Pokemon Scarlet & Pokemon Violet - Coming Late 2022

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

I saw that "school troublemakers" line and was laughing to myself. How did we go from villain groups like Team Rocket, Aqua and Magma, Plasma, etc. to this? We don't get to have a worthwhile rival or a true villain group anymore?

I will say that the visuals don't look half bad in this trailer. I watched it on my phone though, maybe the smaller screen made it look better than it really is lol.

The games have become so “sanitized” and “friendly”. Early games had you stopping criminal syndicates, ecological terrorists, etc. and now its school bullies and fan clubs who want their girl to be champ…

If the path forward is this stuff for the “mainline” games and more entries like Arceus for the spin offs then I’d be okay with that I suppose. I want to love a new mainline game but Arceus was fantastic gameplay and I still think the best game they have ever made. Actually, if we were coming from Sword and Shield straight to these new entries I’d probably be more positive on them. But having just had Arceus in the same year showing me what they can actually make has doused any excitement for what looks to be modern Pokemon by the numbers thus far.