does quite a few things right, but ultimately very flawed. enjoyable enough for me to finish, and gives me hope that someday we'll get a really good 3d pokemon game, but that's not this one. if they'd let it bake another year or so and been able to properly integrate the dlc content and story it could've been much better, but alas.
Honestly the characters are fun and it perfects the pokemon formula but the graphics aren't good at all and my lord the framerate is horrendous.
Actually a lot better than other recent games from what I’ve played. Though I am against any of the weird new forms during battle.
this game had a lot of cool ideas, but unfortunately were so bugged out on my docked switch i didn't get to appreciate most of them
i got this shit early and i still didnt beat it LOL
they made a mainline pokemon game that takes most of the things i liked about arceus and throws away most of the things i disliked about older mainline games! yay! first mainline game i actually finished and it was pretty fun
i like the open world part of just hanging around :] i'm still too lazy to battle though. half of the battle gameplay was me asking one of my wives "hey what type is good against this one". i never remember.
great story, really funny characters. literally making a rival whose only braincell is pokemon battling is so funny. music is great, love some dynamic audio
i will however be one of those people: damn the rendering almost ruined this game for me. it's a damn shame the game has all these cool mechanics and story and everything and then you get the final thing running at 15fps and glitching its visuals constantly. i really wish they had the time to work on that. i wish pokemon devs had time, period
i like the open world part of just hanging around :] i'm still too lazy to battle though. half of the battle gameplay was me asking one of my wives "hey what type is good against this one". i never remember.
great story, really funny characters. literally making a rival whose only braincell is pokemon battling is so funny. music is great, love some dynamic audio
i will however be one of those people: damn the rendering almost ruined this game for me. it's a damn shame the game has all these cool mechanics and story and everything and then you get the final thing running at 15fps and glitching its visuals constantly. i really wish they had the time to work on that. i wish pokemon devs had time, period
best pokemon game so far, still disappointing compared to other games of its generation. please hand this ip to a different company. look at palworld
game rocks when it doesnt fuckin SUCK
Personally I really liked the game, yes its true it is laggy, but still was very enjoyable, I liked the concept of it too
its a heaping hunk of garbage that plays like shit but its still pokemon so i do quite like it
Elongated sigh of mediocrity.
Pokémon Violet opened my eyes to how I truly feel about the franchise. I no longer feel the same exhilarating rush I used to get when I would play an entry I hadn’t experienced yet.
Why is this? Maybe I simply just grew up, maybe my preferences changed, or maybe Pokémon simply no longer tries. Remember Gen 5’s groundbreaking DS graphics? The 2.5D to give a pseudo 3D effect that really landed? Remember the outlandish sprite designs that we laughed at then, but wish we could go back to? This is just no longer what Game Freak is about.
Of course the semantics of why Game Freak isn’t like this float around the discourse of every Switch exclusive Pokémon game, but I just feel as if they aren’t truly trying their hardest. Especially after a game like Legends Arceus, even if it was full of uninteresting, uninspired dialogue. Gen 9 suffers from the same thing, but there’s somehow even more. Like, please brother, shut the FUCK up every once in awhile. You can’t go more than 5 minutes without wandering into a full on yap session.
I would give them credit of the open world design, if the world didn’t look like a late era Wii game. There are so many beautiful looking games on the Switch, and this just isn’t one of them. Textures feel flat, cities look identical, environments look colorless. There are 2 open world Zelda games on the Switch that not only look better, but run better as well. Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild are 7 years old and absolutely blow new Pokémon out of the water, both stylistically and graphically.
I love the ability to progress how I please, but levels are already set instead of scaled. That means I don’t truly have a choice, I just have the option to go to higher level areas where I’d get my ass kicked trying to train.
Let me go back to the pointless dialogue thing I mentioned, because Pokémon has actually had great storylines before. Black and White, Ruby and Sapphire, Platinum, all memorable. I legitimately just played this game, like, today, for hours, and can’t remember shit. A huge reason for this is the ungodly amount of dialogue that just does NOT matter, so I may have ended up skipping important sections.
