Did I miss anything? 👀

I'm crying at how truly AMAZING this game could've been,.the Wild area is a huge missed opportunity. We could've had the option of climbing trees to catch maybe wild grookeys. We could've had the option to ride our pokemons instead of using an horrible multitask bike. It could've been so cool if, just like you said, different species of pokemons had different interactions with the world and you, like Snorlaxes sleeping, ghost pokemon appearing behind you at any time, fire pokemon burning grass or trees if you annoyed them, Thunder type pokemons messing up your bike if you got close to them, flower inspired pokemons disguising as flowers. Being able to get friendly with a pokemon for a short time by maybe offering it berries, and this could make you able of riding it or interacting with him in cool ways. Hearing wild pokemons ROAR if angry. Having wild pokemons attacking you with actual moves if you annoyed them (could be just flamethrower for fire types, thunderbolt for thunder types and on and on) Such a missed opportunity, disappointed

Me:”finally a mainline Pokémon game on a home console. They can finally push the boundaries further than they ever have” GF:”No...I don’t think we will”

This is just rushing a game out because “oh we don’t have a Pokémon game this year.” Jesus Christ, I would’ve accepted a 2 year delay over this.

From "gotta catch em all" to "gotta catch what I'm allowed"

"Whenever you want to go fast or surf, you have to equip the clown suit against your will, turning you from a Chad Trainer into to Turbo Virgin." LMFAO

This critique sounds like it was made today, a few days after the game came out. The analysis still holds true to what to the content of the game.

Not to mention all the hand-holding in the game, no need for an exp share, getting free heals from NPCs after one battle. It's like they dumbed down the game

This is what a cash grab looks like.

Dynamax is one of the most uninteresting concepts I've ever seen.

I always laugh so hard after seeing the winguls's models rotate

"Who cares about National Dex or reused animations?" " *Cause we have 100 different currys* "

why does the male protagonist have a brick for a backpack

5:51 The embarrassing part about this is that Pokemon stadium actually managed to properly anchor the attack animations. This is most evident when Dragonite and Ninetales are using flamethrower; the fire looks like it's coming out of their mouths despite their heads moving substantially. Another example would be Beedrill, where its hyper beam is shooting out of its stinger.

In the wild area flying types should come flying down from the sky to peck at the ground, grass types could be out sunbathing on clear days, bug types scurrying about out of grass and flowers... honestly there is so much room for creativity.

Let’s not forget the H I G H Q U A L I T Y A N I M A T I O N S

The game came out and nothings changed. Well, except the lag before the battle; there’s no more of that but ya everything else is the same.

10:20 "Whenever you want to go fast, or surf, you have to equip the clown suit against your will, turning you from a chad Trainer into a Turbo-virgin" Simply amazing

"Good lord what is happening in there!" "Pokemon in the overworld" "Pokemon in the overwold? In 3d, in this game localized entirely in this area?" "Yes!" "May I walk with my pokemon?" ".....No"

1. Starters look so bad in their final evolution, will be my first time not joining a starter. 2. Mega Evolution was the best out of Pokemon, and they stupidly remove it for some awful copy of Giant Bowser. 3. Half of the Dex is gone, so as half of the best Pokemon out there. 4. A clishit storyline, probably could've done better like BW. 5. What's the point of playing in the post-game? P.S. I hope they should not do this in the generation 4 remakes.

I didn't know the scaling was that bad holy shit

The fact that some fan games are giving more respect and care to the world of Pokémon than the actual devs is probably the most aggravating thing to me about all this.

Smash ultimate: Everyone is here! Pokemon: Nope only some of them are here and we’re not going to tell you which ones are

Dude he literally said, “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed”

Megas: Amazing redesigns that don't break the meta and increase player choices Z-Moves: Flashy moves on the level of Limit Breaks/Mystic Artes, but with none of the same requirements or tactics Dynamax: WE MADE THEM REALLY BIG

Instead of thanos snapping the pokemon, maybe they shoulda snapped whoever made these executive decisions

-"Wingull rides updrafts rising from the sea by extending its long and narrow wings to glide. This Pokémon's long beak is useful for catching prey. " -"It soars on updrafts without flapping its wings. It makes a nest on sheer cliffs at the sea’s edge." -"It makes its nest on a sheer cliff at the edge of the sea. It has trouble keeping its wings flapping in flight. Instead, it soars on updrafts." As we can read, the Pokédex states that Wingull can glide BUT only in updrafts near the sea, the Pokédex says nothing about Wingull floating at low altitude in the middle of the fields. Basically the Pokédex doesn't justify those floating Wingulls.

