- The latest Pokémon mainline games,
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, released November 18,
and it's Nintendo and Game Freak's first attempt
at a fully open Pokémon experience.
The Washington Post's video-game team
Launcher got copies of the game a week before release
and they were copies that already had
the day-one patch installed.
But right away, we noticed something strange.
The game is a technical mess.
It's got performance and graphics issues
everywhere from frame-rate drops to random pop-ins
to whatever this is.
We played in both TV and handheld modes
on relatively new-model Switches.
Here's a compilation of the craziest technical
snafus that we and other reviewers ran into
with
these
games.