This game is also on the verge of being broken. Constant frame rate drops, human characters and Pokémon sprites popping in and out of existence, getting stuck on terrain, 2022 did not ask for this.
The music does slap though. Top tier Pokémon OST.
There are so many better, similar games on the Switch than this, and there’s even a better Pokémon game on the console too. Pokémon Violet succeeds at nothing but the basics, being a somewhat playable game that sounds good, with almost zero memorability to make up for the dreadful gameplay you’ve forced yourself to get through. A good idea, a very bad execution. 3/10.
Pokémon Violet opened my eyes to how I truly feel about the franchise. I no longer feel the same exhilarating rush I used to get when I would play an entry I hadn’t experienced yet.
Why is this? Maybe I simply just grew up, maybe my preferences changed, or maybe Pokémon simply no longer tries. Remember Gen 5’s groundbreaking DS graphics? The 2.5D to give a pseudo 3D effect that really landed? Remember the outlandish sprite designs that we laughed at then, but wish we could go back to? This is just no longer what Game Freak is about.
Of course the semantics of why Game Freak isn’t like this float around the discourse of every Switch exclusive Pokémon game, but I just feel as if they aren’t truly trying their hardest. Especially after a game like Legends Arceus, even if it was full of uninteresting, uninspired dialogue. Gen 9 suffers from the same thing, but there’s somehow even more. Like, please brother, shut the FUCK up every once in awhile. You can’t go more than 5 minutes without wandering into a full on yap session.
I would give them credit of the open world design, if the world didn’t look like a late era Wii game. There are so many beautiful looking games on the Switch, and this just isn’t one of them. Textures feel flat, cities look identical, environments look colorless. There are 2 open world Zelda games on the Switch that not only look better, but run better as well. Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild are 7 years old and absolutely blow new Pokémon out of the water, both stylistically and graphically.
I love the ability to progress how I please, but levels are already set instead of scaled. That means I don’t truly have a choice, I just have the option to go to higher level areas where I’d get my ass kicked trying to train.
Let me go back to the pointless dialogue thing I mentioned, because Pokémon has actually had great storylines before. Black and White, Ruby and Sapphire, Platinum, all memorable. I legitimately just played this game, like, today, for hours, and can’t remember shit. A huge reason for this is the ungodly amount of dialogue that just does NOT matter, so I may have ended up skipping important sections.
This game is also on the verge of being broken. Constant frame rate drops, human characters and Pokémon sprites popping in and out of existence, getting stuck on terrain, 2022 did not ask for this.
The music does slap though. Top tier Pokémon OST.
There are so many better, similar games on the Switch than this, and there’s even a better Pokémon game on the console too. Pokémon Violet succeeds at nothing but the basics, being a somewhat playable game that sounds good, with almost zero memorability to make up for the dreadful gameplay you’ve forced yourself to get through. A good idea, a very bad execution. 3/10.
This game is absolute dogwater. Even if I left out all the glitches and performance issues i encountered, there'd still be way too many issues to list here.
boring ass game only to be defeated by valorant being a fucking shitty video game
The best plot on recent releases, which saves the mess of a game it is, at least gaves us professor Turo, Sprigatito and Fuecoco
I think this game got a bad rep. It definitely has its flaws but I appreciated the openness of the region and had an absolute blast shiny hunting. This game is buggy and slow at times which does take away from the fun. The Ed Sheeran song is garbage and its on my workplace's playlist for some godforsaken reason.
The first mainline Pokémon game that couldn't overcome its flaws by being Pokémon.
Buggy? yes. Still a very fun game, and a step in the right direction
You know, if they actually released this game without the performance issues it would've been one of the best Pokémon games they have ever made.
Open world, interesting story, interesting Tera mechanic, the base was there for them to really make it a perfect game for the series. Instead, it's incredibly hampered with performance issues. Despite releasing expansions, updates, whatever, the issues are still there and really ruin what could've been an all time Pokémon game.
