Once again, I ignore the angel on my shoulder...

[waltzoid]

...telling me not to buy Pokémon Scarlet/Violet right away when my Twitter timeline started blowing up with clips of the game glitching out Cyberpunk 2077-style (or, if you want to go back another several years, Assassin's Creed Unity). I was out on a joyride with my sister yesterday and the Target at the Springfield Mall still had boxed copies for sale and figured "What the hell". Honestly, I feared a scenario like this was inevitable as this year alone, The Pokémon Company released three (really only two) games set during the fourth-generation titles in Pokémon Legends: Arceus (the prequel spinoff) and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl (the remakes, which I remember also having performance issues at launch). Having a team as large as the ones at TPCi/Game Freak pump out that many games within that time frame was going to bite one of these games hard, but I still wound up buying it because it has potentially interesting ideas, and God knows I've stuck with products with similarly buggy launches and wound up enjoying them in the long run -- The Sims 4, Street Fighter V, I'm looking at you two -- so maybe this one will eventually turn out alright and won't take as long to fix as those three did (the only reason I stopped playing TS4 is because my computer is set up in a weird way where the main game is stored on one drive and the expansion packs are stored in another, rather than putting them both on the same drive). For now, I'm just going to pace myself and play a little bit at a time and pray to RNGesus that my copy stays mostly stable.

Comments

[cye_of_the_torrent]

I've been having a lot of fun with Violet! So far, the worst thing that has happened to me is the frame rate drops. It was at its worst when I was playing local online (that's probably not the official term) with my brothers and my baby brother's beloved worm Pokemon whose name escapes me was down to about a frame a second lol. We managed the raid with no issues.