Pokemon Sword and Shield Sorta Sucks 

If it was girl piss, I'd try the cupcake

The piers not singing is a lot worse when you realize Roxie is singing in a gym in BW 2

Man it's almost like they forgot Black and White 2 actually had audio recorded song for a Rockstar gym leader and that was for the DS

2018: Man I really wanna see Sinnoh remakes they've been delaying it for so long 2019: Please let Sinnoh remakes be delayed, please let Sinnoh remakes be delayed,...

Story? What story? Anytime anything happens the adults are like: "Just continue your Gym challenges. I'll take care of it. Oh and if the single road forward didn't tell you where to go, lemme tell you in detail. Every time."

Basically: create the problem, sell the solution.

The Piers scene made me want to recoil backwards until my spine broke

I just don't understand how anyone can defend them rushing a game out and charging $60; and then proceeding to bring in the rest of the game via a expansion pack 6 months later for $30!

"Wants to kill you but in a PG sort of way" Ghetisis: no I dont think I will

REMEMBER BLACK AND WHITE? THE GYM LEADER WAS SINGING CRAPPY BUT HEY IT HAS A VOICE UNLIKE THIS

The biggest offender was the hallways they insulted our intelligence with by calling them a town

I would like to note the expansion hasn’t fixed anything

There is no more love or dedication in these games. It's become a cash cow that strictly sells itself on nostalgia and brand recognition. There's no way I'm buying a $30 expansion pass for a game that was so lazily developed, that's just encouraging bad business practices

If this is how the Sinnoh remakes are gonna be, I REALLY don't want them anymore. I'd rather have no Sinnoh remakes at all than Sinnoh remakes with this level of "quality."

I’m not spending 90$ to complete the games experience when I could have a vastly superior experience from Hg, Ss, DPP or ORAS and the black and white games

Pokemon Sword/Shield: >Large Publisher >Unfinished Game, with less content than originally promised >$60 >Ugly Graphics >$30 Unfinished DLC >Good Soundtrack Hollow Knight: >Indie Devs, with a team of 3 people, not counting Christopher Larkin >Finished Game, with more content than originally promised >$15.00 >3 Free DLC, with there going to be a paid one, but they just decided to make a sequel, probably going to be even better than original. >Beautiful Graphics >Almost Perfect sountrack

Also taking about their obsession with Kanto, at the start of the game in your characters room, ya got 3 posters of the top 3 pokemon in galar, a Charizard, Gengar and a Machamp. The Champions signature pokemon is a Charizard.

After finishing this game, I immediately thought "Wow, that was fun... But terrible". To sum up the vibe of this game, it feels like you're playing an alpha test.

$90 for a just OK game is a big ripoff

There is no story literally almost nothing important happens besides Bede getting eliminated and the last hour of the game.

5:30 Going to recieve hate, but Marnie does not feel like an actual person. I half expected her to be a revealed as some sort of cyborg by the end of the story

The expansion pass is like buying a really expensive sandwich from a fancy restaurant but only being given the bread and then being told, "You can pay extra to have us complete it for you." Why wasn't it there in the first place.

What story are you praising??? The gym challenge isn't the story. The actual story plot with rose is absolutely shit tho.

A dlc isn’t a good fix they literally said that the dlc was in the making AT THE SAME TIME AS THE BASE GAME. Don’t tell me it’s a good thing when they could’ve just waited an extra year to launch the game for 60$ with better graphics and the dlc included.

"Sorta" is an understatement I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in my life.

The day they make a game like Breath of the wild with pokemon is when people will be happy I think. An open-world game where you travel far and wide with your pokemon is what everyone wants. It's a giant leap, but if they trusted players then it would be insane. Like sure you could stumble into a cave and get your shit rocked by a steelix when you have a bulbasaur, but that's a story to tell and then you can come back later with a stronger team and strategize.

Imagine buying a $30 Shit Sprinkle expansion pass for your $60 Piss Cake. 0/10, would not buy.

