Thread 58149113

I just finished Sword for the first time and I have to ask something.
Did literally anyone like SwSh? Sure there's a few nice things like free move relearner in every Pokecenter and the entire Wild Area but everything else just felt like a dynamaxed disappointment

>>58149113 (OP)
Shitposters did

>>58149113 (OP)
>Did literally anyone like SwSh?
No

>>58149113 (OP)
I disliked it less than SV

I'm utterly baffled people paid for this game in the first place, you have to have the intellect of a farm animal to enjoy a game like this

>>58149113 (OP)
>improved party wide exp share
>postgame battle facility
>cute girls that aren't uggo niggers and trannies
>competent story
>set mode
>beautiful open world with different unique biomes
>memorable gym leaders
>a champion that's actually tough
>no time travel/imagination/wormhole shit
>no parallel universes
>custom characters that actually look custom
>minimal glitches
>less kanto pandering than usual
>interesting DLC and an actual post game
>More freedom to explore than SM; Runs and looks better than SV.
>VGC was the comfiest it's ever been
>dynamax taps into the Kaijukino that founded this franchise
>gigantamax is visually better than megas in every way
>sneaky pebbles BTFO into extinction
>playable on TV>free camera
>restores apricorns
>new movesets
>frequent events
>Is fun
>still gets thousands of fanarts a month; more than Scat Vomit
>t used best selling games in the franchise
>N-NOOOOOO YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HATE IT AND PRETEND NO ONE LIKES IT B-BECAUSE.....UMMMMMMMM.....SHE CUTTED STANTLER!

>>58149134
>>competent story

>>58149147
That's relatively speaking. Competent story relatively to sv

>58149134
you literally hate SV because "umm...she cutted my coom moment!"

>>58149152
Is this a joke?

>>58149113 (OP)
there's nothing positive about Galar, everything bad at the current gen, gen 8 made it mainstream

>>58149134
I liked the story but the Bede, Rose, and Eternatus plotlines felt rushed as fuck, to the point that everyone online was asking why the fuck Rose was worried about something maybe happening 10,000 years in the future.

>>58149157
>>less kanto pandering than usual
Yeah, it’s a joke.

>>58149134
Based

>>58149113 (OP)
>killed off exploration, every route is just a hallway.
>killed off monster catching , they introduced Dexit.
>killed off competitive , they added a gimmick that turned battles into a 50/50, where it’s just a matter of who loses their Dynamax first.

pokemon was killed in 2019

>>58149134
>less kanto pandering than usual

Fun fact Leon is only the third Champion in the franchise whose Ace is from a previous generation

>>58149134
>exp share
Made the game even easier than it already was, and had no option to disable it either
>battle facility
Yeah, like every good game has
>cute girls
Art style was good, but only SV's change really made it obvious how good we had things before
>competent story
lol
>set mode
Yeah, like always
>beautiful open world
lmao
>memorable gym leaders
Only the girls and only for the coom thouh
>a champion that's actually tough
IS THAT C-CHARIZARD?
>no time travel/imagination/wormhole/parallel universes
Instead we got "hey guys the world is going to end in 1000 years so I'm going to unleash Satan NOW"
>custom characters
Felt more limited than XY and SM actually
>minimal glitches
It's sad that this counts as a feature after SV
>less kanto pandering
Still had a free Kanto starter because why not
>interesting DLC
They felt too disconnected from the main game and didn't feel like a third version at all
>More freedom
Still railroaded to death outside of the Wild Area
>comfy VGC
Can't really say anything about it
>dynamax/gigantamax
Still felt a bit underwhelming to me, they were just a HP increase while turning every move into a Z move. It didn't really make them feel as powerful as giant Pokemon should be
>sneaky pebbles BTFO
The boots, new moves and effects were kinda nice, yeah
>playable on TV
I guess
>restores apricorns
I spent the whole game finding them and then found they're only used in an obscure thing in the first DLC, what the shit?
>new movesets
Too many decent old moves got cut though
>frequent events
Now dead
>Is fun
ok
>thousands of fanarts
Marnie cute
>best selling games
Every new game is the best selling these days, fucking FOMO zoomers
>dexit
I actually liked it because it forced them to fill the game with every that didn't get cut

>>58149223
you don’t play VGC

>>58149159
The overall design of the region and plot really annoyed me too.
>straight line into wild area, cool look at this FREEDO-- oh fuck is that a level 25 Pokemon right at the start I'm gonna catc-- what do you mean I can't
>hello trainer welcome to this cool city it's gym time!
>SIKE you only just got registered for the gym challenge (???) now go run a loop
>congrats for beating the basic bitch trio of weaknesses now you can catch a few more things in the wild area enjoy! also not really that region up there is still too high level for you
>welcome to a new bigass city! now go run another loop fuck you
>what the fuck an actually cool fairy-themed place for once!
>surprise the entire city is a gym! also there's no evil team, just fanboys (yeah it's retarded)
>oh you're finally here to fight mr. bigdick, surprise it's all double battles and he doesn't even use dragons for half of his team
>welcome to L O N D O N we don't have an E4 sorry just fight your rival and the old gym leaders again
>sorry you can't fight CHARIZARD I unleashed hyper satan to protect the world 10000 years from now somehow
>oh fuck it's going to be another hard fight like ultra necrozm-- never mind the legendary dogs shred it
>congrats trainer you earned the right to fight CHARIZARD. FROM KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>58149113 (OP)
I love Marnie

>>58149276
>what do you mean I can't
All games are like this.
>if you don't have gym badges (stars in PLA) pokemon won't list to you
>can't get the right pokeballs to catch them anyway until certain level
It's very Jewish

>>58149296
>All games are like this.
No they’re not.

>>58149296
You actually can catch and use anything in any previous game if you manage to find a way into a high level area, they only refuse to listen above a level dictated by your badges if they're traded.
On a side note, SwSh (and BDSP for some reason) also reduce your catch rate by 10x if the Pokemon you have out is a lower level than the Pokemon you're fighting before you get the 8th badge.

>>58149276
People don't play the games here but you remind me how to reset IVs you had to collect like 10 galarian twigs and how a selected bunch of TRs were locked by a day at the wild area

I'm playing it right now (using the blessed sword mod though) and it's okay
I played ultra sun and X before it, and I think I prefer sword simply because every single USUM character is super annoying (hop is also annoying but nowhere near hau and lillie) and X is like a demo

I also tested scarlet and holy shit it's bad

the gen 5 and previous games are objectively better than those though

>>58149113 (OP)
My favorite part was when Scorbunny said "it's scorbin' time"

>>58149113 (OP)
I'm a believer that the basic pokemon formula does a lot to make these games fun even if they're otherwise poorly made
Yet I still dropped SwSh twice because it was so fucking boring. It doesn't do anything right, it's all half measures and just shit. Genuinely a bad game

Its awful.The retard at the pokemon company thought Switch would flop so he was making another 3DS game. That's why it looks so shit, its the Sun and Moon engine. Literally this shit was made for a DS.
Game Fart didn't make an actual Switch game until Scarlet and Violet which was a cheap ripoff of open world trends.

>>58150254
Fake news. SV looks a lot worse plus runs poorly and it's 3 years after SWSH. Realistically it should have improved.