The 10 Best Things About Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
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I love how Pokémon behavior can change depending on the weather. Watching Bonsly and Sudowoodo run around like crazy when it’s raining is hilarious. And seeing the Bramblin get carried away in sandstorms is great.
The pokedex always talks about how hoppip line is carried by the wind and they go flying when it's a storm
Watching Jigglypuffs fly away in the mind is hilarious.
@@oranplan1630 I think it happens to Floette too.
Every so often I see a group of hoppip get yeeted into the distance and it cracks me up every time 😂
Bramblin
11:06 When I saw Toedscool running around for the first time I laughed so hard I started crying. ITS SO GOOD.
Same here, those little legs go HARD
One of the best run cycles ever!
Made me want to catch one for that alone!!! I was so annoyed when the first one I found was actually a Ditto lol.
I feel like the context of Toedscool is lost on most people though, it is a mushroom used often in asian cooking, continuing with the heavy "food" motif (which is kind of great in my opinion). The only similarity between jellyfish and kikurage mushrooms i can think of are from a culinary point of view, as they are both low-flavour but used for texture.
The first time I saw it was in a raid, so I didn't get to see that, so my first impression was pretty negative. I will admit tho, that run cycle is gold. Lol.
As much as the performance issues suck, I adore these games and really hope this formula is perfected in the future
Unfortunately it probably won’t be
It definitely won't be. We're still stuck to the same battle pacing as a Gameboy game. Every time they do something people like, they undo it in the next title.
@@KingRidley ouch.. facts hurt
I agree
@@KingRidley ong tho 😭
Props to Yoshiller for syncing Arlo humming the overworld music up with the actual song! 😁 really cute moment
I KNOW RIGHT?
I thought only I noticed that!
The way they streamlined the process of getting in to competitive play is incredible and actually has me super interested in trying out the scene.
It’s a shame there isn’t a battle facility to test it out on 🙃
@@Batterskull why test it out with NPCs when I could test it out with 12 year olds on the Switch Lite wifi?
I'd say almost... Grinding tera shards for reassigning Tera types is brutal.
@@lutherholayeahme7449 why remove more options for single player when we have to pay for online now?
@@lutherholayeahme7449 nothing better than crushing the hopes and dreams of a small child to make your day lol
This game probably has one of the best story finales in Pokémon. HUGE step up from Sword and Shield.
Oh yeah I remember "there's giant monsters everywhere! We'll go deal with it for you. What, you want to do it? It would be fun? No, no. You go do boring stuff, we'll fight the giants."
@@KingRidley lol galar finale be like:
Rose: "hey there's an energy crisis in a 1000 years"
Leon: "oh snap, I'll fix it in 48 hours"
Rose: "WE DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF TIME. YOU FORCED MY HAND LEON."
I forget what the story of SS was, it was a snore.
Very sonic adventure final story vibes
@@KingRidley meanwhile here "Hey Arven bring your friend and Koraidon/Miraidon to my lab-what I haven't contacted you in years? Okay anyways get to the crater please thank you."
"Well this is suspish"
"Ufh my blood is boiling but let's just get this over with."
"OMG LOOK AT ALL THE RARE POKEMON TO FIGHT!"
"You talk like way too much."
"WAIT THE PROFESSOR IS-BUT-Oh POOR ARVEN!"
I'm having a ton of fun with this one. I definitely miss the ball chucking and dodging in Arceus, but otherwise it's pretty excellent.
YES! I am also having a Tinka-ton of fun. Arceus was not a main line though so really its best to compare it to Sword and Shield. Game Freak weirdly do anything they want in side games. We were lucky they put as much as they did in the main line .. hopefully they will hear how much we want the other stuff too though
@@mattpreece6106 tinkaton is fun. I love that she just tells Corviknight to eat shit lol
@@mattpreece6106 legends arceus is main line, confirmed in a ton of official material.
Lokix and veluza anxiety
@@ecnoid Plus there's quite literally pictures of it on the board in history class. Its canon to the mainline.
One thing I saw and love is the fact that you can finally relearn moves without having to go to some move tutor! You can finally experiment with your Pokémon's moveset and I think that's so cool!
you know legends arceus did that first guessing your one of the many people who didn't buy it for some reason resulting in it selling only ok for a pokemon rpg
@@NEVETSGILBERT1233 I mean, I bought it but haven't played it yet, still blind on it and hoping to eventually stream it blind once I understand how do stream work
Apparently it even works with moves that a particular Pokemon has learned via TM. It's obviously nowhere as good as infinite-use TMs, but at least you don't have to use that TM on that Pokemon again if you end up making it forget the move later on.
@@NEVETSGILBERT1233 even if arceus did it first its good it's in the MAINLINE game 😃
@@HenyaStudent Hate to break it to you but legends arceus despite coming off as a spin off is consider mainline
I was impressed with how they presented the story in Area Zero. It kind of had a Xenoblade vibe with having a party and dialogue while traveling - even deeper character exposition that couldn't be done with just a silent protagonist.
