I have mixed thoughts on this game. While I preferred it over Pokémon Sword, it's still not at the level I'd expect from a billion dollar franchise like Pokémon. For example: the lack of voice acting is very disappointing. It's not like they can't add voice acting, at least for the cut scenes. Even Xenoblade has voice acting and that series isn't nearly as huge as Pokémon is.
Visuals were subpar when in the open world. The environments also seemed pretty generic. It's easy to tell where corners were cut like with the eating animation or the shops that are just menus. I still don't understand why this and Pokémon Legends Arceus were released in the same year, what were they thinking?!?
The open world is very interesting compared to the half step that Pokémon Sword made. Only problem is that there's no level scaling so you'll be jumping around the map a lot if you don't want to brute force your way through a tough fight. I would usually be fine with this, but there's nothing on the map telling you which level the Pokémon are in each area. I had find that information from IGN and not from the actual game.
Exploration is pretty fun when using Miraidon, though you probably won't get all of his movement options until fairly late into the game.
Conceptually, the idea of having three paths their own main objectives to do instead of just the gyms is cool on paper. Though in practice it falls on its face. There's eight gyms, five titans, and five Team Star bases. The titans and the Team Star bases should be a nice breather between the gyms, but the titans and the Team Star bases are just too short in my opinion. I was able to get a lot of the game done faster than I anticipated simply because there's not much to some portions of the game.
I like being able to send out my Pokémon to fight on their own. It made grinding go by a lot quicker.
Some fights in this game are difficult if you're under leveled, especially in the last game.
The story is pretty good on paper, but the lack of voice acting really makes the pivotal moments fall flat. Even if you can't include voice acting for whatever reason then you could at least do what Ace Attorney does. The sound design, music, and the text sounds for the dialogue really do make for the limitations of the Ace Attorney games. Just do something like that and it would increase my enjoyment by a vary large amount.
Overall, Pokémon Violet is a fun game. If you don't mind poor performance and messy visuals then you'll probably have a good time with this game. Don't let my opinion stop you from having fun.
Visuals were subpar when in the open world. The environments also seemed pretty generic. It's easy to tell where corners were cut like with the eating animation or the shops that are just menus. I still don't understand why this and Pokémon Legends Arceus were released in the same year, what were they thinking?!?
The open world is very interesting compared to the half step that Pokémon Sword made. Only problem is that there's no level scaling so you'll be jumping around the map a lot if you don't want to brute force your way through a tough fight. I would usually be fine with this, but there's nothing on the map telling you which level the Pokémon are in each area. I had find that information from IGN and not from the actual game.
Exploration is pretty fun when using Miraidon, though you probably won't get all of his movement options until fairly late into the game.
Conceptually, the idea of having three paths their own main objectives to do instead of just the gyms is cool on paper. Though in practice it falls on its face. There's eight gyms, five titans, and five Team Star bases. The titans and the Team Star bases should be a nice breather between the gyms, but the titans and the Team Star bases are just too short in my opinion. I was able to get a lot of the game done faster than I anticipated simply because there's not much to some portions of the game.
I like being able to send out my Pokémon to fight on their own. It made grinding go by a lot quicker.
Some fights in this game are difficult if you're under leveled, especially in the last game.
The story is pretty good on paper, but the lack of voice acting really makes the pivotal moments fall flat. Even if you can't include voice acting for whatever reason then you could at least do what Ace Attorney does. The sound design, music, and the text sounds for the dialogue really do make for the limitations of the Ace Attorney games. Just do something like that and it would increase my enjoyment by a vary large amount.
Overall, Pokémon Violet is a fun game. If you don't mind poor performance and messy visuals then you'll probably have a good time with this game. Don't let my opinion stop you from having fun.
This game runs like garbage on the ONLY console it released on. Gamefreak had ONE set of specs that they had to make it playable on and failed, love the pokemon though.
The best and the worst pokemon game at the same time
se não fossem todos os problemas de performance, seria um dos melhores da franquia.
How the might have fallen
The evolution of Pokemon into the open-world space brings the series to a whole other level. That combined with one of the best Pokemon stories of all time makes Pokemon Violet one of the greatest in the series. It's just a shame it didn't have just a little bit longer to cook before release.
I finished every single side adventure and filled out the pokedex recently, so I decided to get back here and write something about it.
Still a really big disappointment in terms of performance, the game still runs like a slideshow in many areas. The story was lackluster, as is in most Pokémon games, but the ending and Arvin's story was good. Terastalizing is definitely much better than Dynamaxing as a gimmick, much more interesting. The online is also passable, I enjoy battling other players and being able to borrow other player's teams is great, but I also feel its mandatory as a beginner in order to play online since getting a decent competitive team is still a chore. Really enjoyed the union circle though, glad ot finally be able to run around with friends in an official game. ~
Customizing your character is absolutely hideous, what a step-down from Sword & Shield. It's so dumb that you can only wear certain pre-made outfits when the option to wear individual pieces is CODED INTO THE GAME and just greyed out.
Overall, it's a nice evolution of the series,really happy with the open world appraoch to the game, it's mostly held back by god-awful performance, some bugs and lackluster customization.
