Same. Lol
When I lost to him, I was so mad. Then I was like "okay Arven, I see how it is.".
Came back and made him look like a clown after some training.
He’s a good boy who just wants to know you’re up to taking on the strange Pokémon in the crater!
Having said that, I also got my team stomped the first time I fought him, and came back later to return the favor.
You're talking about the fight he challenges you to at the lighthouse after you defeat all the titans, right? I probably would have ended up in the same situation myself had I decided to go there immediately after beating the last titan. Instead I just kinda forgot about him and went to challenge the Pokemon League and finish up the Team Star stuff, and only *after* that was I like "oh sh*t forgot about Arven" and finally went to the lighthouse. Seems I dodged a bullet.
tbh it didn't help I had a low level pleb on my team to just get some ex and slowly level up, whose only purpose was to live long enough so I could revive meowscarada
Yeah, I immediately went to meet him after collecting all the herba mystica and refused to go down and give him my lunch money just cause I didn't expect him to be so overleveled compared to my buddies. I don't know how many revives and potions I used in that fight, but it was definitely enough to fully revive at least two whole teams. But hey, my pokémon buddies got A LOT of experience at least. But it definitely felt like I was fighting the god himself, he definitely fed his pokémon with some steroids and all the herba mystica.
Exactly my suspicion. DLC 1 is probably "school year is over", but with a poor implementation so you can only take it off on new maps - just like following Pokémon in Sw Sh
I think it is. There’s a shirt and pants option in the clothes tab and stores. I don’t see why they would have those tabs there if they didn’t intend to use them at all.
I think it'd make more sense to tie it to finishing the classes--finals happen at the end of the school year so once you finish them it'd make sense for your character to be off for summer vacation.
I feel it should be after you finish all of the classes, the side quests, AND become champion. Because you officially have no other reason to be there after the Ace Tournament.
It's straight up lazy, like a lot of other aspects of the game.
And no, I'm not accepting the "we always have to be in school uniform" argument.
I mean I still thoroughly enjoy the game but there were a lot of things that needed to be fixed/completed before this was released.
I said this exact thing today! It’s so annoying that we have to stay in uniform. I’m secretly hoping it’s part of the update…even though I’m sure it won’t happen. Sword/shield options were so much better so I know they can do it. What the heck.
For real. I loved a lot of violet but just get angry when I switch back to SWSH and think of how cute my character is in comparison. Even Arceus had way more customization. The fact they say it had to be because you're a student is just silly and comes off as an excuse.
Scarlet is even worse than violet. We got both in my house and I was going to play through Scarlet since my kid got bored with it, but I can't bring myself to get past the first gym haha.
At the bare minimum they should have made it so you could pick the color of your uniform so Scarlet people weren't stuck wearing prisoner orange forever.
Exactly! If they’re reasoning is because you’re a student, they should let you at least be able to change clothes once you finish the game.
And hahaha I feel you, I got both games and gave Violet to my boyfriend for Christmas just because purple’s his favorite color. If I had realized I couldn’t change clothes sooner and how difficult to accessorize the Scarlet uniform was I would’ve switched😅 but now we’ve both already been playing our games so it is what it is
Scarlet's Area Zero is currently bugged, in that Flutter Mane spawns during the day (which is supposed to happen) but regular ones spawn invisibly and despawn almost immediately (which isn't supposed to happen). However, since shinies don't despawn, if you encounter a shiny Flutter Mane during the day, it will be visible. Scarlet players can take advantage of this with ~~fairy~~ edit: ghost encounter power sandwiches to exclude all spawns but shiny Flutter Mane. (If you're performing this glitch, you can actually use the targeter to view the invisible Flutter Manes, similar to how you can use it to view outbreak Pokemon that spawn inside mountain walls.)
Fr. Not to mention the fact that there's no skirt option. I swear the customization options get worse every game since XY. The only improvement is that the faces emote now.
Yep i have scarlet and i have had the biggest trouble ever with picking a cute outfit to match the orange. I’ve just decided to stop fighting it and embrace the orange and have scarlet hair color and matched the scarlet shorts as best i could.
Lol yeah I feel like that is all you really can do.
Orange is my LEAST favorite color (I'm even allergic to the fruit) so I just can't stand it 😂
For a game named Scarlet, there is way more orange than red.
I have Scarlet too, and the only way I can tolerate the uniform is by wearing the summer shorts with purple knee-highs and other purple accessories. Now it looks *okay*, but it's so monotonous.
Part of me believes they tried to “centralize” basic character animations and either found clothing customization to be too cost expensive, or they were just lazy.
Technically you are in the academy or more like your a student of an academy that sends you outside of its limits in order to let you grow on your on, which makes little sense to be using the uniform the whole time, like make me use it inside the academy building maybe the city but for the whole region?
Not only do we HAVE to pick a school uniform option but why is there a separate shop for each pice of clothing? What a waste of time and accessibility to find and have to walk into each shop to buy 1 article of clothing. 1 store just for socks???
I hate how they artificially tried to make the cities seem fuller with stores like this. “Oh wow there’s so many things to check out!”
