Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

[Kier Starmer]

must endure the slop content... This is painful at least the Japanese man is speaking now.

Fuck this is bad...

 

[Squawking Macaw]

I hate mobileslop so much bros.

THE DRAGONITE LEAKS WERE RIGHT LMFAO

THE LEAKS WERE REAL

 

[Kier Starmer]

Why do they need til 2026 to release champions? Also, wtf did they do to my boy Dragonite...

 

[30+GameOvers]

The claymation show is weird, but at least it's something different from the ashime slop people have been subjected to for decades now. The Pokemon theme park looks legit interesting, maybe I will visit it if I go to Japan someday, but it's not something that will get me to go there by itself. The Champions game looks like a poor man's Stadium game mixed with Sword/Shield's online component, so a nothing burger in other words. Now, as I type this, I am watching ZA trailer and the first thing I noticed is that the anime aesthetic is gone and now we have more "realistic" models more akin to Scarlet/Violet or pre-troonout GO! models. Either way, gameplay doesn't look interesting, Lumiose City was never interesting, it will be pozzed to hell and I couldn't care less about the whole thing. New Megas can eat my dick, bring back old ones and bring back Z moves while you're at it. Mobile garbage doesn't warrant a mention.

Pretty much nothing special, I'm more interested in how the theme park will work but that's about it. Thanks for a reminder as to how soulless the actual games are, TPCi! I can only imagine what it feels like to be a Scarlet Violet fan, all the content you get is Raid garbage where you don't even get a reward until an arbitrary number of people do the same raid as well! What a joke, and they are advertising being able to play the game in more than 3 frames per second on Switch 2 like it's a feature, lmfao!

 

[Kier Starmer]

Z-A just looks awful. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!! I am starting to believe my theory on Nintendo being pissed with GF.

 

[Anonitolia]

Wow they really have nothing for Z-A. Like, literally nothing. Everything that mattered had already been revealed on Pokémon Day. Holy shit lmao

Also, that Mega Dragonite really does just dip into horrible fan design tier. It is straight out of 2013 DeviantArt. It is terrible.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Wow they really have nothing for Z-A. Like, literally nothing. Everything that mattered had been revealed on Pokémon Day. Holy shit lmao

I noticed that they didn't even have unique music for the boutique when they talked about clothes, altho it might just be memberberries for the XY zoomies. It is genuinely depressing that little kids who played XY as their first games are now old enough to get nostalgic and buy this game for that alone.
It's shocking how by the numbers ZA is when compared to Arceus, I wonder if it's the same people are behind it.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Is it the same team as Arceus doing ZA because this feels like such a downgrade? There isn't even a fucking story, and the stories suck.

 

[Anonitolia]

Is it the same team as Arceus doing ZA because this feels like such a downgrade? There isn't even a fucking story, and the stories suck.

No idea about the team overall but it's a different director who's never directed anything on this scale. It shows, I guess.

---

Going to go over the obligatory Z-A site changes because why not. The Direct didn't give us squat anyways lmao

Spoiler: sigh

okay, so, for those in the back, Khu seems to have gotten a new source, or at least properly guessed the absolute bottom of the barrel pick for Dragonite and its design, so expect a month or two of retards fellating him in the near future. I don't want to give him credit for this, given that, as I mentioned before, it is literally 2013 DeviantArt tier (to the point that I'm convinced some future lolcow is going to sue TPC for ripping off their fan design), but it's worth taking into account in case you see people worshipping the ground he shits on.

So, with that in mind, I'm going to proceed as if all of his leaks do not exist in the hopes of avoiding actual, genuine spoilers for those interested. If those people even exist by this point lmao.

All of this is taken from the Japanese site because the English one hasn't changed yet. Everything is machine-translated, so expect some bumps in the road.

Spoiler: Official Art

They're going for the fucking BDSP art style with Mega Dragonite. Wonderful precedent.



Wannabe fashion designer, "Naveen":


Leader of the "Pokémon Research Institute." I think she's still just called Mable. (Checked the site in Japanese: yeah, her name's unchanged. She's still called Mable.)


Emma


Poison-type "rust gang"(? forgot the name) leader, "Corbeau". Supposedly a "mafia boss." inb4 Rocket expy


Student of that dance school, "Lida". Funnily enough, the way she's drawn makes me think she's supposed to be Korean. Is this a k-pop thing? Why is there a k-pop dancer in Paris? Why am I asking stupid questions?



New official art for daytime vs. nighttime... I'm not sure why the fashion designer is over there hiding in the bushes for nighttime, maybe that's supposed to indicate that he's supposed to be the edgy rival? Then again, I highly doubt you'll be able to pair up with the dancer for anything, so it probably doesn't mean anything.


