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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet could have been so much more
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s epilogue is a reminder of how much better this generation could have been.
Unlike the smaller schools that appeared in older games, Scarlet and Violet ’s Naranja and Uva Academies were seemingly massive places where students were meant to meet new friends and monsters as part of a nontraditional educational experience built around exploring the outside world. By giving you the ability to take on gym leaders, and progress through the core stories in essentially whichever order you wanted, Scarlet and Violet ’s main game also made it easy for character details and narrative beats to get lost in the mix. But by narrowing its scope to a fateful school trip outside of Paldea, and keeping its story focused mostly on one specific adventure revolving around legendary pokémon, The Teal Mask was able to give us a promising taste of how much more compelling Scarlet and Violet could be with a bit more restraint and refinement.
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