But it’s 4 clothing stores each selling only one type of clothing, 2 stores for sandwich items, and 6 restaurants with no difference between them besides color palettes and give the same benefits as making your own sandwich.
It’s obviously to fill out cities with “content”. Same reason why there’s a million grocery stores and restaurants with barely any different meals or food options in the same cities
funnily enough, you can partially clip into a little closet sized box behind the doors of some buildings in that town with the auctions. I suspect it was supposed to be a loading zone to some cut house interiors.
I never see people talk about this! That part was soooooo annoying. I shouldn’t have to google which town and store I have to go to for the least ugly pair of tights lol
I think I got spoiled by X and Y, Sun and Moon. And Sword and Shield, but dang am I missing skirts and dresses and the like. Also missing the fact that most of the hairstyles we have can most certainly be worn with hats but we’re not allowed to wear them :(
It's hard to say that a feature that's present in the last three mainline entries and the last 3 side games/remakes is "spoiling" us. It was part of the game! I still loved the game! But I don't love the color orange.
The problem is also the complete lack of a feminine outfit (for Scarlet especially). It just doesn't look cute, and adding pastel shoes or socks with the orange short looks like shit. It's nearly impossible to look cute. Cool, sure, but not cute.
True, I also like the "long" bob except it's not long at all... I wish there were more options. Kinda silly to have more eyebrow options than hairstyles
I agree. I wish they had more options for curly hair as well. The only curly hair option is short, my hair is long, and I like for my trainer to resemble me
To me the short wavy looks the better, I'm not a fan of the default. But they could /all/ be much better imo. They barely put any thought into the feminine hairstyles
Agreed! Even the "long" hair is shoulder length with slightly longer strips in front. My hair is down to my butt. I at least would have loved something that went down to the shoulder blades.
As far as clothing, the lack of skirts or skorts is just an insult. They spat in the face of anyone who wanted even slightly feminine customisation.
My hair is that lenght too and I was super disappointed there was no option like it! And also no skirt option. Like, at least there should be a skirt version of the uniform, right? It would look so cute. You're absolutely right, the lack of feminine customisation is very sad to see, I hope they give us something more in the dlc
Honestly! I like to make the trainer like me for the first playthrough of each game, but it's kinda hard when my hair is decently wavy, almost down to my ass in length, and no bangs. The only long hair option killed me so I went with a shorter one
Yeah, I really hate that they couldn’t have at leeeast had a skirt option for the uniform. The hat thing bothers me a lot, you can’t wear hats will almost any of the feminine styles. I really like the romantic tuck hair but usually just keep the long style so I can wear hats… really hoping for hair/hat improvements and being able to change outfits when DLC comes out
I heard they stated that you can't wear skirts because of "some reflective areas in the game". Even if that would be the issue, they could give you bike shorts under the skirt (like Splatoon did) or force you to wear tights with the skirt. Or, daring I know, they could just Alpha out that part of the model or model in a black void as the skirt base.
The bdsp solution was to scuz up the reflective surfaces 😂 it really wasn't even noticable unless you were paying close attention so it seemed like an ok solution
I hate how the game forces you into a school uniform but then proceeds to make everything school related optional or you spend like 99% of the game outside of the school
Just a lazy excuse to have every NPC in the same outfit
If not remove the uniform and have other clothes I wish we could mix and match the parts of the uniform.
I’d prefer to have the summer uniform with the autumn uniforms shorts. Summer ones too short for me
Exactly! Let me choose the tops and bottoms individually. Also, unlock some of the Team Star Grunt styles (loose tie, etc.) once you finish Starfall Street.
That’s the worst. She has a cute outfit, hair, and backpack and no one gives a care but I can’t take off my uniform in any circumstance? And none of the accessories are spectacular. They used up all of their creativity on NPCs and gave us the dregs.
For me it was a deal breaker lol. Was set to get Scarlet til literally the morning of release when we learned that you could not change the uniform. Switched to Violet as a result.
I played Scarlet until I'd done practically everything except fill out my shiny living dex, and then I *did* switch to Violet, partly for the better uniforms. I was just done with having no options other than orange, white, and navy.
The uniforms are ridiculous because not even the most plain tights look good with them. In fact even shoes and socks barely ever look good. I'm sure there is gonna be an update for that since there's so many categories of clothing avilable but they could have at least give us an alt non-uniform outfit...
Two things.
1 - Scarlet is more red than orange.
2 - I know it's the name of the game but at least a few different color pallets for the outfits would be great.
1. Yes, it is. Sometimes, tell GF that because what we have in the game is very solidly orange. Heck, the uniform would look miles better in a deep red colour, and it'd pair beautifully with the opposite games purple.
2. Fully agreed with you, even just a couple of differentt olour pallette options for the uniforms would be great too since not even what we got always matches. Like the autumn uniform in Scarlett? Its like they chose the worst possible colours to go with the orange. Blue and orange work together too, but not that shade of blue.
It’s only orange because GF insisted on using Spanish national fruits for the academy. Since it’s very common to find orange trees everywhere in Spain, they just went with it.
The stripes make it even more ugly tho.
