CWs for Pokemon Violet: parent-child abandonment, bullying
Mine and many others return to the franchise, Violet has been in the cards since the jump to 3D. All games funneling towards the open world service model is definitely signs of a global decay state, but this one is pretty fine! 3D finally makes sense for Gamefreak with sectioned regions mostly organized by well disguised and only slightly branching paths. The strange theme park tracks we've been subjected to since XY are no more and instead there's just many organic Pokemon routes slapped together. The regional dex being 400 entries isn't really my taste and it can feel messy at times because the choice of sequence, but this is both a tight return to Pokemon as a road trip as well as a freeform open world adventure.
Mine and many others return to the franchise, Violet has been in the cards since the jump to 3D. All games funneling towards the open world service model is definitely signs of a global decay state, but this one is pretty fine! 3D finally makes sense for Gamefreak with sectioned regions mostly organized by well disguised and only slightly branching paths. The strange theme park tracks we've been subjected to since XY are no more and instead there's just many organic Pokemon routes slapped together. The regional dex being 400 entries isn't really my taste and it can feel messy at times because the choice of sequence, but this is both a tight return to Pokemon as a road trip as well as a freeform open world adventure.