I can't fault anyone who doesn't have the patience or the energy to play a broken game. Much less an expensive one.

I do understand that, but it's increasingly hard for me to engage with videogames by that kind of perspective. If it runs at 10fps I'll just adjust to it, if it's buggy I hope it's funny, if it's ugly then, well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Most good, interesting and ambitious ideas overshadow bad technical aspects for me and thankfully Pokémon Scarlet is good, interesting and ambitious.

I had so much fun that I can almost consider it the best in the franchise. An ode to broken games with plenty of soul.