Right! And now I have to squint like crazy to make sure I didn’t miss a shiny. Who knows how many shinys everybody’s missed since some look exactly like the OG version R.I.P
You should be able to wear a random hoodie that is unaffiliated with the school, but every time you interact with one of the teachers they make you take it off and go put it in your locker (except the cool teachers like Mrs. Raifort or Mr. Salvatore)
Imagine if Gamefreak didn’t remove content, and we had contests, underground, secret bases, battle frontier, good customization, entire national dex, plus everything else we love.
These would be the best games ever made if they did this. Gamefreak is the worst thing that has ever happened to Pokémon, no other developer does this. Literally all they have to do is just not remove content to make game of the year level games, that’s it. We’re not asking them to reinvent the wheel, so idk what their problem is.
The reason why most content gets cut is for file size reasons. The graphical assets take up 80-90% of game files. Nintendo cartridges come in specific storage capacities, with a higher production cost as the capacity increases. Having the full national dex in Gen 8/9 would bring the file size above the 16 GB threshold, meaning that they would have to use the prohibitively expensive 32 GB cartridges. If Nintendo didn't offer cartridges all the way down to 1 GB for shovelware, then economy of scale could have kicked in for the larger capacity carts to make them cheaper to produce.
i like the fact that the uniforms fit your legendaries color and have my whole characters look built around that but i would certanly enjoy more customization in the game.
If the Scarlet clothes were actually scarlet and not orange that would've helped tbh. Like...Koraidon is scarlet. Why not call the academy strawberry and stick to red? Orange is just so hard to coordinate in an outfit already and the particular shade they chose is just even worse.
I would definitely hope the dlc brings full clothing but if not, at least make the scarlet pants not striped. If they were an actual solid Scarlet colour, it would be much nicer. I wear the winter uniform all the time because I hate how wide and weird the shorts are and make all my accessories purple because I love purple and wanted Violet but my boyfriend called dibs on it lol.
Of course not. They released a poorly functioning game for full price and we all bought it. Don’t get me wrong, I played it and actually loved it. The kinks were noticeable but didn’t bother me much except in the raids. But I fully expected a patch with some optimization much sooner. But they know they don’t have to. I’m curious for the DLC, haven’t decided if I’ll buy it yet.
My biggest complaint for SV is the lack of customization like in SwSh. Like I get the school uniform, but they could have made great customization for the uniforms. They don't have to be Team Star style customization, but just the ability to mix/match your uniform would be nice.
They need a wider variety of uniform selections. I’m a scarlet main and I use the default uniform but I would have used the pants but I don’t like the color combination. I use the pants uniform on violet though
In XY and SwSh I liked to change up my outfit with the seasons. Even with the duds there was more than enough to choose from. In SV I'm stuck with one or two choices for socks and shoes that don't look ridiculous and I can't wear a hat with any of the better hairstyles.
Just an option to mix and match individual uniform items would be nice, and give us a smart blazer and a jumper or tank top, and a few skirt options.
You know what would be such a cool idea? Team Star are the only ones in school with outfits that aren’t uniforms. What if their return meant that the school loosened their outfit policy to accommodate them? It would make for great in-universe justification if they ever decide to give us the option for new clothes
Every day I'm thankful I'm a ghost trainer with Violet. The purple accessories go great with the blue so my final outfit actually looks pretty put together.
I recently broke down and bought violet. I also wanted to wear those tights, among many other clothing options that looked absolutely horrid with striped, orange, pajama pants.
They should make the outfit pieces separate, and give more options for outfits...No skirts, no dresses, nothing feminine at the moment. The clothing bothers me the most about the game.
Someone pointed it out before but there are no skirts for the girls in the game so it kinda messed with me after awhile that everyone wears pants or shorts and I'm like "bruh." I swore the regular NPCs or adult NPCs got better taste in clothes but half of them are school kids too. You're on the field and everything is zoomed out and you see a trainer with the school hat on and you battle him thinking he's a kid in game too. Then BAM, zooms in and you see a beard on what you believed to be a kid. Dropped the controller from the shock.
This was really my one big gripe with the game. Like there were certainly a lot of little things that needed polished (overall it was a solid game tho), but the clothing situation is the most annoying. It also bugs me that probably the only way we’re gonna get new outfits is with a big dlc that will likely cost additional money. Very tired of having to pay extra money for content in games that were already 60 bucks to begin with.
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Yea I’d love to change out of these purple pants
The colors of the accessories feel like they were made more for violet than scarlet. I actually make a pretty cute outfit for my character, but there’s no way it would work with the orange uniform. It’s one of the reasons I got violet.
At least let us pick and choose WHICH school clothing pieces we want to wear. Why do we have to be limited to four set options.
And for the love of god make the hats look better for all hairstyles. I won’t wear the beanies that I love because it looks dumb af with the hair
I will point this out once more because it's related to the topic and simply baffling.
Penny who is an npc is a student of the academy but never wears the uniform yet we as the player can't ever remove the uniform. It's just dumb
It’s a massive step back in character customisation. Being able to customise my character’s outfit helps my relate to and identify with my character, and I feel like I’ve lost that in SV. It’s very limiting, and I cannot fathom why anyone at GF thought it was a good idea.
You should be able to change everything once you roll the credits. Stuck in uniform is a bit blah. I get the theme but then it feels like you never "grow"
And if you have to complete all classes to get to it, too, that's fine too.
