DO NOT BUY Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Pokémon Scarlet, and as an avid fan of

Pokémon games, and as someone who's played

basically every single Pokémon game that

has ever come out, including the original

ones, I have to say that I'm extremely

disappointed with this new rendition of

Pokémon. And after playing this new

Pokémon game for quite a while now, I have

to say that I find the game to be

extremely disappointing. It's rather

bland, boring, uninspired, and rather

lacking in luster. So As someone who

really loved Pokémon Legends of Arceus,

which released earlier this year, I had a

lot of high hopes that Nintendo could do a

good job with this new Pokémon Scarlet. I

thought there were a lot of cool new ideas

with Legends of Arceus that they could

bring over to the new Pokémon Scarlet

game. But unfortunately, it seems like

they've made one step forwards and then

two steps back, as it always is with

Nintendo. They come up with some great

ideas and then for some reason they ditch

them for the next game and then introduce

some other new ideas. For example,

Legends Arceus had the first really big

true open world in Pokémon. That was

great, and they've obviously continued

with that in Pokémon Scarlet, which is

kind of expected. But they've missed out

some key features from Arceus that they

could have implemented in Pokémon Scarlet,

which for some reason they've just left

out of. For example, being able to catch

wild Pokémon in the wild in the open world

in Arceus, just using the Poké Ball and

throwing it at the Pokémon directly

without having to fight it, was a really

truly unique and original innovative idea

in the Pokémon games. And for some reason

they've just decided that they don't want

that in the new Pokémon game. And instead,

the new Pokémon Scarlet is just full of

all these other gimmicks that just don't

really add much to the game. It's just

like silly, narcissistic, vain, taking

selfies with your Pokémon kind of stuff.

It doesn't really add much to the actual

gameplay of the game. It just seems to be

adding silly gimmicks that you might try

out once or twice but aren't really that

important to the core mechanics of the

game. For example, there's this new picnic

table where you can make sandwiches. This

is so silly. What is this, a cooking game?

It's supposed to be about Pokémon and

collecting Pokémon and fighting them and

defeating gym battles. I just find it

really weird that one of the best ideas

they could come up with for the new

Pokémon games is a sandwich building

simulator. This isn't Cooking with Chef or

Cooking Mama or some weird random cooking

game. Why is there like this very detailed

sandwich-making minigame part of the game?

I'm actually kind of shocked and surprised

that they even released a new Pokémon game

out this year considering the fact that

they already released a AAA Pokémon game,

Legends of Arceus, earlier this year. Why

are they releasing 2 big Pokémon games in

the the same year. It just feels like they

don't really know what they're doing with

the Pokémon series anymore. What once was

a great gaming franchise and had some

really great ideas has kind of stagnated,

and it's like they're just trying to pump

out as many Pokémon games as they possibly

can, trying out different gimmicks and

different features, trying to find out

which one actually works and which one is

the most popular, because they don't have

any actual ideas for what's gonna work.

They're just trying and experimenting new

things. If you think about it, it's kind

of like a failed YouTuber. Maybe this

YouTuber once had a thing that actually

worked very well and people loved it, and

it was very new and refreshing. But over

the years, people got bored of it and it

doesn't really work anymore. So this

YouTuber is desperately trying to pump out

different kinds of stuff, hoping something

sticks, and he's just pumping out loads of

content doing different random stuff.

That's kind of what these Pokémon games

feel like these days. They're just pumping

out loads of Pokémon games with different

gimmicks, seeing what actually works. But

none of this actually works because

they're just silly gimmicks and people

just want a good core Pokémon game with

good core gameplay, not silly gimmicks

like being able to take a selfie picture

or making a sandwich on a picnic table.

Sure, these are nice little add-ons, but

they shouldn't be the core focus of the

game. They should just be nice little

bonus bits. It doesn't really matter if

they're there or not. But it seems like

they don't know what direction to take

Pokémon in, that they want to make it like

an open-world game or a more linear game.