It felt like a preview - or proof of concept to where they envision the franchise some day.
Wow, ur right
if this is the direction the franchise is going i am all for it i just hope the developers are given a larger timeframe to work on the games
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques absolutely. It's easy to notice what they couldn't do, but it's important to see what they were trying to do. They need more time for sure.
The potential is so huge for this franchise, but they really insist on limiting their scope. Imagine a Ff14 style/quality Pokemon mmo. Please take my money Nintendo
Honestly its crazy how fun it is to ride your Koraidon/Miraidon when they’re fully upgraded
I just wish they felt as smooth as the Legends mounts. Hopefully future updates impove this.
@@cortster12I think it feels smoother than legends arceus because you don’t have to switch to fly/swim/climb/run
Fun fact
Herba Mystica is HM
@@dontlookatmyprofilepic7567 The switching was the smoothest part of the legends arceus rideables imo
@@dontlookatmyprofilepic7567 The switching was instant, and very easy to do. The actual controls were so much better.
The soundtrack in this game is an certified banger imo
The fact that each providence in the game has it’s own soundtrack, how great it transitions from walking, Raidon mount music, and battle music. The towns definitely have some winners, Levincia is my personal favorite.
Plus I love how the Star Admin (Mela, Giacomo, etc.) theme is canonical in the game.
My number 1 actually was the final story arc - that was just perfect.
Right? Only issue is the rest of the story was... eh. Good for what it was, but I don’t play pokemon to go back to school and have the entire story revolve around school drama.
@@cortster12 I hear you on the school thing. Parts of it worked for me but a lot didn’t it. Nevertheless, I would say overall the story and setting were a plus and not minus.
@@grapes9h5 That's the unfortunate part of playing anime games aimed at Japanese schoolchildren. They tend to try really hard to relate to school-life. Even the whole "two versions with two different uniform colors" thing is trying to call up this very specifically Japanese feeling of sportsmanlike inter-school rivalry.
@@OneTrueNobody Maybe it’s just preference and point of views, because for me, having a friendly rival, who waits for results with you to see who got a better score is relatable; having a sick pet that you desparately want to save is relatable; bullying is believable, to say the least. None of the stories were ‘amazing’ but ‘hard to relate’ is never a word I can say about them.
I genuinely enjoyed the story in Pokemon Violet. It went places I didn't expect it to go and even had me tearing up at times.
Flamigo being a straight up flamingo is possibly the funniest bad design I have ever seen. I love them.
tbf electrode is just a ball with a face. probably one of the worst designs. at least flamigo is cute lol
Dudunsparce: Hold my beer
I love the fact we have so many cool looking birbs in SV and then there is a literal lawn ornament standing there vibin'.
Flamino is also ridiculously strong.
I dont find it funny. I hate its design so much its the worst new mon imo 💀
One thing I really like about this game is that the professors have a very mysterious energy to them. you never see them except on a TV screen at the beginning of the game and you only hear from them over the phone. You don't meet them in person until later and, may I just say, this is why Violet is one of my favorite Pokemon games of all time.
The TV thing actually helps sell the twist for me, in an... interesting way, I suppose.
(spoilers)
When I first saw Turo on the screen, I thought it was extremely stupid how they seemed to have just decided to not animate him properly. His mouth moved, but the rest of his face didn't. Nor any part of his body. I thought it was just another thing they neglected to fix, especially since all the other characters moved fine.
But then the game revealed that the professor was an AI, and it suddenly clicked that it was *intentional*. Just a fun detail to tie it all together.
And, y'know. I'm glad they weren't just too crunched for time to change it :p
What I like even more Is their weird speech, due to them being a professor, is just seen as them being quirky
The "you have the keys to unlock my lab" is also just a "haha that's our Pokemon professor"
I went in spoiler free and was surprised by that.I loved it!
@@jessicatouvell6859 I did read somewhere that the professors were robots but I thought it was just a joke as it seemed absurd to me. Forgot about it until it actually happened lmao
@@jamie36 I didn't care about the leaks other than the starter evolutions. I was playing the game with my boyfriend and when we got to Area Zero we were talking about how this is the first time where the Professor is not psysically there during the main game (other than BW2 but she was there in BW so we knew she existed) and he made the joke of the professor being a cyborg, due to a passage about Area Zero where a member of the exploration team was injured and becoming a cyborg in order to survive. He mentioned this before the professor needed rebooting.
Toedscool is great, and while I didn't really understand its inspiration at first, Bulbapedia says that it's based off a real-world mushroom that's known in Japan as the tree jellyfish, and I love it all the more for that. If I hadn't chosen Sprigatito as my starter, then I'd probably be training it as my Grass type.
