Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Leaked Online Ahead Of Next Week's Launch

I've called wolf multiple times and then when I called wolf when there was a wolf no one believed me.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet just aren't looking exciting for me. I really like the Gen 9 Pokémon designs but the graphics still look uninspired and still look like HD 3DS games.

I think this one needed spoiling. The trailers make it look so boring. Im not excited about this gen pokemon like i was for the other pokemon games on switch

Well I wanted to see what the evolution was I saw them and I know which to pick.

I didn’t go too far in with the spoilers so I kept playing Digimon and ignored them. I am a Digimon Tamer so I want to play it in that sense.

I very much appreciate the heads up, NLife! I'm going on a muting spree as I've decided to go into SV as blind as possible. I will not be spoiled

@Giancarlothomaz thanks for the spoiler… 😒

I don’t really mind when it’s Pokémon because I like to know which Pokémon comes in each version and such and such. Still, I wish people didn’t have to put it in thumbnails and stuff, because some people do mind.

I got impatient. Sorry gamefreak you take too long.

I've played about 12 hours. AMA. I really hope the day one patch fixes performance issues. There are an embarrassing amount of issues, at least it would be embarrassing for most companies but I'm not shocked by GameFreak anymore. Anyways, my opinions!: (note, this isn't via emulation, this is running on my Switch)

• The resolution, textures and aliasing are VERY bad. I honestly can't remember the last time I've seen graphics this bad.
• Glitches galore. Shadows flickering, body parts vanishing, the camera angle clipping through the ground and walls or zooming up as close as possible to a building when you walk up to its door, etc etc etc
• The main city is so convoluted and lazy. There's a separate shop for every individual article of clothing, yes even a sock store, and (too) many restaurants, but you don't actually walk into any of them besides the hair salon. Every time you walk into a door, a minimal effort graphic pops up, you wait 10 seconds for your character to load, and then you scroll through your incredibly slim selection. Remember how limited your customization options were in Arceus? This is worse. What was wrong with Sw/Sh shops?? I never thought I'd miss anything from those games.
• I can't believe it's stuttering so bad even in tiny rooms with nothing going on. Even fades to black transitions or depleting healthbars are like 3 fps. The game straight up freezes for several seconds at a time too, I often wonder if I'll have to restart my Switch, but then it starts moving again.
• It's feels so sloppy. Even just bending over to talk to your Pokemon takes way too long and they won't even be in front of you 90% of the time, they'll be off to the side or behind you so you're just bending over slowly to stare at the ground lol
• The open world is painfully empty. For those who thought BotW was bad, just you wait. Navigation on your mount is sloppy and awkward, jumping over obstacles is glitchy, it's just not fun at all to explore. Not to mention the weird graphical effects happening on rocky slopes, it's like I just took mushrooms or something, you'll see.
• It takes SIX SECONDS to rotate the camera 360 degrees, and you can't adjust the sensitivity.
• Battling feels really slow sometimes, especially compared to Arceus. We're back to needing 5 seconds to be told we're poisoned, or are hurt by poison, etc over and over again.

It feels like Sword 2 and Shield 2 so far just way messier. I'm not quitting, I wanna catch more cuties and there's certainly fun to be had here between the frustrations. I knew I shouldn't have let myself have high expectations but I'm still disappointed. I loved Arceus so I thought they'd kinda learned their lesson after Sw/Sh. If anything they've regressed in terms of stability and making it feel fluid.

Edit: got the day one update a few hours ago. I don't see any improvements yet.

While not surprising, it is disappointing. Just once I would like to not have things spoiled.

@Wilforce Well, you can choose to avoid spoilers It's not hard.

There are a lot of people doing Live on YouTube. A Nintendo game leaking lately has become routine. No wonder third-parties want DRM.

C’mon, Nintendolife, Centro Leaks is well known for being a less than reputable source. It’s no secret that the game is out there being actively played by at least one individual, but please don’t take what Centro Leaks says seriously.

Is it me or no matter what both Nintendo and Sega do their games are GOING to get leaked.
They should probably do a investigation into who’s causing the leaks.