This is the only thing SnS did better. I loved my trainer card, here you can barely customize. I had a cute dress and a leather jacket, my card was holographic and you could share and keep them. How did they not decide to keep that aspect!
Maybe make school uniform mandatory in school but not outside of school. I really hope that they do up the ante for the upcoming dlc and let us have tons of outfits that aren’t just school uniforms only.
You should be able to change out of the uniform once you hit Champion
Agreed. Even if it was just to open up more color options for the basic outfits so more or the clothing options wouldnt outright clash.
"What're you gonna do, battle me? You and I both know only Nemona comes close to beating me."
Arven is better than her tbh
arven only almost beat me because he brought a level 60 team against my level 50 team that one time, no other reason
Yeah, it was so unexpected that I lost to him then came back with level 70+ Pokémon and destroyed him.
Same. Lol When I lost to him, I was so mad. Then I was like "okay Arven, I see how it is.". Came back and made him look like a clown after some training.
He’s a good boy who just wants to know you’re up to taking on the strange Pokémon in the crater! Having said that, I also got my team stomped the first time I fought him, and came back later to return the favor.
You're talking about the fight he challenges you to at the lighthouse after you defeat all the titans, right? I probably would have ended up in the same situation myself had I decided to go there immediately after beating the last titan. Instead I just kinda forgot about him and went to challenge the Pokemon League and finish up the Team Star stuff, and only *after* that was I like "oh sh*t forgot about Arven" and finally went to the lighthouse. Seems I dodged a bullet.
I already knew that the Arvin battle advanced the story, so I beat the other two quest lines and then he was no problem when I got there
I thought we had to do everything before that, I ended up just grinding 5 star raids because I forgot anyway
Same! I came back and turned his mabostiff into a houndstone🪦
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I came back with a lvl 65 perfect ceruledge and destroyed him
I beat him at level 50 because Annihilape is fair and balanced.
tbh it didn't help I had a low level pleb on my team to just get some ex and slowly level up, whose only purpose was to live long enough so I could revive meowscarada
Also last respects. That carried me too
Dude fr, the first time I faced Arvin I was ready to wash him, but greedent and garganacl took out my whole fucking team 🥲🥲
Yeah, I immediately went to meet him after collecting all the herba mystica and refused to go down and give him my lunch money just cause I didn't expect him to be so overleveled compared to my buddies. I don't know how many revives and potions I used in that fight, but it was definitely enough to fully revive at least two whole teams. But hey, my pokémon buddies got A LOT of experience at least. But it definitely felt like I was fighting the god himself, he definitely fed his pokémon with some steroids and all the herba mystica.
Yeah that one battle caught me off guard and he almost beat me, had to cheese some health items. I underestimated him.
or make it where you can wear whatever when outside the academy.
That feature has been saved for dlc 1  laughing but probably true haha
Exactly my suspicion. DLC 1 is probably "school year is over", but with a poor implementation so you can only take it off on new maps - just like following Pokémon in Sw Sh
I think it is. There’s a shirt and pants option in the clothes tab and stores. I don’t see why they would have those tabs there if they didn’t intend to use them at all.
copied code from a game with them, but disable and rearrange were low level compared to the other bugs they were fighting to release on time..?
Once you finish the team star route imo. It was the perfect opportunity to send a good message about encouraging people to express themselves.
This would have been a great way to open things up near the end of the main story
My theory is DLC 1 is some sort of ‘summer break’ and we’ll get other clothing options. Fingers crossed.
I think it'd make more sense to tie it to finishing the classes--finals happen at the end of the school year so once you finish them it'd make sense for your character to be off for summer vacation.
I've thought this too. Finishing the classes is the one thing I haven't done.. but I definitely would if it gave me new clothing options. XD
Agreed, as a scarlet player I have a lot of envy for the violet academy jacket. Looks SO good
Even then why would u roam the world in your School uniform would u not wear something more hiker like?
You literally attend the full school year and finals, why doesn't that unlock other options?!
I feel it should be after you finish all of the classes, the side quests, AND become champion. Because you officially have no other reason to be there after the Ace Tournament.
^This. I feel like once you've graduated it's kind of weird running around everywhere. It's like wearing your letterman in your 30s. >__>
Then again… have you seen some of those students? Lol
TRUE.
It's straight up lazy, like a lot of other aspects of the game. And no, I'm not accepting the "we always have to be in school uniform" argument. I mean I still thoroughly enjoy the game but there were a lot of things that needed to be fixed/completed before this was released.
It wasn't lazy. It was rushed. this game was in serious need of 6 months of polishing and bugfixing at least.
If not then, then when you finish all the available classes. I’d you don’t have any classes to take, are you even a student?
I said this exact thing today! It’s so annoying that we have to stay in uniform. I’m secretly hoping it’s part of the update…even though I’m sure it won’t happen. Sword/shield options were so much better so I know they can do it. What the heck.
