Customer Ratings & Reviews

The title delivers, if you played legends arceus, this new game is what we liked from it but better, I specially like the new map system and the fact that you have your pokemon for transportation early on the game.

I have put about 30 hpurs into this game and can confidently says its one of my favorite in the franchise. It has such a different pacing and experience than what most have come to expect in a pokemon game. However, its overall performance is lacking a bit. I have encountered some lag here or there, pokemon randomly despawning, and weird shadow glitches/flickers. I have not encountered anything crazy like some others on the internet. I feel most of those crazy glitches come from playing online. But take everything with a grain of salt as your experience could vary. If youre willing to overlook some of the performance bugs for the time being this is an amazing game and in sure itll only get better with time!

I pre-ordered this game and was disappointed when reviews were saying this game had major technical issues. So when I started playing, I kept this in mind, and prepared myself for the issues. To start off, I've only ever played Soulsilver on my DS lite when I was a kid, and Pokemon Moon on my 3ds, so I'm by no means a "huge pokemon fanatic." - However, contrary to the reviews, I didn't see any technical glitches at first. After about 6 hours of game play, I only saw three glitches: the floor disappeared when I was battling a pokemon (2x) and part of a pokemon's body part disappeared. And that's it. The people in the background are stuttery, yes, but I'm sure that's going to be patched out. The game is pretty fun so far and the characters are pretty likable. - However, my MAIN issue is the lack of detail! In Pokemon Moon (and Yokai Watch 2), the world was so detailed. Stores and houses had things on shelves and have cute, well-thought out touches. The towns look so plain and basic, it's crazy that 3DS games had more detail! And by detail, I don't mean "realistic-looking textures", I mean seeing books scattered messily on a shelf, and empty soda cups and crippled paper piled up on the floor next to a garbage can. This game lacked all of that. Those little details are always so appreciated. You can't go into stores and can't go into other homes. And the trees all look the same, there should of been variety. The water at the beach looks so weird, it doesn't have the white fuzz like a normal tide would have (even pokemon moon had detailed beaches!) - I'm disappointed. Not because of the technical issues (since I barely experienced any), but because of the lack of detail. Other than that, it's a pretty okay game for a casual player.

So the game itself is great. Not perfect by any means, and thats Nintendos fault by throttling the switch performance so much. Lots of weird glitches and lag. Despite the flaws, theres a decent open world experience for a Pokemon game. Its got a lot to offer for new and old players. Give it a shot, its something newish for a recycled game type.

It's rough but I'm enjoying myself. I've mostly laughed off some of the jank like the camera clipping through the ground or how goofy it looks when an NPC wanders around at 3fps in the background of a cutscene, but it's harder to forgive the stutters during stuff like animations for throwing a pokeball or the way the game will freeze for split second while (presumably) assets are loading for an in-engine cutscene like an NPC entering the room for a conversation. I've disliked these types of interactions less and less since the 3DS era. The quick cutscene of the trainer throwing the ball (or even the mechanics of sneaking around and throwing balls) is a huge step back from the approach Arceus had, and I think that might be my biggest disappointment. I just wanted Arceus's mechanics in an open world with a gym path and more to do. I got the gym path and more to do, but the mechanics somehow got left behind. Arceus felt modern mechanically, with the ability to catch a wild Pokemon by surprise with different ball type altering your odds of catching them without a fight. I can't help but feel they wanted to dumb down the mainline game because they patronizingly think kids can't do the right stick to aim. Besides those gripes, there's a solid game in here. It's an actual open world, whereas Sword/Shield had some open zones mixed into the usual linear routes, and Arceus had just open zones that were distant biomes that didn't flow into each other. And frankly, it's pretty good. The three main narrative paths keep things varied and you're allowed to tackle things in any order, so long as you have the skill to overcome some level gaps. This could have been favorite Pokemon game, and it may end up being my favorite on Switch, but I can't ignore some of the technical shortcomings.

