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Pokemon Violet (Switch)

Honestly, I absolutely loved it. It was so addicting from start to finish. I also really enjoyed the characters and the game's finale goes harder than any mainline Pokemon game yet.

I would say that just about every great thing this game offers has downsides though. It is very easy to overlevel once more. The challenges are repetitive, although likely because they're too easy as well. The Tera gimmick is probably really cool in competitive battling, but no ingame trainers do anything noteworthy with it aside from one of the gym leaders. The finale is amazing, but the game could have led up to it more than it did. And after it, there is little to set your teeth into unless you like online battling.

Then of course there's the performance which has been discussed ad nauseum already. I found it very noticeable, but never truly disruptive. In the end, the game is Pokemon; pretty much nothing requires pixel perfect control mastery. It's more of an unfortunate thing.

All that said, the game's open world is just that much fun. So much stuff is easier and quicker than it used to be, like making good pokemon. There's constantly something to find not far from where you are. The main game is also quite meaty, especially compared to Sword/Shield. Some of the music is absolutely banging too. The box legendary is actually a pokemon you feel a bond with rather than it being something you catch randomly. And the dog pokemon. And Clodsire.

All in all, Legends Arceus focused on catching and discovery and did that better than Scarlet/Violet, but S/V have both that AND classic pokemon gameplay. Definitely a strong return to form for Pokemon on Switch after the mediocre LGPE, SwSh (minus DLC content) and BDSP.

Final team was:
Quaquaval L71
Scovillain L70
Kilowattrel L72
Clodsire L71
Grimmsnarl L71
Baxcalibur L70