What The Hell Is Going On With Pokémon Scarlet And Violet?
895Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are already the fastest sellers of the year (in a year full of record breaking games, including another Pokémon one), and the single fastest selling exclusive game of all time.
They’re really well designed at their core, and have a lot of merits to their name. Unfortunately, those merits come buried under a mountain of caveats — these are not polished releases. In fact, they are as close as it is possible to get to being the exact opposite of polished, without being outright broken (and they often veer into being dangerously close to broken anyway).
The past one week since the games’ launch has seen a lot of discussion around the technical state they launched in, and rightfully so, because — what happened? How did they release in SUCH an unpolished and unfinished state? How do the visuals and performance feel like a step back from Pokémon Legends, which released just ten months ago?