The story’s good…. Would be better if not for the lag and performance issues…And that u can miss a shiny very easily cuz the despawn when your out range…

my main gripe is the team. From sun and moon the teams have been getting less and less character because hey are so unbelievably boring especially team star and team yell. graphics are bad but not game ending tbh

​@@NintendoNoah-mb1yuteam star's story wasn't super compelling but they're certainly much better than team Yell.

It's my first pokemon game ever so I love it!

might be hard to believe - but pokemon scarlet brought me back to loving pokemon.. the story was pretty great and the QOL alone made the whole experience so enjoyable, overpowering the insanely bad performance. But I had such a great time that i completed a pokedex for the first time in my life! made me go back and start on getting a full living dex..

Bro I never thought about the age of scarlet and violet… it’s WILD it’s two years old already…

It’s technically a year and half old, but it certainly does feel like it’s 2 years old

Yeah 😭Remember when we thought we would have gotten a graphics/ performance patch by now. crazyyy. Hopefully with switch 2

quite a few more months before they're 2 years old lol

Despite being disappointed by the backtrack from Legends Arceus, I still enjoyed my time with SV. Even bought the themed OLED Switch.

Literally not since FireRed did I have a rival that crushed me and I made sure to clip our final battle.

Amazing

it was so boring tho

Cute, but in my opinion slowed down the game a lot for what it was, not as gripping as Arven’s story and obviously Nemona’s story is your usual Pokémon journey

I personally would have enjoyed the story of Team star more if they moved some--hell maybe even ALL--of the details from the DLCs into the main game. I mean, there is literally a side quest you can do after completing the Indigo disk story where you tutor some of the team star kids which adds a bunch of personality to each member. I think Teal mask also had team star story beats in it somewhere, but i literally never cared about their story enough to pay attention so i've easily forgotten if there even is any in teal mask since its been so long since i finished that dlc. Iirc, we dont see literally any of the gym leaders in either dlc, but at multiple points post campaign in each dlc, you get the option to go back and talk to team star members to learn more about their past. This could have been put into the main game and the team star story would have been better. Not really a LOT better since you'd have to go thru the whole main game story to learn about ANY of this, but locking the COMPLETE TEAM STAR STORY behind dlc is...............pathetic, and just such a let down.

can I just say how insane it is that every teacher/employee of the school dropped out/quit, and no one knows ANYTHING about what happened? There is not a single person working for the school currently that knows any information besides "they have a bad reputation." 😶

​@@winter_mint team star essentially threatened a pokémon school shooting, even if they didn't really intend on fully following through on it, and caused a mass exodus of students from the school. yeah if i was them and i wasn't fired, i would get the hell out of there as soon as possible.

It feels like they were made in a day sometimes.

They likely meant it worse then it came out, considering 7/10 isn’t even that bad a score.

7/10 is a little generous. Though honestly, number scores don't do justice to the wildly varying quality of the many aspects of the game.

@@dvp1694 Sword and Shield? That’s honestly a really funny way of spelling GSC.

@@dvp1694 I would like to disagree. S/V had a good story but dropped the ball in everything else.

Still not quite as good as Hoenn's 7.8/10

oooh yes, i love this! I remember being super surprised that Katy was a baker, what a great point!

I wanted the gyms in gen 9 to have gym uniforms like they did in SwSh because those designs were amazing. The gym trainer npcs from pokemon SwSh are also significantly better. They all have amazing and unique designs that even fit the types of the gyms they're part of. But the ones in gen 9 are just the same generic npcs that you find through the entire region.

My thing about the side profession thing is, why is it so praised when it's far from the only region with this aspect? I don't even think it's the first region where ALL of the gym leaders have this trait. It's not like we actually SEE them do their non gym leader jobs in any more detail than usual either. It's always enjoyable but when i see brought up to prop up Paldea and these games like its a unique thing to gen 9 when its been happening since 1996, it always feels like folks ignoring previous stuff to try and find something positive about ScVi specifically.

