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.

this one is tricky. full of half baked ideas and it really pisses me off how a lot of thigns in this game are handled. everyone and their dog has talked abt the bugs before. i think the region is the ugliest we have ever seen in a mainline game, i hate how the cities feel so unbelievably out of place. but also idk i had a lot of fun playing it. i love the mons, and i love the paradox mons [in violet idont really gaf about the scarlet ones #RIP]...... the story was okay but def not my favorite... Ummm hassel is literally beautiful

The game looks like shit and it's clear that they do not care, but the gameplay is very fun and has a lot of new mechanics that help make leveling up way less tedious. There are ton of Pokemon to catch, the different story paths are all cute, and the general experience was very satisfying.

If they had made leveling up just adjust around an average or you Pokemon or any kind of similar equation so you could truly go in any order you chose, I might even have given it a 4.5 despite how shitty it looks, but the game is still relatively linear just masquerading as open world.

literally just finished the main storyline today and it was good. graphics bad lol but its okay. i like the idea of the whole school thing and that you can actually take classes dont like that you cant customize your outfit all that much though. the whole tera forming and changing types feature didnt impress me all that much i feel like it didnt make you any stronger but maybe i just used it wrong lol. with sword the dynamaxing feature was better in my opinion i felt powerful lol. i did enjoy that you had the option to fight random trainers in the wild. i also really like the post game im definitely gonna complete it and probably get the dlc. nemona was mid. the whole game being a open world kinda scared me because i really like games to hold my hand but i actually really enjoyed it. comparing it to sword again this storyline was better. also it being set in spain was cute, the hispanic food was cute.

This game has the best story and main campaign of any Pokémon game. The new characters (Penny excluded) are some of the best in the entire series.The new Pokémon added were a step up from gen 8, as was the main marketable gimmick. This is the first and possibly last game where you can have a team with all 18 types represented. As far as Pokémon games are concerned, and after the DLC came out, this is no doubt one of the most fleshed out and complete experiences. This game does most everything fans have been asking for.
Criticisms of this game range from dishonest to broader complaints about the franchise overall to youtubers just looking to clickbait the bugs (which will most never happen in normal gameplay). Its insane how doomy the detractors get when Pokémon hasnt been bad for that long whatsoever, and series like Sonic and Megaman have had multiple rough patches up till current year and still get overwhelming support whenever a new game is announced. Pokemon fans need to play other games.
But yes, the game looks and runs like complete dogshit. Like the textures warp around the models terribly and the game cant keep a stable 30 FPS despite being limited. That’s why I cant give it a perfect score. GameFreak is terrible, but SV absolutely is not.

(i beat area zero pt 1 and base game, felt fulfilled enough to put off pt 2 for a while)

in spite of its shortcomings this reignited my love for pokemon. i really enjoy the new tera mechanic (although i wish gyms and trainers did more crazy tactics w it but its a pokemon game so. easy) and even though the texture work for the environments is ass ugly, i still enjoyed my time exploring it.

just uh, please make it run at a solid 30fps next time thanks

I'm so disappointed. It ain't the first time, but more important and sad, it sure won't be the last.

"It's a step in the right direction"... Bro, they've been taking steps in that promised right direction since Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. THEY SHOULD ALREADY BE THERE BY NOW.

And the only reason it gets a 1 and not a 0.5 is because there are worst culprits in this diarrhea soup.