>>41806546>multiplayer is still the main selling point>Doesn't change the fact that battling and trading other people is still a major selling pointWhy are you so fixated on the multiplayer? This is getting tiresome, at this point you're just repeating yourself and I'll end up repeating myself, anon. But I'll keep going for a bit.
Pokémon games are primarily single-player experiences with connectivity features. You can experience most of the entirety of the games without ever connecting to anyone.
An example of a multiplayer-centered game is something like WoW or Fortnite or Overwatch or idk. Almost everything you do in those games is in correlation to interacting other people. And you HAVE to be online to play at all.
Pokémon is a single player game, anon. Just because you CAN trade and battle online as an option doesn't make it a multiplayer game at core.
Going back to the initial point of this circus, just because Pokémon is fairly unique doesn't mean it can't be judged or compared. In general, Pokémon games haven't really been the best-looking or the most impressive RPG games of their respective generations, but with SS it's an all-time new low.
Even if we ignore GameFreak lying and the Dex cut, the games look pretty bad and don't even run at the current-gen standard of 1080p 60fps despite how ridiculously undemanding a turn-based game is.
Not even the fact that they borrowed most of their assets from previous games and that they're more profitable than fucking Star Wars was enough to have them fix the issues that the games have.
Pokémon Sword and Shield have brought nothing to the table that will impact the games forever (despite, maybe the Wild Area, although overworld Pokémon was a LGPE thing).
God, I love Pokémon, but Sword and Shield are the most inexcusable average games that GF has given us and it's unbelievable that so many people will go to such lengths to, not just defend, but praise these fucking garbage shit games.
Good night, anon.
