Scarlet & Violet currently has the lowest Metacritic rating of any mainline Pokémon game – Destructoid
The fans are split on this one
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is finally out, and it’s been met with, uh, mixed reviews to say the least. While some fans are simply thrilled to have a new game to sink their teeth into, others are disappointed with the game’s visuals, gameplay, and the plethora of bugs. The result is that Scarlet & Violet has the lowest score on Metacritic of any mainline Pokémon game ever at a 77 — no new gen Pokémon has scored below an 80 until now.
For years, Metacritic has been the golden standard in the games industry of the success of your game, and a bad score is enough to sink a small studio. Game Freak and Nintendo likely won’t bat an eye at the score unless it causes any sort of dip in post-launch sales, which isn’t unlikely considering how vocal fans are being with their distaste online. I’m kind of on the fringes of the Pokémon fandom, and I for one was waiting to purchase until I heard how the game was this time around, but the Metacritic score for Scarlet & Violet closed the deal for me. Looks like I’ll be passing on this one…
The New Pokémon games has some bizarrre glitches. I call this one “Titan Mode’ from gaming
Pre-orders were certainly not affected when it came to Scarlet & Violet, though, because they were the most pre-ordered Pokémon games of all time. While we don’t know for sure how many copies were pre-ordered, The Pokémon Company’s COO Takato Utsunomiya announced at a launch event for Scarlet & Violet that more than 440 million copies of Pokémon-related games have been sold in the lifetime of the series, which is insanely impressive, but also not surprising considering Pokémon is one of the most well-loved (and lucrative) IPs in the entire world.
It’s a shame that Scarlet & Violet shipped in the state that it did, because fans have been anxiously awaiting a new mainline game since Pokémon Sword & Shield. Here’s hoping that they can patch some of the worst bugs, and the next release in the series, whenever we get it, won’t be quite so broken.
The fans are split on this one
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is finally out, and it’s been met with, uh, mixed reviews to say the least. While some fans are simply thrilled to have a new game to sink their teeth into, others are disappointed with the game’s visuals, gameplay, and the plethora of bugs. The result is that Scarlet & Violet has the lowest score on Metacritic of any mainline Pokémon game ever at a 77 — no new gen Pokémon has scored below an 80 until now.
For years, Metacritic has been the golden standard in the games industry of the success of your game, and a bad score is enough to sink a small studio. Game Freak and Nintendo likely won’t bat an eye at the score unless it causes any sort of dip in post-launch sales, which isn’t unlikely considering how vocal fans are being with their distaste online. I’m kind of on the fringes of the Pokémon fandom, and I for one was waiting to purchase until I heard how the game was this time around, but the Metacritic score for Scarlet & Violet closed the deal for me. Looks like I’ll be passing on this one…
The New Pokémon games has some bizarrre glitches. I call this one “Titan Mode’ from gaming
Pre-orders were certainly not affected when it came to Scarlet & Violet, though, because they were the most pre-ordered Pokémon games of all time. While we don’t know for sure how many copies were pre-ordered, The Pokémon Company’s COO Takato Utsunomiya announced at a launch event for Scarlet & Violet that more than 440 million copies of Pokémon-related games have been sold in the lifetime of the series, which is insanely impressive, but also not surprising considering Pokémon is one of the most well-loved (and lucrative) IPs in the entire world.
It’s a shame that Scarlet & Violet shipped in the state that it did, because fans have been anxiously awaiting a new mainline game since Pokémon Sword & Shield. Here’s hoping that they can patch some of the worst bugs, and the next release in the series, whenever we get it, won’t be quite so broken.
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