The first Pokémon game on Nintendo Switch 2 features night-time brawling in a pastiche of Paris, as turn-based battles are ditched in favour of a brand new combat system.

These things are hard to calculate, but it’s often suggested that Pokémon is the biggest media franchise on the planet. Which makes it very curious that all the 3D games (i.e. everything since 2018’s Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!) look like mid-budget indie titles. 2022’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus was the first concerted effort to make a modern, fully 3D, open world adventure and yet, on a technical level, it was an amateurish mess.

Things only got a little better for Scarlet and Violet (the most recent mainline entries, released that same year) and so even the most ardent fans have been struggling to remain opt

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