I have no doubt the game is playable as the OP says, but that doesn't mean framerate drops and stutters and tons of graphical glitches don't worsen the experience. The reviews I've seen say the gameplay is great but the glitches and performance issues hurt the overall playability quite a bit.
Pokemon games are not known for their great graphics, the Switch games have all looked like serviceable modern games but GameFreak has clearly never tried to wow anyone with their graphics. Given how much money Pokemon makes it doesn't really make sense that the graphics are just fine and not great, and this causes some people to make absurd claims like the Switch games look like 3DS or Wii lol. But that's not even the issue here. V/S has major framerate issues and graphical glitches. That is completely unacceptable for ANY game, and even more so for a AAA game, and ever more so for a franchise as big as Pokemon, especially a mainline game.
It's clear the game was rushed for the holiday season in order to take the place of Zelda getting pushed back to next year. But this game obviously should have been pushed back a few months as well.
Nintendo should have put out Switch Sports for the holidays once it was finally complete with Golf instead of releasing it unfinished earlier this year, added Advance Wars as well since that game has been done for like 8 months, and gave us a Zelda WW/TP HD double pack (which would be easy enough to put together) for the holidays if they had nothing else ready, rather than releasing a Pokemon game that didn't have time to go through the bug testing phase and so is tarnished by being a buggy mess.
Nintendo is so weird sometimes. They take 5+ years in development on BotW sequel despite being able to use large parts of the previous game clearly wanting to make sure they release another masterpiece that outdoes the original, they take many years on Metroid Prime 4 even after taking the extraordinary step of completely restarting development, yet with first open world Pokemon, which is one of largest releases on the system, they push it out 12 months after two other Pokemon games came out and rush it in an unfinished buggy state. I would think the Nintendo-GameFreak relationship is close enough that Nintendo could tell them hey this game is not ready or bring in a bunch of extra contractors or something for bug testing/fixing prior to release.
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