The problem with DLC is that now you HAVE to spend extra money. I always just waited for the third version to come out. I would have to spend 90 dollars instead of just the 40 that the third versions were originally.

I actually really liked that the wild area had high level Pokémon. I never understood why anime characters ran from Pokémon in the anime but I truly understood taking my level 12 Pokémon into a fight with a level 30. However it’s unfair you can’t catch them since high level Pokémon don’t listen to you anyway

I get this is going for a mediated response, but I can't even begin to think about $90 for still less than what $40 used to get.

I agree with all your points untill your expansion pass section. The real solution would have been to release the dlc for free as an apology for trying to blatantly lie to the people buying their product,and show that they are making a turn for the company away from the greedy practices recently

Imo: Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon is better than Sword and Shield Change my mind.

Game Freak: "More Kantomine, I must find"

Saying "I'm exciting for the next pokemon game" at this point is the same as to say "I can change him/her" when you're in abusive relationship.

I don't see what was so great about the story... all they did was shoehorn you into just going to the next gym with nothing interesting in between. Like the moment when Leon says: "Pokemon are randomly dynamaxing, we gotta help! except not you, Im the champion so i can deal with this. You just go beat the next pushover of a gym leader". Like thanks for telling me that you're doing cool things Leon, maybe i can do something cool next time? Imagine if they did that in the older games "oh no, team rocket took over silph co and is holding everyone hostage. dont worry about it, your rival will take care of it for you. we wouldnt want the player to be distracted from beating the next gym". Also the fact that the game keep insisting on healing your party all the damn time just kills any sense of tension that they try to build up. It felt like a game with nothing to do but beat the gyms while the older games had small adventures in between the gyms that breaks up the formula a bit. Then when they finally decide to add some content that isnt just about beating the gyms they have the nerve to charge an extra 30$ for it. I'm sorry, but count me out... My favorite things about sword and shield was probably the gym leader desings, the music, and i liked the new pokemon designs. the rest felt either neutral or bad to me

Hop gave me terminal depression, Sonia is literally just exposition, Piers would be my favorite character if his entire gimmick didn‘t even work because there‘s no voice acting.

"So is the game any good?" " Well it could've been...but it's got piss in it."

Ok, now I'm slightly offended. I agree SwSh isn't that bad, but nowhere does the story in SwSh even remotely get close to BW levels. It doesn't even reach RSE levels.

It is a fantastic game with a good story line, enough puzzles, amazing graphics and interesting character development and a whole open world to discover. Of course I am talking about Zelda BOTW

At first, I thought I got an ad for cake or some shit. I looked for the “Skip Ad” button, then the advertisement timer, and then Mario started pissing in the batter. _Then I realized..._

The national dex cut not only removed most of the Pokémon from previous games, it led to one chat room I was in to go full 1984 to silence anyone that wanted to talk about Pokémon in any rational manner. Want to try and rationalize why they might have done the cut? “Fuck you, shut up!” Want to pose a question about the subject in any form- “Fuck off, stop talking” Just talk about any Pokémon game before Sword and shield? “Off to the gulag!” The camps that are for and against the cut have their pros and cons but, when you have people who get high off the kool-aid and saying that the cut was fine and even go so far as defend gamefreak by try to silence you by force, it really makes you question things.

Switch is more powerful than the Wii, and yet this game inferior in animations to Battle Revolution. You can argue that Revolution had less Pokemon, but Sword and Shield at the beginning cut enough where that shouldn't have mattered. Pokemon Revolution came out 14 years ago btw.

"The emulator makes it run worse" actually no it's the opposite

I unfortunately: • Didn't care too much about the characters • Like the gyms too much • like you said found nothing to do post game.

I actually liked Bede's story. yeah, his asshole period was pretty cut off, but I like the fact that he got character development and is a much more rounded character than some other ones.

