#like it's pretty obvious that sordward and shielbert were added late in development | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

konotton · 1 year ago

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I remember seeing someone respond "why would you want your game to release unfinished" in response to someone saying they wanted DLC for Pokémon Legends Arceus and that's stuck with me ever since

because like

not all DLC—the vast majority of it, even—is new content rather than stuff cut from the base game

I want to say "how do you even come to that conclusion" but I feel like the answer's pretty obvious

#here's a hint #it's because pokémon SWSH felt incomplete at launch to a lot of the fanbase #and that person probably never played any other franchise tbh lmao #I don't really agree that SWSH felt unfinished #but they DID feel rushed #particularly in the latter half of the game #i.e. everything but the tournament arc story #like it's pretty obvious that sordward and shielbert were added late in development #and the raid battles in each of the gyms were supposed to be leading up to the eternatus fight #because why else would they talk so much about dynamax pokémon running rampamt during darkest day 2 electric boogaloo #game freak probably realized they didn't have the time to make an actual postgame and thus just cut and pasted #and that's also why the actual climax is so bare-bones now #but that's just a theory #a game theory #thanks for watching

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