Better look at the daytime artwork:


Better look at the nighttime artwork:

Spoiler: Screenshots of """"new""" game features

Not "New Game" features. Just features in the game that we did not know about before.

Here's the new Pokedex interface, which seems to only show Pokémon portraits once you've actually caught the 'mon now. It also shows space for the mon's entire evolutionary line now. I'm not sure why they changed these things, and I'm mixed on them. What I'm definitely not mixed on is the really shitty blue-light shader they have for the model you're hovering over when browsing the thing. That looks teeeerrible. At least they have the sense to get rid of it when you select the Pokémon entry itself. (Which also does not have any information on abilities. Or anything save for name, possible genders, weight, height, and type.)

Spoiler: English versions for comparison.

It's still a fucking smartphone app. I think unique 'dex designs are well and truly dead at this point.

30-second showcase of a wild battle:

Some more battle screenshots (no, nothing glowy is nearby in the one on the right, the daytime shading really is just that bad):


New Nurse Joy design:


And a closer look at the open-air Pokémon Centers.


Level-up, new move, and evolution screenshots. These are making me wonder if the game is just built on the SV engine, because they look nearly identical. It would explain a lot if it was. The horrible graphics, the slowdown, the similar visual languages...


The Battle Royale has an app in which you can edit your profile picture, apparently. Really really making me think this is just built off of SV.


Character customization also seems to be identical to SV, only with more clothing options of course.


Photo mode screenshots. Once again, the interface is near-identical to SV's.


Here's the pokemart interface.

Spoiler: Other miscellaneous bits and details

Still no mention of abilities. It's likely they're not in the game. At all. Not surprised, just tired


The wannabe fashion designer is partnered with a Scraggy, which I'm sure will have absolutely no significance and not relate to the character at all whatsoever. Especially since, if the leaked designs are right, its hoodie turns fucking white. Like the character.


The k-pop dancer is, subsequently, paired with a Staryu. Another supposedly leaked mega. If those fucking designs are actually real then I guess that explains why Starmie's is a dogshit meme. Because it's paired with a dogshit meme character. Hah.


Mable's gamer chair and laptop have the Flare logo on them. The team has probably been redeemed or something somehow.


The Pokemon Research Institute just seems to be Sycamore's lab...


The poison guy seems to mainly be paired with an Arbok. Notably, this went completely unaccounted for in the supposed story leak that called Emma's hair being cut and her taking on the role of detective. It, instead, claimed that this guy's main partner was going to be a Scolipede... so either the marketing is obfuscating that, or the leak got something wrong.


It seems like the only difference between catching Pokémon in daytime vs nighttime is that they're only restricted to Wild Zones during the nighttime? Machine translation, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think that's what they're trying to say here.


Alphas are returning. I don't know why this wasn't mentioned anywhere in the trailers, or the English site, or anywhere prominent at all. They're still around. For some reason.


You get Mega Stones from Quasartico by shattering "Mega Crystals" that grant you corresponding shards. These shards can be exchanged at Quasartico for actual stones, or bought wholesale at the Lumiose Stone Shop. EDIT: you can also get them from "pacifying rogue Mega Pokémon" if the English site is to be believed. No clue if this refers to a one-time quest to get the Key Stone, every single Mega Stone in the game, or both. This is still machine translation, so I'm inferring a fair amount.


Also lmao those crystals look so bad it's fucking comical.


Japan is getting a Switch 2 bundle on launch:

Same deal as MKW, where the base console is cheaper and the included title is downloadable-only.

At least the starters got plush toys with funky hats.

Except for Tepig, who's getting shafted as usual.
Apparently these are for a Twitter giveaway. If you want one, you have to like a specific tweet? I think the winners are going to be announced when the game releases. Dunno. Don't care much lol.

In closing, I can only post my rather predictable reaction:

 

[Grayback]

Live fan reaction:

 

[Squawking Macaw]

What a massive nothingburger. We had to trudge through so much mobileslop to be given a shitty little trailer. they even wasted time showing off trainer customization like it isn't an expected feature that the last three generations had. At least the stopmotion shows have a nice artstyle, I suppose.

The leaks included the Megas going out of control, the blue-haired Team Flare woman being a major character and Mega Dragonite having Dragonair wings, it's safe to assume the other leaks are real. It's pretty damn lame, literally just a retread of the Dynamax storyline from Gen 8.

 

[Linoone]

This was as predictable as I could’ve imagined. A nothing burger of a Presents.

