Rating Pokemon Games

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Note: I've only played about four of these games, and those are the ones I'm rating. I'd like to play some more of the spin-off games, I do have one of the Pokemon Dungeons games, but I've barely played that compared to the main line games. I won't be rating the DLCs for SwSh and SV seeing that I haven't played them either. -Pokemon Black Verison 2 and White Verison 2: ~Rating: 9/10 ~Time Beaten in: 24 hours and 48 minutes ~Verison Played: White Verison 2 ~Fastest Speedrun: 3 hours and 9 minutes ~Average Play Time: 34 hours and 30 minutes ~Ah, the first Pokemon game I've ever played. It's very nostalgic to me. I can't remember any specific problems other than the post-game underwater ruins, which I cannot figure out to save my life. I think that it's the right difficulty for starting Pokemon, and it very well helped me later on to beat other Pokemon games in less time. The story was interesting, I wish it had a bit more to the story but it was overall good. (Poor Hugh's sister's Purrloin though D':) -Sword and Shield: ~Rating: 8/10 ~Time Beaten in: 15 hours and 30 minutes ~Verison Played: Sword ~Fastest Speedrun: 4 hours and 4 minutes ~Average Play Time: 26 hours and 16 minutes ~For some reason this game was very nostalgic for me. The pacing was great, I only needed to do one grinding session and it was towards the start, the gyms and battles were on the easier side seeing how I only lost a total of three times, once to each Kabu, Raihan, and Leon (though the why the gyms were much easier could be that this was the fourth pokemon game I've fully played and I owe a pokemon handbook as well and I memorized type matchups). I love Hop, kind of felt bad for beating him, my guy should have gone with the type advantage though, I'm not a fan of the rival type advantage curve, in my opinion, it makes you stronger, and you have to think through your battle when you're up against a rival with type advantage. It was a very chill game. The story wasn't the greatest, I wish that it was more thoroughly done, it wasn't the most compelling in my opinion. I wish that there was more story to it if it's going to be low quality, seeing that the fastest speed run was slightly over 4 hours. I guess there is 100%ing it which takes over a hundred hours, but I really don't want to spend a hundred hours trying to fully complete a game, I'd rather spend more time digesting a good 7-hour game (in terms of speedrunning, obviously it'd take a lot longer for the average person) or spent about 4 hours digesting a good story. -Legends: Arceus ~Rating: 9/10 ~Time Beaten in: (I haven't beaten it yet, however there's just finishing up the Pokedex and beating Arceus for me) ~Verison Played: There is no other version of the game ~Fastest Speed Run: 3 hours and 45 minutes ~Average Play Time: 25 hours and 30 minutes ~I absolutely love that you don't have to battle to beat the game, it's just some good old-fashioned Pokemon catching, I would greatly prefer if the current Pokemon games were more formatted like this, really the most annoying part is how tedious it is to fill out the Pokedex. AND INGO, INGO MY GUY FROM THE BATTLE SUBWAY IN BLACK AND WHITE GAMES, FABULOUS, my only issues with it is Arceus just leaving you stranded in time and the whole Ingo in the past thing, that doesn't quite make sense to me how he's in two places in time (it's probably similar to the Ruby Red Trilogy I'm guessing, it's also about a time traveler and she accidentally meets her future self in the past at some point during the series). Other issues I have with it is that the fall damage is increasingly annoying like I can fall from a 10-foot drop and just lose half of my hard-earned items. Then the boss battles are just way too hard at certain points, it took me a good 40 tries over a week or so just to beat the Arcanine boss battle. The graphics are decent and I enjoy just trying to fill the Pokedex out though it's tedious as hell. -Scarlet and Violet ~Rating: 6/10 ~Time Beaten in: 30ish hours ~Verison Played: Violet ~Fastest Speed Run: 5 hours and 19 minutes ~Average Play Time: 25-30 hours ~The story is great don't get me wrong but there is so much glitching and lag that the story doesn't make up for. I'd say that it's S-Tier for Pokemon games. I do enjoy the fact that you can fight any gym, titan, or Team Star base at any point and that it'll adjust the leveling based on your point in the game. I'd have to say that the hardest gym was the Ice-Type gym, it took me around 26 tries to beat the gym leader there. (Then again I didn't have any fire-types on me that I could use and I'm pretty sure that it has the highest difficulty). The towns and Pokemon took so long to load at times. The story is worth trying to complete even through the lagging and glitches, but I wouldn't say the story completely makes up for all the lagging and glitching to give it a rating higher than 6 out of 10.