Pokemon Sword

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4.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 5909 Ratings

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  1. Drakko03
    Nov 15, 2019
    9
    Es un gran juego sin duda, quizas el mejor de la serie. Aveces hay que atravesé a cosas que no siempre estarán y dar paso a lo nuevo. Increíble historia, personajes con carisma, nuevos pokemon balanceados. Mi puntuacion es de 95 sobre 10 pero respeto para los que ponen 0 de nota o 1 o hasta 4 de nota pero esa puntuación nunca lo es para ser objetivos. Saludos
  2. Stevetry
    Nov 15, 2019
    3
    The worst Pokemon game EVER
    Pokemon Sword and Shield brings pkm to the next generation with the same tired old mechanics only that this time they decided to cut 60% of the pkm giving you the smallest selection of pkm since Gen 5.
    The reasoning behind the cut was to improve the core of the game but while playing it that was not the case. the game features outdated graphics, worst    The worst Pokemon game EVER
    Pokemon Sword and Shield brings pkm to the next generation with the same tired old mechanics only that this time they decided to cut 60% of the pkm giving you the smallest selection of pkm since Gen 5.

    The reasoning behind the cut was to improve the core of the game but while playing it that was not the case. the game features outdated graphics, worst animations than previous gens to that also add that they somehow made it and easier game than let's go Pikachu.

    Cant not really recommend this game as a Pkm fan and as a consumer is a lazy attempt at a pkm game and is odd that so many people keep enabling them to keep doing this. Collapse    … Expand
  3. 0Bennyman
    Nov 15, 2019
    4
    I am coming at this from the perspective of my last latest pokemon game being Pokemon Pearl so I was hoping on an improvement from that and uhhh, What happened???

    So you know how in the Original games your rival will pick the stronger pokemon to you? You know, to make it more challenging. Uhh, well this game decides to throw that out the window and HE PICKS THE WEAKEST POKEMON, I picked    I am coming at this from the perspective of my last latest pokemon game being Pokemon Pearl so I was hoping on an improvement from that and uhhh, What happened???

    So you know how in the Original games your rival will pick the stronger pokemon to you? You know, to make it more challenging. Uhh, well this game decides to throw that out the window and HE PICKS THE WEAKEST POKEMON, I picked Fire and he picked Grass, like what???

    Also, Cutscenes are so heavy but tbh I can excuse it, it's an okay-ish story (Even if boring) so far but it definitely can be annoying considering I'm supposed to be best friends with my rival??? And with the champion??? I want a reason to fight through to the end and become the best, I don't want to be friends with them. Also Hop is just plain annoying! He's constantly saying how he's the best and will beat me but yet we are best friends, it just seems like he was set up to be a bad person and then suddenly they decided nah they are best buds.

    One thing I CANNOT excuse is SCORBUNNY IS MISSING ANIMATIONS?! High Double Kick animation is literally his model just moving up and then down, there is no actual animation for it. Now for his normall Scorbunny it's kind of okay because he's jumping around and you could kind of say he does kick out BUT his Evolved form Stands still SO IT'S BLATANT.

    The game is beyond easy so far with the game holding your hand as much as possible.

    BUT there are things I like, such as the Multiplayer functionality, being able to just battle my friend anywhere at any time with any rule sets (So keeping us at the same level etc) is really cool! And being able to see other people.

    The Raids were something I was worried about with NPC's and YUP they are awful. Me and my friend almost lost because the NPC's were just awful and died immediately almost causing us to fail.

    The game also looks beautiful imo everywhere except the wild area, it's really nice to look at and while it could obviously look better It's nice to look at.

    The game also runs fine in Handheld and Docked, I've had no noticable issues so far.

    Character customisation is really cool as there is a wide variety of clothing to purchase.

    The reason for the 4 is because it's just lazy, the story is boring and the animation for my Starter is absolutely unacceptable. I hope patches will fix the animations otherwise I will definitely be holding off paying for anything Gamefreak makes again.    … Expand
  4. fred9876543
    Nov 15, 2019
    4
    Long but honest review, listing all the good and bad points I could think of:

    Pros: - Some of the new pokemon are cool (not the starters though), most look good and there are some good animations. - The Galar region does look comfy and has some nice areas. - The graphics, although there are issues, are still better than the previous games and are quite vibrant and colorful. - Raids    Long but honest review, listing all the good and bad points I could think of:

    Pros:
    - Some of the new pokemon are cool (not the starters though), most look good and there are some good animations.
    - The Galar region does look comfy and has some nice areas.
    - The graphics, although there are issues, are still better than the previous games and are quite vibrant and colorful.
    - Raids and camping are good new additions.
    - A lot of trainer customization.

