Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is going to be another low-tech disaster – Reader’s Feature
A reader is unimpressed by what’s been shown of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet so far and is frustrated that it’s coming out this year at all.
I feel like I’m doubly cursed by being both a Star Wars fan and a Pokémon fan. Both have a similar problem in that at first almost everything the franchise touched turned to gold and yet over time things have got worse and worse until it becomes harder and harder to remember why you were even a fan in the first place. Star Wars at least has its ups and downs (Andor is amazing!) so there is still good stuff being made occasionally, but with Pokémon I worry it’s on a permeant, downhill trajectory.
Pokémon has been in trouble for years but ironically the most worrying developments have been the most recent games, that actually try to do something different. The key word in that statement is ‘try’ because one of the major problems with Pokémon is how pitifully bad its graphics tech is. The attempt by Sword & Shield to open world gameplay was so outdated it was embarrassing.
Sure, the Switch isn’t exactly a technical powerhouse, but Sword & Shield was several levels below Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, which wasn’t only a launch game but one originally intended for the previous gen. From a design point of view Pokémon Legends: Arceus was even more ambitious and that’s great, but it was also even more of an embarrassment in terms of graphics, especially as it was obvious that developer Game Freak were struggling to even make it that good.
No one knows what’s going on at Game Freak anymore than they do any other part of Nintendo, but it seems pretty obvious that they’ve been under orders to have at least one major new Pokémon game every year, in addition to spin-offs. In theory that’s not a problem
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