I ended up getting Pokémon Sword and, while it has plenty of flaws, I think it's still super fun.
Now, I'm a super casual when it comes to the Pokémon franchise since my knowledge is limited to the Anime I've seen when I was a kid and Pokémon Fire Red so, I'm definitely looking at this game from a more positive perspective than most veterans but, I would still consider it a good experience.
I know that there have been other games that were 3D so the look maybe isn't that big of a deal to someone who has played every Pokémon game out there but, to me, it's a completely new experience and I love it. The Pokémon models look great and while I do agree that they could've done a much better job with some of the battle animations, I do think that they get the job done well enough.
As for the overall graphics of the game, some of the textures seem very low resolution but the game itself runs very well with occasional stutters when Online is enabled. In single player, I haven't had any performance issues with it.
If anyone who's super into Pokémon and has been playing the game reads this, please, tell me what you think of it so far.
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@spartaman64 I've seen your post about the game in Tech news and you seemed to be very into the series, have you played the game yet? I'm curious how a veteran feels about it.
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its like any other pokemon game. idk if i played the same game as people who are saying that the story is amazing and stuff as the story is really generic imo. the only thing i noticed in regards to performance issues is that some cut scenes drop to like 4 fps for a few seconds. there isnt any game breaking issues aside from my raid issues but its not a big selling point of the game for me anyways. however you can tell that the game was rushed. https://imgur.com/a/OMs9nRM apparently gamefreak forgot what a pikachu and eevee is. i wouldnt have any problems with the models and animations if they didnt cut 55% of the pokemon in return for promising us better models and animations and needless to say they are not really impressive.
also theres an npc that gives you an eevee at the beginning if you played lets go eevee and i was trying to evolve it to my favorite pokemon sylveon. i got it to level 40 and im like hey why hasnt this eevee evolved yet so i looked up a video on how to evolve eevee to sylveon in pokemon sword and the first thing the person says is btw the eevee you get from that person for having lets go eevee cant evolve. i admit i was slightly malding. i really wish the game would tell you about something like that
i read some reviews where they say this was the hardest pokemon game yet and once again i wonder if we played the same game. this is what it took for a battle to be difficult for me. i was facing the rock gym and he sends out a water rock type and i had a water type out expecting a rock type. so i swapped out and that gave him time to set up and use shell break which increases that pokemon's speed and attack. he used razor shell and got a crit and one shot my pokemon so i swapped to my next pokemon and he did it again, i swapped again and he did it again. at this point i was getting worried but i still managed to beat him with just one more of my pokemon fainting. so it took three 6.25% chance crit hits to make me feel any pressure and it was misplaced pressure from me. meanwhile when i faced cynthia in diamond it took me 7 tries but that might have just been me being younger and dumber. idk i guess this is just from the fact that im no longer the targeted demographic for these games.
one thing i appreciate is that they really went hard on the UK thing from the dialogue to the places. im a fan of british culture and my gf is british
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@spartaman64 Yeah, the story doesn't feel any special so far but, then again, Pokémon was always about having an adventure and having fun to me so, I don't really care for it anyways.
The game definitely rushed, which is a shame but it happens all the time. I think most fans would have happily waited longer just to get a more polished game.
As for the difficulty, the game feels fairly easy, at least so far. Even as someone who mainly picks Pokémon by appeal instead of type advantages, it's still isn't really challenging unless you pick battles you obviously can't take.
Even though I'm not huge on DLC stuff, it would be pretty nice if they ended dropping more Pokémon down the line but, I highly doubt that would happen.