    Cons:
    - The routes outside the Wild Area are short and very linear, and there are only 11 routes.
    - Whereas the Wild Area feels empty and monotonous, although the concept itself is good.
    - The game (besides raids) is very easy except for some minor difficulty spikes, you get overleveled fast, there's almost no strategy needed.
    - It's 15-20 hours of gameplay, 10 if you go fast, which is quite short for a Pokemon game.
    - Especially the last part of the game feels rushed and empty except for the many cutscenes: e.g. the last gym has no puzzle at all, there is no Victory Road, instead of E4 you get battles against the rivals you fought many times already, and the final evil team fight is just a lot of same enemies in the same elevator.
    - Also there's almost no post-game, except for a short after story and a lame Battle Tower without bosses.
    - Even though you can skip some tutorials, there are still a lot of cutscenes and a lot of repeated annoying comments during battles with rivals. The rivals are boring, especially Hop who is annoying.
    - The story is not interesting, predictable (in many aspects the same as in the last game) and sometimes ridiculous.
    - Searching or putting mons up for trade over over the internet is gone, there is no GTS anymore. Y-Comm does not have this I think?
    - Although not a problem for me personally, the fact that they removed more than half of the mons means that players who want to use their mons from previous games often cannot. Also a lot of moves from previous games are gone.
    - Compared to other Switch games the graphics are low quality, and the pop-ins/short viewing distance is quite bad.
    - The music is forgettable at best, and some tracks are just bad (this is subjective of course).
    - Many of the features of previous games are gone again. This is not new though, happened with other Pokemon games too.
    - Finally, there is little innovation except raids. Dynamax is just another gimmick much like Mega Evolution and Z-Moves which we probably won't see again in the next games.

    So even though it has some good points, the game just feels short, easy, rushed, uninspired and boring. Not nearly as immersive as previous games. Which is okay if you don't care for that and just want to catch and battle some cool/cute Pokemon. But I think it will be disappointing for many long time players.    … Expand
  5. DobleC
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    If we were facing a GameCube game, the game would probably have a 7 (due to Dexit and lack of content and animations).

    But we are faced with a game of the most successful franchise in history (ergo a franchise that generates a lot of money) and sincerely it is shameful the technical work it has. Anyway, if you're not very smart (as with the vast majority of Pokémon fans) you probably    If we were facing a GameCube game, the game would probably have a 7 (due to Dexit and lack of content and animations).

    But we are faced with a game of the most successful franchise in history (ergo a franchise that generates a lot of money) and sincerely it is shameful the technical work it has.
    Anyway, if you're not very smart (as with the vast majority of Pokémon fans) you probably won't even notice.

    As good points, the music is great, the game (when it is not frozen or terrible laggin) looks nice too and you can also finish it in less than 10 hours if you rush, so you can go play any other game of Pokémon that is good (from DS and earlier).