On that note, Sprigatito's final evolution looks like a Sonic and Persona crossover and I am so totally there for that. And I don't even play Persona. (Not a big fan of the particular paranormal aspects.)
YES it also gave me big persona vibes which i love!!
I used Toedscruel and it was a beast.
I'm only about halfway through, but Nemona is such a breath of fresh air compared to recent rivals. She's actively excited when you win because she gets off on knowing you're getting closer to her real skill level, and she can't wait to finally go all out. She's combines the vibe of always being ahead like the great rivals of old, with the kindness of newer rivals (minus the pouting about never quite catching up to you). And it just makes so much sense that she keeps losing to you, since she's supposed to be starting with a fresh team. She's already completed her playthrough, and is pushing you forward in her postgame.
I also really like the development of the teachers as time goes on. They feel way more alive when you have to unlock further interactions with them over the course of your adventure. Even the lessons themselves are relatively useful compared to the simplistic lessons past poke schools gave on their chalkboard. They really help sell the idea of people understanding the mechanical aspect of pokemon.
Yes, For real, I actually don't hate my rival. Hop in swsh legit was so annoying, didn't even finish it lol
I've yet to find someone who genuinely hates your yandere tomboy gf.
i wish for the postgame they had a button that just said "battle nemona" because it talked about how she apparently had a lot of teams she had trained
I love Nemona. They made a rival who was nice but actually super likable. She's like me when I get a hyperfixation. Your battle with her at the end of the victory road is super satisfying.
Also, the classes! Super interesting stuff (except for Language that class is very stupid, starts interesting enough with learning real language then just becomes a guessing game)
I really think they designed Nemona while thinking of Ash. You can't convince me otherwise. Those two would be peas in a pod.
@@dapperdabber13 uhhh? I feel it's obvious she's based off *Pokemon players.* She's already beat the game and is here for another adventure, making a new type of team and obsessing over new strategies and playing the game?
@@ivaniawren5014 Nemona was created with Ash Ketchum in mind. nobody can convince me otherwise. That's just that I don't make the rules.
@@dapperdabber13 counter argument, she is pokemon goku
@@nechocat1234 Consolidation - Ash has the same personality as Goku, therefore Nemona is both.
Top 5 in no particular order:
1: Being able to use battle items right from the beginning unlike previously when they were postgame BP exclusive.
2: the whole crafting TM’s. I want this TM, let me just hunt down a couple of these Pokemon.
3: the map, its size, environments, details, variety, freedom, EVERTHING!
4: the new Pokemon, awesome, silly, cute, cool, even the dull.
5: the ride Pokemon (best friend).
Having the open world aspect of the game and the 3 stories gave me the best pokemon experience I've ever had since I found myself constantly swapping my entire team to new, local pokemon as I would occasionally be overleveled for an area after tending to matters elsewhere. I was out there in the mud wheelin an dealin
Love this comment
Clive is the best character in the entire game
After reading replies, I agree that Larry is also a giga chad
No no no, Larry is.
Arven is
'sup
@@shadowsniper37 you don't like Arven. You like his mon.
@@MacManZero spoken like someone who didn't beat Scarlet cause WE DO NOT STAN THE PROFESSORS IN THIS GEN.
Even if they are hot
SV has the most charming and down to earth Elite 4 of all Pokemon games in my opinion and all four of them make me very happy.
100% agree. Most of them have always been me strong trainer, you challenge me some day, dry af. They were oozing with personality in this game.
Meeting the e4 before having all the badges is always great their designs are also so good they are mostly normal people but eith 1 or 2 detials in their attire and hairstyle that gives away their type except for rika
My personal best things about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet:
10 through 1: Clodsire.
Thanks for reading!
YES
nah skeledirge is the winner Torch Song is BUSTED and he's SO. SPANISH. I love him
@@TheRibottoStudios the actual answer is to use both Clodsire and Skeledirge on the same team because both are equally the best in the game
I've done several link battles with my brother and his clodsire is a brick wall I cannot break through
There are so many new Pokemon I'm loving this generation, not to mention all the crazy new skills and abilities wreaking havoc in the competitive scene!
The way that they have the Pokedex in this one is just so satisfying again, like in the alola games but better.
Arven and the Path of Legends single handedly make me want to play through the game again, love that story. And the open world helps it make sense to do multiple playthroughs.
Also like the Herba Mysticas and how not only can you get them, but they're great for shiny hunting. With a Sparkling Fairy power lvl 3, I got a shiny Iron Valiant in 26 minutes
6:00 oh my goodness absolutely YES. I'm so happy they decided to bring back that dynamic music element. It's just such a good feeling that's been very much missing since Gen 5 when it was introduced.
I love that the *crowd watching you battle* sings this song at the most climactic part of the battle. just UGH so good. so good.
