I'll be honest. They're ite. Not amazing, but not shit either. Just ite. Definitely not worth $60 or £50 or some shit. Get it on the cheap if you can or second hand/with store credit or something if you must. But Sword is more fun than Sun and Moon or XY, albeit not by heaps and bounds. GF and TCPi shot themselves in the foot when the games were unintentionally hyped up by "We want to make Pokémon fans say “this is what I’ve been waiting for”