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I just beat Pokemon Sword, and I can honestly say
It's alright.
>some ideas were really cool, like how the lategame fights were an elimination style tournament like in the anime
>the whole concept of the Gym Challenge being set in stadiums, with the Gym Missions being the traditional Gym puzzles was really nice
>they play it up and show it as a big spectator sport, which it is
>some of the new Pokemon like Sirfetch'd, Centiskorch, and Falinks are my favourites
>the Wild Area is cool in concept, but poorly, poorly executed
>the game was way, way too easy, even after gimping myself as much as I could
>the story was... actually just okay, like it was fine up until the Macro Cosmos where it was just horrible and literally out of nowhere
>at least with the Aether Foundation in Sun and Moon you had a little build up to them
>I can count on two hands how many evil team fights there were: three in Wyndon (with the same grunt no less), three double battles in the tower, Oleana, Rose, that's it
>they weren't even evil? just fucking stupid
>the Eternatus fight was really cool though
>the characters are inoffensive at worst, and are mostly fine
>Marnie's sweet, Hop's eh, Bede was great but he just fucked off
>although Rose was terrible
>the music's alright
>only Marnie's theme, Bede's theme, and the Gym Leader theme stuck with me
>some tracks clearly had a Unova feel, like Wyndon's theme
>don't care much for Dynamax, so no opinion on it, but I do already miss Megas and Z-Moves
>planned on going through the game with new Pokemon anyway, so it's not like I would've used old Pokemon for the story, but I do miss some of my favourites like the Blissey and Azumarill lines
>the region sucks. that's probably the worst of it, because every town and route feels so lifeless
>graphically it looks fine, it's bright and colourful for the most part
Pokemon Sword and Shield are okay. I don't know what to do now that I've beaten Sword, but I beat it.
