Reminder that literally the only reason that Pokemon Sword and Shield are considered "embarrassingly bad" even by a lot of normies is because they cut the National Dex. It had 400 Pokemon at launch, by any reasonable assessment a large number of possible monsters for a game, but it wasn't all of them. That's all it took for people to suddenly realize the series was full of games with no real production value outside of the monster designs. The battle system hadn't meaningfully evolved since 2006, the animation has been sub-indie tier since 1996, the stories are disposable trash, the graphics have only been arguably passable for its time once, and the presentation stands heads and shoulders BELOW any other RPG released by a major company.

You all ate this shit by the spoonful until you realized you couldn't catch Stantler.