@Thoughts I just didn't want to pay? What's that got to do with looking at the leaked pictures? Here, come closer for a sec so I can tell you....it has Absolutely Nothing to do with it!

I'm thinking both the designs and names are looking on-point this year. There's one family in particular I just instantly fell in love with and fully intend to use.

@SpaceboyScreams
You have played the game??
How??

@Anti-Matter Like the article states, the files are easily accessible online. I pre-ordered the steel book so I'm just giving myself an early "treat" and streaming it to TikTok so people know what they're getting themselves into.

This game, as always, will sell a lot.
But I proudly say that I won't!

I really hope Nintendo's next console is harder to emulate because Switch is a joke when it comes to these kinda leaks.
Better yet would be a law change that makes developing emulation software of any system less than 10 years old illegal.

@SpaceboyScreams So you're saying the emulated game you stole a week early doesn't work as intended?

Isn't a rom going to be buggy? I wouldn't base the entire game off a buggy version. Day one patches are for a reason

@HeeHo "stole" lol I bought the steelbook already, but please keep pretending to be the morality police over my digital property. It's not emulated it's the actual file we'll all be playing on release day minus whatever day one update they'll push, running on my Switch. Like I said, unless the update is 5gb large and includes a few hundred hours' worth of more development time, I wouldn't expect it to fix nearly enough.

@Slinkoy1 if it's running on PC then yes, if it's on your Switch then it's running the same as it'll run for everyone else minus any day one patches. If this mess is successfully patched it'll be the most glorious update I've ever seen.

@HeeHo Nintendo's going to make money hand over fist regardless, it's dumb to bother to get mad about it on their behalf.

@SpaceboyScreams That's why game leaks aren't so bad. Thanks my mate, I'll cancel my preorder for now.

Is it true that there are no skirts that you can wear? Would suck if true.

Leaking Pokemon games ahead od their release at this point feels like public service, na illegal "buyers beware", if you will. Shame it has come to this.

@BenAV If you're like me you can probably somewhat tolerate performance issues in a game that doesn't have much need for precise inputs or reactions as long as you're getting enjoyment from the main mechanic, which I still largely am for the most part. It's frustrating, and many elements reek of laziness, but it's still more Pokemon at the end of the day and I haven't personally cancelled my pre-order after about 10 hours of playing. I don't think you'll have a hard time selling it for at least as much as you paid for it if you try it for a few hours and can't look past the issues.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, is going to deter me from being extremely excited for this game. Its all I can think about. This next 6 days is going to be a TOUGH wait.

I know only barely more than is officially revealed except the starter evos designs and 2 of the past/future pokemon. Im determined to go in as blind as possible

This makes me really sad. Yeah TPC are not short of money by any means, but any game getting leaked before release and is actually being played and shared around by people rubs me the wrong way, and it happens every single time with Pokemon, just who exactly is getting hold of these games? Can I just rock up to my local game store, flitter my eyelashes and say pretty pwease could I buy it now? it's ridiculous.

I've managed to avoid spoilers so far thankfully, I shouldn't have to hide from social media every time because the whole dex is leaked just days before.

Emulation should be used only for games that are stupid hard to get a hold of nowadays (that most of us actually paid for back in the day) like legacy content that Nintendo refuses to sell back to us in any legal manner. That I'm okay with, this not so much.

Buut this is Pokemon we're talking about, it's not like it will affect sales at all, but with other games it surely would. Leak culture is just dumb, just for that 5 mins of fame.

@spottedleaf Same on the 'blindness'. Been avoiding everything possible. Will never understand people's need to know things before they happen. Surprises are nice.

I spoiled myself including a good chunk of a 20 hour live stream and it confirmed my non-excitement for this gen. The way they handled the open world structure is... baffling, and I'll leave it at that. Some things surprised me positively especially near the end of the story, but I'm going to pass on it for now

@CMS_Glalie Yes, I'm holding a squirt gun to people's heads and keeping them from swiping past my stream if they're not interested 🙄 I've gotten so many "thank you for convincing me to cancel my pre-order"s today I lost count, reviews should be out NOW so people know whether or they want to drop their hard-earned cash on this lazy crap ahead of time instead of feeling the regret after it's too late, but if they don't want that info they don't have to have it 😊

No spoilers, but I watched a livestream of the game, and I think I have a new second-favorite Pokémon (Falinks will always be my favorite). Also that ending was bonkers. Like, Kirby mini-boss levels of bonkers.