    Lazyness :/    … Expand
  6. adamskate123
    Nov 15, 2019
    9
    Having not played a mainline Pokémon RPG in quite some time I was pleasantly surprised by Sw&Sh. While the graphics are not the best for a Switch game, the gameplay is engaging and the quality of life improvements most welcomed. Overall it’s an excellent experience!
  7. Akino1994
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    Gamefreak not only snapped half of the pokemon, they also snapped half their development effort.
    It's a buggy mess of a game and you shoudn't get it.
    And it comes with FREE DLC of snapping your safe files of all your games too.
  8. montyb
    Nov 15, 2019
    2
    Mediocre. That's the only word that comes to mind. This was not the step forward we'd hoped for, and Pokemon has been completely left behind by it's Switch peers. The Wild feels like a beta feature. It's flat, too small to be considered "open world". Difficulty is non-existent as I had to self-impose challenges on a blind run just to remain engaged enough to keep playing. Your rival andMediocre. That's the only word that comes to mind. This was not the step forward we'd hoped for, and Pokemon has been completely left behind by it's Switch peers. The Wild feels like a beta feature. It's flat, too small to be considered "open world". Difficulty is non-existent as I had to self-impose challenges on a blind run just to remain engaged enough to keep playing. Your rival and the champion are basically cut and pasted from Sun and Moon. There is nothing to explore outside of that very small wild area, as the rest of the game is basically on-rails. There are interesting looking places in the background, but you never get to go there. The best way I've heard it put is, it's like a trip to Disney. You can look at the castle, but it's a set piece, there's nothing more to it. Add to that all the cut corners, graphical glitches, the save problem, and the outright removal of staple features (National Dex, moves, Megas, GTS, etc.) This is the first time I've come away from a mainline pokemon game, outright regretting having played it.… Expand
  9. Marioyluigi
    Nov 15, 2019
    1
    Una lastima sinceramente, pénse que iba a ser como un zelda , pero solo tuve un juego que se repite año tras año quedandose en los tiempos anteriores, no hay cambios, hay recortes, animaciones que dan pena, personajes que se pasan de infantiles a tontos, no hay vida con esa banda sonora, Las voces de los pokemon poco originales, tengo que volver a leer y no le pueden poner voces, textura,Una lastima sinceramente, pénse que iba a ser como un zelda , pero solo tuve un juego que se repite año tras año quedandose en los tiempos anteriores, no hay cambios, hay recortes, animaciones que dan pena, personajes que se pasan de infantiles a tontos, no hay vida con esa banda sonora, Las voces de los pokemon poco originales, tengo que volver a leer y no le pueden poner voces, textura, graficos, historia, todo es malo , no hay nada rescatable.… Expand
  10. Crackdily
    Nov 15, 2019
    10
    Pokémon parece reinvertarse en estas entregas, no te llegan de la mano, los nuevos monstruos son bien presentados a comparación de otras versiones (en XY y SM abundaban más los Pokémon de otras regiones que sus respectivos nuevos monstruos. Buena jugabilidad e historia. En definitiva se puede decir que este es: "El verdadero Game of the Century"...
  11. Hasoon10
    Nov 15, 2019
    10
    Amazing game, and most negative reviews are probably made by people who had a strong opinion on the game before its release due to the lack of the national dex.
  12. Totto692
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    More of the same.... but less. The story is soo lame, the graphics underwhelming, the routes are boring, not challenging trainers. The wild area is probably the most exciting feature, but the execution both visually and functionally feels unpolished, The pop in, ugly trees, broken water reflections, not as big as zelda botw like they promised.
    I wont give it a pass just because it is    More of the same.... but less. The story is soo lame, the graphics underwhelming, the routes are boring, not challenging trainers. The wild area is probably the most exciting feature, but the execution both visually and functionally feels unpolished, The pop in, ugly trees, broken water reflections, not as big as zelda botw like they promised.
    I wont give it a pass just because it is Pokemon, It is a lazy cash grab game. Not what Gamefreak promised.    … Expand
  13. Pcero321
    Nov 15, 2019
    1
    Es el peor juego de todo el año, lamentable que uno de las franquicias mas importantes del mundo, se haya envuelto en una conformidad que da pena ajena, animaciones muy torpes , malas , musica muy simple que en combates no me da emoción , si no ganas de apagar la portatil e irme, y lo vende a precio completo, parece un juego indie.
  14. QueDuBonheur
    Nov 15, 2019
    1
    This is by far the most disappointing Pokémon game of the main serie ever released. Game Freak laziness is an insult to the fans. it's by no means the most ugly and lazy exclusive on the Switch.

    + Artistic direction + Trainer customization + New pokémons - Cut content everywhere - Lot of techinal issues including clipping, wrong background, fps drops, crashs, time stop, bad distance    This is by far the most disappointing Pokémon game of the main serie ever released. Game Freak laziness is an insult to the fans. it's by no means the most ugly and lazy exclusive on the Switch.

    + Artistic direction
    + Trainer customization
    + New pokémons
    - Cut content everywhere
    - Lot of techinal issues including clipping, wrong background, fps drops, crashs, time stop, bad distance view, etc.
    - Linear and holds your hand
    - Story not engaging
    - Almost no post-game
    - Braindead difficulty even for a child
    And the list go on and on and on...