Open world, interesting story, interesting Tera mechanic, the base was there for them to really make it a perfect game for the series. Instead, it's incredibly hampered with performance issues. Despite releasing expansions, updates, whatever, the issues are still there and really ruin what could've been an all time Pokémon game.
+ 11/2 stars for the selfie camera unironically where I got most of my enjoyment
Made it up to the postgame but got too burnt out to continue past that. Framerate and other performance issues aren't enough to turn me off from a game but ffs the wasted potential here is so irritating. There's a great game buried in here somewhere but Game Freak farting this one out in such an early stage of development knowing it'll make a trillion dollars regardless is shameful.
The only time I become one of the "but the tree graphics!!1!" people is when it involves literally the highest-grossing franchise in the world... who cares about the integrity of putting out a quality product when you know consumers will eat up whatever you put out ig. The last mainline game I'm playing on release.
Bring back the PSS and Pokemon Amie and then we'll talk 🤚 Until we get Pokéathlon in glorious HD with Mario & Sonic Olympic Games-level graphics I'm #done
Made it up to the postgame but got too burnt out to continue past that. Framerate and other performance issues aren't enough to turn me off from a game but ffs the wasted potential here is so irritating. There's a great game buried in here somewhere but Game Freak farting this one out in such an early stage of development knowing it'll make a trillion dollars regardless is shameful.
The only time I become one of the "but the tree graphics!!1!" people is when it involves literally the highest-grossing franchise in the world... who cares about the integrity of putting out a quality product when you know consumers will eat up whatever you put out ig. The last mainline game I'm playing on release.
Bring back the PSS and Pokemon Amie and then we'll talk 🤚 Until we get Pokéathlon in glorious HD with Mario & Sonic Olympic Games-level graphics I'm #done
Idk, got bored of it fast. First time a mainline Pokémon game has done that.
Open world without scaling...
it's technically the best core gameplay loop pokemon has had for years but also it fuckin sucks
This review contains spoilers
In my opinion, this game and his conterparts represents the real lowest point in the franchise. Let's cast aside the story that is a personal question and can be argued (I only liked Arven and Riben as characters, the rest of them bored me). Let's talk about the battles, that is a good half of Pokémon concept's core, gym leaders are completely incapable of countering a super effective pokemon and what's even worse, if they find themselves to have their last pokemon who's type is advantaged against the pokemon who destroyed their entire team they're still going to teracrystalize and make that advantaged pokemon weak to ours just because it is scripted that they tera first turn, a thing that not even mega wielders in 6th gen were forced to do, even if it was only the best option. There are few combo that can really work (Iono's ace for example) and when they try them the level design decides to break the combo (by raining when someone sets sunny day). I won't talk about the technical issues because it would be rubbing salt into the wound, but I can complain about the graphic that is ridiculous and doesn't even try to make up for the lack of content(yes, I am looking at mount glaceado). At least, there are some of the best designs in the last generations like ceruledge, annihilape, roaring moon and flutter mane, at the cost of some nightmares like spidops, baxcalibur and most of all orthworm, but this again is a personal matter. Than, I found some plot solutions really lazy like the final battle Miraidon vs Miraidon, while it could have been Miraidon vs Koraidon (maybe they could have said that the others was the only pokemon the professor brought from the future/past because it was too aggressive, just to justify his presence, and it could have been quite interesting seeing a professor that is obsessed with past/future fighting his last battle with a pokemon coming from the opposite timeline), or the epilogue after the dlc which was meant to explain how pecharunt was using the deepest desires of pokemons and humans to control them (that could have been a super interesting matter, because it could have been linked with the main story and the desire of the professor for the future/past by revealing at the end that it wasn't pecharunt's control's fault but it was his true desire for example), but degenerated in clearly stating that all human's true desire was to be a damn chicken.