The transitions between songs in this game are just very well done overall. The Gym battles move seamlessly into this hyped up "Now's your Chance" feeling, and especially the route tunes change dynamically with what your doing. They're different when walking, riding Mirai/Koriadon, and battling too. The most important is the battling. There's not long intro like typical pokemon, the music just does a big hit like "HEY, a Pokemon!" and then adds in that JAM with a bass guitar. It felt almost like BoTW's way of doing dymanic music and it's just the best.
I felt like the chanting fit Sw/Sh better with its particular themes (the huge stadiums and the uk’s football fan culture), but I’m glad they managed to keep it and they definitely made it work. I also appreciate the contrast in size of the gyms in the last game to the more intimate battles in S/V, which I think definitely fits Paldea’s vibe more.
When I finished the tutorial at the academy, I remember staring at the open map and thinking "What DO I want to do first?" It was the most amazing feeling because I had this massive world to explore and I couldn't decide which path I wanted to follow first. Being that spoiled for choice SO quickly in the game is incredible. Also 1,000% agree with you on the whole "seeing a new Pokemon and wanting it immediately" thing. It's the reason I keep coming back to Pokemon again and again; the sense of discovery and wonder they still bring me.
Exactly this !!
10 - Fidough
9 - Tinkaton
8 - A postgame where you have RPG dialogue banter between NPC that follow you
7 - Rechallenging the GYMs in postgame
6 - Fights I actually struggled with for the 1st time in many many years
5 - Finally a Dolphin (it was so obvious)
4 - Open World - For Real this time
3 - Professor MILF (thats a tree right?)
2 - A team and NPC that have depth and I actually liked
1 - Tinkaton's freaking Hammer!!!
Tinkaton’s hammer made of Corviknight corpses.
The dialogue between the crew in the "post game" is probably my number 1
That sounds about right
You forgot 0.1 - W i g l e t t
Tinkaton's design unfortunately has a pretty big problem. Based on its giant hammer you'd assume it has a good attack stat, so you'd naturally add it to your team thinking it's filling the role of a physical attacker. Tinkaton's Attack stat is 75. Which is pretty low. And it's kind of a problem that its design makes you misread its battle role.
Arven's whole arc is great.
Without getting into spoilers, the final boss theme is incredible and I can't wait for it to be put among the likes of Ghetsis, Lumine, and Chairman Rose's battle themes.
I'm pretty sure that's one of the tracks done entirely by Toby Fox (along with the Tera theme)
I can't wait to hear the rap theme.
The best thing imo...Is the story...the 3 paths are each really good with charcter arcs and some twists and turns...and the way they all converge is amazing...fr I was choking up a few times during my play through lol
If I had one gripe about the Story it would be the whiplash I get when beating a team star member and all of a sudden a flashback appears. Other than that its the best we've had in mainline pokemon in a long time.
I love how good the pokemon look in this game. I had a Krookodile and I was able to see it's scales it was so awesome!
Agreed! I'd take this over a complete national dex, but the day I can have both is the day I'd ascend
I hate it, honestly. Not that your opinion isn't valid but I'll share the other side of things. I liked when Pokemon looked like the Sugimori drawings came to life. The smoothness always made them look better in my eyes. Sometimes less is more.
Plastering scales onto every reptilian, or a grainy texture onto every fur/leaf patch feels like a sad attempt at realism. Every big game-dev company seems obsessed with realism these days. I don't want it. It's even a little disturbing in a way. Pokemon proportions are fucked-up compared to real-world animals, the textures lead my mind to wondering how they'd function as real animals, which feels wrong. The absolute last thing Pokemon needs is insane realism. The games looked their best in Sun/Moon imo.
Also, one last tidbit, but now the Pokemon are going to look different than the anime. The anime needs to use flat simple colors to save on resources and budget. If we keep pushing realistic textures in the games, there's going to be a weird disparity between the anime appearances of those Pokemon, and how they look in-game.
My favorite thing was that as soon as the school part was over, the game just said "ok, go do what you want now." Loved that so much
I love the pokedex rewards you get as you fill it out. Makes catching feel like more than just make the number get bigger.
Also that pokemon centres are in the open world itself so I don't have to go through a transition if I want to top up my team
I can’t figure out how to get my Pokédex rewards :( help?
@@lexinicole4317 Open up map menu with Y, then go into your pokedex menu using X. Press the main pokedex button to send you to the catalogue with all the mon, then press X again. There's a trophy icon in the lower left hand corner that also tells you this. After that you get the rewards
@@jadenzinn6727 thank you!!!
I had toedscruel as the lead when I did the emotional spectrum practice. It's movements were so funny. Toedscool came out of nowhere, literally on its two toes. Just sprinted out from behind a tree, and I couldn't stop laughing. I caught it and it never left my party.
The Scarlet and Violet review probably won’t come out until 2 years from now, so I’m glad you put out a smaller video in the meantime
The ending of this game is genuinely one of my all time favourite story climaxes in the entire series. If you haven’t had it spoiled for you please make sure you stay that way, it’s a great thing to experience blind.