"Turning you from a chad trainer into a turbo virgin" XD i'm dying

It seems like Sword and Shield were originally meant to be a 3DS game...

1:09 "the dislike bar got dynamaxed" IM DEAD BRO LMFAO

Damn I did not notice the scaling. They’ve massacred my tyranitar 😢

GamefrEAk: “50% less Pokemon for you, 50% more money for us!”

Distant kingdom uploads, Everyone to S&S: *How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man.*

Really hits hard having spent years EV and IV training hundreds of pokémon, thousands of in-game hours grinding and hundreds more making notes for movesets, only to have what should be the next leap forward in a franchise I've enjoyed since I was a kid just break both it's legs and it's neck. At least when we had to make the sacrifice from gen 2 to 3 it was justifiable that the data wouldn't be compatible between GB and GBA, it was ultimately worth it but this? There is no real reason for it, it adds nothing positive to the players experience. At this point I think Nintendo really need to have other developers work on the core series of Pokémon, because gamefreak seam to have lost their passion and drive as a whole since X and Y.

Welp, at least the player's character finally walks like they don't have wooden arms and legs.

it hurts being a veteran of the series and just see it being treated like shovelware. I love what pokemon used to be. guess this will be digimons time to shine

everything went down hill when Game freak felt the need to implement a stupid gimmick every new generation

It feels like every game with a good reputation is being used as a money grabbing cash machine. It makes me furious and sad. I want games to be as good they could be without being half baked and milked for what it´s worth.

I feel like they should've just waited an extra year to release the game. For the past 3 years now, they have been consecutively releasing pokemon games. They could've at least just chilled for a bit and took their time to make the game.

And I left the Pokemon franchise once it moved to Switch *plays Diamond and Soul Silver for the billionth time*

13:20 9k °C wouldn't just vaporize water, but would turn pretty much all matter near Macargo into plasma, killing everything in a relatively big radius either by heat, pressure or radiation (almost twice as hot as the Sun's surface)... Not to mention Gardevoir being capable of making black holes...

RIP childhood dream of having a game with multiple regions and tons of pokemon to catch. Hell, RIP in general.

What if Sword and Shield is just one big joke and we're all being wooooshed

12:38 Pokepark managed to do more than have Pokémon just wander around. They can chat with each other and even play chase. It’s not much but it is better lol

During the video, the SWSH footage suddenly looked a lot worse after you showed footage from DQXI and BoTW lmao

So basically, Dynamax Pokemon aren't very _dynamic._ *_Oh, the irony..._*

Me: *Is excited for a mainline pokemon game set in my country on a home console* Game: *Isn’t going to be good* Me: *Extreme disappointment*

Still pissed they removed zangoose -:

"Some people unironically use Wingull's dex entry as a reason to defend Game Freak" Here's a better reasoning: you do know what gliding means right? to MOVE smoothly and CONTINUOUSLY along. And if you really want to get technical: This mode of flight involves flying a significant distance horizontally compared to it's descent and therefore can be distinguished from a mostly straight downward descent like with a round parachute. Wingull right here, is literally lacking every condition for it to be considered as either gliding or gliding flight, no movement, no air, he isn't going downward and then upward to gain speed, nothing simplification doesnt work if it doesn't retain what characterized the original this, and it's not even slightly swaying, its literally just standing there hovering, even Pokémon Let's Go didn't tho that, they really can't just make him bend his wings even thou they are trying to convince us they got overworked on animations, and had to cut content because of that? In other words, there are people who go as far as using a Pokédex entry to justify laziness because it "matches" when they don't even know the difference between gliding and hovering. -thanks to a friend of mine who wrote that

Omg steelix still floats in the overworld? Come on gamefreak. Also can we actually have phanphy/donphan actually use rollout with their models instead of the rock/boulder model. Geez

unpopular opinion, Gamefreak wasn't ready for 3D and should have kept doing sprites.

15:19 "...that doesent necesarily means that SWSH will be bad games" 2021, YES THEY ARE

“Wingull makes sense if you read the pokedex” If Gamefreak doesn’t think the pokedex is important enough to properly have in the game then I don’t think it’s important enough to use as a point of argument.

I like how in May, I knew for sure I was buying whatever Pokémon game came out for the Switch, but now I know I’m not buying it. Crazy how wrong I was.

