Nintendo Switch – OLED Model Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Limited Edition

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Jeronan dude there was no need for all that. Everything relevant was in the first paragraph. And Nintendo may have a stake in the Pokémon company but that doesn’t mean they have any control over Game Freak. If they did then we wouldn’t have seen GameFreak games on other consoles. These games CANNOT be worse than DP/SP, so that's a start. I'm really hoping these games are as good as Sw/Sh. Since, I really enjoyed them. Hearing that most of the jank is in the overworld makes me sad, I really hope it doesn't take me out of the game too much. A Deeper Experience with Multiplayer* Gameplay - Pokémon Violet allows multiplayer gameplay with up to four players. Along with series staples, such as trading and battling Pokémon, you will be able to explore the various locations of the region in these games with other players. You can discover new Pokémon and explore unfamiliar areas with your friends and family, opening the door to an adventure more precious and fun than ever!

Can't understand why TPC couldn't fix the biggest issues, Switch hardware maybe part of it, but when Breath of The Wild runs fine, I can't see why they couldn't find a way to fix it. Maybe there is hope a patch of some kind can improve on it, even if it's not the day one patch, but who knows.The review sounds positive. Especially the part about recapturing the magic. The atmosphere and magic is very important to me. TMs aren’t the only thing you can make, and Pokémon’s culinary step forward from Galar’s curries is sandwiches. You can set up a picnic out in the overworld, interact with your Pokémon (including giving them baths), play ball, and make tasty bocadillos in a cute, if awkward, little minigame. You can follow set recipes or try and make some unique flavours. Depending on the ingredients you use to construct your succulent sub, you’ll get different benefits, such as boosting experience for one type of Pokémon, or increasing the drop rate of items from a particular type, and even Tera raid boosts. There are tons of these to experiment with, so even our wonkiest sandwich felt like it helped us fill our bags and our Pokémon up a little bit. Poco_Lypso Well, if they are okay with releasing crap games then that's on them ultimately but they are losing me as a fan for years. I'm sorry, but I'm not buying crap games for me or my kids and this game is crap. Jireland92 Game Freak is part of the Pokemon Company, in which Nintendo has a big stake in. So Nintendo actually has indirect control over Game Freak if they want to and should after this latest disaster of a game.

I'm happy for people that do end up enjoying these games but I think I'm done with Pokémon for now. My main excitement right now is Fire Emblem Engage which I really do hope we see more of in the next few weeks or soon. Even Pokemon Sword and Shield, which is one of the worst games I've played on the Switch, managed to get an 8/10 here so not sure this score bodes too well. I was never very optimistic about this one from the start though and even less so since the leaks dropped. I'm still going to give it a go for myself though but only because I found a cheap copy so I'll be able to resell it afterwards for profit if I can be bothered anyway. If this is the result of the Open World feature, then I rather wish they hadn't gone this route. I mean... Legend Arceus was also pretty bland and boring with its environments. Game freak being Game freak. I really hope they fix the technical issues with patches because I really loved Arceus and I like the direction the mainline series is taking. No buy for me, unless the they fix some of the techincal ussues. It's high time that Nintendo steps in and starts shaking up Game freak real good! As Game Freak just keeps on riding the Pokemon IP alone doing all the sales for them, instead of putting some "real" effort in their games.Jeronan Your claim that Game Freak is part of The Pokémon Company is factually incorrect. TPS is a joint venture company formed by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. Another great thing about linear RPG's is that you can usually go into an area you aren't ready for, take the risk and if you win the reward will be greater. So hearing about the frame rate here worries me, because if Nintendo Life is harping on it, it must be bad. If it's the same as Arceus, I am okay with it. If it's worse, it might start to ruin my enjoyment. broskiplays lol plenty of games that look even better than Pokémon run at 30 FPS. This is 100% on the developers and the pace in which TPC cranks out new games.

Sword/Shield was hardly a technical powerhouse, but they looked nice and played well. Game Freak should have reserved their lofty ambitions for the next generation of hardware rather than releasing such an underwhelming début into open world gameplay.This year has been one of change for me. I got a new home, changed from android to iphone (still can’t get used to it), went to the gym for the first time ever, and it’s definitely the year where I decided to not buy a main Pokemon game; and this review justifies that. GF should pay more attention to optimize their own games. They have thousands of employees and a (r@p ton of money to make that investment. If they gave up, outsource the game to a more passionate studio. Dragon Quest XI s, breath of the wild, xenoblade 3 run greatly on Switch. Even Shin Megami Tensei V runs better, which was clearly too ambitious for the hardware. johnvboy To be fair, GameFreak seems barely used to do actual 3D games in general. Specially since going to HD with the Switch. SWSH wasn't a technical marvel either (that only had better framerate because it had a much more limited scope) and Arceus had it's own technical issues too.

But anyways, if the anime is ending, Game Freak theoretically might have more time for another mainline games development. Hey GF, take more time for gen 10.I don't understand what's making the performance so choppy. I'm still in the tutorial and I've seen my character briefly freeze and sprint to catch the first mon. I'm on Violet if that helps narrow down why it seems why some people aren't being affected. Savage_Joe Why would there be a level 40 enemy in a level 5 zone in the first place? Seems like bad design to me that doesn't require level scaling to solve. Shouldn't the level 40 bunny never spawn in a level 5 zone? Jireland92 and that mentality is what enables GF, among others, to keep pushing these unoptimized messes because they will still sell anyways. This is not the ps1 and ps2 era where even the best hardware limited the games’ performance. People who won’t mind poor performance in games will still never do, but I won’t spend a dime on a game where the gameplay is noticeably affected most of the time because of poor frame rate, even if it was for my kids. Aside from its phenomenal shift to a true open world, I’ve had one other major takeaway from my time with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet so far that is impossible to ignore: they are a technical mess. In fact, there really isn’t a moment in these games where I’d say they run well. Unless word-of-mouth over performance issues are historically bad, this will almost certainly be the direction the franchise takes from here-on out.