Yessss dude the chant for the final gym pokemon rocks!!! It makes me smile every time haha, took a good cue from Black and White, except with making it a more seamless transition to the new song this time
took more from swsh than black&white
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques Still takes from gen 5 if it took from gen 8 which took from gen 5, just indirectly.
@@Alex_1A that is fair, gen 5 did introduce the music for the last gym leader, but swsh was the first game to have it be an actual chant by the audience
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques gen 5 was the first game with vocals of any kind in the songs though! DOGARS!
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques Yeahh, it’s a combo of the SwSh chant and the BW “climax” music, very memorable
The ending of the main story is one of the best and most atmospheric in the franchise. That whole section of the game is amazing, particularly the music. Gave me some Metroid vibes
My number 1 best thing about this game is: my brother playing it
I've been on a bit of a pokemon burn out recently because I bought and played so many over the pandemic but watching my brother play this game and go on his own journey, pick his favourite pokemon and fight gyms while I'm there telling him type matchups, how to use TMs. It makes me feel like a retired old man teaching my apprentice
I love how self aware this game is. GF definitely watches TH-cam or has reddit or something. Not all of the quips and jokes land, but some of them are gold. Like the normal type gym leader being a literal salaryman was perfect. Also I can't believe the second GF made the tutorial optional was the second I HAD to keep coming back to the school for more of it. Of my own free will.
Everything that happens after you've completed all 3 main stories was *very much* what I expected to be number one, and I expect only isn't because Arlo hasn't finished the game yet.
I loved the story and the way it ended. It's a great climatic finish. Also, nothing brings a smile to my face quite like the singing during finale of the gym leader fights. So enjoyable!
I love so many things about the game. I think my favorite is the whole ending section. Not gonna spoil but the vibe is so good!
This. I'm obsessed with the Area Zero ambient music--I don't think I've ever felt so much atmosphere in a pokemon location before, and it sounded so different from the OSTs from the past games. Really made me feel like I'd stepped into another world, especially when that choir kicked in. Reminded me of the OST of Tower of God tbh
I really like how they don't force you to do trainer battles. Especially when you're trying to level up your baby pokemon to see what they evolve into and don't have a good team on you right at that moment.
Sure the game is super unpolished but I’m still enjoying it and can’t wait to play more. The open world is fun, the actual slight occasional challenge is a nice change of pace, I like quite a lot of the new pokemon, the music is good, the characters are good, yeah! Oh yeah I completely forgot about autoheal, what a nice feature. A good solution is often one that goes unnoticed.
But people are noticing it.
My favourite thing in Scarlet & Violet is the scale/fur textures on the pokemon.
This story really hit a home run with me. I love the three parallel plots with the gyms, the Team Star showdowns, and the Herba Mystica quest. Each of the major characters involved are just such a delight. Arven is awesome, Nemona is great as a rival, but Penny’s gotta be my favorite. I want that Eevee backpack so bad.
And the payoff in the crater? 10/10 I cried. Hitting each checkpoint felt like unveiling a new layer of clues of what the heck was going on. The chemistry between all your allies is so enjoyable, it really felt like a group of friends who were getting in way over their heads.
I also love how terrastallizing was implemented into the story. It really felt like what Sword and Shield were trying to do, but it was executed so much better.
Also, I love how there’s such good attention to character animation detail. It’s really noticeable in the gym leader and elite four/champion battles, the way they throw their poke balls out or unleash terrastallizing really does add to the charm and personality.
Dachsbun is heckin adorable and has a surprisingly useful ability that solidified it as one of my main crew through my whole playthrough. AND IT HAS BUTT FLUFF.
I know Miraidon and Koraidon are just Toothless clones. But having them from the beginning of the game, their behavior the cut scenes you get when you beat titans and feed them, the way you have them in other cut scenes where they feel like more than just basic pokemon in a ball you use for a ride. I love it. I want more of that.
I think the #1 BEST thing about Pokemon Scarlet and Violet for me has got to be the story. Wow. I can't remember a time where I felt like every single emotion during my playthrough and just kept on wanting more. They really nailed it
Without going into spoiler territory, the last hour of the main story is the most amazing experience I've ever had in a Pokémon game.
The ending was such a freaking banger. Not only each story ending but also the main ending and the ending theme!
Also, I am proud to say I got you to the legendary 69 like
9.27 that's a fair reason to pick Arven. He's my favorite too.
First of all, I hope you feel better Arlo, being sick sucks :c.
Secondly, I love how you mentioned the gym leader final Pokémon music change thing, I ADORE that in SV, it was first a thing in the gen 5 games and it worked brilliantly there too, added so much hype and excitement to that final Pokémon and made me feel like an utter badass while beating it and it’s exactly the same here, I love it so much and I was so happy when I realised it was a thing while playing
DYNAMIC MUSIC IS AMAZINGGG ^^
That was the one thing that absolutely caught me off guard. The music being dynamic and changing in battles while still keeping the motif.