Yeah, didn't buy, and not planning to do so anytime soon. I'll buy pokemon games again when Game Freak gets its shit together.

damn i miss megas so much and i haven't even played the game yet

Somewhat unpopular opinion, but after Sword & Shield, I think GameFreak needs to take a break from releasing mainline Pokemon games, at least give it a 3 to 4 year break. Because hear me out, from 2008 to 2019, GameFreak has been pumping out mainline Pokemon games very frequently, almost annually, to the point where they're not giving the games that much time to develop or further polish their games, whether it be them pumping out a new gen, a slightly different version of the same gen or a remake of a previous gen. I think GameFreak really needs to slow down a bit & take their time in making their Pokemon games more polished & more developed, especially since they're now dealing with a more powerful Nintendo console such as the Switch. Not to mention I noticed some fans are starting to get a little burnt out on Pokemon, which I seriously don't blame those fans. Like come on do we really need to see a core Pokemon game every single year? Do people want Pokemon to become the next Call of Duty? because I sure as hell don't want to see that happen.

If only gamefreak could catch up with the other RPG devs

5:19 lmao that never gets old.

"We cut pokemon so we could give remaining better animations" more like we cut pokemon and animations just cause we rushed it all and are going to give you some of the content later, but only if you pay additional money for DLC

The scaling issue is what pisses me off the most.

Hallway syndrome is one of two problems that made the Alola games very boring to me. Sure, there is a small number of hidden things, like the coast area or the ice cave on Mele Mele, but for the most part, it's "run to the goal". The other glaring issue the Alola games had was way too much talking. And I don't mean story, altough the story is way too bloated for what it is too. I mean characters literally explaining to you all a city has to offer in a long-winded cutscene before you even get to explore. This is something that made SM and USUM a chore to play and I don't expect GF to back down from that development, even if they suddenly included all Pokemon. Pokemon was conceived as a franchise for kids. Yet it was super successful without catering to them to an absurd degree. There was no babyface NPCs in Gen1 to 3, there was no "oh my god kids could never accomplish this" concerns from Gen1 to 4, with 4 including one of the most daunting falicities to complete. There was no need to make villains over-the-top goofy-looking until the 3DS era. Pokemon as a franchise tries to do focussed marketing harder every generation, when it doesn't have to to sell millions and it honestly drives me away from the franchise The dexit was a pretty big blow to my liking modern Pokemon, but overall, it served to me re-evaluating what I liked about Pokemon. I was an avid competitive player but I willingly scratched that because the generations that I enjoy playing are not the newest ones. It's everything from Gen1 to Gen5. Gen6 was great too, albeit it started the trend of way too much talking. So yeah, even if the dexit got revoked, I'd probably not be coming back at this point.

The first DLC has come out and Gamefreak has repeated their mistakes; they’ve added more interesting and long-awaited ideas, yet they were executed poorly once again :/

I'm just gonna get Digimon cyber sleuth collection and dragon quest 11 for switch. I'll pick up SnS later used.

The next Pokémon game is just going to cut even more Pokémon and have them t-pose with no animation at all.

I don't see sword and shield as a main game. Pokemon fan games have more grace. Game Freak could try putting out a suggestion box for their website for any tips on how to make their game better.

8:48 I think the logo is off center due to the esrb rating right next to it, they didn't want the logo to be partially covered by the rating, that or some regulation regarding the esrb ratings that I don't know of.

Some of these are just nitpicks but I agree with a lot of what you’re saying, Pokémon is just progressively getting uninteresting

Everything Sword and Shield does right: 7 Minutes Everything Sword and Shield does wrong: 16 Minutes

10:06 Nothing wrong with wearing a helmet while riding a bike, BUT there is absolutely 0 reason to change clothes. Ok, carry on.

Why are the new Pokemon games so shit, all the games I remember when I where young like diamond or black and white but now the new ones just disappoint me

the animation is trash LOL how are they gonna talk abt focusing on making the pokemon look expressive and getting rid of like half the pokédex??

I’ve never been more excited to not purchase a game.

5:06 This bird keeps itself in the air by sheer force of anger alone.

The entire budget went on pyro ball

Imagine if they'd have put their effort into fixing these issues instead of a dumb mechanic like dynamax that no one wants, I might actually have been excited

As long as you can tell they're going for a gimmick in a pokemon game in my opinion that gimmick will never be as good as mega evolution.