@MagillanicaLouM I never said it was unique to this gen, but I do feel like it's done particularly well here. maybe it's just cuz the character designs are especially strong, or the crowd that forms to watch your battles. just trying to think about why they felt especially memorable to me outside of just visual designs. I have plenty of criticisms for s/v but this is just something I personally thought was done well, im not trying to say it's the first gen to do gym leaders right or anything. I do think there should be more interaction with them outside of battle though, and the little gym trials all felt very trivial and lame to me. while I think SV have plenty of flaws, the human character designs in general are a big strength imo.

@@aliteralcrouton4876 yeah I was more speaking generally, I've seen a few comments before praising the gym leaders and this game's characters in general as a step up when they aren't doing anything that wasnt done before or even better in the series imo. However, for you specifically, i can see why the atmosphere of battles and the designs help in making them stick out lol. About the character DESIGNS in particular, I can definitely agree. Series rarely ever misses on that front, and while I don't think Paldea's cast as a whole are among my favorites, there are definitely individual characters that are, both human and pokemon. Even without Sugimori in this one, there's some good stuff going here.

.... the professor is a WHAT (I know nothing of the story)

@@lorettabes4553 spoilers 😂

​@@lorettabes4553Arlie mentioned in the video that they're robots but they are AI operated robots.

So does that mean every NPC is a robot? Or that the Legends Arceus citizens are automatons, since no matter how much time passes, they never move and stand still, which creates a conspiracy about...

@@Chadfill8348 well, the important npcs

I completely understand. I have been telling everyone I HATE Pokemon Sword / Shield with a passion, but now I have played 770 hours already, with 34 shiny legendaries still to be found in Dynamax Adventures.....

Got the same problem, got over 3500 hours on Scarlet

@@Blue-Umbreon dang… I’m getting there tbh

In sword I got 5825 hours and Violet I have 3635 hours and since gamefreak didn’t give us any games this year I expect both games to easily surpass that since I enjoy breeding competitive shinys.

I got so many hours it doesn’t change anymore 🫠🫠

It was a nice story. Although to be fair with 3 (technically 4) stories, at least one of them was bound to stick to the wall. The ending was pretty cool.

