- Publisher: Nintendo , The Pokemon Company
- Release Date: Oct 22, 2020
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Nintendo Force MagazineMay 5, 2021Your enjoyment of The Crown Tundra will largely depend on how much you like Legendary Pokémon. [Issue #50 – January/February 2021, p. 19]
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Oct 26, 2020The better of Pokémon Sword and Shield's two expansions, The Crown Tundra provides the best framework yet for an open-world Pokémon game. The new Dynamax Adventures mode provides one heck of a challenge, and the emphasis on Legendary Pokémon is a nice focal point. A few things could've been handled better, but fans likely won't want to put it down.
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Oct 25, 2020The Crown Tundra is a great adventure in Pokémon Sword and Shield. It offers content based on exploration, where we have many Pokémon, as well as a lot of replayability thanks to the Dynamax Adventures and the return of past Legendary Pokémon.
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Oct 26, 2020New features, new creatures and an adventure that deserves your time as much as the original Pokémon games campaign. A much better expansion than The Isle of Armor, but if you consider both expansion as a single offer it could be a great new game that deserves to be played.
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Nov 16, 2020Overall The Crown Tundra is a welcome addition to the main game adding even more content. Whilst it does not go too out of its way to be different if you are looking for just more of that world then you will not be disappointed. This does bring an end to this Generation of Pokemon and hopefully Gamefreak will learn from these games and make the Pokemon Generation more expansive and story rich.
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Oct 29, 2020The Crown Tundra expands the world of Pokémon Sword and Shield with the challenging Dynamax Adventures and new ways to explore Galar looking for Legendary Pokémon.
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Nov 25, 2020A good DLC that marks the ending for the new, experimental path chosen by Game Freak and Nintendo for the Pokémon saga. The second expansion included in Shield and Sword Season Pass adds lots of contents and legendary creatures to discover in a brand new area.
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Nov 4, 2020Compared to the lackluster The Isle of Armor expansion, The Crown Tundra feels much more fleshed out with enjoyable story quests, on top of the very addictive Dynamax Adventures and Galarian Star Tournament, though there is still something missing that prevents it from taking the series to the next level.
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Oct 29, 2020Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Crown Tundra is another fun DLC that offers more cool Pokémon to catch, an awesome new game mode in Dynamax Adventures, and a surprising amount of discovery and secrets. Its weak story, grindy encounters, and modest amount of content are offset by the fact that it nails open-world exploration and the thrill of hunting for legendary Pokémon, even if it doesn’t break a whole lot of new ground doing it.
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Oct 27, 2020Does The Crown Tundra completely reinvent Pokemon Sword and Shield and right everything that has dragged the series down in recent years? No, it doesn’t do that. In fact, at its core, it’s still just more of Sword and Shield. However, it does at least augment the core gameplay experience of Sword and Shield in some really interesting ways through Dynamax Adventures and with Wild Areas being packed with more things to do and see.
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Oct 26, 2020The Crown Tundra is one of the best things that have happened at this generation of Pokémon games. A rich territory, nourished with content and with a new mode, the Dynamax Adventures, which is a success. Sensational set design, mysteries to discover and ideas that fit together perfectly. The Expansion Pass, adding The Isle of Armor, now feels more than remarkable. A pity to have had to wait a whole year.
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GamePro GermanyOct 28, 2020The sheer amount of small advances makes all the difference. The expansion cannot shake the disappointing basic structure of Pokémon Sword and Shield, but it can continue to experiment within the defined framework. The result is a clear success.
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Oct 27, 2020Quotation forthcoming.
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Oct 26, 2020The Crown Tundra is a little inconsistent, but the sheer amount of content and the delightful tundra itself make for Game Freaks best open world experience yet. Also, the many legendary Pokémon and the cooperative Dynamax Adventures give Sword and Shield some welcome new endgame experiences.
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Nov 6, 2020This icy region with its numerous legandary Pokémon, a neat story and the Dynamax adventure gives you a lot of fresh content to explore.
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Ninty Fresh MagazineDec 21, 2020Pokémon fans now have some great new challenges, new Pokémon and more dynamic areas to explore. We wish it had been there from the start. [Issue #2, p.76]
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Oct 23, 2020Now that the season pass is in the hopper, it's easy to feel like Pokemon Sword and Shield are a transitional generation to something greater.
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Oct 30, 2020Pokémon Sword and Shield's final expansion is a fantastic, enticing endgame area that also shows just how great these games could have been.
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Nov 2, 2020The Crown Tundra is a worthy diadem sitting atop Sword & Shield‘s head, but the journey to earn that crown has been a rocky, and safe, one. While this DLC is not enough to fix the issues with the base game (and TCT introduces a few new frustrations of its own), it makes several much-needed improvements that make it worth checking out. We’re still far away from the series’ best efforts, but at the very least, the future looks far brighter for the series than it did a year ago.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 146 out of 224
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Mixed: 29 out of 224
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Negative: 49 out of 224
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Oct 23, 2020
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Oct 23, 2020This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Oct 23, 2020I thought it would have less content because of the rumors, but after trying it I can say that I feel satisfied.