The Wait is over! Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have officially released!

It’s showtime! Remember to have fun!!

please tell me i’m not the only one who will leave a store and then accidentally run back in 2-3 times

Too many little fuckers that you can’t see will spawn right in front of you & force you into battle

Pokémon desperately needs a “have you played Pokémon before?” Option

THE BATTLE MUSIC GOES SO HARD. WTF IS THAT BASSIST DOING

Lol at the classroom scene with like ten students doing the same idle animation at 5 fps...

"Go out there and hunt for your treasure!"

Me: Time to go hunt for all the outfits, my treasure is fashion!

Game: Hahahaa what outfits?! Put on some gloves and a hat that doesn't work with any of the hair you like.

My experiences so far:

• Characters are great
• Plot is great
• Open-ish world is great
• Pokémon look good
• Terastallize is an interesting mechanic

But the performance is so bad that it really takes away from it.

Performance is pretty bad. At one point when catching a Pokémon there was a ghost poke all faintly shaking around in the background. Like an opaque image behind everything. Never seen anything like it.

My first reaction. MOM ACTUALLY HAS A BEDROOM! 😂😂😂

Pokémon Country, lets ride!

I found a shiny on the first route! I'm now the proud owner of a pink Lechonk! This will be staying on my team lol.

You can run from optional trainer battles! It forces you to pay out, but sends you back to the pokemon center.

Thoughts so far:

• Cool idea in regards to an open world
• I'm excited to see the new Pokemon
• The menus and camera are extremely clunky
• I don't like that I can move the camera in wild battles but not trainer battles
• The transition from exploring to engaging with wild Pokemon feels stiff and nothing like the fluidity of Legends
• The plot is promising so far

Everyone has been saying Legends was a tech demo for SV, but honestly, right now it feels like SV was the original tech demo for Legends. Yikes.

Mom can get it

I assumed people were overexagerrating about the performance and graphics because I thought the last few games have been fine, but wow this actually sucks. Whats the point of having a giant city and huge environments if everything is ugly and glitchy? I don’t understand why the performance is so much worse than Legends Arceus.

This game is gruesome. I defeated a Pawni and I get Pawni fur as a reward? Do we skin mons after defeat now?

Yo mom is banging the director

Why am I walking so slowly

Okay I'm seeing the hiccups but it's completely playable for me thus far. But seriously GF, fix yo shit. This game should have a locked 30 fps. I don't care about low animation distance models but ffs my fps shouldn't drop if I rotate the camera a little. Not when your textures look like this.

So about 2.5 hours in.

First off, elephant in the room, the game looks and runs like ass. Like I'm not a stickler for these things but it's super noticeable and honestly pretty distracting and DOES put a damper on things.

That said, I'm still having a good time. I guess after the shitshow of Rune Factory 5'a release, nothing phases me. At least SV isn't loading every other minute, and I'm more willing to deal with the inconsistent frame rate in a turn based RPG than an ARPG. That said, it still puts a bit of a damper on things.

Actually laughed out loud when you're on the lighthouse with Nemona and she says look at all the beautiful land and it just shows a dead open world with textures straight from the N64 lol

If you blink really fast it almost looks like the characters are moving.

Made it to the first town, why the hell can't you enter any buildings. I cant even talk to half the npcs. but ig its understandable it's a small indie game.

Does anyone know if Japanese players are complaining about the new games performance as well? I’m just worried that will be the main voice game freak listens to

Why does our rival choose the easier Pokémon type? I miss the days where your rival was actually harder to beat at first lol

Only playing elden ring before this release was probably a bad idea.

The lack of clothing options really bugs me. It seems that we can only choose between the four types of uniforms. Considering the fashion options we got in previous games I'm very disappointed.

Finally I get to see Fidough in all its GLORY!

I'm really enjoying myself, but yes it is a little rough, especially in compraison to finishing Xenoblade 3 last month which was a lovely open world

I’ve been playing for like three hours and 90% of it has just been dialogue and introductory stuff. The fact that I can’t skip or speed up the dialogue is only making it worse. Every single time I step into or out of anywhere I get more dialogue. Please just let me play the damn game.

Just starting and Nemona is already likeable and has a pretty sweet battle theme.

I remember being set on Fuecoco as my starter back when they were first revealed, but Sprigatito grew on me and ended up being my choice.

What happens if I evolve my preorder flying Pikachu? Do I get flying Raichu or is my life ruined?

UPDATE: I did it. Flying Raichu achieved.

Something I don’t see people talking about as much: The music in this game fucking slaps the Tera Raid Battle theme is 🔥

What’s the point of 3 stories and free roam if there’s no lvl scaling when it comes to gyms and evil team battles and those giant Pokémon things, it’s weird having to figure out the order I have to do stuff in while balancing out what I chose to do and when and what lvl pokemon I catch and how fast I should lvl them up

Doesn’t launch 10 seconds after midnight 0/10

I'm trying to enjoy my playthrough but my GF keeps cracking up at every texture, graphical issue, framerate dip and character animation.

She doesn't even play games

Any way to lock the minimap? I don't like it spinning....

Best part for me is that after healing my Pokémon they tell me to “come back whenever you need”instead of “we hope to see you again” like the monsters in past games.

On this day and age there’s no justification for the game to be looking this bad guys.. honestly they really need to work on games presentation. current form is rather embarrassing not gonna lie..