3:13 Also Pokemon: *hey look, the champions main pokemon is none other than a charizard*

Wait when you mentioned Pokemon interacting with each other in the overworld my imagination ran WILDDDD. I would love to see pokemon reflecting behaviors they would exhibit naturally. Emulating the anime more so than just walking around blindly in the overworld. Like having flocks of bird pokemon, grazing deer pokemon in packs, etc. Imagine seeing water pokemon playing in rivers together before you initiate combat. uuguuuuuughhhhh i want that so badly its crazy. I would not mind removing more pokemon if it meant having more expression and a better game overall. I essentially want the new Pokemon snap as a fully explorable open world with a decent story. I would also want improvements to the human npcs and player character. The towns and player model feel robotic because theres so little expression and action with them. I was recently playing Zelda Twighlight Princess and I went to the town square and was amazed by the amount of detail that went into the npcs. They're walking around, going about their lives as if they're really alive. They mostly all have different designs (not just one model plastered everywhere) and you can even interact with a good chunk of them. And when you pop in as wolf link they REACT and run around screaming their heads off! I'd love to see something like this in Pokemon. I don't think I'm asking for a lot considering the game im comparing it to is literally from 2006 loool. I can only dream ;;

Pokemon: *gets Pokemon sizes incorrect* Me and the fans: how many times DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON!?!?!!!!

At this point I'm pretty much done with Pokemon now. I'm not going to enjoy a game that doesn't have as much effort put into it as the previous games.

Gamefreak have been a mediocre developer since Pokemon X and Y, it's just that until now they had the excuse of only working with weak hardware.

watching this makes me want to cry wow

13:15 using updrafts to stay airborne is for distances over 100ft in the air, not 3, so no, just because the Pokédex says so does not mean wingull should not flap its wings

I just want nintendo to take full control of the pokemon games so they can be actual games worth buying

Gamefreak is definitely not a chad trainer after watching this.

Title: everything wrong with pokemon sword and shield (so far) Me: everything is wrong with pokemon sword and shield (so far)

I think the thing that confuses me the most about Sword and Shield is the sheer amount of cutting corners Game Freak attempted to do on a console that didn't need it..

even Dragon Quest 9, which came out around 10 years ago on the Nintendo DS had different animations for almost every kind of monster. Some (ghosts, etc.) appeared out of nowhere, some others (plants, etc.) came out of the ground - it looked good and it made sense. A few years later, DQMJ2 came out for the DS aswell, featuring similar overworld monsters and a camera that was controllable throughout the entire game. Also, the scaling was on point with some boss monsters being up to 50, if not 100 times bigger than your own monsters. Meanwhile, a 90 billion dollar company developes a home-console game featuring ghosts popping out of the ground and little bunnies almost the size of godzilla in 2019 and NOONE sees a problem. Are you kidding me?

You know, this all just goes to show that Game Freak never really learned after Iwata helped them maximize efficiency in Gold/Silver. Seems like they just reverted back to the same incompetence that got them in that mess in the first place.

Pokemon generations 1-5 are unique, and innovating experiences for all ages (especially for limited hardware). Pokemon generations 6-7 are a little bit underwhelming, but still fresh directions for the franchise that are meant for all ages. Pokemon generation 8 is a watered-down, asset reusing, lacklustre, boring, corner-cutting, and soulless experience. Its meant for dumb kids who don't know a thing about quality, and people who only look at flashy promotion before buying a product.

The mascot names are the laziest Pokemon names I've seen: Zacian and Zamazenta Za Cian and Za Mazenta The Cyan and The Magenta You have a region based on the UK, where Arthurian legend is based, and you decide to name your Legendary mascots after THE FREAKING GAME COLORS.

Everything Wrong with Pokemon Sword & Shield: they're not taking enough time with the game that's literally it

Its the first Pokemon-Generation I wont buy... And it really hurts 😕

It is now apparent that the reason they took out Pokémon was so people would buy the dlc

Everything wrong with Pokémon Sword and Shield is everything.

Soon as I saw Haunter pop out the ground I wanted to smash my head against the wall

Thing is, the pokemon games suffered since gen 6 (and longer than that with their OCD about removing fan loved features, such as the VS seeker and following pokemon), yet the players would keep returning, *so long as they could keep grandfathering in their pokemon from previous titles.* But now, without that, people see the cracks of everything else. Had they made good on their word and overhauled the models liked claimed? I think folks would be willing to understand that they may not get their pokemon for one game, but that's not the case. Instead, gamefreak has made the equivalent of a side game; an unimportant title that should be passed up until a real mainline game comes along that will give the actual satisfaction the players desire. For this reason, I strongly suggest all Switch owners to get your hands on Digimon Cyber Sleuth. It will give you an exceptional turn based battle system and highly detailed and expressive partner monsters that you're looking for. Oh, it's also a two pack containing the sequel game which adds over 100 digimon and lets you transfer over your encyclopedia.

what really pissed me off is that you can't catch high level pokemon when was that ever an issue

Official Games: Who are you? Non-Profit Fan Games: I'm you, but better.