This is the game that runs on the same console as fire emblem three houses. A game with a lot of unique animations

No. SwSh literally sucks as a modern videogame. Even more so when you remember it is on the Switch! Do you really need me to list other first party games on the Switch?! Geez, just go watch the NinDirect from this morning about Animal Crossing NH. That is how you evolve a beloved game series to the next level....for the fans...not just for the millions of dollars you will be getting. Pokemon is a literal shithole.

I wish they didn't need a gimmick every game. Megas, z-moves, Alolan forms, dmax, gmax, and galarain forms. I would be happy to have them just retcon everything but megas if they just commit to add new ones and maybe taking away some old mega to prevent power creep. Pokemon Camp was a good evolution of Pokemon Amie and pokemon refresh. I wish they would do a game with no over arching battle gimmick. Like Gen 3-5. (The golden age imo) Gen 6 and 7 where pretty good. Gen 8 is rock bottom so far.

15:00 who tf needs to grind for a gym in these games the exp share literally avoided all of that

i think digimon redigitize did the wild area thing back on the PSP. Edit: that was eight years ago, mind you.

I disagree, this game is a total ripoff. Great vid still.

I got excited for a pokemon game once. then they said they were cutting out pokemon. Then everything just went downhill from there.

Nintendo Players: "They are reselling content that should have been in the game from the get-go!" PlayStation/PC/Xbox Players: "First time?"

Imagine Pokémon Black and White remakes being reduced to this level of quality.

The expansion pass is a mess because they locked the GTS behind it, so this, "You can trade without buying it" is not true, the only trade option in the base game is random wonder trades, you're lucky to get Pokemon you wanted from the other game with wonder trade even this far in. These games are a joke and not worth the money, if you compare them to anything else in the same price range, not even mentioning how much more money they have than literally all the other devs. These expansions are a joke and don't deserve to succeed.

Me: Hey Game Freak, can I have Infernape, a starter and very popular pokemon due to the fact? GameFreak: Nah we cut it for balancing reasons lol Me: Oh okay-- GameFreak: Hahah sword goes *SHWING*

The only reason I love Sordward and Shielbert is because they are hilariously bad. And Sordward’s hair is PRICELESS. I wish they were the leaders of the evil team so when they are all marching away in large groups you could see all their sword hair flopping around everywhere 😂

It's also the easiest and shortest Pokemon game. I just can't with the Pokemon series. I thought the 3ds era was bad but the switch era so far has made those look like good games. I think I'm actually done with this series and it used to be my favorite game series of all time. Also there is no postgame like at all. Not a single new town or area is introduced even the terrible XY had kiloude city. Their actual postgame is probably the dlc expansion pass but you gotta pay for it.

Gym leaders were an absolute joke. I just played in the wild area for half an hour and was 10 levels over, wiping out the entire game. And the story? 1. Beat easy gym 2. Get spoon fed a bit more story that I don't care about 3. Grind for 30 minutes and get overdeveloped again 4. Fight easy gym Rinse and repeat.

I love how you put in the dragon quest music, brings a lot of memories.

My issue with the story is that, Say what you will with previous gen like Ultra Moon/Sun but there was a grand story going and YOU were involved. But in SW/SH it's like "WHOOOOAAAA AWESOME THING GOING ON HERE you should get back to your gym challenges, we'll handle it from here :3" it's like if you were playing Pokemon Gold/Silver and you heard Team Rocket is cutting off the tails from Slowpokes and instead of you going down to stop them, someone just tells you they'll handle it instead. The pokemon Stories are formulaic, but SW/SH breaks that form in all the wrong ways. And Rose just felt so half-baked as the antag, "WE NEED TO DO THE THING NOW LEON" "Okay but lemme do this thing first which will take only one more" "NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" the whole gigamax threat was hardly there as even during the darkest day as it was still bright and cheery. The small post quest we got, the two brothers felt like SLIGHTLY more compelling villains than Rose ever did, celebrities that abuse their status to get what they want while trying to preserve their family image? Sounds great!

i'd rather get the expansion for free as to make up for the lack of content but ok shill out your 30 bucks i guess

I would much rather Game Freak had dove more into Mega Evolutions than Z-Moves and Dynamaxing. Mega-Es were way cooler! They could've designed a Normal type Mega-E for Eevee with massive buffs, making players value Eevee's pre-evolution just as much as its multiple post-evolutions! And other Pokemon like Flygon or Jinx could've gotten more attention. And I'm sure they would've been way more popular if the Pokedex entries for the Mega-Es were written to be more epic instead of depressing shit like "it's in constant pain while in this form"

You're fine with them charging you more to fix problems they created in the base game? You lost me there.

