Customer Ratings & Reviews

Its a pokemon game whats not to like? Yeh its janky at times and there are some quailty of life things but when has pokemon been the top tier quailty brand anyway >.>;

Had no trouble finding this popular new game at Best Buy shortly after its release.

Pretty decent, the overworld vast but i do feel like they could've spent more time on the mechanics since it's very buggy

Pokemon! What else can i really say? Definitely ahead of its time.

Grandson is super contented! That's all that counts 'cause Lord knows I wouldn't know if this game is any good. He and his cousins love the games I purchased.

I am an old-school Pokémon player, so some of the new mechanics I don’t like, but overall it’s a good game

This game runs extremely poorly on my nintendo switch oled edition. It does not feel like it was ready to be released yet. There are countless bugs. I am dissapointed.

My review for this game is a 10 out of 10. Best price for a Pokémon games and from the best store there is, Best Buy.

As much as there are bugs in the game the story is great as is the open world aspect.

Love the OLED Nintendo switch. Great price and with all the accessories you need to hook up to the tv and dock it to charge. Great purchase

This is easily the best mainline Pokémon game we’ve gotten in years, maybe even of all time, but this game wasn’t done. Game Freak is being crunched more and more every year by the Pokémon Company, and its effects are apparent. Arceus released on January 28th of this year. That’s less than 10 months between releases, and for games of their respective scale and the vast changes they brought to the series, it simply is not enough time to ensure they were ready. Their rocky (charitable) launches are proof of this, and the issues go back to even Sword/Shield and BDSP. (Slight spoilers coming up) The lack of creativity in the shinies, all the camera problems, and in my opinion, the most egregious, the lack of voice acting in places it was desperately needed. They might have been able to get away with no VA in previous iterations, but in unskippable cutscenes that are honestly really powerful for the most part, it feels so empty without proper VA. I think with 6-12 more months in development, this is a 5 star game, best of all time without a doubt.

Game does not run smooth. But overall the game is so fun. Great to play with friends

Behind the awful performance and technical issues likes an amazing game. Super fun.

First pokemon game ever, so far I’ve been liking it a lot! If you read this, is a sign you need to go get it and you’ll spend a decent amount of time playing it!

Great game for kids and age-appropriate. My son loves it.

It has some glitches they need to patch but still a great Pokémon game.

My daughter likes the challenge of the game and the increased number of Pokémon

I got it because there wasn't much of an optioni at the time but overall happy with my purchase

I own every hard copy of pokemon since Fire Red and this is my lease favorite. Game Freak really showed that all they cared about was getting the game out before the holidays to reap in the money. The game is VERY unfinished judging by the glitches, graphics, and frame rates of the game. There are also many things that I wish they had done to improve the game from their previous releases. Not being able to change the main theme of your outfit was a big downgrade from the previous games; All the gyms have the same symbol, so it's not obvious what gym you are facing; and the optional decisions in the story dialogues literally change nothing, so what is the point of having a decision to choose from. There was even a moment where the game allowed me to accidentally use a hyper potion on a pokemon that had full health. (Why is that even allowed?) I hope Game Freak can save this game through updates, and fast. I predict that this game will fall off very quickly and will tarnish Game Freak's reputation if they leave the game as is.

Okay game, liked the catching in arceus better but the gyms and towns definitely made the world feel more lively.