Pokemon Scarlet and Violet it's a return to the main series, but it brings a lot of elements from the Pokémon Legends spin-off Arceus that came out earlier this year, including an open-world flourish that many positively compared to Breath of the Wild.
It's a hugely ambitious game that continues Pokémon's seemingly constant evolution from handheld RPG to full-fledged home console game, forever teetering between the two but slowly expanding towards the latter. This makes the game the quintessential Switch: a premium portable experience with big TV ambitions. But as with Arceus, there are performance concessions in the pre-build that highlight the need for Nintendo to update its hardware, whether it's the mythical Switch Pro or a brand new console, as older hardware can't keep up with Scarlet/Violet's ambitious design and smart new ones. functions.
On the other hand, it's primarily a portable game for kids, so performance issues aren't likely to ruin its inevitable success, but we're middle-aged and write for a gaming site, so that's exactly what we love to moan about. Go on.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will release on November 18th exclusively on Nintendo Switch (obviously, it would be a sensation if they released them on PS5, huh?).