Pokémon Colosseum, a game that came out almost 17 years ago, had better animations than this.

It’s a 3ds game ported to the switch

The story is the worst Pokemon story ever. The stories get progressively worse gen by gen

my biggest issue with the national dex is why they cut it. They directly stated they were making new models and animations for all of the pokemon that were going to be in the game. Nearly 1000 models to fully animate is a lot to ask for, so if more expressive pokemon that looked better was the trade for that, I was fine with not having the national dex. The problem came with the reveal trailer, where we saw (big surprise) that the models were just ported from the 3DS, and only a handful of moves were getting new animations. It felt like a massive middle finger to me, and it was clear that Gamefreak did it because of time constraints. Modeling is hard, but if you're going to promise us something, you'd damn well better deliver on it.

I loved the amazing world to explore, so many amazing creatures to find, the side quests and lore were all super fun and interesting to read/complete. Even though the main story was not amazing, the other parts of the game really made up for it. Xenoblade Chronicles X was an underrated masterpiece.

Don’t mind me I’m just finishing ruby for the 20th time

I’m just really not happy with Regional Legendaries... kind of sucks that they’re taking away what made them legendary. Just make more new ones 🙄

4:22: When i heard that the first time i thought it's a Joke. Gamefreak can't be that lazy. But yeah, they are, and people defend them, saying it's natural to Reuse Things. Lots of things. Lots of lots of things, in the Best-selling Franchise they have, and even then, they still make Mistakes when doing this...

Pokémon Sword And Shield More Like Pokémon Sword And Sh*t For Not Adding National Dex

I'm Canadian, that means for me this is an $80 game. Pokemon is one the biggest franchises on earth and they fall behind single person dev teams in basic functionality,, even $5 indie RPG maker games on steam have voice overs. I'm not sure if Gamefreak is actually incompetent or just lazy, but this game is NOT worthy of being on a console over a handheld

"Mr. Penis Hair" = Exactly what I thought! Also it's a crime that niether Looker, Cynthia OR Red&Green show up. And in a game with so little content they couldn't at least let us go back to the Kalos region for a minimal short postgame quest?

1:13 oh my god the music gave me the deepest dragon quest IX nostalgia...

What I really disliked was the type imbalances and leader pokemon choices. I remember fighting the gym leaders again after finishing the game and 2 of them had the same pokemon (torkoal, for fire and dragon guys I think) who wasn't even the right type for one of them. That stuff happened a lot in the first games when there weren't many pokemon, but there is no excuse now in my opinion. Also the fact that basically no one except hop has 6 pokemon, it felt pretty lackluster to fight the last gym leader who didn't have a full team...

While just playing it’s kinda fun. it’s like watching sword art online where it’s good if you don’t think about it but once you think about what’s going on you feel disgusting

Probably would've picked it up if not for the price. Pokemon has always been around 30 to 40 dollars since it was handheld. I'm not a very big fan, so that price tag was barely worth it already. Fast forward and the price is 20 dollars more with arguably less and/or worse content. Lost my sale national dex or not.

nice that they fix their problems with the expansion pass but they shouldnt sell the fixes in the first place

You are really good at explaining and describing these things. Funny as hell lol I enjoy seeing more from you

The game is trash. I literally passed the game in 2 days, just getting rare candy and XP share from gigantamax pokemon in the open wild area. The gyms aren't challenging and the game throws pkmn at you. No need to grind for certain ones.

