It is time for us to go back to the future of Pokémon! Students Max Roberts and Logan Moore study open world experimentation alongside Professor Chris Compendio. Can a mainline Pokémon adventure let players do anything or has Game Freak cooked up a paradox of a game?

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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet * Developer - Game Freak * Platform - Nintendo Switch * Release Date - November 18, 2022 * Game Director - Shigeru Ohmori * Producers - Akira Kinashi, Toyokazu Nonaka, Takanori Sowa, and Kenji Endo * Composers - Minako Adachi, Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Hiromitsu Maeba, Teruo Taniguchi, Hitomi Satō, and Toby Fox

Metacritic - 72/100

Links * Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Wikipedia * The Living Dex * Homeward Bound * Chris' Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Review * Digital Foundry Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Performance Review * Soundtrack + YouTube

This episode was originally recorded on December 30, 2022.

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