Still a really big disappointment in terms of performance, the game still runs like a slideshow in many areas. The story was lackluster, as is in most Pokémon games, but the ending and Arvin's story was good. Terastalizing is definitely much better than Dynamaxing as a gimmick, much more interesting. The online is also passable, I enjoy battling other players and being able to borrow other player's teams is great, but I also feel its mandatory as a beginner in order to play online since getting a decent competitive team is still a chore. Really enjoyed the union circle though, glad ot finally be able to run around with friends in an official game. ~
Customizing your character is absolutely hideous, what a step-down from Sword & Shield. It's so dumb that you can only wear certain pre-made outfits when the option to wear individual pieces is CODED INTO THE GAME and just greyed out.
Overall, it's a nice evolution of the series,really happy with the open world appraoch to the game, it's mostly held back by god-awful performance, some bugs and lackluster customization.
Best game in the Pokemon franchise, fight me.
bueno!! qué decir!
me lo pasé al 100% por fin! todos los dlcs, todas las pokedex, todas las side quests etc. aunque no sea el juego de pokemon al que más horas he echado, sin duda es el que más me he currado. una caja entera de mis shinys favoritos, otra caja llena de pokemon perfectamente competitivos al nivel 100, millones de dineros..
Bof es que no se ni qué decir. Me ha acompañado durante más de un año y sin duda ha sido de los juegos que más he disfrutado. Me faltaba ambientación, mejores villanos, mejores edificios... Pero todo eso es irrelevante con lo divertido que ha sido el viaje.
me lo pasé al 100% por fin! todos los dlcs, todas las pokedex, todas las side quests etc. aunque no sea el juego de pokemon al que más horas he echado, sin duda es el que más me he currado. una caja entera de mis shinys favoritos, otra caja llena de pokemon perfectamente competitivos al nivel 100, millones de dineros..
Bof es que no se ni qué decir. Me ha acompañado durante más de un año y sin duda ha sido de los juegos que más he disfrutado. Me faltaba ambientación, mejores villanos, mejores edificios... Pero todo eso es irrelevante con lo divertido que ha sido el viaje.
I like how much of the grinding of the old Pokemon games has been removed in the modern versions. The days of getting to the league after fighting every single NPC and still being very under-leveled are behind this franchise and I am happy for it.
The joy and whimsy of gathering 6 of my favorite friends and taking them on a journey through a region will never be removed from this franchise. That is Pokemon's most powerful tool and it will always stay here.
The only thing that saddens me is that these games could still be so much more if only Game Freak and Nintendo were willing to listen, but hey, I'm still here enjoying Pokemon.
The joy and whimsy of gathering 6 of my favorite friends and taking them on a journey through a region will never be removed from this franchise. That is Pokemon's most powerful tool and it will always stay here.
The only thing that saddens me is that these games could still be so much more if only Game Freak and Nintendo were willing to listen, but hey, I'm still here enjoying Pokemon.
Shallow story per usual. Probably only missing 10 or so pokemon in the original Pokedex. Never touched the DLC.
Pokemon Violet does a lot right, and a lot wrong.
Firstly, the positives. I like the characters and setting, Paldea is a really appealing region, at least on paper. The QoL is good, as it is with every new Pokemon generation, the new Pokemon are pretty cool, the story is fun, and the DLC also seems fun even though I haven't played it.
But, as I said... There's a lot I don't like about it. The world feels very unpolished, and the bad textures actively break my immersion even though I don't usually care about those.
The cities look awesome, which makes it all the more heartbreaking that they feel really lifeless a lot of the time. You can't enter buildings, the shops are menus, and the NPC feel cold.
I don't like the overworld encounters. Sure, it's fun running around, seeing cool stuff, and catching it, but the way they scattered Pokemon all over the place makes it feel messy. Why am I finding Flittle in the middle of a random river?
This isn't helped by the way this game handled shinies. Since they don't sparkle, a lot of your time is gonna be spent inspecting every group of Pokemon you see, since some of them can be REALLY subtle.
...Which brings me to my next point: New shinies. I already said I like the new Pokemon, which I do, but they have the WORST shinies out of any new lineup of Pokemon
Gholdengo, Ceruledge, Tinkaton, Baxcalibur, Tandemaus, Mabosstiff, etc... All extremely underwhelming if they even change at all. It astounds me that someone at GF deliberately decided on them.
My last major gripe is trainer customization. I don't know how it is in the DLC, but in the base game it's pitiful. 4 options that look equally sub-par, with the main outfit being the worst out of any protagonist regardless of version.
Also, I think the art style is worse than the one in Gen 7/8.
That might seem like a lot, but I'm being a bit harsh. The game is still fun and you'll probably like it more than I did
Firstly, the positives. I like the characters and setting, Paldea is a really appealing region, at least on paper. The QoL is good, as it is with every new Pokemon generation, the new Pokemon are pretty cool, the story is fun, and the DLC also seems fun even though I haven't played it.
But, as I said... There's a lot I don't like about it. The world feels very unpolished, and the bad textures actively break my immersion even though I don't usually care about those.
