>>44620620Are you sure about that? This was the fucking Wii.
It wasn't just that people had high expectations for a console game either, people were wanting a return to form and restoration of everything cut from
>>44620627The fact that Galar is supposed to be close to Kalos makes it even more baffling. Everyone keeps talking about it but I seriously can't fathom why they made such a big fuss about Melmetal disappearing 3000 years ago (literally the same fucking time as the war) when none of it even mattered.
I'll take shitty graphics and barebones gameplay but at least make it enjoyable. Look at fucking FIRE EMBLEM. FE is soulless shit now but they care to actually make the gameplay somewhat enjoyable for its fans and tolerable enough with the dialog skip options. Three Houses unironically makes a better Pokemon game than Sword and Shield. Just reskin the monastery to be Poketopia 2.0 and have the zoomed-in battles during each chapter be Pokemon Battles instead. At least then it's fucking tolerable when you want to skip Hop's 1000th exclamation about Lee because you can just skip the dialog and the gameflow is fast enough to where even if everything is shit it's still letting you DO something other than mash a.