The latest masterpiece of the ninth generation of Nintendo’s signature series “Pokémon” “Pokémon Crimson / Purple” has officially landed on the Nintendo Switch platform on November 18. This long-awaited new work has brought many changes to the entire series in terms of gameplay. It inherits the open world design concept of the series of rumors “Pokémon Legend: Arceus”, allowing players to explore in a vast map, decide on the order of the main missions on your own. However, in terms of overall optimal performance, the development team seems to be a bit behind the conceptual presentation of this work. Although the sequel managed to break franchise records within a few days of its launch, optimization and performance issues fueled much controversy among gamers. And a little earlier this month, Nintendo officially released the first wave of updates for “Pokémon Zhu / Purple”, and promised to take optimization issues seriously.
According to the updated information released by Nintendo on the official website, the latest version 1.1.0 update file of “Pokémon Vermilion / Purple” has corrected the background music that players may encounter when fighting the Four Heavenly Kings and the Grand Champion. In addition, Nintendo confirmed in the description that they have fixed many bugs and other errors in this update. On the other hand, this update officially opened the first season of “Pokémon Vermillion / Purple” online battles.
At the same time, Nintendo officials also promised in a statement that they will continue to work hard to correct the problems that currently exist in the first open world game of the “Pokémon” series, and to improve performance. We would like to apologize to the players for the various problems when Pokemon Vermilion / Purple was released.
“We are aware of issues players may experience that affect game performance. Our aim is always to provide players with the most positive experience through our games, and we would like to apologize for the inconvenience. We will take all feedback from players seriously and continue to work hard to improve this game,” Nintendo officially wrote
For now, Nintendo and the Pokémon Company have not given a detailed schedule for the future update plan of “Pokémon Vermilion / Purple”, but considering the release of version 1.1.0 and the game It was only two weeks apart the official listing, and it was also three weeks behind the first day update file obtained by sneaky players. If Nintendo continues with the same model in the future, gamers may see another wave of updates rolled out in mid-December.
Right after the game was officially launched, players discovered various bugs, errors, and system gaps in “Pokémon Vermilion / Purple”, such as errors that appeared in the game’s multiplayer cooperative battle “Taijing Group Battle” , and the ability to A bug that allows players to increase the hit rate of instant death skills such as “Absolute Zero” in multiplayer mode, along with duplicating props and Pokémon, or using two Joy-Con controllers to speed up movement speed the Wait player.
Due to bugs and performance issues, the game received unsatisfactory reviews from the media and players. So far, both versions of “Pokémon Vermilion / Purple” have received an average media score of 73 points on Metacritic, while player evaluations are 2.9/10 and 3.4/10 respectively. Nevertheless, “Pokémon Vermilion/Purple” still has extremely impressive sales results. Within three days of its launch, it achieved a sales record of 10 million sets worldwide, breaking the historical record of the series and Nintendo Switch.