    You should avoid this or at least be prepared for a very underwhelming experience.    … Expand
  15. DanielCarrilho
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    Is this really the next generation Pokemon game for the Nintendo Switch? It's somehow worse than the 3DS Pokemon games, lacking all the features with nothing to make up for it.
  16. blackabe111
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    10/10 minus one point for every of my favorite Pokemon missing from the game. I have to many favorite Pokemon
  17. IndomitableFark
    Nov 15, 2019
    2
    Aside from the dex cut, heavily-memed animations, mostly empty areas, lack of a story, nonexistent post game, and subpar music, what bothered me most was the difficulty. The exp. share is now REQUIRED to be on at all times. What this means is that all of your Pokemon level up even when you don't want them to. It creates an annoyingly precarious imbalance of exploration with difficulty. IfAside from the dex cut, heavily-memed animations, mostly empty areas, lack of a story, nonexistent post game, and subpar music, what bothered me most was the difficulty. The exp. share is now REQUIRED to be on at all times. What this means is that all of your Pokemon level up even when you don't want them to. It creates an annoyingly precarious imbalance of exploration with difficulty. If you explore too much (by the way, there's practically LESS to explore than Sun and Moon), you wind up grossly overleveled for whatever sense of a challenge the game tries to throw at you. If you don't explore to try and stay within the right level range, you just rush through the game even quicker because, surprise, surprise, you'd still probably be overleveled anyway. The only way around this is to force yourself to be constantly catching and switching out Pokemon, which is never how I like to play the games. In addition, with the aforementioned dex cut, your options for team creations for repeat playthroughs are severely limited. There ARE many good things that were added, but for a game that was promised to be for experienced players over a year before its release, this game is anything but. Simply put, Pokemon Sword and Shield are the worst games in the series -- and I've played them all.… Expand
  18. Gears2011
    Nov 15, 2019
    1
    No lo compres, mira analisis pero obviamente no de youtuber que solo hablan de nintendo, si no de aquel que habla de todo, porque este juego realmente es una verdadera verguenza, que infantil son los perssonajes , con unicas animaciones toscas y torpes , parecen que ni siquiera en el diseño se han esforzado, No lo compren.
  19. BigBlue42
    Nov 15, 2019
    1
    The game simply feels unfinished in all areas.
    For starters, the infamous Pokemon cut; this wouldn't be so bad if the extra dev time was truly used to make up for other areas of the game, but I simply do not see where that extra effort has gone.
    The visuals are lackluster compared to most Switch titles. The story is very basic. The main campaign of the game is roughly 20 hours at a    The game simply feels unfinished in all areas.
    For starters, the infamous Pokemon cut; this wouldn't be so bad if the extra dev time was truly used to make up for other areas of the game, but I simply do not see where that extra effort has gone.
    The visuals are lackluster compared to most Switch titles.
    The story is very basic. The main campaign of the game is roughly 20 hours at a leisurely pace, which is quite short for the Pokemon franchise. They've also decided to disallow you from shutting off EXP Share; this wouldn't be an issue, if the game was balanced around this, but it feels as though you're overlevelled for every encounter in the game, leading even dynamic, challenging battles to be swept through with no challenge at all. On top of this, the endgame is mediocre as well; it's little more than rematches with the gym leaders, meager story content of little impact, and a basic Battle Tower with no gimmicks, no hard mode, no bosses, nothing.

    Sword and Shield do have some spare quality of life improvements, which I will credit the game for. They have improved the method of obtaining competitively viable Pokemon drastically, changes which do make me quite hopeful for future installments that may be better than this one; however, the quality of life changes are drastically overshadowed by the game's flaws.

    The only reason anyone would review this game positively is if they're a very surface-level player; someone who doesn't particularly care about playing Pokemon long term, someone who just wants something they can shut their brain off with, that offers nothing that any other Pokemon game hasn't already given.