 

[Grayback]

they even wasted time showing off trainer customization like it isn't an expected feature that the last three generations had.

Scarlet & Violet's clothing customization was so terrible that it might as well have not been in the game.
It was such a big step back that the fact that they're bring back and seemingly expanding customizatiom honestly is news.

 

[30+GameOvers]

What a massive nothingburger. We had to trudge through so much mobileslop to be given a shitty little trailer. they even wasted time showing off trainer customization like it isn't an expected feature that the last three generations had. At least the stopmotion shows have a nice artstyle, I suppose.

The leaks included the Megas going out of control, the blue-haired Team Flare woman being a major character and Mega Dragonite having Dragonair wings, it's safe to assume the other leaks are real. It's pretty damn lame, literally just a retread of the Dynamax storyline from Gen 8.

Sword/Shield didn't even have a story, it was unfinished and what we got were hap-hazardly stitched together bits that came out of nowhere and make no sense. Treating the narrative of that game as a "storyline" is being kind to it, it was half-assed like everything in that game. That said, "Pokemon going out of control" isn't an interesting enough topic to bring it up again. I should point out that Orre games on the Gamecube 20 years ago did this better with Shadow Pokemon and an actually intimidating bad guy faction in Cipher, but then again they also had better graphics, animation, double battles, better characters ect. so this isn't unexpected.

Speaking of villains, the ones in AZ look like a tired old retread of Team Flare but with even worse looking suits. It's hilarious that Gamefreak's villains peaked with Team Plasma, and arguably with the "fakeout" that Team Skull weren't the true bad guys. This is as good as their writing ever got. I am not kidding my self here we will get anything groundbreaking in AZ.

Scarlet & Violet's clothing customization was so terrible that it might as well have not been in the game.
It was such a big step back that the fact that they're bring back and seemingly expanding customizatiom honestly is news.

Reminder that there were only 4 clothes in the base game of SV. If you played a female character, I'm sorry "Body Type B" character you didn't even get a dress, just the same generic outfits that the male character got. Best part is that I know they did it not just for DEI purposes but also so they could shill clothes players actually wanted to wear in DLC. Maybe this is the reason why they focused so much on it in the AZ trailer, lmfao.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

Dude, Dragonite looks terrible. I like the ball on its tail and that its tail is longer. Slimming Dragonite up for an improved battle form is fine, but they didn't take it far enough.




But why would you put wings on its head!? THIS SO DUMB!

 

[Anonitolia]

But why would you put wings on its head!? THIS SO DUMB!

Just wait until you realize that it doesn't even use those wings. It still flies with the tiny ones on its back.

 

[Anonitolia]

It's pretty damn lame, literally just a retread of the Dynamax storyline from Gen 8.

Which was already retreaded in Legends: Arceus with the Wardens, and Scarlet and Violet with the Titans. You could argue that the Dynamax storyline, too, was just a retread of the Alolan Totems with slightly more malice involved.

I'm so tired man.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

Well, since the leaks are real, I'm gonna put other artists' depictions of the remaining Megas as a reminder of the shit we're in for:

This site (tried 3 different archives and none worked) has some of them, their descriptions, and more artists' renditions. The goofier looking ones like Starmie and Victreebel are meant to be rampaging Dynamax Megas without trainers.

There's also some leaked story bits like Zygarde having a psychic connection with an older Lysandre and Quasartico hiding a new Ultimate Weapon inside Prism Tower (spoilered for anyone that cares).

Master Sex Carmine and Sinistcha

Uh @Anonitolia you might want to fix that.

 

[Anonitolia]

Starmie

without trainers.

This has already been disproven by the official Japanese site. Don't take the rest of that leak as gospel just yet.

Uh @Anonitolia you might want to fix that.

That was intentional. If it helps, I'm not a lesbian. I'm just stealing a /vp/ joke because I have nothing better to do lol.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Well, since the leaks are real, I'm gonna put other artists' depictions of the remaining Megas as a reminder of the shit we're in for:

>X but it has longer wings
>X but it looks scarier
>X but it has LOOOOOONG legs
>X but it has a different color now
>X but with more stuff on it
>X but it looks retarded now
>Let's bring back Battle Bond Greninja but pretend he's a Mega now
Froslass and the other two XY starters are alright, everything else is shit
Are there people genuinely excited for this?

There's also some leaked story bits like Zygarde having a psychic connection with an older Lysandre and Quasartico hiding a new Ultimate Weapon inside Prism Tower (spoilered for anyone that cares).

We finally get Zygarde lore outside of comics and anime, and this is what it's wasted on? So the game will just be memberberries for XY zoomies and a retreat of that same plotline.