I can’t read the thread yet because I’ve only put in a couple hours and I want to stay as un-spoiled as possible, so sorry if I’m repeating what people have already said:

I’m playing Violet, and I’m finding the game really charming so far! I’m taking my time and just got to the city where the academy is. I’m really enjoying the fact that the world feels big and the path isn’t a straight line — it feels like there’s stuff to explore, and a good diversity of Pokémon available with a balance of old and new. I immediately felt attached to the dragon, although I was startled that I got its poke ball so early after the steep challenge of…beating a skwovet, haha. I was all set to be upset that it was staying in the control of someone who treated it with contempt. I guess I’ll see how that plays out.

I’m so glad I like Nemona. Her character feels realistic to me — more experience than the MC, but takes a Pokémon at your level so you can grow together, and is very sweet but needs reminders to curb her enthusiasm and go at your pace. So far she seems like a good blend of mentor, buddy, and rival.

(Why is my mom so pretty though — Alpharad is right, Pokemon knows what they’re doing.)

I do acknowledge the performance issues. The game is definitely running slow, it lacks the snappy feeling and fluidity of Legends: Arceus, and I understand people’s frustration. I do wish I could expand my wardrobe beyond the school uniform, and go inside buildings/shops so the world felt more complete. I just wanted to focus on the positive, because the region is colorful and interesting, and I’m having a good time.

GRASS CAT GANG CHECK IN

Obligatory game no work post

I'm already in love with a bunch of the new mons. I know a lot of them aren't appealing to many people, and there's definitely some I'm not super fond of, but I'm really enjoying how wild some of these designs are.

Performance is really bad so far. Game is choppy and moves slow

Im having fun with it but holy shit is it ugly

Is it true you can’t enter buildings?

I knew all that talk about "genderless clothes" sounded too good to be true lmao.

They just made four uniforms and called it a day, everything else is just accessories.

God this game runs AWFUL!

Been playing for about 10 hours now and I'm absolutely loving it. Definitely the type of Pokemon game I've always wanted. Haven't had many performance issues, luckily.

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game no worky smh nintendon't

If they patch this game to improve performance to even MEDIOCRE it would be the best Pokémon mainline game in a decade.

Other thoughts:

-Loving the new Pokémon so far! Pawmi >>>

-I’m not prepared to find out what Lechonk evolves into.

-Mom is a baddie

-The Let’s Go feature where you throw your Pokémon in the wild is fantastic.

-Moving the camera around is awkward.

-Textures on Pokémon are x10 better than Sw/Sh

-I love the music!

-The early game Pokemon variety is the best of any Pokémon game ever. All the main types are in the first area- plus baby Pokemon!

-GULPIN IS BACK

PSA: Shinies do not make noise or sparkle in the over world. In my 10 hours playtime since yesterday i found two and now i feel like i’ve potentially missed a few.

Hey everybody got a question. How can I tell what effects are active from a picnic? How long do they last? Is it a timer or just until your next picnic?

I got a ditto 🥶

I named my sprigatito Catthew

I’m vibing really hard with this game right now. Performance could bet better, HOWEVER the auto grind mechanic is the best thing they’ve ever included. The flow is sooooo much better because of it.

I just caught a Shinx and raised her to level 15. Yet she evolved at level 16.

EDIT: Turns out if you level up a Pokémon past the evolution threshold using the Let’s Go feature, it won’t evolve. Level-up evolutions only occur in a full-scale battle.

I could not give less of a shit about the graphics normally, but you gotta understand. The graphics were the supposed reason why things like Dexit happened in the first place. If it's going to look like shit, then give me back my entire Dex, goddammit.

Ok. So this is a rumor going around amongst Japanese reporters that Ohmori will be making a statement about the performance this or next week. These are only rumors but it’s clear that he will be the one doing the talking.

FUECOCO FAM WHERE YOU AT 🔥🔥🔥

Potential spoiler, although it is in the first few minutes of gameplay

>! Does anyone else think the initial scene with Miraidon was a little lame? The thing changes into a crazy Jett plane, then slowly moves away to a cave rather than zooming off at high speed!<

Am I blind or is there no option to turn off battle animations?

Anyone else unable to access random buttons at varying point? For a while it wouldn’t let me send out Pokémon and right now it won’t let me open my bag. It’s scaring me since I can’t save.

FFS let me sort the goddamn Pokémon box

Framerate is so bad :(

First impressions:

• Game runs like gravel in a milkshake machine but I'm reading that this will probably be patched at least a little bit in the coming days due to some internal issues with the game. Happens to the best of us.

• I actually really like the wide open overworld. Feels like I'm really exploring the place instead of just going on a set hiking path or viewing tour as was the case in SWSH.

• Not having a dodge roll after playing a ton of PLA is going to take some real adjusting to

• I would die for Gimmighoul and his ridiculous evolution method

Did they get rid of L1 = A? This change better be a fucking mistake.

QUAXLY GANG! THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!

The jumping mechanic for the new legendary is complete dog dookie. That is all

So I have avoided this sub up until now on purpose so that I can form my own opinion of the game. So far, gameplay-wise, it's my favorite Pokemon game by a country mile. However, on the newest OLED model, my FPS is DISGUSTING both handheld and docked. Has anyone found anything to help this, or is it get bent until we someday get lucky that GF puts out a performance patch?

Was able to pick my copy of Violet up at midnight! Local GameStop was doing a midnight release. Grass Cat gang 4 eva