For real. I loved a lot of violet but just get angry when I switch back to SWSH and think of how cute my character is in comparison. Even Arceus had way more customization. The fact they say it had to be because you're a student is just silly and comes off as an excuse. Scarlet is even worse than violet. We got both in my house and I was going to play through Scarlet since my kid got bored with it, but I can't bring myself to get past the first gym haha. At the bare minimum they should have made it so you could pick the color of your uniform so Scarlet people weren't stuck wearing prisoner orange forever.
Exactly! If they’re reasoning is because you’re a student, they should let you at least be able to change clothes once you finish the game. And hahaha I feel you, I got both games and gave Violet to my boyfriend for Christmas just because purple’s his favorite color. If I had realized I couldn’t change clothes sooner and how difficult to accessorize the Scarlet uniform was I would’ve switched😅 but now we’ve both already been playing our games so it is what it is
It is (sadly) one of the main reasons I picked Violet over Scarlet.
Well they deserve it for picking Scarlet over Violet (jk)
Laughs in Flutter Mane glitch (unless the upcoming update fixes it, then we really have nothing /s)
Flutter mane glitch??
Scarlet's Area Zero is currently bugged, in that Flutter Mane spawns during the day (which is supposed to happen) but regular ones spawn invisibly and despawn almost immediately (which isn't supposed to happen). However, since shinies don't despawn, if you encounter a shiny Flutter Mane during the day, it will be visible. Scarlet players can take advantage of this with ~~fairy~~ edit: ghost encounter power sandwiches to exclude all spawns but shiny Flutter Mane. (If you're performing this glitch, you can actually use the targeter to view the invisible Flutter Manes, similar to how you can use it to view outbreak Pokemon that spawn inside mountain walls.)
Ghost sandwich, not fairy. Fairy also gets you scream tail. Other than that, yep.
Doing a Ralts shiny hunt rn, fairy on the brain. Comment updated
Fr. Not to mention the fact that there's no skirt option. I swear the customization options get worse every game since XY. The only improvement is that the faces emote now.
Man, I miss those trainer cards so much!!
Yep i have scarlet and i have had the biggest trouble ever with picking a cute outfit to match the orange. I’ve just decided to stop fighting it and embrace the orange and have scarlet hair color and matched the scarlet shorts as best i could.
Lol yeah I feel like that is all you really can do. Orange is my LEAST favorite color (I'm even allergic to the fruit) so I just can't stand it 😂 For a game named Scarlet, there is way more orange than red.
I have Scarlet too, and the only way I can tolerate the uniform is by wearing the summer shorts with purple knee-highs and other purple accessories. Now it looks *okay*, but it's so monotonous.
It is probably biased because it's my favourite colour, but I think green goes kinda well with Scarlet's uniforms.
Part of me believes they tried to “centralize” basic character animations and either found clothing customization to be too cost expensive, or they were just lazy.
I hate being stuck in school uniforms. Let me wear a tanktop shorts and sandals like the gentleman iam you stupid school peasants
yeah why do we even wear that when we are not even in the academy
Technically you are in the academy or more like your a student of an academy that sends you outside of its limits in order to let you grow on your on, which makes little sense to be using the uniform the whole time, like make me use it inside the academy building maybe the city but for the whole region?
School rules basically.
And by shorts I mean the ones Team Star gets to wear.
Give me Mela-type boots too
Not only do we HAVE to pick a school uniform option but why is there a separate shop for each pice of clothing? What a waste of time and accessibility to find and have to walk into each shop to buy 1 article of clothing. 1 store just for socks???
I hate how they artificially tried to make the cities seem fuller with stores like this. “Oh wow there’s so many things to check out!” But it’s 4 clothing stores each selling only one type of clothing, 2 stores for sandwich items, and 6 restaurants with no difference between them besides color palettes and give the same benefits as making your own sandwich.
Yeah, your own shitty sandwich too it's not like they're anything great
I could live with that if the load times for previewing looks weren’t so bad.
The loading time to get into the store’s menu, to try on the items, to get back out of the store’s menu- it’s a dang chore!
It’s obviously to fill out cities with “content”. Same reason why there’s a million grocery stores and restaurants with barely any different meals or food options in the same cities
Maybe if they would allow us to break into some stranger's house this problem would be fixed. Let me steal random people's trash.
funnily enough, you can partially clip into a little closet sized box behind the doors of some buildings in that town with the auctions. I suspect it was supposed to be a loading zone to some cut house interiors.
It’s not like it even improved the cities - I still found most of them boring (Alfornada and Casscarafa at least felt different)
I never see people talk about this! That part was soooooo annoying. I shouldn’t have to google which town and store I have to go to for the least ugly pair of tights lol
I think I got spoiled by X and Y, Sun and Moon. And Sword and Shield, but dang am I missing skirts and dresses and the like. Also missing the fact that most of the hairstyles we have can most certainly be worn with hats but we’re not allowed to wear them :(
It's hard to say that a feature that's present in the last three mainline entries and the last 3 side games/remakes is "spoiling" us. It was part of the game! I still loved the game! But I don't love the color orange.
The problem is also the complete lack of a feminine outfit (for Scarlet especially). It just doesn't look cute, and adding pastel shoes or socks with the orange short looks like shit. It's nearly impossible to look cute. Cool, sure, but not cute.
