{"id":3700,"date":"2024-01-05T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T03:30:16","slug":"video-game-pokemon-violet-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/video-game-pokemon-violet-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Pok\u00e9mon Violet (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71hsOkLEP5L._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Violet\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/>Pok\u00e9mon Violet<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2022<br \/>Rating: E<br \/>Time Played: 45+ hours<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m conflicted. <em>Pok\u00e9mon Violet<\/em> is one of those games that would be so much better if they changed one thing. Even though it\u2019s something that doesn\u2019t directly affect the gameplay. Even if all the other mechanics in the game are fun. Sure, I got used to it, but that doesn\u2019t mean I have to be happy about it. Perhaps they should have delayed the game instead of adhering to a strict release schedule. After all, other games have done well by delaying to add that extra layer of polish. Unfortunately, I don\u2019t think anything\u2019s going to change.<\/p>\n<p>Visually, <em>Pok\u00e9mon Violet<\/em> is a tough pill to swallow. All the Pok\u00e9mon models look fantastic, which just makes the look of the rest of the game a disappointment. I don\u2019t think it would have mattered if I experienced more of the game in long shots, but the number of close-up focus moments that show jagged jpeg-artifact textures were too many to ignore. Even though the visuals don\u2019t directly affect the gameplay, they\u2019re frustrating to see. Other games on the same hardware look a lot better, so it\u2019s not necessarily the limitations of the Switch hardware. If only they provided a patch with high-resolution textures, then I\u2019d rate this game much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this visual gripe, I loved a lot of what <em>Pok\u00e9mon Violet<\/em> had to offer. The open-world format was something that was long overdue\u2014including being able to see all the nearby Pok\u00e9mon and decide whether I wanted to fight them. The story (all three parts of it) was superb. All the music was catchy and probably some of the best in the franchise. There were a lot of changes to the standard Pok\u00e9mon formula in this game, and I think most of them worked flawlessly in advancing the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>A fantastic entry in the <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> franchise that suffers from a lack of visual polish, I give <em>Pok\u00e9mon Violet<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> 1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2.jpg 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BMW-the-Critic-v2-640x244.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon VioletYear: 2022Rating: ETime Played: 45+ hours I\u2019m conflicted. Pok\u00e9mon Violet is one of those games that would be so much better if they changed one thing. Even though it\u2019s something that doesn\u2019t directly affect the gameplay. Even if all the other mechanics in the game are fun. Sure, I got used to it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1900],"tags":[3107,2886,3576,3578,2186,1867,3577,8,2388,906,3575],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-video-game","tag-3107","tag-gameplay","tag-generation-ix","tag-graphics","tag-nintendo","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-violet","tag-review","tag-switch","tag-video-game","tag-violet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}