Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Review Starters
The starters are OK.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Review

By Jason Faulkner

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are the latest main series games in a franchise that’s become beleaguered with issues. While Pokemon still sells, decisions around the game series have been criticized over the last few years. In particular, the “Dexit” controversy made many fans feel like Game Freak doesn’t care anymore. The positive reception of Pokemon Legends: Arceus made it…

  • A step in the right direction.
  • Fun despite its many flaws.
  • Textures are muddled, models have bad collision, pop-in is rampant, all around a visual mess.
  • One of the poorest performing first-party games on the Switch.
  • Progression is awkward and semi-linear despite the open-world design.

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Jason Faulkner
Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner is Evolve Media's Evergreen SEO Manager. On a typical day, you can find him working desperately trying to get late-1990s/early-2000s PC games working at 4K and 16:9 ratio without crashing.

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