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Pokémon Sword and Shield | Review Thread (READ STAFF POST)
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ORAS didn't have those settings period, so...???
I have, and Sword and Shield seem better in every way apart from online.
Seems like both, but IGN wanted to only talk about performance during battles for some reason
They can both be true. There's no slowdown during battles, but some frame rate issues in the open world.
I think despite Eurogamer aligning more with what I've seen from the leak thread, the IGN review is still rather fair. 9.3 seems a bit much personally but review scores are rather arbitrary anyways so nbd. The one thing i did notice in the IGN review however was that the games seem to be lacking in content overall outside of the main story, gym battles, Max Raids, and the Wild Area.
The list of QoL improvements do seem nice though I worry about the mandatory Exp Share All will make the game out to be rather trivial like previous entries without even a "Whitney's Miltank" thrown in occasionally. I also worry how the ease of being able to speed up the process of training Pokemon will affect replayablity for me. There was always a sense of "I've put too much time into this team already, it'd be rather tedious to train up some new ones now so I'll just stick with these guys." It was always a big part of these games to try out new teams to see what I could come up with and I just question how that could affect my personal enjoyment of the games. Could be better than before, could be worse.
I think ultimately I'm just gonna see what I think of the games for myself. It's the only way to be sure whether I'm done with the series or not. From what I've seen of the leak thread I don't have high hopes, but I also think the games will be simply OK. For some that won't be good enough (and that's perfectly fine, I actually agree with that) and for others it will and that's alright by me too.
The list of QoL improvements do seem nice though I worry about the mandatory Exp Share All will make the game out to be rather trivial like previous entries without even a "Whitney's Miltank" thrown in occasionally. I also worry how the ease of being able to speed up the process of training Pokemon will affect replayablity for me. There was always a sense of "I've put too much time into this team already, it'd be rather tedious to train up some new ones now so I'll just stick with these guys." It was always a big part of these games to try out new teams to see what I could come up with and I just question how that could affect my personal enjoyment of the games. Could be better than before, could be worse.
I think ultimately I'm just gonna see what I think of the games for myself. It's the only way to be sure whether I'm done with the series or not. From what I've seen of the leak thread I don't have high hopes, but I also think the games will be simply OK. For some that won't be good enough (and that's perfectly fine, I actually agree with that) and for others it will and that's alright by me too.
I know that SwSh are just as sad and barren as XY were. But XY still got 87 somehow.
It's the only one that matters because it tells me what I wanted to hear.
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I've tried twice to get through Explorers of Sky, but I can't do it, the gameplay is so boring. I can see why it wouldn't get very high scores. I know the writing and characters are genuinely great, but writing isn't all that goes into a game.
Guessed 75-79 and am really surprised it's currently that close. Despite sucking at guesses, I did guess right for Death Stranding and feel like I got closer here than I really thought myself.
There's 13 reviews on MC counted guys, it will likely finish with over 70 reviews. Could go either way still.
Yeah "lighten up"
Ok. People tell me I don't matter. That I'm not important. That I'm only making everybody look worse.
But hey "lighten up" I guess.
sorry to break it to you bud but objective quality assessments of art don't exist
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i really hate how low the number of reviews is. i don't understand why they didn't send review codes to everyone at the same time. i hate this staggered embargo thing that's recently happening with some games.
My issue isn't with which reviews are justified, it's the way people are trying to invalidate anything that doesn't fit their narrative.
I mean Pokemon selling point is the Pokemon themselves so...
Dktf got 60 by gamespot and 80 overall. Reviewers don't know shit.
X and Y are deeply flawed, but I feel like reviewers gave it a lot of credit for being so ambitious and doing so much new stuff for the series.
SwSh is basically the exact opposite of that.
Yeah, the dex cuts and missing online won't affect you. You might notice some of the graphics though.
Oh. You were serious. I thought your post was a troll post, to the honest.
Relax. It's a Pokemon game. No one is saying your life has no meaning and you're a bad person.
This here is the only thing that guts me. Not the dex cuts, no GTS, or even performance issues. I'm the person who will play through the campaign of these games over and over and barely bother with competitive. And to see them being forcibly made easier and easier with less options for me to add any difficulty for myself (like turning Exp. Share off) has made these games look more unappealing to me than anything else.
It feels like there just isn't much there for replayability or challenge. Routes becoming super linear and seemingly little side locations through the journey. Just get to the end of the campaign and never play it again.
It really looks like I'll have to form two full teams and rotate them in and out just to have some difficulty with this game. And even then, that doesn't alleviate me from my problems with the handholding and lack of overworld exploration. Sigh.
Based on the leaked footage the game does have FPS and performance issues, so not sure why IGN doesn't address this.
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Nahh. I've spent well over 100 hours dungeon crawling in the post game with no story content. Shit, I'd argue the gameplay is better than a lot of mainline Pokemon games.
Friend, I like you and that's why I am saying this - step back and take a deep breath. You're far too personally invested in video games.
you should try let's go, that was my first pokemon game and i really enjoyed it
Pretty much what I expected honestly, I think most of the problems the hardcore fans have won't affect the casual consumer. I do wish the graphical issues were called out more, though. Even if they don't affect you personally, they're still pretty blatant and baffling.
for the most part I've moved on from getting mad about reviews but this is just plain rude
People don't know anything about Pokemon games
for the most part I've moved on from getting mad about reviews but this is just plain rude
Thank you! Saw someone else in this thread say they think "the reviews seem objective" and that's just not how reviews work.
Both sides are doing that and always will in a review thread.
Comparing them to the Star Wars fandom is kinda saying they're a bad person. lol
Fully agree, ORAS should have been a 9.9 to match the correct score of 9.3 for SWSH.
What i meant is that the person i quoted called casey the Pokemon fanboy at ign(impling her score is somehow not valid because of that), while she also gave ORAS a 7.8, which to me says she isnt all that "biased".
but i thought being overleveled is bad ?
and having all pokemon does not matter.
Having the right ones does ;)
Lucario carries the weight of the franchise.
TBH i agree the emerald score is wrong, but not because i think it is better than ORAS, rather because i think it is better than R/S but not as good as ORAS.
Yvetal drained the life out of SwSh's score and Xerneas gave it to XY's
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I was thinking about that... I might actually go that route.
The stuff fans have been whining most about and the "real criticism" in these reviews barely align. Most mentions of Dexit seem to do so in the context of "I'm glad there aren't as many old Pokemon cluttering up the routes!" rather than the implications on competitive battling, I couldn't remotely expect anyone but the most hardcore of fans to get into the minutiae of why removing moves like Hidden Power and Pursuit is a problem, and I don't think they were even allowed to use the online features so they obviously don't factor the removal of the GTS into their reviews.