As I grew up watching Pikachu animations since I was a child, I didn’t officially get into the game until the 2019 “Pokemon: Sword/Shield”. After the game started pre-sale, I immediately bought the physical cassette and experienced it.

As the orthodox sequel to the ninth generation of Pokémon, "Pokémon: Zhu/Purple" was finally officially released last Friday!

As I grew up watching Pikachu animation, I didn’t officially get into the game until 2019’s “Pokemon: Sword/Shield”. After the game started pre-sale, I bought the physical cassette and experienced it.

draws on the excellent system of the previous generation of "Pokemon: Arceus". This generation of Pokemon focuses on the popular "open world" gameplay in the past two years. Players can explore freely in the Pedia region composed of snow-capped mountains, deserts, lakes, caves, and grasslands. They encounter various Pokemons on the road and interact with various NPCs.

Picture source: Padia Region

As shown in the cartoon, humans and Pokémon coexist in harmony, which is the closest Pokémon world in everyone's ideal state.

However, as the developer of the "Pokemon " series, gamefreak still paints a good-looking cake for players...

Although this game has made great progress compared to previous generations in the gameplay system, especially for new players, such as Pokemon can automatically add points after upgrading, the design of Ming Lei encountering enemies, three story lines, relatively open exploration mode, and newly added "titanium crystallization" ability, etc.

However, the game's optimization problems can be described as disasters. Serious bug problems such as frame drops, lags, and model penetration basically plague all players who buy it. How far is the disaster of

? Among the 313 reviews of the M site on the external network scoring platform, 242 players gave bad reviews, and and 0 scores accounted for the majority. The final total score was only 2.6 points. The reasons for players who gave bad reviews are almost the same. The game optimization frame rate is very bad, which greatly affects the experience.

Someone also shared their refund process in the Pokémon section, and it is recommended that other players also go for refunds.

even on Weibo , hot searches on related topics are all discussing bugs and frame drops... What are the problems of

? For example, the magical beast Pokémon, which is featured in this game, will meet the protagonist at the beginning, and can transform into a player's mount in the later stage, holding you to the world and into the sea, but suddenly you will be invisible. We can't learn this trick.

Image source: Bilibili

Some players will also encounter model (the phenomenon of models in the game superimposed on each other) and accidentally fell into the pit...

Image source: Bilibili

Related bug videos, any search on the Internet, there are a lot of them, and there are no duplicates.

Image source: Bilibili

However, based on the real experience of myself and my friends who bought games around me, some of these bug videos rumored online were in the sneak-out version that was accidentally leaked. The most common problems encountered in the game are the problems of lag, frame drops, and the possible accidental loss of archives. (must save more manually)

is the most important thing to care about. After all, this is 2022. If you don’t ask for more improvements in the picture quality of Pokémon, the minimum fluency should be guaranteed...

But no matter how fierce netizens and players scold, as the "world's number one game IP", it is still very powerful. The profits brought to gamefreak every year are definitely hundreds of millions of dollars. It can be said that you can make money with your eyes closed.

Image source: Just launched on October 28th, the official Chinese simplified card

According to gameindustry, "Pokemon: Zhu/Purple" is the most-selling game in the UK this year, 4% higher than "FIFA 23".

In the entire Pokémon series, the physical box version of "Pokémon: Zhu/Zi" also ranks second in history for the first time (the digital version may be the first) , second only to 3DS "Pokémon: Sun/Month".

is a bad thing. After the game optimizes the gameplay mechanism, coupled with the "open world" gameplay, it is fun but really fun.

must be taken by gamefreak. You cannot use the excuse of not being able to use technical skills to perfunctory fans and players around the world.

Before reproducing (remade) "Pokemon: Jingcan Diamond/Bright Pearl", wasn't it miserable enough to be scolded?

Also players joked that if you don’t do it well, you can partner Tencent to help you do it, which is better than you.

Image source: The mobile game "Pokemon Assembly" made by Tencent

For an old game IP that has a history of 26 years, fans' purchase and support are trust, but it is definitely not a reason for you to be perfunctory.

Hurry to fix the bug and frame drop problem, otherwise is a hot IP, if you keep leveraging your parents and not seeking innovation, sooner or later, sales will be overturned... (Pokemon's IP is shared by Nintendo and gamefreak)