    The reason why people are so critical of this fact is because Game Freak promoted this game by saying that this would be the title made for the long-time fans of the franchise, the people who are passionate about the games; however, this was an outright lie. One of many lies used to make this game look better than it is. People need to be able to accept that this is a bad Pokemon game: If you don't, and simply mindlessly approve of anything Game Freak produces, the franchise will only continue to decline.    … Expand
  20. Andi16ID
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    After avoiding leaks and spoiler I finally got to played the game for 10 hours and then decided to sell it on eBay because I never thought franchise that I used to love has become a quick money grab. There's absolutely nothing ground breaking in the game. After releasing great games like Breath of The Wild and Odyssee I never thought Nintendo would allow Pokémon to release this excuse of aAfter avoiding leaks and spoiler I finally got to played the game for 10 hours and then decided to sell it on eBay because I never thought franchise that I used to love has become a quick money grab. There's absolutely nothing ground breaking in the game. After releasing great games like Breath of The Wild and Odyssee I never thought Nintendo would allow Pokémon to release this excuse of a game.

    I hope they start from the scratch and pretends this game never existed.    … Expand
  21. rbesaaco
    Nov 15, 2019
    3
    The main problem with this games isn't even their varied tiny flaws (absent animations, graphical issues, same models as 3DS games etc.). Those could be overlooked if not for certain decisions such as Dexit, which means a lot more than just erasing fan-favorite creatures:

    -Dexit means you won't be able to battle against future games that have a different creature selection, reducing    The main problem with this games isn't even their varied tiny flaws (absent animations, graphical issues, same models as 3DS games etc.). Those could be overlooked if not for certain decisions such as Dexit, which means a lot more than just erasing fan-favorite creatures:

    -Dexit means you won't be able to battle against future games that have a different creature selection, reducing the playerbase and shortening it's lifespan.

    -Dexit means unified metagame will dissapear and will be limited to each specific game, making impossible to have a general balance.

    Mix that with intermitent moves and Mega Evolutions (absent from this game, but not discarded from future ones) and you have a fragmented, unsolid competitive game. That's the "balance" GameFreak is making, without actually balancing. They have reduced all complexity to a 30%.

    In my opinion, this games are only valuable for little children with no knowledge of previous Pokémon games, or casual players who doesn't care about learning, breeding or anything battle-related. And even then, we are talking about the worse Pokémon games quality-wise.

    Any other player that knows and cares about fighting with their Pokémon, learning the complex mechanics and breeding their creatures with effort, hardcore or not, should stay away from a game that offers less for more money and builds the basis for an extremely casualized, low quality saga in the future.    … Expand
  22. nicizdiz
    Nov 15, 2019
    3
    As a long time pokemon fan excited for the franchise's first real console outing this game is a tremendous letdown on nearly all fronts. As per usual with the franchise, there are convenient quality of life improvements that are greatly appreciated like having the ability to change nature easily. The fan favorite ability to have customization over your character's appearance has alsoAs a long time pokemon fan excited for the franchise's first real console outing this game is a tremendous letdown on nearly all fronts. As per usual with the franchise, there are convenient quality of life improvements that are greatly appreciated like having the ability to change nature easily. The fan favorite ability to have customization over your character's appearance has also returned which is greatly appreciated. But looking further it feels as though any gains the developers could have made by moving from handheld to console has been completely squandered. Simply put, this is a 3DS game that has been ported to console, there is no other way to describe how pitiful this games looks. This stings even further when the developers claimed reason for not including the full dex was to better fine tune the visuals and animations of what was actually in the game. On top of this, the proven reveal that the in-game models were simply reused from previous games, which itself isn't bad and is honestly expected, makes things even worse when the developers explicitly stated this to not be the case.

    Making matters worse is the lack of content. The series seems to have taken a sharp nosedive in the amount of available content available to the player since the release of Black and White 2, and this game has the least yet while costing 1.5x more than previous games. It is simply astounding that a developer making its big console debut in one of the most beloved franchises in the world would actively choose to not do their best. GameFreak has done better this, can do better than this, and you as a fan deserve better than this. Your money and more importantly your time is better spent elsewhere.    … Expand
  23. FlowSchmoe
    Nov 15, 2019
    6
    This game isn’t a 6 because it’s garbage or unfun.

    This game is a 6 because it’s boring and uninspired. The story mode is mind numbingly simple, the combat is stupidly easy, and the entire game holds your hand like your mom when crossing the street. Add this on top of the fact that GameFreak, the developers of this game, lied when they said they were creating models and high quality    This game isn’t a 6 because it’s garbage or unfun.

    This game is a 6 because it’s boring and uninspired.

