- Publisher: Nintendo
- Release Date: Nov 15, 2019
User Score
Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 5909 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 1,997 out of 5909
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Mixed: 852 out of 5909
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Negative: 3,060 out of 5909
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019It is very good, even if we cannot see all pokemons.
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Nov 18, 2019Would have been an 8 but because of they chose to not include all the Pokemon and remove moves I can't give more than a 3.
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Nov 18, 2019Despite the fact the game could have been better (in graphics) the other features are pretty funny and adictive.
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Nov 17, 2019These are top quality pokemon games in terms of the content available, however what's missing brings them down a bit. Raid battles and the wild area are fun but otherwise there isn't too much to do post game. Graphically these games are amazing in some areas but the textures in the wild area are unpolished. Overall these games are good but could be better
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019The game is very fun and I seriously recommend giving it a second chance.
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Nov 18, 2019This game is a disaster. A major disappointment in literally every regard. GameFreak clearly doesn't have any love for the franchise what so ever, and should not be allowed to make anymore of these games. Complete waste of 60$ for my part...
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Nov 18, 2019Sure, it's cute and all, but with removing everything that seemed essential to the series, not having anything to do after beating the game, and reusing everything from the old games, you'd have to ask where 3 years of development time went into. I'd pass.
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019I finished the game in about 20 hours and had fun, the game is obviously rushed but i still think it isn't that bad
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019The game feels pretty rushed with lots of errors and glitches. Images cutting out in battle, sprites clipping into each other, models rotating in circles when they are trying to walk... also the sprites are the same from the previous 3DS games.
Not including all the Pokemon aside, the new Pokemon designs are cool and are the small saving grace for the game. -
Nov 18, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 18, 2019For a Pokemon game that has turned natural progression into a grindy feel and just no consistency to previous games. Size, weight the look and play style of the Pokémon has completely changed and for the worse
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019Jogo so peca em não ter todos os PK de resto esta mil vezes melhor que todos os jogos anteriores.
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Nov 18, 2019Sin contar con el algunos errores visuales considero que es un muy buen juego de pokemon
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Nov 18, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019Llevo 2/3 de la aventura del juego y me esta gustando, por lo menos mas que Sol y Luna. El apartado gráfico esta muy bien (Menos en la zona silvestre) y el diseño de los Pokemon es por mucho, bastante mejor que la generación anterior.
Espero que hagan algunas actualizaciones del juego para mejorar la calidad del mismo. -
Nov 18, 2019If I could I would score a 0 for these games.
-GameFreak lied about the models and cut 400 odd Pokemon for it.
-Wild area is very lazily done and very bad graphically
-Games feel very empty in design and in length
-Almost no post game
-No mega evolution or Z moves.
Overall I could write forever on why these games are bad but this should scratch the surface. -
Nov 18, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 18, 2019
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Nov 18, 2019Hilarious. The rating matches the percentage of Pokémon left in the game. RIP
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Nov 18, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
Awards & Rankings
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Nintendo Force MagazineApr 30, 2020Sword & Shield stumble in a few areas and history may not be kind to them, but they're setting up a future that I'm excited to see. [Issue #44 – January/February 2020, p. 73]
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Feb 6, 2020I enjoyed my time with Pokemon Sword and Shield, but I ended feeling conflicted. I appreciate many of the changes and felt that it generally respected my time, but I almost felt like a passive participant. The more complex gym challenges had a meatier role, but the narrative shouldn’t have been shoved to the side. Overall, I would recommend it to players who want to have a Pokemon experience, but this one won’t stick with me the way the older ones have.
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Game World Navigator MagazineJan 14, 2020Pokemon Sword/Shield is uncharacteristically user-friendly: now there’s no need to backtrack half across the world to heal your entire team of pokemon or to get to a particular city, for example. [Issue#242, p.66]