The cities look awesome, which makes it all the more heartbreaking that they feel really lifeless a lot of the time. You can't enter buildings, the shops are menus, and the NPC feel cold.
I don't like the overworld encounters. Sure, it's fun running around, seeing cool stuff, and catching it, but the way they scattered Pokemon all over the place makes it feel messy. Why am I finding Flittle in the middle of a random river?
This isn't helped by the way this game handled shinies. Since they don't sparkle, a lot of your time is gonna be spent inspecting every group of Pokemon you see, since some of them can be REALLY subtle.
...Which brings me to my next point: New shinies. I already said I like the new Pokemon, which I do, but they have the WORST shinies out of any new lineup of Pokemon
Gholdengo, Ceruledge, Tinkaton, Baxcalibur, Tandemaus, Mabosstiff, etc... All extremely underwhelming if they even change at all. It astounds me that someone at GF deliberately decided on them.
My last major gripe is trainer customization. I don't know how it is in the DLC, but in the base game it's pitiful. 4 options that look equally sub-par, with the main outfit being the worst out of any protagonist regardless of version.
Also, I think the art style is worse than the one in Gen 7/8.
That might seem like a lot, but I'm being a bit harsh. The game is still fun and you'll probably like it more than I did
Klefki and Swords Dance Ceruledge sweep FTW.
Def better than Sw/Sh, and def better than studying for finals. Now time to move onto my competitive Pokemon/PokeMMO era. Now add Shedinja you cowards.
Base game finished: 49hr 41min
Def better than Sw/Sh, and def better than studying for finals. Now time to move onto my competitive Pokemon/PokeMMO era. Now add Shedinja you cowards.
Base game finished: 49hr 41min
Yeah I still played both....
After 2 years I finally finished this. I don’t know if it was burn out from pokemon or what but this was a slog to get through after the half way point. We need voice acting in these games so bad.
stockholm syndrome game. but either way i love the characters tho which is something i like. rarely ever get to say about pokemon, theyre written really well. comfort game but also it feels like im having my flesh burned off while i play. idk LMFAO
This is the game that made me realize that i really have a bad habit of not finishing games.
Mehhhhh, juego Pokémon por el competitivo, se agradece que lo hagan más fácil hacer legal pokes perfectos
This would easily be an 8 out of 10 if the performance wasn’t so rough, I loved a lot about this game but….man, I would’ve gladly waited an extra year if that year consisted of polishing up this game’s technical issues. I might add more to this later once I’ve beaten the dlc’s
boowomp
Good ideas half-baked and non-existent performance.
The game has good ideas, different routes, charismatic characters, but leaving aside the performance and the thousands of bugs the game is crappy.
How can pokémon, one of the most iconic franchises and sells the unimaginable is able to make scenes that move lips characters without voice, or as a speech bubble seems made with paint.
Just as they create a map for you to explore freely, but then there are levels so exploration is not so "free". Not to mention that those levels can be at the other end of the map, instead of following the "coherent" route.
All these details and those that I have forgotten plus the optimization of the game is a game that if it had not had the name of pokémon would have been a failure.
Buenas ideas llevadas a medias y rendimiento inexistente.
El juego tiene buenas ideas, diferentes rutas, personajes carismáticos, pero dejando a un lado el rendimiento y los miles de bug el juego es cutre.
Como puede ser que pokémon, una de las franquicias más icónicas y que vende lo inimaginable es capaz de hacer escenas que mueven labios los personajes sin voz, o como un bocadillo parece hecho con paint.
Al igual de que te crean un mapa para que explores libremente, pero luego hay niveles así que la exploración no es tan "libre". Por no hablar que esos niveles puede ser estar en la otra punta del mapa, en vez siguiendo la ruta "coherente".
Todos esos detalles y los que me habré olvidado más la optimización del juego es un juego que si no hubiera tenido el nombre de pokémon hubiera sido un fracaso.
The game has good ideas, different routes, charismatic characters, but leaving aside the performance and the thousands of bugs the game is crappy.
How can pokémon, one of the most iconic franchises and sells the unimaginable is able to make scenes that move lips characters without voice, or as a speech bubble seems made with paint.
Just as they create a map for you to explore freely, but then there are levels so exploration is not so "free". Not to mention that those levels can be at the other end of the map, instead of following the "coherent" route.
All these details and those that I have forgotten plus the optimization of the game is a game that if it had not had the name of pokémon would have been a failure.
Buenas ideas llevadas a medias y rendimiento inexistente.
El juego tiene buenas ideas, diferentes rutas, personajes carismáticos, pero dejando a un lado el rendimiento y los miles de bug el juego es cutre.
Como puede ser que pokémon, una de las franquicias más icónicas y que vende lo inimaginable es capaz de hacer escenas que mueven labios los personajes sin voz, o como un bocadillo parece hecho con paint.
Al igual de que te crean un mapa para que explores libremente, pero luego hay niveles así que la exploración no es tan "libre". Por no hablar que esos niveles puede ser estar en la otra punta del mapa, en vez siguiendo la ruta "coherente".
Todos esos detalles y los que me habré olvidado más la optimización del juego es un juego que si no hubiera tenido el nombre de pokémon hubiera sido un fracaso.