While Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s many bugs have led to tons of hilarious moments being shared around social media since their release in November, the added performance issues and infamously poor graphics have caused the games to receive the lowest score on Metacritic out of any of the mainline Pokemon titles. Despite the majority of bugs resulting in nothing more than a funny and unexpected moment, some players have had the misfortune of experiencing bugs that lead to them becoming softlocked after getting stuck out of bounds. Clipping issues seem to be particularly popular in the Paldea region, with players clipping through walls and falling through the map surprisingly often. As some players have also discovered, wild Pokemon are not immune to these same clipping problems either.
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A clip on Reddit shared by the user ventolin_inhaler gives fans a look at a particularly well-timed clipping issue. While fans may be more used to phasing through walls themselves, this video shows the player’s own Pokemon disappearing out of sight somewhere as a battle begins with a wild Girafarig. Due both to the funny camera angle and the fact that the player had their back to the edge of a steep cliff, it appeared as though the player’s character had to quite literally take matters into their own hands in the absence of their partner Pokemon. After the player orders their Pokemon - an unseen level 69 Pokemon named ‘Bort’ - to use Gunk Shot, it looks as though the character uses their own fist to bop the Girafarig on the nose, which somehow results in a poisonous explosion that soon defeats the wild Pokemon.
Of course, what actually happens is that the player’s Pokemon uses Gunk Shot from somewhere out of sight, but the hilarity of the situation is pretty obvious. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet players continue to share hilarious moments resulting from the games’ bugs, from encounters with Godzilla-sized Delibirds to player models mutating randomly into massive skeletal monsters.
As hilarious as Scarlet and Violet’s problems can be, most fans are still understandably upset with the state that the games were released in. With little in the way of fixes announced for the future, fans continue urging Game Freak to do something about the games’ most glaring issues.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are available on Nintendo Switch.
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