I was SO Wrong about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I made a fairly critical and

scathing review of the new Pokémon Scarlet

video game, and unfortunately, although I

thought my points were fairly logical and

well laid out, it seems as though a lot of

people were unhappy with the video and it

got over 55% dislikes, maybe even 60%

dislikes. And this is kind of shocking as

someone who's been doing YouTube for many,

many years. I've never had a video receive

so many dislikes before, so I must have

said some things that were very wrong and

very upsetting to a lot of people. So I

thought I would make this video to rectify

and try to bring some balance because I

was pretty negative about Pokémon Scarlet

and Violet. And I think people have kind

of gotten the wrong impression from my

video, which is probably mostly my fault.

In fairness, I did give it a negative

title, and it seems like people think I

hate Pokémon Scarlet, and that's just not

true. I actually really like the game,

and I've played many, many hours on this

game. It's actually one of my most

favorite best games I've played right now,

and I just wanted to make a video about

the positives of the game to balance out

the negatives that I pointed out in the

previous video that I made about the game,

because I do think that the game is not

all bad and there are a lot of positives

to the game. It's not only negatives,

it's just that I wanted to make a video

mostly pointing out the negatives in the

first video because as someone who really

loves Pokémon and the Pokémon video game

series, I really care about the the

Pokémon games that come out, and I really

want the Pokémon games that come out to be

good games. Unfortunately, a lot of these

Pokémon games that are coming out are not

the best games that Nintendo are giving

us. These are not the best games that have

been put out recently, and as someone who

loves the gaming franchise and the gaming

industry of Pokémon, I feel like there

has to be some kind of criticism in order

to get them back on the right track.

Sometimes in life we really love things,

and the person who's in charge of this

that we love so much is just not doing a

great job at looking after it and taking

it in the right direction. And we get

frustrated as fans of that thing. It's

like being a parent who has a child who is

kind of a loser, and you want the best for

this child, you know, you want them to get

a good job and have lots of friends and be

popular and be successful and get a good

girlfriend or boyfriend if that's what

they're into. But then they just sit

around all day playing video games and

watching You Know What, not really

focusing or taking life seriously. And

it's just like their lives are going

nowhere. And as a parent, you feel like

you're responsible for that. You feel like

you failed them as a parent, and I guess

you kind of did. But then you also feel a

bit frustrated with this loser kid that

you've brought up because he doesn't want

to do anything in his life and he's got no

motivation or drive to do anything. It's

kind of like that in the same way that I

care about the Pokémon video games that

Nintendo are putting out, but I just don't

really feel like they're putting out their

best stuff. Now, in spite of saying all

that, I have to say that the Pokémon

Scarlet video is not the worst video game

that I have never played. It's actually

not a bad Pokémon game considering many of

the points that a lot of people on Twitter

are putting out about the game being not

exactly up to standards. And one of the

main complaints I see coming from people,

especially on Twitter, about the new

Pokémon Scarlet game is the way that the

game looks kind of bad and the graphics

are bad and the frame rate's bad. And

they're trying to blame this on the Switch

when the Switch is the same console that

has had great games such as Zelda: Breath

of the Wild and Xenoblade and other kind

of JRPG open-world games that are running

on the same hardware, but still look way

better than the new Pokémon games look.

And you can't really blame the Switch for

this if they're using the same hardware.

The problem is Game Freak. They're the

ones behind making these Pokémon games.

And even though they haven't really done a

great job with these visuals of the new

Pokémon games, you can't entirely blame

them because they have been put under so

much pressure to make all these Pokémon

games in within a year. How many games do

they have to make within a year to meet

their deadlines? They're under so much

pressure and they don't have enough staff

or budgets to be able to focus and put a

lot of energy and detail into these games,

which is the results that you get is that

these games just don't really look that

great. And the reason why is because Game

Freak, the ones behind making these

Pokémon games, they just don't have the

required resources to be able to funnel

into making these games look amazing.

Really, the problem is Nintendo not

allocating enough funds and resources

towards Game Freak to be able to put into

Pokémon. It seems like they're using the

budgeting money on other things, maybe

Zelda, because Zelda is a much better

looking game. Maybe they're funneling more

money towards the team that's behind

making Zelda instead of Pokémon because

they know that Pokémon is not really a

graphic-intensive game and people will

love to play Pokémon games no matter what

the game looks like. And it kind of shows

because even if the games look like

garbage, the Pokémon fans will still buy

the game and play it regardless. So if the

fans are going to play the game anyway,

then what's the point of wasting precious

resources on making the game look better

than it actually needs to look? As for the

gameplay of Pokémon Scarlet, I don't think

it's that bad. I mean, if I'm able to put

over 100 hours into a video game. I think

that's kind of a sign that the gameplay is

pretty good. Well, it's good enough to

keep me hooked into playing for tens and

tens and tens of hours. If it was a bad or

boring game design and had bad gameplay,

I don't think I'd be able to play the game

for such a long time. And maybe I was

overly harsh on some of the features and

gimmicks of the game, such as the picnic

table and the selfie mode. Although these

don't really contribute much to the

overall gameplay and doesn't really make

much of a difference in the end, it is a

nice little feature to have to play around

with your Pokémon that you have collected,

and it kind of creates this bond between

you and the Pokémon. It lets you do some

extra little cute things together, and

it's just a little bit of fun to do on the

side when you want to take a bit of break

from all of the action and the fighting

and the adventuring. Maybe you just want

to chill out on some nice green bit of

grass and make a sandwich or 2 and take

some photos. There's nothing wrong with

that, and some people really seem to enjoy

that kind of aspect of the gameplay.

There's like this relaxing charm of the

game that you can do without having any

stress and just have a bit of fun and sit

back and appreciate the Pokémon that you

have managed to capture so far. I think

that at the end of the day, Pokémon has

proven its salt as a gaming franchise,

and not really much more salt needs to be

added to this recipe. It's fine as it is,

and it seems like the most majority bulk

of the fan base agree because they keep

buying the game even though years and

years pass and not much huge changes have

been made to the core gameplay mechanics.

That just shows that the core gameplay

mechanics are actually pretty solid if

people keep coming back year after year.

Otherwise, the game would see decline line

in sales year after year, and then

Nintendo might actually take some action

to seriously revamp this series. Now, on

the plus side, the graphics are very

colorful and very visually appealing.

It's very satisfying to see such a vividly

colorful and saturated world in a world

that we live in right now is very bleak

and gray and just seems like there's no

hope anymore. It is nice to get some

escapism in this world of Pokémon where

everything seems kind of cheerful, and it

does have a very charming aesthetic to it

that does look pretty good on the Switch

OLED, especially on the Switch OLEDs

amazingly bright and big screen. Although

the frame rates cannot be amazing all the

time, for most of the time it's fine.

There are some frame rate drops you will

experience that, that is unfortunate, but

not much can be done towards that. It just

seems like there needs to be some tweaking

with the engine. I think it would be

pretty easy for them to do some patches to

fix these very small problems. It seems

like most of the problems people are

complaining about can be easily fixed in

some overnight patches which just need to

be downloaded. It just seems like very

minor little bugs here and there that

people are moaning about. But aside from

that, it seems like it's fine. I mean,

there's not much else they can do with the

hardware because the Switch is getting a

bit old right now, and I feel like a

Switch 2 or Switch Pro could be on the

books, on the horizon, in a few years'

time whenever Nintendo decides to announce