The new gen is super fun to play, taking notes from Pokemon Legends Arceus and prior gens to come up with a fun gameplay experience! However, it comes at the cost of performance issues. I play docked on the new OLED switch, so I only experienced frame drops at worst, but others have had trouble playing on the older switch models, on the go, or on a micro SD rather than on memory.

Game is good but very buggy and laggy at times. Left stick stops working randomly during game, but putting in sleep mode and starting back up fixes it. All in all it’s Pokémon, and open world at that, so really fun

If not for the buggy mess the game was released. I would give it five stars, but the story and characters along with the Pokémon that can be caught in the game is overall excellent.

Just finished playing Pokémon Violet and wow, it's awesome! The open-world is a game-changer, you can literally go anywhere and find cool new and classic Pokémon. The graphics are super vivid and the environments are really diverse, which makes exploring so much fun. Battles are way more dynamic now, especially with the 'Let's Go' feature for quick action. The storyline keeps you hooked with some neat twists and the characters are interesting. Plus, playing with friends in co-op mode is a blast. Seriously, whether you're new to Pokémon or a longtime fan, you're gonna love this game. Highly recommend!

A step in the right directing and enjoyed the game itself despite all the bugs and performance issues. Stories were good, systems are good, open world is good. Don't care for the active time Tera Raid design, but oh well.

Overall a really fun game. There are a lot of glitches and looking into the ground. I do wish they made it like Legends Arceus where you could catch pokemon without battling. The story and missions were fun though!

Laggy, glitchy, most areas with people walking around it looks like a slideshow. No joke like 2-5fps on alot of things. Shocked this passed QC at nintendo. The story is otherwise amazing. I just finished it today. But still that being said a total crappy experience in 2022. Nintendo shiuld be ashamed.

It is odd that a direct developer for one of Nintendo's flagship series, that Gamefreak made game design decisions that showed the age of Nintendo's only current console. Honestly, there was no need to release another Pokémon game in 2022, since Arcreus was released earlier in the same year. Would have been totally acceptable to hold off until Nintendo got some sort of new Switch (Pro/2/etc.) and made Scarlet/Violet a launch title. Regardless, the game holds onto the usual Pokémon formula, but debuts some neat mechanics and an open world, so there were some growing pains with performance. Hopefully there will be some updates that will optimize the game, but at least there DLC to expand on story and world. Flawed, but still fun.

yes the game is full of bugs and performance issues and the graphics are not great, but it has a lot of heart and the story is hands down the best we have gotten since sun/moon. if you can overlook the flaws, this game is 100% worth it and has sealed its place as one of my all time favorite pokemon games

An interesting change to pokemon, but there are still issues whith bugs. Overall, a fun ride but i wish that after all the time since release they could have fixed the bugs.

One of the absolute best in the series. Amazing open world and progression. Amazing variety in pokemon and compelling gameplay. Only issues are frame drops and pc box loading slow. Other than that no complaints

There are a lot of bugs and glitches in the game, but the story and gameplay were amazing. Havent played a main series game since Black and White 2. This game really brought me back into the franchise

Let me start by saying i love pokemln amd as a 92 baby it was a bit part of my childhood. Admittedly im still more of a digimon guy and after gen 3 i became very casual. I always plag the new releases but i dont have the same spark i did as a child playing. The last few mainline games i felt like i had to force myself through. I had moderate expectations for Violet and it exceeded them all. The game is flawed with technical issues but nothing that makes it unplayable. The gameplay itself is the most fun ive had with Pokemon in years. Im sure a big patch is on the horizon to fix issues. But in the meanwhile its still worth every dollar

Marvelous pokèmon game 200% recommend. The graphics are amazing in this game. The pokèmon have such great details and the new gen 9 are also really well made (I recommend the fire starter, it's able to take down most gyms and in it'a final form it's fire and ghost type which is really handy) and not to forget about the environment. Sure the game have some frame drops here and there but I am sure they'll update the game and fix those (not ruining gameplay, just some minor when the game gets too overwhelming for the Switch).

The game is very fun overall and a lot of the new designs are really cool. I like the open world concept, but the bugs can be really frustrating at times.