SV's characters and stories really blew me away. I love how we're able to learn more about the gym leaders and getting to know them as a character. They did the rivals really well this time around too I love how much writing they gave them, and they all mean so much to me. I think the new pokemon this time around are real winners I don't think I've ever gone through a gen with entirely new pokemon since BW/BW2 and it's really refreshing. There's so much to do in this game with the three storylines, classes, pokedex, and other stuff. I think a lot of people were surprised and sad that there wasn't any level scaling, but I can't deny that I had some really terrifying and hilarious moments in the game because there was no scaling. I wish this game was able to have the time it deserved to be polished and fix a lot of the performance issues, because the rest of the game really shines through for me.
I was on the fence about the game until I watched a review that showed how the level scaling, or lack thereof worked. Having things become more difficult the higher you go is much nicer to me than having everything around you scale to your current level.
Even in most open world games they use a similar system, enemies tend to be better the further away you go. That is the basic principle. In BotW enemies tend to have stronger weapons and be higher rank even without world leveling.
This applies to Skyrim and many other open world games.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 In BOTW that's actually because of a hidden xp system though
@@Buglin_Burger7878 I guess so, but in BOTW it's more like you can go in any direction and find the same level of "challenge," particularly in the Divine Beasts.
In this game however you can't really just grab your starter and go do whatever gym leader you want. There's a weakest-strongest gym leader order for those who want to treat this like a normal pokemon game and not BOTW, but turn based.
I was incredibly surprised at the level scaling honestly. All the leakers led us to believe this games were stupid easy and we'd out level everything by the second gym but no. I did everything in level order and always found myself under levelled because trainer battles in this game give massively reduced exp and I didn't catch anything I wasn't planning on using. If I was ever severely under levelled I could do some raid battles or classes for exp candy. Game was hard af for me.
@@thelastwindwaker7948 Which I found odd because this game was marketed as being able to do this in any order you want and then you quickly find out its a 'well yes, but actually no' moment when you see the levels of everything.
As someone who hasn't played a Pokemon game since I was little, this game really hooked me in. I've been honestly surprised how fun it's been despite the issues it has. It makes me feel like a kid again. Thanks for the positive vibes. 🔥 🔥
i love penny and arven the most! i relate to penny's personality and arven's, ahem, history. all the characters feel so alive and unique! the story was truly amazing; it's not just a step-up by pokemon standards, it's a good story in general. i got violet and love sci-fi so i'm a little biased, but i was blown away by the drastic improvements made to the storytelling. i've seen the credits roll and the past few days i've just been wandering around with no real objective, the map is so huge that i'm perfectly content doing this for hours. i haven't re-battled the gyms or anything. i love this game so much, and i hope that the rocky reception doesn't steer game freak in the opposite direction. they just need to give their devs more time, everything else was perfect to me.
I absolutely love how the gym leaders actually gave me a challenge this time around, I haven't had the feeling of being at a major disadvantage since I first played through FireRed back when I first started playing the games. Every gym leader was like fighting Brock for the very first time all over again and that is probably because I did them out of order but still it was amazing! I even lost a couple of times and it felt so good, I've always been major Pokémon fan and I play every game but Scarlet and Violet are bringing me back to what I love about Pokémon in the first place. The story is great, I moved at my own pace, and I actually had to work to become the very best like no one ever was! These games also marks the first time I've ever had a full team of new Pokémon, every single one of my party members are gen 9 mons. I've also been blessed with no bugs so the whole experience has been really wonderful for me. Now if only I could get my hands on a Blastoise everything would be perfect, maybe I'll get him if they do DLC again.
Lucky, many of us just happen to over level and it was a cake walk lol
Sadly many of us have the EXACT opposite experience, i was overlevelled in 6/8 gyms, even FIFTEEN levels above one gym. Incompetent Gamefreak refusing to do (at least optional) scaling = just as terrible as the game's awful performance or empty towns.
My favorite moment was fighting Larry. He sent out Staraptor and made it a pure normal type. I couldn’t utilize my bellibolt. I ended up using Quaquaval and terastalizing it into a pure water type. I was able to beat Staraptor that way. It was a really cool moment and really solidified the new gimmick for me
For me the gym path was… weak man, the gym where pretty easy tbh, I didn’t even had an overlevel team. Team Star on the other hand, loved those battles.
@@Carcosahead Team Star is like...
The bosses are fun but the Star Base fights? They're genuinely just a slog to do and they're never difficult
My number one favorite thing about the games is how you just amass an audience of wild pokemon for whatever you're doing.
The ten best things are all ten frames per second this game has.
I love the videos where Arlo is happy, thanks for spreading some joy :)
Love the freedom, the stories, Area Zero music, the mount... everything mentioned already. But most of all I love Maushold. The mon's name and the way they move just put a smile on my face.
