a person working in sword-shield testing team told me some info about the games, he has been very cryptic to avoid any risk but here you have it
> many main female characters
> your rival is not friendly anymore, she has a powerful backstory
> gym masters have a signature mon each, making up a pattern that will surprise fans
> evil team's appearence is a bit confusing at first cause they seem to be wealthy people, according to my source they are plotting some kind of conspiracy in the shade
> in fact there is no clear distinction between good and bad people
no more details about story or characters as the game is still in development, but there are some more things to note
> my source was quite amused about the theories spreading all over the internet, most of them are false as far as he can tell
> no reference to armored evolution from what he has had access, he assumes it is not present or at least not as a big feature
> meltan are involved in the galarian industry while melmetal has its own role
> there actually exist quite a few connections to kalos but my source stands it definitely can not be visited
> everything that has been posted about cover legendaries is fake, he strongly believes they will be revealed by may
> no official reveals planned until then, sorry guys