu rato se torna aburrido… Expand
  9. Predlalo
    Nov 21, 2022
    2
    Juego sin corazon y echo al aventón, Nintendo es famoso por sus altos estándares de calidad pero en esta ocasión nadie lo verifico, glitches, Bugs, bajones de framerate, Game Freak es un estudio que ya no puede seguir con la franquicia de Pokémon y seder a otro estudio serio comprometido con lo que el fandom pide y merece
  10. ZeBrickie
    Nov 21, 2022
    2
    Very Shallow. The open world is empty and unintresting and most new Pokemon look horrible. Just collect Neo Pets instead.
  11. ValkyrieR0SE
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    The good: it's pokemon. The open - ish world is fun to move through. Seemless integration of battles into the overworld (except for performance and the camera dropping through the basement). A grand vision with so much potential... Unfortunately, most of that potential didn't make it.

    The bad: locked into an extremely ugly school uniform (all 4 season apparel is atrocious, your bad    The good: it's pokemon. The open - ish world is fun to move through. Seemless integration of battles into the overworld (except for performance and the camera dropping through the basement). A grand vision with so much potential... Unfortunately, most of that potential didn't make it.

    The bad: locked into an extremely ugly school uniform (all 4 season apparel is atrocious, your bad taste in style doesn't change this fact). I get that being a student is part of the story, but you could have at least made the uniform half decent.

    The really bad: how did a game with this many performance issues make it to release? Clipping. So. Much. Clipping. Don't blame the Switch. We have plenty of Switch games that are seamless. Rendering. God. Awful. Rendering. Again, it isn't the switch causing this, we have plenty of bigger games with higher resolution graphics rendering just fine. Graphics. Why is it that there are nintendo ds games with better quality graphics? One would think that amazing graphics could be responsible for the abysmal rendering, except both the graphics AND the rendering suck. Framerate. Why. Just... Why? Cutscenes with framerates so bad it's almost laughable, except this is supposed to be a professionally developed game, not a slapstick high school project.

    Seriously disappointing game quality. It IS pokemon, and it is, therefore, fun. I love the change in play style, some very cool new pokemon, and I can have an eeveelution team rather early on. They hit the mark on some basic quality of life aspets. Definitely a good direction to be going, but it is very shameful how carelessly this game was developed. The half decent story and updated play style does not excuse poor craftsmanship.    … Expand
  12. Magus501
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    Es un juego que no cumple lo que promete,
    no es libre elección elegir con que gym ir primero y perder infinidad de veces y después llegar sobre leveleado a ganar de one shot a los primero gym, si no ponían un auto nivel para los lideres para que decir que es de libre elección.
    el mundo sigue pareciendo desconectado de los pokemon, no hay una interacción real con el entorno ni entre los    Es un juego que no cumple lo que promete,
    no es libre elección elegir con que gym ir primero y perder infinidad de veces y después llegar sobre leveleado a ganar de one shot a los primero gym, si no ponían un auto nivel para los lideres para que decir que es de libre elección.

    el mundo sigue pareciendo desconectado de los pokemon, no hay una interacción real con el entorno ni entre los mismo pokemon y están ligeramente bine ubicados aunque no es algo que destacaría, pokemon go tiene mejor ubicación de pokemon en las areas.

