Switch Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

[The_Todd07]

Very much a theme of Scarlet - past, Violet - future through the trailer

 

[eDPS]

Seems to have gone under the radar but the biggest thing announced is that you can have up to 4 players in the same world travelling and battling.

 

[jdeezy]

Very much a theme of Scarlet - past, Violet - future through the trailer

This is the first thing I noticed. Scarlet professor in caveman style clothes, big dinosaur (with a wheel?) as a legendary, vs Violet professor in a futuristic jumpsuit and the legendary looks sort of modern and alien (with jet engines?). Wonder if that plays into the gimmick - I was thinking a game where instead of regional forms you had past and future forms of some Pokemon would be cool.

 

[eDPS]

I was thinking a game where instead of regional forms you had past and future forms of some Pokemon would be cool.

Might also explain why there are some Hisuian forms as they are Pokemon that existed in the past.

 

[ep2018]

Very much a theme of Scarlet - past, Violet - future through the trailer

Reminds me of the theme of Black/White (old fashioned and futuristic) and then I remember that this is the same gen we'll likely get Black/White remakes.

Not a coincidence imo.

 

[kangle4]

Pokemon Presents tonight 11pm.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

 

[SM]

Looks great. Was worried at first that they were ditching gyms again so glad they're still there but they've expanded the story as well.

 

[Cockliff38]

Not excited for this Gen's battle gimmick but otherwise looks good

 

[Quivorir]

The battle gimmicks have always sucked and I wish the'd just abandon them.

 

[kangle4]

High res image of the map.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Looks great. Was worried at first that they were ditching gyms again so glad they're still there but they've expanded the story as well.

May be the first 'gym' poke game I buy on Switch that isn't Kanto. Arceus and LGP the only two I have.
Went years and many handheld iterations out of the ecosystem.

As an aside, awaiting the arrival of a backlit display mod + USB C charger mod for my GBA. Should make my FR, LG, Gold re-playable as well.

 

[CarnTheScray]

When did we get the first battle gimmick? X and Y? That was when I stopped buying the games so I’m not to sure.

 

[SM]

When did we get the first battle gimmick? X and Y? That was when I stopped buying the games so I’m not to sure.

Depends what you define as a gimmick. Gold and Silver introduced double battles didn't it? Or Ruby/Sapphire?

 

[eDPS]

Depends what you define as a gimmick. Gold and Silver introduced double battles didn't it? Or Ruby/Sapphire?

R/S had double battles
D/P had split Special defense and attack
B/W had rotation and triple battle
X/Y had Megas
S/M z-moves and new forms of old Pokémon.
SW/SH had gigantimax
S/V have terastilise and some rumours of another new thing aswell yet to be revealed.

 

[simba_]

mega's was OK but z-moves and onwards was like O_O what is going on here

 

[jdeezy]

I think Dynamax / Gigantamax was probably a better design concept than Megas, both from the concept of turning these monsters into big kaiju Godzilla types that they were clearly insured by, and the fact that any Pokemon could use it, but they were both similar enough in that they had the same problem - there's some good designs that aren't really being seen again (as well as some awful ones admittedly), and some evolution lines feel incomplete because they were capped off with Megas/ Gigantamax forms that we won't see in other games.

I'd really like things like Mega Mawille and Mega Sableye to be retconned into proper evolutions.

 

[hornetswce]

I don’t mind them being in there if you can choose to ignore them, I don’t think I used dynamax outside I’m of the tutorial.


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[Gethelred]

Seems to have gone under the radar but the biggest thing announced is that you can have up to 4 players in the same world travelling and battling.

Great, another element from other genres to distract from the reality that the core experience hasn't gotten stronger since the 4th gen.

 

[Footonddit]

Skeptical of anything multiplayer from Nintendo. Sounds good in theory but they have the worst track record.

 

[kangle4]

Also another new trailer at 11pm tonight.

 

[Supersuns]

 

[jdeezy]

Klawf is great. If I was picking a team today, Fuecoco, Grafaiai and my boy Klawf would all be part of it.

 

[kangle4]

Interested in the auto battling stuff, wasnt much of it in the trailer but it’s on the website.

 

[eDPS]

The Pokémon company is so out of touch, although Sword and Shield should have been a dead giveaway