Expectations: A BoTW-size open world filled with every Pokemon in existence and able to visit any town and challenge any gym in any order while the gym leaders pick their teams according to the player's level during their battle. Reality: A badly ported lazily made recycled 3DX game with less content than previous DX games which were half the price.

A few things to sort out the game: More Pokémon. More interactivity with the Gym Leaders. More exploration of Leon and Sonia's rivalry. Have Hop's inferiority complex reach a breaking point where he joins Rose in a desperate bid in his quest to become stronger. Bebe actually having an arc. The Wild Area being it's own separate thing; seriously if they've based Galar on the U.K, we have the island of Ireland literally West of Wales. Why not have Ireland be a stand in for the Wild Area. That way you'd be able to flesh out the region with more towns (seriously over here we have so many small villages) that focused on different aspects of Pokémon training. One town could be a breeding town, one could be a contest town, another could be a history/fossil town and so on. This way the Wild Area gets to breathe as its own thing, where biomes can be thoroughly mapped out and the main region could stand on its own as a properly interconnected region.

Hope you get genuinely happy soon mate ❤️

Just came across this video. Probably the most accurate Sword & shield review I've watched. Plus, it's littered with actual comedy which is great! Although there was blatant flaws with the game, I'd be lying if I said it didn't bring me a LOT of joy throughout my first playthrough. Only during my second playthrough did I really look at it from a critical standpoint. And yes, the piss riddled, half baked cake became very apparent. In conclusion, it sorta sucks.

I also HIGHLY recommend any Shin Megami Tensei game on 3DS. Any entry of that series on the 3DS makes Pokémon look like a complete joke of a game.

I really wished the "Legendary Sub-Plot" was more prominent and that you saw more of the Zamazenta and Zacian through out the game, making it when you FIGHT ALONG SIDE THEM, more meaning full.

I already came to the conclusion that Pokémon isn't good anymore. It's all a sellout franchise now. GameFreak doesn't care about Pokémon at this point, but they know 30 year old manchildren who still live with their parents and who get off to the 10 year old female protagonist that they'll undoubtedly choose will automatically buy it.

Yeah this game was garbage. Got it for my little bro and it was a complete waste of munnee

I got this game barely when quarantine began. One of my friends told me I would hate it but I figured give it a change. At first I honestly loved the game. That lasted about 3 hours. There was so much potential but literally this game had no depth and felt so 2 dimensional. It just felt like you were progressing on a number line, going from step 1 to 2, to 3 and so forth. At least the other games had other features or "mini games" you could do to take a break from the main story. The ones offered in this game were so gimmicky.

I keep coming back to this video for that perfect "FUCKING NEVER"

"story kinda good" aaaaaaaand we're done here

Yeah, no. I have lost all hope for pokemon. Here's hoping that DLC fixes everything or expect more pokeanger.

You went kinda soft with that 7/10 score based on how much you criticized the game. I was expecting a 6 at most.

THE DQIX MUSIC SENT SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE, OMG I HAVEN’T HEARD IT IN FOREVER. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

Gen 7 came out I was like , ill wait for gen 8 .... now im waiting for gen 9

Idk the expansion pack including some more of the removed pokemon feels to me like real reason why pokemon were cut in the first place. Sure, people will say "oh but the pokemon update is free, you dont need to buy the dlc to transfer them after" But let's be real here, from a greedy/manipulation stand point, if you took a break from this game, and poked your head back in because 200~ are back in, would you really not get the dlc as well at that point, if you're getting back into it? I actually thought they'd do this as soon as the initial announcement of dexit happened, and well... it happened. Still haven't paid 60$, and I'm not paying 90$ anytime soon. I own every other pokemon game (hard copies of each generation) btw, so you can't call me a fake fan.

I'm not gonna lie I dislike the sword and shield competitive and wild area after a while because it's the same repetitive thing every time. ( Competitive is the same thing because everyone uses the same shit )

I still question why ur not that popular, great editing, made me laugh alot and yati yati ya Great content👌