Sometimes..the impression it gives is that only Nintendo has access to all the development tools on its consoles. It's like Nintendo doesn't give access to all the tools to other studios. It's just an impression. But an impression that grows every day.

Wow, a 7? I read the whole review and it seemed to be building up to an 8 (9 if they were feeling generous). Gamefreak really needs to hire some new developers. The old guard at the company clearly don't know what they're doing from a technical standpoint. A billion dollar franchise like Pokemon deserves better. Sword/Shield was hardly a technical powerhouse, but they looked nice and played well. Game Freak should have reserved their lofty ambitions for the next generation of hardware rather than releasing such an underwhelming début into open world gameplay.Dreamcaster-X can some people please stop generalizing critism? Please... This is sad at this point. More than one comment here than have more than valid complaints. Nintendo Life’s resident horror fanatic, when he’s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from Motorhead to BB King. I'll be waiting until Christmas. Hopefully a patch or 2 comes out by then to fix some of these technical issues Jireland92 Game Freak is part of the Pokemon Company, in which Nintendo has a big stake in. So Nintendo actually has indirect control over Game Freak if they want to and should after this latest disaster of a game. With this and the Splatoon 3 edition OLED models being released, the chances of a pro are getting slimmer all the time.

Which is a shame really. I have a feeling user comments are going to be broken down to, those who can cope with the problems and stay positively overall anyway, those who can't cope with the performance issues and it has to be a bad game for them, and those in-between these two sides. Pokemon needs more dev time and less versions. These games used to be auto-buy for me but I'm too old to spend 60 dollars on a game that can't even hit 30fps. Thanks for the honest review. Man I have no idea how this got a worse score than Sword and Shield on here. Plus if the game showed promise for the future, then Sonic Frontiers should of gotten a higher score as well. Review scores don't really affect if I'm gonna get a game completely, but pointing out fallacies is a storied past time for me lol A Pokemon game that plays more or less like a Pokemon game, exactly what real Pokemon fans want. I can't wait.

johnvboy No idea how I’ll rate it just yet, but I know I’m forgiving with technical performance stuff, or else I never would’ve liked Bethesda. Lol. I gave Sword/Shield an 8/10, the Gen 4 remakes a 7/10, and Arceus a 9.5/10. I’m sort of expecting I’ll review this one on the higher side because of my forgiveness for that for the sake of feeling childlike wonder, but who knows? At the very least, it’s simply gotta be better than the Gen 4 remakes.