My favorite thing is the interactivity with your pokemon. I love that. And putting up a Picknick on random ledges with nice views feels like I'm playing the anime. I just wish it had voice acting 😭😭😭
I love the freedom to go wherever I want whenever I want, the ability avoid all trainers, how easy it is to encounter shiny pokemon in the wild and the well written stories (in particular Arven's story)
One thing I love about Scarlet and Violet is the new Pokémon animations!
There haven't been any new animations for the Pokémon since gen 6 and now they've updated all of them for this new game and I love them 😄
They each feel like they fit the Pokémon and it's just great to see them whenever I send my Pokémon into battle or have them walk with me ^^
Ooh! I also love that Pokémon can walk with you again! They're so cute to just have at your side and they automatically go back to your pocket if you go too fast. And they don't glitchely block your path like in Brilliant Diamond and Pearl ^^
The multi-player is beyond fantastic. Getting to roam around and explore and catch pokemon with a friend is the greatest.
Those gym leader battle double-terrastalization moments are really quite something. The first time I saw it happen and heard the music it kind of blew my mind, and I’m so glad to hear Arlo echo my exact thoughts.
The excitement of Pokémon battling has never been so well realized anywhere else in the entire franchise.
Well, I dunno if you've thought about it, but if I want to use a specific Pokemon but can't due to Type Overlaying, you could always do a challenge playthrough where you only use a single Type. I've done this with SWSH and it's honestly awesome, cause I get to use Bug Types to fight against Kabu, who uses Fire Types.
Single type runs are the only way to play these games, just turn yourself into a gym leader and go to town
Arlo, what did you think of Fuecoco's evolutions? I'm very curious since you spent a whole video picking your starter!
Also I'm curious what you think of Tentacruel too :P
Actually maybe you could do a whole video on what you think of each of the new pokemon!
We'll probably get that answer in the review
*Toedscruel
@@1tylerq127 Whoops yeah!
Multiplayer Multiplayer Multiplayer. It's insanely far from perfect but oh my gosh has it been so fun to just play with my siblings in the same room, running around, joining each other for terra raid battles, showing off our Pokemon, hosting picnics and seeing which of our Pokemon has a child. It's so much fun
The number one best thing about Scarlet and Violet: The eternal mood that is Larry
I disagree about the towns. I think they're really bland and boring, yes they look nice visually but they feel tiny with nothing to do other than gyms and some shops that you can find in any other towns. In previous gens we got so much more to do in each town (save swsh) that the towns in this game feel like a downgrade, and you can't even go into any of the houses! I was happy that they seamlessly meshed into the open world, however.
Same, I was so confused when he said towns but the footage was of lifeless deserted buildings. Wtf?
it have thing to do than SwnSh that better ++
i enjoy explore more than other 3d pokemon gane no house to go in but there a lot of thing out side
i mean people complain SwnSh that have copy paste every room anyway
Does it really matter, I mean the city maybe empty but I prefer that over entering a house with no items and NPC’s that don’t give me anything, it just comes off as pointless code that could be used for something more useful.
I feel the same way I honestly can't care less about open world this region feels empty and lifeless.
Very much agree with number one. Whole playthrough I'm finding things I want to use like cetitan and annihlape but I just don't have space in the party because I absolutely love clodsire, I think dudunsparce is hilarious, meowscarada and ceruledge are cool, scovillain is amazing, and bisharp was already a favorite of mine so I of course enjoy kingambit alot. I might end up doing 5 playthroughs just to use everything I want to.
Every time the singing kicks in at the end of a gym battle I have to sing along. It feels so awesome
I love how much easier ev/Iv training is to where I could actually do it during my play through
*everyone in the beginning of the game:* hating the games is gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
*everyone in the end of the game:* hating the writers for making Arven suffer is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
"Wow, sounds like it's gonna be difficult to convince new players that the game is good."
"Actually it's gonna be super easy! Barely an inconvenience!"
"Oh really!"
@@Dudeman23rd "yeah yeah yeah so you see I'm gonna take a character right make it seem like he's a jerk?"
"Yeah, so then what he's gonna be the jerk we have to take on as the rival in the game-"
"AND I'M GONNA MAKE THEM BECOME AN ORPHAN AND NEARLY KILL HIS DOG!"
@@TheRibottoStudios "Oh my god but the dog is gonna be okay right?"
"Well yeah it IS a kid's game, but I'm gonna really make it seem like the dog just died despite all the hard work put into trying to save it."
"Why are you like this?"
"Rough childhood I enjoy making others feel pain."
@@dapperdabber13 "Ooh, making others feel pain is TIGHT!"
I am so on the fence about this game right now. Obviously it does many great things, but I'm still finding it very difficult to justify getting it because I just don't want to support the practice of rushing out games before they're ready. Even if I could potentially look past all the technical hiccups and enjoy the things the game does well, it's still unacceptable for a mainstream pokemon gave to be released in a state like this. It's so frustrating honestly. If this game had been given enough time, it could've been amazing.
