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I am so glad I waited to play Pokémon Scarlet and Violet on Switch 2
The Pokémon Company is no longer asleep at the Switch.
I know it's nostalgia talking but I entered the series as a kid with Red and Blue, and going from those to Yellow, to Gold and Silver, then Crystal - the best one - felt like I was a frontiersman leading scouts into the new world. I don't quite feel as enamoured as I did when I played Gold and Silver for the first time, but then I think that spark of child-like wonder in me is dead forever, buried under 20 years of student loan debt and letters about getting emergency taxed on my paychecks. But it comes at the cost of all the stuff that made Pokémon feel like a 'forever game' when I was younger: gym rematches (best implemented in HeartGold/SoulSilver), secret superbosses ( Cynthia remains a series highlight), and sniffing out hidden Legendary 'mon.
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