>>50858960It didn't pave shit. Legends Arceus actually innovated. Sword and Shield did nothing new or remarkable. It introduced a controllable camera in very 3 large areas meanwhile the game's actual plot was completely on rails. It did nothing with overworld pokemon either. They didn't interact w/ the environment or the player beyond chasing or ignoring them. LA actually does something with these concepts.
>>50855229Kill yourself, Sword and Shield are objectively the worst main series Pokemon games. I'd say worst pokemon games in general if it weren't for fucking garbage like Pokemon Channel, or Dash.
>>50855458Sword and Shield are a Nintendo Switch game with just barely more pokemon in them than a DS game that came out a decade prior to its DLC and it would have been extra easy to put all the pokemon in since they were recycling future proofed assets anyway. The developers gave 3 different excuses as to why this happened and none of them were true. With Sword and Shield came Home, an abysmally designed transfer paywall 3× larger than Bank which now has the GTS bundled in for whatever reason when it went perfectly fine in the games themselves. Sword and Shield is literally Pokemon, the fanbase, and Game Freak at their worst. Sword and Shield irreparably damaged the fanbase with constant infighting. It didn't do anything new either. Raids were in Go, cooking minigames have been a thing since Gen 3, Rotomi and Rotom phone are just Rotom dex knockoffs, Poke-Jobs are worse PokePelago since they can't be accessed everywhere like they could in SM. The game's even more casualized by removing the EXP share toggle and letting you fuck with your boxes anywhere. It's a fucking disaster of a game that had a purely negative impact for its audience whether they liked it or not. The worst part is that it's one of the best selling games in the series so Game Freak knows they're free to pull a stunt like this again and face zero repurcussions.