Honestly its worth it, game freak has already made millions from it im sure so an extra $50 from you wont make a difference, may as wel experience the game for yourself if your interested
He doesn't want to support it. Don't just say it doesn't matter because they already made millions.
I’m in the same place as you, @Miccat87! I’m really curious about the game, but I also think Nintendo’s decision to release such an unpolished game deserves pushback.
X amount of people giving “pushback” versus over 10 million people playing the game is nothing more than an inconvenient nutsack itch to Nintendo. Get over yourself. If you wanna play it then play it. If you don’t then don’t. It’s not that deep.
I appreciate this take. As someone who has WoW as their favorite game I can relate to the frustration between loving the game but hating the business practices of the company that owns it. Sucks because you know the low level devs are pouring their hearts into the project while the higher ups keep them on a tight leash to focus on earnings. Minimum viable product is a phrase that comes to mind a lot nowadays like the launch of cyberpunk 2077
I love this positivity because this pokemon game was so fun. I got this game during thanksgiving break and I played 40 hours in like 4 days. It took all of the bad things about Pokémon away and added so much.
Thank you Arlo for your positivity we all appreciate it!
I'll eventually give it a try. I am still buried in 50 games. Xenoblade, Nier, Monster Hunter. Zelda on the Horizon. It may already be discounted some day. (by the way any updates on predictions of switch sales? Could possibly pass 120 this month)
*what weapon do you main in monster hunter*
@@grenindraw6947 your mom
@@chasemccrary955 damn chasemccrary955, that's a good one, you sure got me you rascal
@@grenindraw6947 It is next on my list when I defeat Xenoblade 3. any good suggestions?
@@Crewgasm simple, GO INTO THE TRAINING GROUNDS AND FIGHT THE DUMMY WITH EVERY SINGLE WEAPON
That's the *best* way to figure out which weapon is most suited to your playstyle because there is *a lot*
14 weapons each with different playstyles, some ranged, some melee, some slow as fuck, some fast as hell, and one that is basically cheating
But either way, I wish you the best
Great fun video, it’s nice to see a positive take or two on this one. I have noticed most of the stuff you hit on and I too agree all these little changes really help streamline the experience. Fingers crossed for some stability patch to the program.
The most entertaining part of this video is all of Arlo's Pokemon's nicknames. Just freaking adorable.
And springboarding off of the new Pokemon... I fell in LOVE with Meowscarada, Garganacl and Annihilape. Absolute UNITS in my party.
“you can even skip cutscenes.”
I wish that worked on the first playthrough because I had that feature turned on and it still plays the cutscenes.
I think if the game didn’t have stutters, things would be so much more bearable
Number 1
SQUARESPACE
i absolutely love the music, and even though the graphics arent always up to par, i love the art style. the actual textures on the pokemon and the lighting makes me very happy
so happy to see u enjoy it
I love finally seeing a person say good things about this game. Everyone knows that this game is unpolished but underneath the grime is an actually very fun experience to be had.
I e actually really enjoyed this game so far. 75 hours in 😅. It’s buggy but I haven’t had it that bad.
Wahhh I love Arven too! I haven’t finished his story quest yet but he seems super interesting and it’s pretty fun to fight the Titan Pokémon. Also Tandumouse is my favorite new Pokémon hands down ❤
When I heard the game is open world, I kept saying "No way. There has to be blocks, so you can progress." Turns out, I was shocked to learn that I REALLY CAN GO ANYWHERE. This has been something I wanted to have in Pokemon, and is kind of a first. Gen 1 is a close second because mid game is open too. As inexcusable this game is, it's surprisingly fun. Makes me frustrated in away that this is the first pokemon I've truly enjoyed since Gens 1-5, and Game Freak wanted to rush this out.
Maybe by gen 11 we'll have a decent switch game.
seems like shit that should have been in the previous games,or gimmicks that won't stick n be forgotten immediately next year
Arlo I love your content because you are a rare positive voice in the gaming communit, bringing important critiques to light, but not letting them completely overshadow the positive aspects
Arven is easily my favorite Pokémon character in the whole series. Not that there was that much competition, but he’s great in his own right.
Gen 9: the best Pokemon games ever made at the worst performance possible.
Arlo, you really need to try out Monster Sanctuary and Temtem.
Sorry to hear you’re sick - Hope you get well soon!
on the story thing i completely agree with you it is REALLY good so far.... in reviews i was listening to on youtube, i was hearing other people say that they didn't like that many of the characters and that the story was so so, but is also heard how they wished there were cutscene skipping options and how they mashed through text....
I think one of my favorite things about scarlet and violet is how alive and full the word feels (sure the pop in is not great) but every where you turn there is a new pokemon, or pack of pokemon with lots of items to pick up, definitely having a blast!