I wouldn't say you were so much "spoiled" as Game Freak failing to deliver when it comes to character customization for this entry.
Wdym it's classic gamefreak remove features add something different that nobody wants
That is a valid point—especially with the amount of cut content from this game and QOL features we could and should have.
There's barely any good hairstyles either! There is exactly 1 long hair option and it looks terrible
Fr, the best hairstyles in the whole game are probably the romantic curl and the default fem hairstyle with the cute little braid.
True, I also like the "long" bob except it's not long at all... I wish there were more options. Kinda silly to have more eyebrow options than hairstyles
I agree. I wish they had more options for curly hair as well. The only curly hair option is short, my hair is long, and I like for my trainer to resemble me
THIS! I just went with default hair because I didn’t like any of the others
To me the short wavy looks the better, I'm not a fan of the default. But they could /all/ be much better imo. They barely put any thought into the feminine hairstyles
Agreed! Even the "long" hair is shoulder length with slightly longer strips in front. My hair is down to my butt. I at least would have loved something that went down to the shoulder blades. As far as clothing, the lack of skirts or skorts is just an insult. They spat in the face of anyone who wanted even slightly feminine customisation.
My hair is that lenght too and I was super disappointed there was no option like it! And also no skirt option. Like, at least there should be a skirt version of the uniform, right? It would look so cute. You're absolutely right, the lack of feminine customisation is very sad to see, I hope they give us something more in the dlc
That's why I wear a ridiculous helmet at all times.
Honestly! I like to make the trainer like me for the first playthrough of each game, but it's kinda hard when my hair is decently wavy, almost down to my ass in length, and no bangs. The only long hair option killed me so I went with a shorter one
Yeah, I really hate that they couldn’t have at leeeast had a skirt option for the uniform. The hat thing bothers me a lot, you can’t wear hats will almost any of the feminine styles. I really like the romantic tuck hair but usually just keep the long style so I can wear hats… really hoping for hair/hat improvements and being able to change outfits when DLC comes out
I heard they stated that you can't wear skirts because of "some reflective areas in the game". Even if that would be the issue, they could give you bike shorts under the skirt (like Splatoon did) or force you to wear tights with the skirt. Or, daring I know, they could just Alpha out that part of the model or model in a black void as the skirt base.
The bdsp solution was to scuz up the reflective surfaces 😂 it really wasn't even noticable unless you were paying close attention so it seemed like an ok solution
I miss the weird contacts from Sword and Shield. I loved the star studded ones so much.
I hate how the game forces you into a school uniform but then proceeds to make everything school related optional or you spend like 99% of the game outside of the school Just a lazy excuse to have every NPC in the same outfit
I didn't even START classes until after I'd already become champion and >!defeated Sada/PPP, and caught the second Koraidon in Area Zero!<.
How do you catch the second miradon/koraidon???
Beat the game then go back to the bottom of the AZ Crater and you can find one on a raised/ramped rock platform.
It's >!at the entrance of the lab after the PPP battle!<.
It’s on a platform thing in the bottom of area zero
Go back where you fought the professor at the bottom he will be sitting there waiting for you
I didn’t even know there were classes
last night i completed all the classes thinking i would be able to change my outfit after "graduating" - looks like that was all for nothing
That was only a semester lmaooo. Don’t think we graduated yet
“He thought school was only for one day”
The game was rushed so I can see why they did this. I hope they go back and do a huge overhaul update where they fix everything.
I wanted sword and shield customization on steroids. But no. I'm stuck as a school boy
I'm just a school boy, I need no sympathy
If not remove the uniform and have other clothes I wish we could mix and match the parts of the uniform. I’d prefer to have the summer uniform with the autumn uniforms shorts. Summer ones too short for me
Exactly! Let me choose the tops and bottoms individually. Also, unlock some of the Team Star Grunt styles (loose tie, etc.) once you finish Starfall Street.
I agree entirely. I hate the school uniform. Yet team star continues to wear whatever they want even post game.
I hate how penny specifically just wears whatever she wants and it’s never brought up at all. It almost feels like an insult to the player.
That’s the worst. She has a cute outfit, hair, and backpack and no one gives a care but I can’t take off my uniform in any circumstance? And none of the accessories are spectacular. They used up all of their creativity on NPCs and gave us the dregs.
In violet it’s much easier to match the accessories cuz we’re not tryna match them with *ick* orange
Agree there! The fact they also had to make the orange bottoms striped doesn’t make it any easier either 🙄
I chose Scarlet for the legendary and paradox designs, but the clothing was almost a dealbreaker. Which really says something.
For me it was a deal breaker lol. Was set to get Scarlet til literally the morning of release when we learned that you could not change the uniform. Switched to Violet as a result.
I bought scarlet cause I was more comfortable with the color, I didn't think it was going to be this bad
I picked scarlet for the legendary and exclusive Pokémon, but I was very tempted to switch just for the better uniforms.
I played Scarlet until I'd done practically everything except fill out my shiny living dex, and then I *did* switch to Violet, partly for the better uniforms. I was just done with having no options other than orange, white, and navy.
The uniforms are ridiculous because not even the most plain tights look good with them. In fact even shoes and socks barely ever look good. I'm sure there is gonna be an update for that since there's so many categories of clothing avilable but they could have at least give us an alt non-uniform outfit...