Yeah and there's actually a lot of lore about Eternatus in the game if you actually pay attention to the story. Literally every town and city in the region had some kind of connection to the legend of Galar (except for ballonlea for the whole hidden fairy town aesthetic and spikemuth for being the town that doesn't relate to dynamax). Eternatus fell like a meteor on Galar (the other probably in the place where the dynamax adventures take place in current times) and forced Calyrex to teleport an entire forest to save the pokemon living there (the same forest that is now near the house of the player and that was probably what was there instead of the dynamax adventures place). Turning pokemon into giants while flying through the region (passing through the crown tundra and some of the islands near the Isle of armor). While passing through Hulbury it ended up causing the existence of the first gmax pokemon (gmax toxtricity) that saved hulbury from the attack and that it was so big that people from Milo's town were able to see it happen (and thus, created the geoglypht). Around the same time, Regigigas, that was roaming around Galar (that's why there's so many places called "Giant's something" in the region) saw the first darkest day as a giant "storm" of dynamax energy (which is dragon type energy) which was very likely what inspired regigigas for the creation of regieleki (electric type regi inspired by the "storm") and regidrago (made literally from the draconic energy left in the process). Then the ancestors of Swordward and Shieldbert (that witnessed Eternatus arrival on Galar) were the ones that found the shrine with the ancient relics necessary to summon Zacian and Zamazenta (after Calyrex teleported the entire forest to mainland Galar) and they used them to summon both of them. And thus, Calyrex and Kubfu/Urshifu (the fairy king and the fighting master) made a team with Zacian and Zamazenta (the hero duo) to defeat Eternatus and after defeating it, this made Eternatus scatter wishing stars through the entire region. This fight was so intense that Calyrex ended up super injured and was rescued by the people of the crown tundra that healed him up. And even then Calyrex was still so traumatized from the fight that he couldn't see people with an opened hand because it reminded him of Eternatus. And Zacian and Zamazenta got so hurt that they needed to go to the (currently called) "Hero's bath" in Circhester to heal their wounds before going back to their shrine. Because of this, the people of Galar attributed the entire victory to the ancestors of Swordward and Shieldbert (creating the ancient tapestries to remember the real legend) but the events of legend eventually got so mixed up with the pass of the centuries that people ended up believing that it was just a single human hero with a sword and a shield who saved the day back then. Eternatus fell into what currently are one of the Galar mines owned by Rose and was discovered by him eventually, taking it to hammerlock to (eventually) start his plan. It's very likely that Eternatus arrival 3000 years ago caused several (permanent) mutations to pokemon and plants while flying through the region due to overexposure to its energy. Like Calyrex's blue aura, the giant tree from the crown tundra, the galarian legendary birds (that I personally think that are three flying type pokemon mutated by Eternatus energy) and the tree where you can currently find the max honey in the isle of armor and the max mushrooms that you can find through the entire (main) island as well. Also, all the Galar legendaries (including Eternatus) are inspired by an entire set of constellations that are very close to each other. Which is pretty cool: Lepus the hare (Calyrex), Orion the hunter who wields a sword and a shield (which was a giant, hence the inspiration for the dynamax/gmax phenomenon and the name of the games), The spectral horse head nebula (spectrier), Monoceros the unicorn (glastrier), Canis major and canis minor (zacian and zamazenta), which are right next to the hydra constellation (Eternatus), with this one being the largest of the western constellations (just like Eternatus is the largest of all pokemon). And the hydra from such constellation is said to have poisonous blood and a dragon breath. Which are the two types of Eternatus. This group of constellations is also next to gemini (the identical twins: the two forms of urshifu) and such constellation lies across the border between two quadrants: the tiger quadrant and the vermilion bird/crane quadrant, which just happens to be the real world fighting styles that inspired the fighting styles for both forms of Urshifu. Sorry for the ridiculously long comment. I tend to write a lot sometimes XD.

@@giboit. read the whole thing, i respect the lore of gen 8 a lot more. Especially now knowing that the legends are based on constellations, i think that alone is so badass.

Yeah let's show some love for the one of the top three generations of all time, my dude! 💪

@@giboit. comments like this one remind me why i fell in love with the franchise in the first place and why it bothers me when people say Game Freak doesn't care about the games anymore, obviously there's a ton of valid criticisms like the ones presented by Arlie in this video, but it's undeniable that there's an insame amount of love and thought put into both old and new games. Thank you for a great read.

this is such a crazy but accurate comparison, LOL

The games still have the same development cycle of 3 years, even though the scope kept getting bigger. You can see the result of that on both Switch games.

@@kats1646 that still doesn’t explain it. Multiply the workload by ten and you still have a fraction of the resources at hand compared to indies

Region and city environments have gradually gotten worse since pokemon made the jump to 3D. Sun and Moon was where I first noticed the decline in town and route quality, as many towns are just unremarkable and routes started becoming a lot more simplified. Sw/sh took it further and basically didn’t even make an attempt to design routes in some cases and having towns with even less to do. S/v went the furthest, with almost completely empty towns in some cases without any standout visual design that sw/sh even maintained

THIS 👆

I love these games so much and think they're the most replayable pokemon games ever even if they are poorly made

@@KaideroOW imagine if monolith soft made the game

@@KaideroOW I'm with you there, Blueberry academy just made it so much better too Once you look past the performance and the lacking parts of Paldea the rest of the game is very great

Finally someone who shares my pain. They introduced my favourite Pokémon character already in the first DLC and I didn't know it before until the second DLC dropped! They finally made such a good character that I'm getting with him obsessed lately (just kinnie moment) and it took them 9 generations. I nearly played all generations and I have to say that it's so much fun to play this game yet it's badly made like Red and Blue. But they was an other time before back then...

