Customer Ratings & Reviews

While the game clearly has some performance issues, like drops in frame rate and bugs, the storyline and some of the mechanics are pretty great. I recommend for long-time fans of Pokémon.

You've probably heard about the performance issues, which are truly bad, but the game is so fun that I still think it's a 4/5 star experience. Love to see the ambition from Game Freak

Great game despite the bugs and performance issues.

Only downside, as everyone else has mentioned, are the small technical issues here and there. Doesn’t bother me as much, however. Overall good gameplay, it’s Pokemon.

Runs much better on the Switch 2 than the original switch. A little slow in the beginning.

Jusy finished the game and can still say its one of the best Pokémon games to date. The glitches were annoying at times but did not completely compromise the experience

I spent launch weekend playing this game. Overall, it’s fun at times, and it’s nice for Pokémon to be in an open world. However, there are several technical problems. Frame rates are horrible and all over the place. This shows most often in NPCs walking or the windmills turning. It’s very choppy. The Pokémon storage boxes will fade to black and take a second to load all the Pokémon you’ve caught. People and shadows will flicker in and out. Camera control is a little wonky. There are times when the camera will show what’s underneath the world. This game could have spent more time in development. On the plus side, after doing the beginning part of the game, you really can go anywhere and do the three main storylines in any order you wish. There is no level scaling so that means you might meet a Pokémon or a trainer who is beyond your current team. Bottom line: the game does just enough to be engaging, but the performance issues are too numerous to ignore. If you are a casual player, I recommend waiting to see if Game Freak issues some patches before buying. If you are devote Pokémon fan, then you will enjoy this game despite the warts.

Ive been playing Pokemon since Game Boy days. And this is quite a step up. It is buggy but not bad where can’t play it. Highly recommend if you’re a true Pokemon Fan.

Great game I recently just got back into Nintendo and I am in love with this game!! It's definitely different from the late 90s early 00s OG games but it's great and worth a shot if you are a pokemon fan or just want some nostalgia with an update on graphics.

Great update to the Pokemon series. Tons of quality of life improvements, massive open world, lots to do, and a great story line to boot. Must have Switch title.

Look I’ll be real the game has performance issues but it’s still reqlly fun, it’s one if the first Pokémon fames I’m 100%

Despite any press I’ve seen about performance issues, I haven’t had any issues. The story is great, the new Pokémon are awesome, and the open world is excellent!

This was a good game. The open world was nice and the story line was easy to follow.

The story and base game was slightly above average with plenty of things to do this time around, although somewhat overwhelming. However, the grahpics pedrormed very poorely on certain parts of the map. I defiently had below 15 frames per second at many points and the game would run slow

Really good game, i buy this game for my kids and they loves

It's a great game but is held back by the Switch's lack luster performance.

Very good and fun game. It had a well developed story and overall fun to play.

Whoever thought of a truly open worlded pokemon game needs a raise. despite the performance issues, this is still one of my favorite games this year.

I really like rhe story and that it has 3 different path ways. You can either face a abnormal pokemon, face gyms or face a bad team like team rocket.

Very Good Pokemon game. Besides the obvious performance issues (which they are starting to patch), it is a pretty impressive version of Pokemon.