Pokemon community celebrates the end of Gen 8 ahead of Scarlet and Violet's release this month
Goodbye Gen 8, Hello Gen 9

Ahead of Pokemon Sc🗹arlet and Violet, the Pokemon community is waving a little farewell to the Gen 8 Pokemon and its associated games.
With the new duo of games about to formally introduce us to Gen 9 with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Pokedex, the Pokemon community has been lamenting the end of Gen 8 on T🀅witter.
Gen 8 began with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Sword and Shield back in 2019, and has been since followed by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shini💜ng Pearl, along with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Legends Arceus. The Gen 8 Pokemon themselves, of course, only 🤡feature in Sword and Shield to date, but Gen 8 also applies to a season oꦗf Pokemon games for fans too.
While the community has had mixed feelings on Pokemon Sword and Shield, none of the tweets we could see hav𒁃e been that kind to the remakes Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.🦩
The time is here. This month is the end of Generation 8 of Pokémon.Pokémon Sword & Shield had a rocky buildup, but easily became my favourite Poké𝄹mon games.Pokémon Legends: Arceus provided a lovely fresh experience.BDSP existed.Farewell, Gen 8. You've been amazing. pic.twitter.com/HuU4An72zQ
Sword and Shield: brought my love for pokemon back an꧒d made it one of my fave things in the worldPLA:ꦇ One of the best rpgs ive played and showed what gf can do BDSP: was a game
sword and shield were okay at best, bdsp is just terrib⭕le, and arceus was the best thing pokemon has ever done for the franchise //t.co🦩/0K3232Q3Z3
SwSh was goodBDSP was ok and had better ways to get certain Pokémon than the original gamesLegend♑s Arceus was gre♏at but lasted too short
Gen 8 wasn't perfect but I definitely enjoyed what this Generation brought.Sword and Shield wer⛦e fun all things considered in s🙈pite of it's few blemishes.BDSP wasn't great, but I also enjoyed my time.Legends: Arceus is just fantastic all around.Overall, not bad. //t.co/SSbA4nRvuM
Others meanwhile have flagged how toxic the 🎀community became around the launch of Sword and Shield, a🅰nd hopes that will change with Scarlet and Violet.
Pokemon fans be like "unpopular opinion" and then ♐act like the community wasn't throwing a temper tantrum over SwSh and BDSP for 3 years to an insufferable degree. I really hope Scarlet and Violet take enough of Legend's momentum to prevent that from happening again. //t.co/aMAIq8g2Mn
So far, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Pokemon Company has announced 15 new Pokemon for Scarlet and Violet, including a Paldean Wooper that's unique to the new region. The duo of titles are taking the series to an open-world format for the first time, with a new trio of storylines for players to follow. Just one of those is the usual Elite Four journ💫ey, so it'll be interesting to see how🌃 the community reacts to this new generation.
Even after playing them, we're still not sure what to feel about Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
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