So I revisited Sword again for the first time in a while (since isle of armor release I think) and just explored some of the towns and routes again just for the heck of it. Honestly, i have to the say the graphics aren't actually *that* bad for the towns/cities/routes, dare I say even decent.

The areas that are graphically flawed undoubtedly though are the wild areas, I know theres a whole meme now about people complaining about trees in the game but seriously when theres something that looks like ass scattered throughout a somewhat barren wastelend (which frankly looked underwhelming to begin with) it really does end up looking, well, shit. ESPECIALLY dusty bowl, man those toothpick trees are just awful. I guess because the wild area is supposed to be the main section of the game, and that it looks pretty bad graphically, it dismisses the fact that the rest of the region looks alright. The crappy animations also take away from the experience too.

TLDR; SwSh graphics are actually solid, EXCEPT for the wild areas.