    The story mode is mind numbingly simple, the combat is stupidly easy, and the entire game holds your hand like your mom when crossing the street.

    Add this on top of the fact that GameFreak, the developers of this game, lied when they said they were creating models and high quality animations from scratch. This was their excuse for cutting over half of all Pokémon. Instead, they reused the same models and animations from 6 years ago, and it shows.

    While sometimes the graphics look acceptable for a Switch game, other times the graphics look like an N64 game, with the animations looking worse than Pokémon Colosseum from more than 15 years ago.

    Added onto the poor design choices and bugs like the one that corrupted my SD card, this game was obviously rushed and not worth $60.

    Go play Heart Gold/Soul Silver or Black/White if you want a good Pokémon game because this isn’t it.    … Expand
  24. Jbo
    Nov 15, 2019
    4
    A very disappointing new entry for the highest grossing franchise ever.
    The total number of pokemon available has been reduced by approximately 60% and while this could be good to experience new pokemon, the choice to make non-galar mon not even importable is a big **** you to long term fans (with the promise that we MIGHT be able to use the excluded in the next game). Also the choice of    A very disappointing new entry for the highest grossing franchise ever.
    The total number of pokemon available has been reduced by approximately 60% and while this could be good to experience new pokemon, the choice to make non-galar mon not even importable is a big **** you to long term fans (with the promise that we MIGHT be able to use the excluded in the next game). Also the choice of which pokemon to include/excude was rather stupid (e.g. why exclude the lillipup line from a UK-inspired region?).
    The reduced number of pokemon was explained by gamefreak as necessary because all models had to be redone (proven false time and time again) and to include high quality animations (most animations are recicled, many are outright terrible and out of combat animations belong to tge early 2000s, with characters walking on the spot and spinning to turn around).
    Graphical quality is also pretty poor, with wild areas textures and effects being especially bad (e.g. no water ripple effects), yet there are still poor pop-up effects and fps drops.
    The removal of features is a really sad point, with the amazing concept of mega-evolution thrown out of the window to introduce the much more gimmicky and limited dynamax forms.
    The level design is extremely linear and the game is simply too easy, especially due to not being able to turn off the exp. Share. Even childs experience a cake-walk.
    The story is pretty bland, but not outright bad.    … Expand
  25. NINTEDEROPORSIE
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    La banda sonora es tan aburrida , tan mala , no te inspira a seguir más, hasta incluso te da sueño, sus animaciones para este año 2019, da verguenza ajena, tanto dinero que gana pokemon y no le pueden poner voces por lo menos , que las texturas sean respetables. Nos estan tomando el pelo
  26. Golem25
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    Most definitely not worth the price of admission; cut corners everywhere, more than 50% of Pokemon slashed from the game, technical issues, lifeless world, dreadful art direction, and less content (no post-game beyond a small episode and a battle tower clone) for a higher price point. I could not possibly recommend this game at any price above maybe 20 Dollars.
  27. KingBradley3004
    Nov 15, 2019
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. -Recorte de más de 500 Pokémon -Quitaron más de 100 movimientos
    -Postgame casi inexistente -Popping salvaje en el área salvaje, parece que los pokemon te aparecieran en la cara o salieran de la tierra
    -Graficosy animaciones mediocres    … Expand
  28. JuegoG2
    Nov 15, 2019
    1
    Este juego solo lo defiende mi nostalgia ,porque desde hace mucho tiempo dejo de ser divertido, la banda musical, su pobres animaciones , los pokemon poco originales y el recorte que hicieron, me doy cuenta que es una compra sin sentido.
  29. allewel2
    Nov 15, 2019
    0
    Overpriced now ($35x2 used to get you all of the game and now $60x2 only gets you 55%).

    GameFreak just needs to sell Pokémon and let someone else give it the attention it deserves.
  30. EpicGamer420
    Nov 15, 2019
    3
    We live in a society where gamefreak can get away with making a half baked game and changer 60 dollars. With only a fraction of old pokemon and not even 100 completely new pokemon.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 87 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 87
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 87
  3. Negative: 0 out of 87
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Apr 30, 2020
    80
    Sword & 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]
  2. GameCritics
    Feb 6, 2020
    75
    I 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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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jan 14, 2020
    78
    Pokemon 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]
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