Yeah, why do y'all do that?

Towns were always dead.

​@@DarkEclipse23 nah Some would have things in em if you went out of your way to check Unfortunately the majority of SV houses don't have interiors

Is this a joke? I don't see it, just a flamingo

There isn't even a marill there

@@_DewGaming If you watched half a second more, you would see that when she goes to full cam, there is a shiny Marill in the bookcase

@@InkStainedFae dang, you're right

lol I was so confused until I saw it on the bookshelf 🤣🤣🤣

🤦

S/V imo are the best "Mainline" games in awhile, the problem is they seem not finished, are buggy and also not optimized for the Switch at all. Thus the overall experience can leave a bad taste in peoples mouth. Compare the Wild Area offline to just how slow running around in S/V's open world is. Why did character customization again have 2 steps forward 2 steps back you can actual do so much in regards to actual customization but then on the clothes front it runs so badly and so many of the choices are so lackluster that most people will at most spend 5 minutes attempting it and never touch it again. The online functionality just keeps on getting worse and worse since Generation 6. I get that it is "side game" but why were the items to allowed you to evolve trade evolutions with items from PLA not included for that matter why not include the shiny jingle and animation that PLA also had. Instead we get a "school" system that seems there just for padding another picnic/camp system that most players probably wont touch unless they are going to breed since the day/care has been removed. Actual stores have been removed to effectively just be interfaces which is slow when dealing with customization aspects, and also removes some of the "Life" of the world since they all blend into the background. I am sure there is more stuff, but I think I made my point, the core gameplay is probably the strongest it has been in awhile, I personally just played Gen 9 for the second time where as no games since Gen 4 have I wanted to play through multiple times, the problems are everything else which are really starting to become bigger and bigger.

You must be great at parties. I'm not being sarcastic. As I grew older, I became somewhat biased and overthink, that sometimes I am unable to enjoy new or even some old games. I appreciate open-minded people like you.

gen 9 brought us soooo many incredible new pokémon, I absolutely agree!! As someone who knows little to nothing about competitive, I will say watching tera has definitely been way more interesting than watching dynamaxing! always great to see your comments anthony, looking forward to finally sitting down and watching your galaxy video!!!

@@partyarlie Thank you so much, that just made my day! I hope you'll enjoy the video, it's almost as good as this one! PHENOMENAL job on this video! Very well articulated and composed! Everything was so well-done and I love the comparisons between these games and older ones. Again, I've definitely enjoyed the games and I think we share the same criticisms of it. I’m just forced to do tera raids to get shards for competitive 😭. Oh by the way, the Treasures of Ruin theme is THE best battle theme in my imo!

I thought SV was excellent gameplay-wise. Agree. High tier pokemon designs. Fun gameplay loop. I do think the environments are weak though

If you’re like me and been with the series since the 90s it’s clear and understandable to see where the disappointment is, passable is an appropriate word though I’d call them unfinished to half cooked

Also, I want to add that I too don’t really care about Pokemon battling and am also someone who cares about Pokemon stories!

@@Sarah04527 I didn't even think about SwSh in my novel of a comment (lmao) but yeah, I agree, SwSh were entirely forgettable. I actually did forget about them, I played Sword for 100 hours and don't remember anything about it, including how I got a few of my shinies lmao. Maybe that was because I played them during the pandemic and was worried about other things at the time, dunno. In any case, I agree with your final point bigtime - people should be nicer to those of us who enjoyed SV. It's okay to dislike them but don't try to ruin it for those of us who did!