I am really disconsolate about what Pokémon is giving us especially after what they demonstrated to be able to achieve in the golden era of NDS, and I think it is obvious that this product is a rushed project that was completely destroyed by logic of market and profit. I will now put my hope in the legends series that I have appreciated up until now because if this is what the main line is planning to feed us from now on than I think I am not gonna catch 'em all anymore.
I am really disconsolate about what Pokémon is giving us especially after what they demonstrated to be able to achieve in the golden era of NDS, and I think it is obvious that this product is a rushed project that was completely destroyed by logic of market and profit. I will now put my hope in the legends series that I have appreciated up until now because if this is what the main line is planning to feed us from now on than I think I am not gonna catch 'em all anymore.
let down, story is good especially in the dlc and its easy to make your own completive teams
This game has lots of frame rate issues but it's probably still the best pokemon experience game freak has made the is the best multiplayer has ever been
É todo bugado, mas se relevar isso, é impecável. Ótima história e jogabilidade.
Had about 100 hours of fun playing this game. First time I ever completed the pokedex. First time I ever fully EV trained my team. First time I ever wanted to kill time in the game so bad that I willingly hunted for shinies —— sucessfully! And yet I literally do not think it is a good game. idk. Disillusioned with the pokemon company now
conseguiram estragar pokemon
I like this game. The fact that they released it in such a buggy state is crazy. The fact that they proceeded to release 2 DLCs without bug fixes is crazy. Like unforgiveable kinda crazy, even Cyberpunk didn't do that and that's saying a lot because they systematically torture their workers.
But it's fun. I think it's maybe a warning sign that they shouldn't split up their workforce to work on two games at one time, though I do admittedly think it's kind of funny that Legends came out working and feeling great and then this came out and good god. It's funnier because a lot of the things people think are bugs are just design choices to make sure the game actually runs.
I'm talking about the performance a lot because I just think the game is good. Not as good as Legends, but the fact that they decided to actually try something non-standard with this one and it kind of worked was really cool for a series that only ever wanted to change when the writers were...well, the writers of Legends. I like the sandwich making, it feels a lot more fun and fresher than the food-related minigames in pokemon's past, the music in this game is some of my favorite in the series, like it's crazy that it took this long for us to get multiple wild battle themes but they did it.
I admittedly did sort of play with my own restrictions but they made the game a lot more fun for me. Putting off beating it but I've already logged so many hours ALSO OH MY GOD
OHHHH MY GOD PAWMI PAWMO ARE THE CUTEST WHY ARE POKEMON IN THIS GAME SO CUTE LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK UP AT YOU AND STUFF I LOST MY MIND THIS IS WHY I NEEDED POKEMON TO TURN 3D EVERYTHING JUST LOOKS SO CUTE
But it's fun. I think it's maybe a warning sign that they shouldn't split up their workforce to work on two games at one time, though I do admittedly think it's kind of funny that Legends came out working and feeling great and then this came out and good god. It's funnier because a lot of the things people think are bugs are just design choices to make sure the game actually runs.
I'm talking about the performance a lot because I just think the game is good. Not as good as Legends, but the fact that they decided to actually try something non-standard with this one and it kind of worked was really cool for a series that only ever wanted to change when the writers were...well, the writers of Legends. I like the sandwich making, it feels a lot more fun and fresher than the food-related minigames in pokemon's past, the music in this game is some of my favorite in the series, like it's crazy that it took this long for us to get multiple wild battle themes but they did it.
I admittedly did sort of play with my own restrictions but they made the game a lot more fun for me. Putting off beating it but I've already logged so many hours ALSO OH MY GOD
OHHHH MY GOD PAWMI PAWMO ARE THE CUTEST WHY ARE POKEMON IN THIS GAME SO CUTE LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK UP AT YOU AND STUFF I LOST MY MIND THIS IS WHY I NEEDED POKEMON TO TURN 3D EVERYTHING JUST LOOKS SO CUTE
and what if i said best pokemon game ive ever played kevin hart with his hands up jpeg