Also, these new legendary Pokémon in

Scarlet and Violet are just so dumb. Why

do they have wheels? So this new thing

about being able to ride your Pokémon like

it's a motorcycle seems to be the new hot

idea. It's just so silly. What kind of

living organism has a wheel? There's a

reason why in the real world, in nature,

there's no living animal or creature that

has a wheel. The only reason why the wheel

exists is because humans invented it and

are able to make machinery that can make

the wheel function properly. The reason

why living organisms cannot have a wheel

and why every single thing on this world

has legs to move around is because a wheel

is actually impossible because you need 2

separate moving components for the wheels

to keep continuously spinning around. And

for a living part of the body to be

detached from the main parts of the body,

that would mean that it's not getting any

blood supply, it's getting no nutrients

from food. So how is this second part of

the body going to actually live as a

wheel? It's just gonna rot and then die

because it's not actually connected to the

main body and it's not receiving blood or

oxygen or nutrients. So having a wheel as

a living creature is completely out of the

question and unbelievable. So how's a

Pokémon, which is supposed to be a living

creature, supposed to be able to have

wheels? And then when it's running, it

doesn't even use the wheels. It's actually

just using its legs with the wheels just

kind of hanging there. It's so weird why

they designed these legendary Pokémons

this way so it looks like a motorcycle.

Completely unnecessary as well. I don't

know why in every single new Pokémon game

these days, the new Pokémon look so dumb.

They look so bad and boring. The character

design is just terrible. Why do they look

like mechs? Or they look kind of like

robots. They don't actually actually look

like living creatures that are cute and

cuddly, and you could believe that they

exist in this virtual world. In the

original Pokémon series, they had such

cool character designs for the Pokémon,

so iconic, like Pikachu and Squirtle and

Eevee and Charizard. They had such great

simple designs that were based off actual

animals that exist in the real world, but

just kind of exaggerated in certain ways

to fit in with the Pokémon world. But they

looked cute and cuddly and iconic. These

new legendary Pokémon in these new Pokémon

games just look absolutely terrible. I

don't know who they got to design these

new Pokémon, but they look so bland,

boring, uninspired, and lacking in lustre.

They just look like sci-fi mechs. They

don't even look like actual creatures.

They look like robots. They're so bad,

these new Pokémon designs, and I cannot

give a crap about collecting them or

owning them or even having anything to do

with them because they look so stupid.

Number 2, my biggest complaint with this

new Pokémon game is the open world in the

game is very lifeless and dull. It's just

like a massive barren wasteland with

barely anything in it. There's no random

stuff happening. It doesn't really feel

like it's an actual open world with real

stuff going on. It's just like random

terrain with a load of wild Pokémon just

roaming around, stumbling about like

they're zombies. It's so bland and boring.

Legends of Arceus did the open world

slightly better, but it seems like

Japanese games don't really know how to do

open world very well. In the same way,

Sonic Frontiers open world was absolutely

abysmal. It's just completely dull,

depressing, void of life. I don't know why

JRPGs and Japanese game makers are so bad

at making open worlds. They need to take

some tips and hints from Western game

makers. I think they need to have a look

at games like GTA and Cyberpunk and The

Witcher and learn how to make an actual

open world if they really want to take

Pokémon and Sonic into this open world

type of game. Because as it is right now,

the open world is extremely lacking in

luster. As for the graphical fidelity of

the game, I also find the graphics to be

rather lacking in luster. They look okay,

they have a certain nice appeal to it in

the same way that Genshin Impact is kind

of charming. But again, this is supposed

to game on the Switch and the frame rates

are just absolutely terrible. This game

looks like a mobile game. It doesn't look

like it's running any kind of serious

graphical processing units in it at all,

and it just kind of highlights and shows

how outdated the Switch is as a gaming

system. They really need to hurry up and

stop milking the Switch and just come out

with a Switch Pro or a Switch 2 already,

because the graphics in these new Pokémon

games and new Switch games in general just

look so bad. It looks like you're playing

a mobile game. Seriously, this Pokémon

game looks like it should be a

free-to-play Pokémon game on the Android

or the iOS Play Store. So unfortunately,

for those reasons, I cannot give this game

a good score and I cannot recommend it.

I'm sorry, but I just have to give this

game a 4.2 out of 10. It's very lacking in

luster, not very impressive or

interesting, and it's just not a very good

Pokémon game. I would give this a skip,

maybe wait until Legends of Arceus number

2 comes out, if it ever comes out. Maybe

next year Nintendo will have some better

ideas for the Pokémon franchise, but I

don't think this is it.