“This Is Indefensible”- Internal Clashes Rages Up Among Fans After the Underwhelming Release of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

The latest additions in the Pokemon Series, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have been a hot topic for controversy among the fans ever since release. The community is torn apart into two groups. As one is enjoying the overall gameplay and defending the games, while the other is on its throat, as according to them, the graphics and performance are very unimpressive. 

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are role-playing video games developed by GameFreak and published by Nintendo and The Pokemon Company for the Nintendo Switch. They were released worldwide on November 18, 2022. 

The games had massive hype behind them, as this latest generation in the main line of Pokemon games had promised a lot to the community. The notorious gameplay formula of the previous games was expected to see some significant changes in these new installments. Such as nonlinear gameplay, open world map, transition less combat, and more. 

But ever since its release, the game has been receiving a lot of criticisms and bad reviews. The game is facing massive performance issues and poor visuals. The community is enraged to the roof, as their highly anticipated Pokemon game hasn’t been able to meet their expectations. 

Glaring post-release issues in the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet 

The ninth generation Pokemon games, Scarlet and Violet are not the first Pocket Monster games on the Nintendo switch. Previously, more than eight games of the series have been released on the console. But still, GameFreak lack in using the hardware to its fullest. 

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It’s only been a few days, but already the community has witnessed a plethora of bugs, performance issues, graphic issues, and more in the game. A few examples of the bugs are: 

• The scenery randomly starts disappearing when you throw the Pokeball.
• NPC models clipping into each other.
• The animation of the protagonist eating food being very weird. 
• Trainer body parts not working properly. 
• Camera issues while traveling the map.
• Pokemon being stuck in the walls.
• Trainer T-Posing in the cut-scenes.
• Background characters disappear.
• And many many more…

How did fans react to these new games? 

The internet is torn apart into two groups after the release of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. One is defending the games, saying the fun gameplay makes up for the inconsistencies. Another is rioting with pitchforks against the game’s lack of motivation and quality. 

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