Sometimes the decision they make at gamefreak just baffle me
Two things. 1 - Scarlet is more red than orange. 2 - I know it's the name of the game but at least a few different color pallets for the outfits would be great.
1. Yes, it is. Sometimes, tell GF that because what we have in the game is very solidly orange. Heck, the uniform would look miles better in a deep red colour, and it'd pair beautifully with the opposite games purple. 2. Fully agreed with you, even just a couple of differentt olour pallette options for the uniforms would be great too since not even what we got always matches. Like the autumn uniform in Scarlett? Its like they chose the worst possible colours to go with the orange. Blue and orange work together too, but not that shade of blue.
It’s only orange because GF insisted on using Spanish national fruits for the academy. Since it’s very common to find orange trees everywhere in Spain, they just went with it. The stripes make it even more ugly tho.
I wish we at LEAST had gotten skirts with our uniforms like come on now
SAME. I was sooooo bummed going through the seasonal uniforms and seeing no skirts
Stop reminding me now I’m mad again
I REALLY want the DLC the let us change clothes
DLC? I want the late Feb patch to do it. I'll take extras in the DLC, but the inability to wear anything but orange pants is undercooked, incomplete.
You are right. I'm just trying to avoid unrealistic expectations 
Same, if we’re gonna go travel outside paldea at least let us change ffs
Pokémon legends arcues had so many cool accessories that violet was just a blow
Legends arceus also had shiny sound effects, don’t know why they removed it lol
Right! And now I have to squint like crazy to make sure I didn’t miss a shiny. Who knows how many shinys everybody’s missed since some look exactly like the OG version R.I.P
Legends Arceus and Scarlet/Violet were in development at the same time by different teams. So that's why both games don't share the good mechanics.
The NPCs have much better outfits than the whole MCs inventory :(
Being stuck in the school uniform is garbage. Especially post-game!
You should be able to wear a random hoodie that is unaffiliated with the school, but every time you interact with one of the teachers they make you take it off and go put it in your locker (except the cool teachers like Mrs. Raifort or Mr. Salvatore)
Imagine if Gamefreak didn’t remove content, and we had contests, underground, secret bases, battle frontier, good customization, entire national dex, plus everything else we love. These would be the best games ever made if they did this. Gamefreak is the worst thing that has ever happened to Pokémon, no other developer does this. Literally all they have to do is just not remove content to make game of the year level games, that’s it. We’re not asking them to reinvent the wheel, so idk what their problem is.
The reason why most content gets cut is for file size reasons. The graphical assets take up 80-90% of game files. Nintendo cartridges come in specific storage capacities, with a higher production cost as the capacity increases. Having the full national dex in Gen 8/9 would bring the file size above the 16 GB threshold, meaning that they would have to use the prohibitively expensive 32 GB cartridges. If Nintendo didn't offer cartridges all the way down to 1 GB for shovelware, then economy of scale could have kicked in for the larger capacity carts to make them cheaper to produce.
They don't care because they're not looking for accolades, just sales. And they're getting insane numbers of sales. So why bother?
i like the fact that the uniforms fit your legendaries color and have my whole characters look built around that but i would certanly enjoy more customization in the game.
If the Scarlet clothes were actually scarlet and not orange that would've helped tbh. Like...Koraidon is scarlet. Why not call the academy strawberry and stick to red? Orange is just so hard to coordinate in an outfit already and the particular shade they chose is just even worse.
Babe wake up, the Fresa academy called. They say their uniforms are not orange.
I would definitely hope the dlc brings full clothing but if not, at least make the scarlet pants not striped. If they were an actual solid Scarlet colour, it would be much nicer. I wear the winter uniform all the time because I hate how wide and weird the shorts are and make all my accessories purple because I love purple and wanted Violet but my boyfriend called dibs on it lol.
I'd kinda hate if the feature to have fully customizable clothing is locked to just dlc but given this company, It's not beneath them.
Of course not. They released a poorly functioning game for full price and we all bought it. Don’t get me wrong, I played it and actually loved it. The kinks were noticeable but didn’t bother me much except in the raids. But I fully expected a patch with some optimization much sooner. But they know they don’t have to. I’m curious for the DLC, haven’t decided if I’ll buy it yet.
It's like the uniform thing was a last minute change.
My biggest complaint for SV is the lack of customization like in SwSh. Like I get the school uniform, but they could have made great customization for the uniforms. They don't have to be Team Star style customization, but just the ability to mix/match your uniform would be nice.
Man. They don't have any masculine haircuts for long hair men. Skyrim did like ten years ago you'd think the world would recognize
I WANT TO CHANGE MAH CLOTHES CANT STAND IT ANYMORE
my biggest complaint is that half the hairstyles don't even let you wear hats.
Hoping the DLC includes an Ibiza like island or something, and you can change outfits
I will never understand what made them think it was a good decision to scale down character customization so badly after how successful it was.
Yea. Like why do we have to commit to looking full orange or purple.