    y ni hablemos de los Bugs que son incansables y la cámara saca de onda varias veces    … Expand
  13. Anlaki
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    Wonderful work devs for trying to make this game better and not monotonous.
    But this game needed more time. Optimization doesn't exist, new mechanics are fun but after 3rd same mini boss and hilariously easy side games it gets monotonous as well. This game would be such a good move, but
  14. Gilly8163
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    Please fix this game, I have encountered enough glitches and bugs. Every pokemon I had just simply disappeared from my party, trainers fell under the map, and the fps was by far the worst part. Obviously the switch can't handle large worlds, oh wait, zelda breathe of the wild had a huge map and had almost zero problems with fps but pokemon cannot handle it at all. A pokemon game that camePlease fix this game, I have encountered enough glitches and bugs. Every pokemon I had just simply disappeared from my party, trainers fell under the map, and the fps was by far the worst part. Obviously the switch can't handle large worlds, oh wait, zelda breathe of the wild had a huge map and had almost zero problems with fps but pokemon cannot handle it at all. A pokemon game that came out before violet (Legends Arceus) looked amazing and had near to zero problems at launch with a great fps. The story of violet however is great and is a little bit different compared to previous games. The only thing that needs fixing is how the game runs. The price feels like a huge slap in my face too. Fix this game.… Expand
  15. marcovoltaire8
    Nov 23, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. No sé cómo sacaron un juego tan mal optimizado, entiendo que fue por fechas de entrega pero no valoraron su trabajo. Una lastima y una oportunidad perdida, Pokemon podría ser lo máximo y se conforma con ser lo mmmmm pasable pero en esta ocasión, con un rendimiento por los suelos. Ojala hagan algo al respecto.… Expand
  16. jakido
    Nov 24, 2022
    2
    Bugs, lag and empty world, don't waste your time on thus game, best option.
  17. Shimmybimmy
    Nov 25, 2022
    2
    Wow. This game is the most unfinished game I have played. It has SUCH potential with the setup and overall environment, but really depressing that such a large company can release such a low quality game. Not just the graphics but actual lag. Surprised the world can accept such a low quality game and a site like this could give it such a great review given it's low quality and almost fakeWow. This game is the most unfinished game I have played. It has SUCH potential with the setup and overall environment, but really depressing that such a large company can release such a low quality game. Not just the graphics but actual lag. Surprised the world can accept such a low quality game and a site like this could give it such a great review given it's low quality and almost fake open world.… Expand
  18. lks8492
    Nov 26, 2022
    2
    The frame is **** The gameplay is good. Gonna give it a 2, Game Freak shouldn't exploit the consumer like this. We pay full price for this game, and what we got was unacceptable; a half-baked game. Disgrace from the highest gross franchise.
  19. Andre787
    Nov 26, 2022
    2
    Fun to play, but the numerous bugs, glitches and terrible graphic, makes it almost unplayable…
  20. OutrSpace
    Nov 26, 2022
    2
    This feels like one of those awful knock-off 3D pokemon games that came out in the mid 2000s. I had a really well thought out review, but it got erased. But I reliazed it's not necessary because this says it all. I feel insulted.
  21. aRuubie
    Nov 27, 2022
    2
    Worst Pokémon game until now, hands down.
    Funny to play, difficult to enjoy
  22. Kerofutii
    Nov 27, 2022
    2
    I’m sorry but I just cannot justify more than 2 stars on this game. Compared to its previous entries, it’s no secret that scarlet and violet are severely lacking in some of their timeless qualities. You can no longer enter other people’s homes, fully rendered interiors are replaced with a simple menu and the number of bugs/performance issues have made this entry somewhat of a laughingI’m sorry but I just cannot justify more than 2 stars on this game. Compared to its previous entries, it’s no secret that scarlet and violet are severely lacking in some of their timeless qualities. You can no longer enter other people’s homes, fully rendered interiors are replaced with a simple menu and the number of bugs/performance issues have made this entry somewhat of a laughing stock. I will say I truly see the potential, I think if they were to release an update with bug/performance patches and were to update the rendered world, this would be a fantastic game. It needed more time in the oven, and I can only hope that Nintendo and gamefreak will be a lot more diligent in future releases. This is just not acceptable, and I hope an update rolls out soon to iron out these issues … Expand
  23. samjcjc
    Nov 28, 2022
    2
    Horribly buggy, ugly low quality textures, Looks like a bad gamecube game yet is £50 in 2022. This is just a joke.
  24. JoeDiMaggio_
    Nov 29, 2022
    2
    Definirlo un bel gioco è disonestà intellettuale. Credo con fermezza che, chi recensisce in modo positivo questo pattume, sia un fan del brand o non ha mai giocato a nessun videogioco in vita sua. Esistono videogiochi indie sviluppati con 10 euro da una singola persona nello scantinato di casa di mamma più stabili e godibili di questa roba imbarazzante.
  25. pommidoroumami
    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.
  26. lucaspgs92
    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.
  27. Fabqaz
    Nov 30, 2022
    2
    Game is a hot mess, bugs and glitches everywhere, textures and pokemon popping in and out of existence and worst case scenario, half of the games features randomly gets Thanos snapped out of existence till the next day or if youre more unlucky the next few days
  28. DennSan85
    Dec 1, 2022
    2
    Die Software Abstimmungen sind so schlecht....Spiel Stürzt öfter ab und von der Flüssigkeit und Grafik wollen wir gar nicht erst Anfangen.
  29. Raizon_98
    Dec 3, 2022
    2
    It deserves two points only for the narrative component, very mature and detailed. The rest of the game is not enjoyable due to technical issues (lag, stuttering, lighting, low quality textures...). A video game with a potential rating of 9.5 points ruined due to haste.
  30. minimite
    Dec 5, 2022
    2
    Great open world, too bad it looks like a game from 2005. Something casual fans won't realize is how horrible the balancing is. Some Pokemon are useless. Some are so OP that it completely ruined Competitive. Not to mention the automatic XP share, removal of Set Mode, and that every trainer is easier than ever.

    If you're a gamer, be prepared to be disappointed. Again. If you only play    Great open world, too bad it looks like a game from 2005. Something casual fans won't realize is how horrible the balancing is. Some Pokemon are useless. Some are so OP that it completely ruined Competitive. Not to mention the automatic XP share, removal of Set Mode, and that every trainer is easier than ever.

    If you're a gamer, be prepared to be disappointed. Again.
    If you only play Switch games, I'm sure you'll love it.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 118 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 118
  2. Mixed: 61 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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