Shill

Now this is something I agree with

People aren't fine with it though. It feels formulaic and iroganic to go through the same motions in every game

@@danielhicks1824 it’s not a surprise that the spinoffs often have a better story check out the Pokémon mystery dungeon series and conquest or even XD

@@danielhicks1824 Then the series should have ended before going to the consoles. Even people have no problem with the Mario, Zelda, Kirby, and Metroid characters keeping their same designs for each game. That means Pokémon will sell when being formulaic. I do not wish to see Ed Sheeran in the series since he has nothing to do with Pokémon; and, no, I do not support Metallica replacing him either.

@@LuigiTheMetal64 why? SV does break the mold compared to past games, though only so much. Legends Arceus does too to a great extent. PMD does. Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness did. It's not some impossible task. Zelda has evolved a lot. Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, and BOTW are all wildly different games. Pokemon feels much more similar game to game. Mario is less story focused compared to probably any game on your list, but 3d mario games tend to be extremely creative and high quality in terms of gameplay. I don't think pokemon has that much innovation and creativity in its environments and gameplay to keep it interesting if the plot and motives simultaneously feel so formulaic

With how Nintendo loves to copyright strike every little thing it's probably for the better she didn't do that. Though I agree it's a good concept

^^ yeah this is exactly why i ended up not doing it, but i also agree it would’ve been a vibe!! thank you!

Yeah same here besides some small lag and how wanted level scaling I loved pretty much everything about these games they might be my favorites now right up there with black and white

​@@NovelVanguard you like how we can't go into any building now? and how almost all shops are just menus now? what about the limited clothing options?

@@theamazingspooderman2697 I never liked going into buildings most were just empty anyway and yeah I actually did like how most shops were menus made things easier. I didn’t like the clothing options being limited though I had actually forgotten that

​@@NovelVanguard so I'm guessing you are easily pleased? good for you I guess

@@theamazingspooderman2697 no not really I just don’t get mad easily or I try not to. I’m sorry you didn’t like the games I guess but those things you mentioned aren’t really big concerns or issues for me. The only real issues I had were shiny hunting and some Pokémon’s shiny looked awful (armarouge and cereledge in particular) my advice use to you would be to just try to be happier I guess?

I think you mean pokemon models and not sprites?

It’s been a problem since XY which is ironic as it’s my second favorite gen either the game holds your hands too much or not enough trainers use the new mechanics enough to make the battles more threatening in sword and shield there is an in story and logical reasoning for why Dynamaxing isn’t something everyone can do outside of a stadium but not enough trainers used mega evolution in XY and ORAS same with Z moves in the Gen 7 games while it’s nice to see terastal Pokémon in the wild they are far less threatening than the Alpha Pokémon in Legends Arceus or getting swarmed by 2 to 5 Pokémon in Arceus which regardless of your level it can be a problem depending on which Pokémon you run into

@@dayvonlouis5187 I completely agree. Legends Arceus did a good job of showing off a unique way 9f making Pokemon games difficult. Making it so the player has to avoid getting ripped to shreds by an wild pokemon, and the buffing wild pokemon to do more damage despite level disadvantages is pure genius. But I feel as though they dumbed down a bit when making sv. None of the trainers use held items until the dlc (with the exception of booster energys on Sara's roaring moon and turo's iron valiant). All in all if you have a lick of competitive knowledge you can steamroll the game.

Or Pokémon needs better developers. Botw and totk exist on the switch and are way better optimized, and botw was originally on wiiU. Scarlet and violet has no excuse!

@@Popo_wiz especially when pokemon is the most profitable media franchise of all-time.

Are you excited for Legends Z-A I know I am

I’ve never had a crash or really bad lag either but I know of others who had some major lag but no crashes in my personal life

No, I didn't get those either. I don't feel that the game is as broken as others think it is.

200 hours, no crash

@@Vixx381 same

bullies band together to bully the bullies but then you come along and bully the bullies out of bullying

@@gnomefuel They weren't bullies... They were victims...