{"id":130144,"date":"2022-11-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-141670"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:00:00","slug":"feature-14-things-that-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-get-absolutely-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/29\/feature-14-things-that-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-get-absolutely-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: 14 Things That Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet And Violet Get Absolutely Right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let’s get this out of the way: The technical state of Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> is pretty shocking. It’s buggy, it’s broken, and sure, it makes for very funny glitch videos<\/a>, but for what a full-price Nintendo Switch game costs these days, it should have launched in a much better state.<\/p>\n

But we’ve already written extensively<\/em> about the problems with Pok\u00e9mon ScarVi. Alex has given us his thoughts on how to improve the open world<\/a>, and we’ve got a massive list of 30 things we’d like to see in the next update, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article is not intended to excuse all of that, but to celebrate the designers, artists, and developers on the Game Freak team that did great work \u2014 work that is getting overshadowed by the problems with the game.<\/p>\n

Because, honestly, there’s a lot to love about Scarlet and Violet’s redesigning of the Pok\u00e9world and its inhabitants \u2014 and we did<\/a>. Pok\u00e9mon games have made very<\/em> slow progress over the years, almost as if Game Freak is reluctant to change too much lest it all come crashing down, but there are the seeds of great new ideas hidden under all the jank, and we just want to make sure they don’t go unacknowledged… or else we’ll end up with something safe and boring for the next Pok\u00e9mon release.<\/p>\n

So, here are 14 things that we love in Pok\u00e9mon ScarVi \u2014 despite, you know, the other attention-grabbing stuff.<\/p>\n