@Frailbay30 I didn’t say anything about spoilers. I care about the game becoming playable illegally. Incidents like this gives developers a reason to be antagonistic toward content creators and reviewers as they try to plug future leaks.

Hmmm... I just sat behind someone playing it on a plane to Warsaw. It was on an OLED though...

@SpaceboyScreams Some other leakers are saying it's good though? They say there are still performance issues, which they don't like, but they seem to still enjoy it overall?

They also say the story is good. Without any spoiler, do you think the story is good? Is it better than Sword? As I didn't like Sword's writing much.

Oh, but apparently customisation is limited, do you feel that is true?

I'm not saying it is good or isn't good, just what I've been reading and seeing. But they seemed positive overall.

@MarioFan432 The story is better than Sword for sure but that's a pretty low bar. It's all going to be subjective at the end of the day I suppose but the technical issues really deflate a lot of the fun I'd otherwise be having. I would just caution people to wait for a few reviews from people/sites they trust before spending their money, and honestly if you can catch like 20 minutes of someone streaming it (early in the game to avoid spoilers) I'd recommend that too, it really needs to be seen in action to appreciate how rough it is.

@SpaceboyScreams That's good but that's also true.

Yeah, I see a lot of complaints already about performance issues still being there. A lot of complaints on that.

But, they seem dissapointed with that and not saying the game sucks as a whole. They actually mostly seem positive and pleased enough anyway. One said the game was really bad, but most seem positive about the game overall, at the moment anyway.

I can definitely agree about performance issues, as everything I read says that too. But it is all subjective like you said as well, so be interesting to see the reviews coming soon and comments from the marjority of players after release.

If you think it's rough, that's a shame. I'm open to that being the same for me too but yeah, early footage is a good idea, but I'd rather not at the moment, so I'll wait and see what else is said by the reviewers.

I hope the comments that seem positive will be how I feel, I still think I'll have that opinion, but we'll see.

Thanks for the advise and feedback.

@SpaceboyScreams Cool you’ve already played it - I hope the glitches and that will be fixed soon otherwise it seems it’s going to be a pain for when I actually get to play it

It runs like legends: arceus.

I won't spoil anything (but literally the whole dex, movepools, etc are all datamined already if you want to search for them), but it definitely is a step up from SWSH. Its true there isn't a whole lot to do however... 20 minute timer still kills multiplayer, the overworld is basically just running around picking up items you probably never need or want, and performance is... well legends arceus just expect that lol, might be even worse than legends cause when there's multiple NPCs on screen some of them don't properly load the animations and drop to 3 FPS, the whole game doesn't, the specific NPC animation does so you can have a lagging kid next to an admittingly well animated one.

New pokemon designs are eh, again won't go into detail but there's a lot of 'who came up with this' designs that are basically filler, and some decent ones, and alot of them just re-use designs from other mons which if you look at the box legends compared to cyclizard will make a lot more sense what I'm referring to later.

Tera is actually a nice mechanic though, and it is a very pretty game, GF actually did step up a lot on the graphical aspect even if it just looks wii era over SWSH's early gamecube era. They gave all the mons textures and reflection to make them look more accurate.

Balance wise they did actually buff/nerf a lot of stuff, that i'm excited for (stall is basically dead !)

Home will also delete your pokemon's moves when you transfer into scarlet/violet. In other words, if you have a pokemon knowing moves it cant learn in gen 9, it won't keep them, unlike SWSH where you couldn't teach anything toxic you had to transfer.. and they kept it. So basically toxic is reversed exclusively to mostly poison types in gen 9 and stall is basically dead. If you have movesets you're creating in advance before transferring up, don't waste time, just wait or breed them in scarlet and violet instead.

Breeding is.... kinda weird? now multiple eggs will stack in that picnic basket, so you can spawn 20 and pick them all up later, its convenient but having to have the breeding mons in your party means hatching 4 at a time instead of 5 and everything works by "time" rather than "steps".