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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

Nintendo, GAME FREAK
Nov 18, 2022 - Nintendo Switch
Fair

OpenCritic Rating

71

Top Critic Average

47%

Critics Recommend

IGN
6 / 10
Game Rant
3 / 5
Eurogamer
No Recommendation
TheGamer
2 / 5
GamesRadar+
3 / 5
Metro GameCentral
8 / 10
Game Informer
8.3 / 10
GameSpot
8 / 10
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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Trailers

The Newest Chapters in the Pokémon Series 📔 | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet thumbnail

The Newest Chapters in the Pokémon Series 📔 | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet

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Jump into a Paldean Journey | Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet

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Seek Your Treasure! | Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet


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Critic Reviews for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

The open-world gameplay of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a brilliant direction for the future of the franchise, but this promising shift is sabotaged by the numerous ways in which Scarlet and Violet feel deeply unfinished.

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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are an ambitious attempt to take the Pokemon franchise open world, but they fail to live up to expectations.

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Eurogamer

No Recommendation / Blank
Eurogamer

An interesting reworking of the traditional Pokémon gameplay for an open-world setting brought low by its lifeless environments and graphics

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Unfortunately, the performance is so abruptly bad that it completely ruins, to an infuriating extent, what otherwise could have been the best Pokemon game to date.

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"The open world inherently changes so much for the series that it needed a total ground-up rethink of the mechanics"

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A significant advancement on Pokémon Sword and Shield and while it's not hard to see how it could be improved further this is the most ambitious and entertaining Pokémon has been in a long while.

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Despite technical shortcomings and some filler content, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are chock-full of meaningful additions to one of gaming’s most popular franchises. At worst, these games are steps towards the Pokémon games for which players have clamored, but more often, they serve as effective thesis statements for where the series goes from here. Either way, I can’t wait to see where Game Freak evolves the experience from this point.

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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's open-world approach reinvigorates the long-running series.

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