Something I find really ironic about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is how, when the games were initially released, a majority of the audience ragged on them (fairly) for being all buggy and rushed; it was obvious that, at the time, Game Freak cut corners in order to get the games released at the promised date.
And then the updates/patches came out, and then the DLCs... And you know what? Honestly? Pokémon Violet has taken Moon's place of my favorite Pokémon games.
You may be wondering why and my answer is simple: the characters- specifically, our "rivals". They have so much personality and depth to them, it's hard not to fall in love with their stories, and those stories had me feeling genuine sympathy for them.
Listening to Arven, Penny, and Nemona's back and forth on our Area Zero trip was just so... endearing, you know? Like it felt like I was listening to real people have a conversation.
Don't even get me started on Kieran and how fascinating and heartbreaking his arc was... ouuughhh my boy. My baby boy. I adore him!!
TL;DR: In my opinion, the character writing in SV was really well done, and I hope it continues improving in the next Pokémon game(s).
P.S. Have two memes because I was having a really hard time figuring out which one was funnier.
thinks very hard about that indigo disk cutscene at crystal pool. how the player character is the catalyst for EVERYTHING in scarlet/violet... both good and bad.
from the discovery of paradox pokemon, the professor's eventual death BC of that discovery, arven losing the only family he has, the ai and paradise protocol continuing to bring in paradox pokemon despite the dangers they present, paldea almost being destroyed by paradox pokemon, everything that happens in kitakami and blueberry academy, finding terapagos and meeting the prof...
like I know it's a kids game and the game is About paradoxes and that professor is theoretically from a different reality, but i feel GUILTY for that alternate reality and all that will come bc I gave the professor the book. so many lives will be shifted and changed bc of that decision. juliana/florian are just KIDS, but god they (and briar, since it her book) just affected the lives of so many people and I just! that's so crazy to me!
I already loved what pokemon has done with multiverses and alternate realities, but scarlet/violet kind of takes it to the next level (at least in terms of fic and art potential - I'm v curious how they incorporate this into the anime and manga)
We’re literally best friends. Fuck off if you don’t like Arven. I’ll rip you apart with my teeth. He called me little buddy so I’d kill for him
that character is calypso btw she’s my standard Pokémon player character. She got isekai’d and came back with new pronouns from hisui. Now he’s even less civil than he was before.
I had massive brain rot over the Pokémon SV DLC part 2 so anyway now I’m inflicting it on all of you too✌️👋👋
My thinking is that ‘dokutaro’ is just a little ghost inside the pink shell, like a peach pit. If it does turn out to be this way the ghost part will probably have some shadowy limbs of some kind (I’m imagining mimikyu/cofagregius). This is speculation based on the leaks by the Riddler Khu on twitter by the way!
I need to know what happened to my boy Kieran pls…
Spoilers for the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Epilogue: Mochi Mayhem under the cut!:
You can't tell me that this whole moment right here was the Pokemon SV writers pointing and laughing at the theories that Kieran and Pecharunt would be in kahoots somehow in the second part of the DLC hahahdhfhfhgh