On November 18th, 2022, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will launch, and you will finally be able to explore Fake Spain on your motorcycle salamander.
The Pokemon franchise’s ambitions are all over the place these days, and I’m excited to see what mishmash of SwSh and Arceus we’re about to get. Scarlet and Violet apparently have a lot more open world shit, you will get to ride a legendary around like a motorcycle. This is what that will look like:
Finally… who are the starters?? Well one of them is Sprigatito, the Weed Cat. Another is Big Hair Donald Duck. The final one is a hot pepper who yells. Adorable.
I am really excited for this one. Everything about it feels much more unhinged than Sword and Shield did. There’s a number of pretty serious mechanics changes, including the ability to fight gyms in any order, a major change to the breeding system where your pokemon bone down at a picnic rather than at a daycare, a plot apparently comprised of three main stories rather than just one gym-battling throughline, and a game-specific mechanic that involves putting a giant crystal crown on your pokemon to make them look like a sparkly queen.
I hope to obliterate my entire holiday season with this. I am going to get Scarlet because I want the dirtbike pokemon real bad. I have not yet decided which of these starters I want and will wait to get spoiled on their final forms before choosing, I think.
Which one are you getting? Will you adopt the Weed Cat? Let us know…
I hope the weed symbolism makes its way to the final evolution of this guy, but knowing Nintendo they won’t have the guts to make it be a bong. It will probably evolve into some kind of tree themed lion. That’s my call
The Scarlet/Violet Pokemon they’ve announced so far are about 50% hideous and 50% cute. Here’s the ugliest one:
I have seen this and it’s deeply baffling… because both of the pokemon stand up on their legs when they stop, it actually makes me wonder if the weird turgid trailers for this game were recorded before the dirtbike pokemon’s bike animation was complete lmao
The reason I want the dirtbike is because the hoverbike legs on the future salamander are terrifying to me
For some reason the backward folded over jet engine legs make me ill haha
I don’t like any of them but I guess the Duck is the coolest. I prefer to start with the fire-types, though, so if I play this I guess I’m stuck with whatever the fuck that dinky dino-ass thing.
Looks like one of the gym leaders is a twitch streamer
Her Pokémon is pointlessly odd… that frog guy’s eyeball-looking bits are actually just big electrodes on the side of its head, and its REAL eyes are the little yellow dots above its mouth. I thought it was cute when I saw pictures of it in passing earlier this week but now I think it is terrifying
Definitely going scarlet because of the hot lady and the dirt bike both. I love the whole starter trio but I’ll probably go with the pepper who looks like someone’s fakemon
I am in love with basically every Pokémon design they’ve revealed so far, they’re really knocking em outta the park.
A bit concerned about some of the design choices they’ve shown so far tho. Mostly the fact that battles appear to just happen right there on the map, health bars popping up over the Pokémon and the battle choices GUI popping up in the bottom right. It’s like the game is embarrassed for you to remember it’s a video game.
Also I’ll hold judgement, FOR NOW, on them making a fucking crafting system for TMs but that sounds like a goddamn nightmare. I do not want to “farm drops” in fucking Pokémon
I’m cautious about this one. There’s stuff I really like and stuff I really hate from what they’ve shown. But I’m a sucker for those mons
Hung out with a bunch of Spaniards this week and they were telling me all the secret Spain Facts about the announced Pokémon games. Apparently this pastry dog:
…and also a food reference of some kind! For some reason I had been thinking of it as “bagel dog” but I was wrong, clearly it is some kind of specific pastry…
