Are they WORTH IT?! My HONEST REVIEW of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet!

Giving my honest thoughts on Pokemon Scarlet and Violet! Are they worth picking up?

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My honest thoughts and review on Pokemon Scarlet and Violet after nearly 30 hours of gameplay!
Intro: 0:00
Sound: 0:40
Graphics/Frame Rate: 1:22
Gameplay Loop: 2:51
Story: 5:46
Difficulty: 7:02
Shiny Hunting: 7:59
Replay Value: 9:48
Overall: 11:08

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[aDrive]

My honest thoughts on the new Pokemon games! Hope you enjoy my review =]

[crozecamp]

“People don’t play Pokèmon for the story...”

“People don’t play Pokèmon for the graphics...”

“People don’t play Pokèmon for difficulty..”

What do you play for then?? You want to pay 60 bucks for a animal catching simulator? Just say it’s a unpolished game instead of trying to find excuses.

[luimacs]

If there is no level scaling, but if they have quest markers and quest list, I would hope the future updates would put a note stating the level recommendation for each quest. This is especially helpful for linearity of the 3 storylines if they hope for the stories to intertwine. This quest list with level recommendations could help nuzlockers with linearity of the game.

Edit: it could also make multiplayer role playing with friends fun and immersive

[UmbralDawn]

Still CANNOT believe they didn’t add level scaling. Massive, massive misstep by game freak. Could have made this game incredible. But now, like always, I have to be careful about over leveling my team which takes so much enjoyment out of my playthroughs

[markhartman]

I was definitely team Violet at first but over time I’ve converted to Scarlet.

[sketchtheparadigmyork]

This Pokémon game has my favorite lineup of mons in a LOOONG time. They gave some older forgotten Pokémon time to shine while giving charizard a rest lol

[peterrealar.]

I personally don't like the lack of a shiny indication sound. I found hearing a shiny to be delightful in Arceus because it alerts you to say, "Hey! A shiny is here! Here's your chance to catch something fun!"
It creates agency for the player and engages them to collect. I don't get how you would prefer having no audible clue. That would make it easier to kill the mon.

[oliverorchard]

Yeah, honestly having no level scaling for the wild pokemon and trainers was the biggest problem for me. When I started playing it today, I was literally just wanting to explore and register pokemon centers across the whole map, as well as to catch the particular pokemon I wanted, which would then lead me to challenge the gyms, titans and team star bases in any order of choice. However, then when I saw wild level pokeman higher than my own at the beginning, I knew this wasn't an option lol. Outside of this issue though, the game has been an absolute blast from the very beginning and I would hope pokemon continue this type of game, while also adding quality of life aspects like a hard mode option or other stuff like that.

[SVAGEDRGON]

Perhaps doing each path with a new team is a good option? Hard to just choose 6 mons for me

[MsterE]

To prevent being too overleveled, should we do the stories in a pattern like gym, titan, base, gym, titan, base, gym, titan, base?

[reeseseater]

When I heard there was no level scaling I was like "Are you serious? That seems like it would be the most obvious thing to do in an open world Pokemon game. How did they not do it?" and it seems that my worries about it were correct. I still can't believe they didn't do it. But I'll still get it

[Dizzy-Luc]

Wanna say while the game doesn’t explicitly tell you where to go, Nurse Joy is *supposed* to if you ask… too bad she directed me to the ice gym instead of the psychic gym… which was WAY higher than the psychic gym… (ironically using Pokemon that are higher level than what level requirements than what I was at)

So difficulty can spike if you don’t know where you are going and go to the wrong gym lol…

ALSO! I found a shiny without realizing it (deerling, the shiny is hard to spot unless looking) by… auto battles, the Pokemon refused to attack it, so if you are full health, the Pokemon DOES refuse to attack shiny Pokemon (I tried 10+ times, raged, entered into a battle and then it sparkled lol)

[EddyWriter_]

Thanks for the review! I'm hyped about everything except the performance issues I've been seeing/hearing about. Hopefully the performance isn't SO bad that it removes me from the experience. Either way, I can't believe Scarlet and Violet already officially release tomorrow!

[nifisos]

I don't know if I like that sound change, especially when some Pokemon change barely (if at all) and you can easily miss a shiny.

[ThatTempesTGuy]

Do they test/play their own game before they release Or do they just say F it, they can deal with 15 fps in the year Unbelievable...

[RebelTrooperHoth]

just have 3 teams for each route and pick your favorite from each for the postgame

[dedsol]

Adrive you gotta be more honest about the graphical issues, there are so many immersion breaking/game breaking glitches and bullshit littered throughout the game, this is unacceptable from one of the highest grossing IP's in the world. we need to stop accepting mediocrity from gamefreak or it will never change.

[DoctorNerf]

Noticeable, consistent, frame drops = 7/10.

Those standards wow.

[UnsettlingDwarf]

“It dragged on and was too long, and also I got exhausted by the end also 8/10” mate you described a 4/10 and gave it an A rating. That’s messed up this game is getting way too much praise are you being paid to do that?

[theyokester]

as much as I would love to have level scaling with progress, I actually think it might be pretty cool to build new teams at different parts of your game. in other games, I would have one team in mind and stick with that for the entirety of the game. With the fact levels don't scale, it might encourage me to switch around my teams and use mons I usually would not use