Pokemon Sword And Shield Review

why do this so called "pokemon fan" feel burden by wild encounter? that was staple for a pokemon game, its doesn't feel right seeing pokemon running around

Excuse you…?
9?

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imagine sword and shield but with everything just better. the animation, the graphics, the y-comm. probs would be my favorite game in the series.

Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, a beautiful game with some of the most creative design I’ve ever seen making up one of, if not the best 2D platformer of all time: 6
This lazy, poorly hashed together game with few redeemable features, over priced and blatantly uncreative: 9

IF YOU WANT TO READ MY LETS PLAY STORY, HERE IT IS!

HOW IT ALL STARTED:

Hi, my name is Dasha! I am 14 years old. My first Pokémon Game was on the Nintendo 3DS, it was called “Pokémon Moon”. I got the 3DS and game on my Birthday on March 8, the same year it was released. I went into that game FULLY blind, my only experience with Pokémon was Pokémon CARDS, which I fell in love with! I really enjoyed playing through it, let me think, I beleive it wasssss… ah YES! It was grade 5! (I am currently in High School grade 9) I loved it sooo much! Pokémon Moon was so amazing, my first ever journey! Next, I remember seeing online this really ugly Pokémon fusion with something called… Necrozma? I brushed the “roumour” off, and researched necrozma and was like… “I COULD ENCOUNTER THIS?” It was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Necrozma, was in my part forever! Soon I realized that the Fusion I saw is really a new game, and it was revealed to be called Pokémon Ultra sun and Pokémon Ultra moon. Dang I waited for the game, but, my mom said she would buy it to me for New Years (I am russian and I don’t celebrate Christmas, we instead do the same thing but with New Years with a bootleg russian version of Santa, it’s ridiculous but I love it), so I waited for Christmas… or so my I thought! I stole the game from my moms closet and played on it while she was not home. I was guilty, I literally cried myself to sleep, hahahah, I told her afterwards what happend and that I stole the game, and she was laughing! This is it for how I started playing the amazing game of Pokémon. This is where the fun begins

(Dramatic Music)
INTRODUCTION TO POKÉMON SWORD AND SHIELD+ NINTENDO SWITCH:

Imagine, 14 yo me, sitting, looking at my phone screen, seeing this GORGEOUS game on something called… “nintendo… swotch? Swech… Switch?!” Yeah. I wanted this game. BAD! I knew let’s go was a Pokémon game but I didn’t care. To me, it was hella ugly, I don’t know, but I didn’t have a switch so I didn’t care! I was DROOLING over this “sword and shield”.

THE PRAYERS WERE HEARD:

14 year old me, in October, sitting on my bed. Thinking: I WANT this game ( my mom and dad and I immigrated from Russia when I was in grade 3, we are a middle class family, closer to low, meaning that we can afford things, but not like 4 cars and a mansion, we rent a BEAUTIFUL apartment), but how will I convince my mom to get me a Nintendo switch lite AND a game? Well, good marks… yeah. Worked. A LOT. Lotssss if work! And my mom agreed! My dad also said he will get a switch cause he wants to play on it too, I got a BITTT greedy, but I was happy I was getting the game!

THE WAIT:

So, it’s October and I’m waiting! No fishy Business, ( my parents hid the switch and game well, but I’m grown 14 and now I wont peek, I learned lol)! IT WAS DIFFICULT to avoid Spoilers, but I was strong and stayed under a rock! My starter choice was Sobble from the start, and I knew the starter evolutions because I wanted to chose the least popular one, but the one I like!

THE DAY:

I’m sitting, it’s New Year’s Eve, 10 PM! My mom comes up to me, and she tells me “Dasha, how about I let you open your present now?” Yeah, I got to play the game earlier, she said for my to go to bed at 11, so she wanted me to go to bed earlier because I usually always (still do) go to bed at 9 PM! I was playing, and it was amazing!

SHORT STORY, IF YOU DONT WANA READ SCROLL PAST THIS TO CONTINUE:
~ I have a rule where my mom lets me play only on weekends for a set time, but I’m a greedy little girl, and my dad was playing Zelda on the switch and breaking it on accident which hurt me because I waited for so long and took so much care of the switch, but him not caring kinda broke me, so I cried one night because I’m weird and my mom caught me, PS: she does not like my dad playing so she was on my side! She says she understand, but it’s a bit greedy of me, but she will talk to dad and maybe get me a Nintendo switch lite! This was aroundddd… I would check my switch lites date but because of parents controls I can’t got in settings lol, but it was 5-7 months ago so before COVID! Yeah, I remember going to Best Buy and getting a Cyan switch lite 🙂 I have it in my room right now, I’m looking at it in my over sized Nintendo switch case, I feel warm! But yeah!

My dad is currently playing BoTW masterminds because * whisper: he’s addicted * and I’m waiting for the weekend to play Pokémon Shield, I have completed the isle of armour, and all the Dexes waiting for Crown Tundra! Pokémon has a place in my heart, I’m a teenager female which really should not be THAT addicted to Pokémon, but I love it!~

quick thing before I end this off, if you would like to play Pokémon Sword and Shield with me, tell me I will edit this and put my FC in so we can play together! Thanks for reading my story

THE END!

This is a solid 6

Pokémon Sword and Shield: 9/10
Cyberpunk 2077: 7/10
I can’t anymore.

You didn’t mention how awesome the music is!!

The main campaign was yet another hand-holdy and forgettable story that we've already seen multiple times

– Many Pokemon were cut, then sold later as DLC (or cut altogether)

– Bare-bones routes that are extremely linear with no sense of exploration at all outside of the Wild Area

– Mandatory EXP share which lead to easy over leveling and 0 challenge

– Non-existent postgame content

– Dynamax is an awful gimmick that will just be scrapped and replaced with the next gen gimmick like Megas and Z-Moves were

– Uninspiring graphics that look more like an up-scaled 3DS game than a console game

Really? This is a 9 but PLA an 8? Come on hahahahahhahahah