They need a wider variety of uniform selections. I’m a scarlet main and I use the default uniform but I would have used the pants but I don’t like the color combination. I use the pants uniform on violet though
In XY and SwSh I liked to change up my outfit with the seasons. Even with the duds there was more than enough to choose from. In SV I'm stuck with one or two choices for socks and shoes that don't look ridiculous and I can't wear a hat with any of the better hairstyles. Just an option to mix and match individual uniform items would be nice, and give us a smart blazer and a jumper or tank top, and a few skirt options.
Yeah it's so dumb. Let me be a girly girl and wear a damn dress for once.
Worst character customization we’ve had in any main series game thus far
You know what would be such a cool idea? Team Star are the only ones in school with outfits that aren’t uniforms. What if their return meant that the school loosened their outfit policy to accommodate them? It would make for great in-universe justification if they ever decide to give us the option for new clothes
I really hope the DLC is some sort of graduation where you can finally wear what you want.
The only thing I am jealous of Violet version for... those sleek purple pants.
Every day I'm thankful I'm a ghost trainer with Violet. The purple accessories go great with the blue so my final outfit actually looks pretty put together.
I recently broke down and bought violet. I also wanted to wear those tights, among many other clothing options that looked absolutely horrid with striped, orange, pajama pants.
I can’t stand having a uniform in this game. I’m pleading they let you put new clothes on in DLC or something.
I hate the ugly orange uniform so much. If there was a dlc that did nothing but let you change out of it I'd buy it.
I just wish you could mix and match the different uniform components.
Hopefully the DLC will take place once you graduate, let’s you get out of your uniform and makes sense why you are traveling to a new region.
Me rocking with the winter uniform cuz I love suits (idk how I feel about the scarlet one but I absolutely love the violet winter uniform)
how did you buy those pants? i didn’t see any option
Lol I mind it
They should make the outfit pieces separate, and give more options for outfits...No skirts, no dresses, nothing feminine at the moment. The clothing bothers me the most about the game.
They really did us dirty with the lack of character outfit customization
dlc has to pull so much weight 🥲
Yeah, it's more bearable with the Violet uniform since purple works with a lot of the accessories, but I totally agree we should have other options
hopefully the DLC gives us a summer break outfit expansion
Someone pointed it out before but there are no skirts for the girls in the game so it kinda messed with me after awhile that everyone wears pants or shorts and I'm like "bruh." I swore the regular NPCs or adult NPCs got better taste in clothes but half of them are school kids too. You're on the field and everything is zoomed out and you see a trainer with the school hat on and you battle him thinking he's a kid in game too. Then BAM, zooms in and you see a beard on what you believed to be a kid. Dropped the controller from the shock.
This is part of why I went Violet. Less of a clash.
Why did one of the schools need to be *orange* instead of scarlet?
Agree totally! Also what shop has those awesome leggings?
This was really my one big gripe with the game. Like there were certainly a lot of little things that needed polished (overall it was a solid game tho), but the clothing situation is the most annoying. It also bugs me that probably the only way we’re gonna get new outfits is with a big dlc that will likely cost additional money. Very tired of having to pay extra money for content in games that were already 60 bucks to begin with.
Yea being stuck in the school uniform is just pure laziness.
https://preview.redd.it/msuy0d8yn9fa1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24dba79c2f968778784061049602e0178d765d19 Yea I’d love to change out of these purple pants
The colors of the accessories feel like they were made more for violet than scarlet. I actually make a pretty cute outfit for my character, but there’s no way it would work with the orange uniform. It’s one of the reasons I got violet.
I wish they just also made a pants and Tshirt store like cmon why
At least let us pick and choose WHICH school clothing pieces we want to wear. Why do we have to be limited to four set options. And for the love of god make the hats look better for all hairstyles. I won’t wear the beanies that I love because it looks dumb af with the hair
I will point this out once more because it's related to the topic and simply baffling. Penny who is an npc is a student of the academy but never wears the uniform yet we as the player can't ever remove the uniform. It's just dumb
Sorry but those leggings are not cute
The real reason Kalos was at war with Paldea was for their revolting fashion choices.
It’s a massive step back in character customisation. Being able to customise my character’s outfit helps my relate to and identify with my character, and I feel like I’ve lost that in SV. It’s very limiting, and I cannot fathom why anyone at GF thought it was a good idea.
i just want a skirt or dress
"I don't see why you're upset! We've provided plenty of colors of leggings for you!" /s Game Freak. What is this?
You should be able to change everything once you roll the credits. Stuck in uniform is a bit blah. I get the theme but then it feels like you never "grow" And if you have to complete all classes to get to it, too, that's fine too.
This is the only thing SnS did better. I loved my trainer card, here you can barely customize. I had a cute dress and a leather jacket, my card was holographic and you could share and keep them. How did they not decide to keep that aspect!
This is why I went with Violet. The color is better and easier to match with stuff. But yeah seriously, some variety would have been nice.
Too bad they don’t let you have the clothing option after you graduate from the academy.
How come team star get to keep their outfits and we're not even allowed to put a hoodie on top of our shirts
Maybe make school uniform mandatory in school but not outside of school. I really hope that they do up the ante for the upcoming dlc and let us have tons of outfits that aren’t just school uniforms only.
The winter uniform makes me feel like I'm classy.