5 games to play while you wait for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

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The Pokémon franchise first launched in 1996 as a video game for the Nintendo Gameboy. This was a role-playing game in which players could take on the role of a trainer who sets out on a journey to become a league champion. By capturing Pokémon found in the wild, players can battle other trainers to gain experience points, level up, and evolve their partner Pokémon in their goal to be the very best.

Since 1996, this video game series has seen a multitude of releases, with numerous mainline entries and spinoff games. The latest titles gracing shelves are the upcoming Pokémon Scarlet and Violet games, which is set in a Mediterranean Spain-inspired region, previously unseen in the series.

This is also the first time in the series that a game introduces a truly open world, without any borders and load screens separating the sections. The new games are set to release in November 2022, so fans might be getting jittery with anticipation. So to help satiate that need, here are five games that one can play while they wait for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

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For a similar experience to the upcoming Pokémon Scarlet and Violet games, players can look to the previous entry. Pokémon Legends: Arceus launched earlier this year, on January 28, for the Nintendo Switch.

Unlike past games in the series, Arceus takes place in the distant past, set in the Hisui region. Evolving from the games that came before, Arceus’s world contains Pokémon that can be physically seen by the trainer, instead of encounters only in tall grass. This game also provides players with various Hisui variants of well-known Pokémon.

However, the core gameplay remains the same, which entails players needing to catch the eponymous