#swsh wasnt exactly bad but its

[trenchcoatsbi]

OKAY YES IT MIGHT BE CONTROVERSIAL BUT IT'S SO VERY TRUE- Alola was so FUN AND EXCITING AND NEW and then there was. The rest. Pf. I never really got into any of it, I kinda dropped off after swsh but even then I don't even think I finished it fully or ever learned the whole plot???? I know we played a LOT of it but it wasn't very fun, the most fun we had was with the outfits loll. AND YES. STOP MAKING NEW MECHANICS WHEN WE WERE PERFECTLY.HAPPY WITH THE OLD ONES??????? N YOU KNOW THEY'RE JUST INVENTING THESE NEW MECHANICA JUST TO DROP THEM JUST AS FAST AS THEY DROPPED MEGA EVOLUTION. STOP COMIG UP WITH NEW STUFF IF YOU DON'T GAF ABOUT IT. IT'S SO ANNOYI NG. WHO CARES ABOUT THE CRYALIZIMG THING. GIGANTAMAXXING IS JUST MEGA EVOLUTION BUT WORSE. Z moves are FUN and INDEED BASED. AND YET.

The quality of the new games certainly is. Something. That's for sure.

AND I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY KNOWN FULLY ABOUT THE ASH GRWNINJA FHING. THAT'S ACTUALLY RIDICULOUS. WHAT THE HELL. I KNOW ASH IS THE MAIN CHARACTER BUT LIKE. WHAT. That is SUCH an anime ass thing to make up. It'd be fun if it MADE ANY SENSE 😭😭😭😭. You can't just make stuff like that up without launching for within the world??? This would have DEFINITELY been seen before and happened before ash, it doesn't make sense for it to be an ash exclusive thing when the entire thing about Pokemon is that they have a unique and close bonds with trainers ??????? That's the whole thing????? That's pokemon??????

Nd yea it's not like catching Pokemon takes away their autonomy, it's not mind control, they're wild pokemon!! They'd definitely freak the fuck out if they hated being owned. They're really really powerful wild animals of COURSE they'd let the trainer know if that was a no go thing. And yeah, even if the Pokemon doesn't want to be owned / caught its proven through every Pokemon media ever that being owned is a good thing for them, making bonds with humans and other Pokemon really helps them grow and change for the better!!!! That's like. The main theme of pokemon!!!! I don't really know what the team's are on lol

Also sorry it took me so long to answer I got distracted and also its really hard to type on the device im on 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

-thesculksys (richie)

nothing to say but BASED AND HTANK YOU

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[perenlop]

video game animations for me are like... not really the decisive factor to me, even if the presentation of a game is kinda bad i can tolerate it. but my bar is that i dont want it to be distractingly bad yknow? 

sadly pokemon fits into distractingly bad tho 

[hopecountyisforlovers]

rant under the cut dont read this if you like pokemon swsh or dont want spoilers. or do if you like to start fights i guess fsjdlfjsdkl

saw a few people say it wasnt so bad and this isnt like. coming after them or anything but sword and shield are just so so rushed that its like. more thought was put into the aftergame i.e raising a real competitive team to battle online than like the. real experience of it. the story is SO so linear that it leaves little room for exploration and theres not much to explore anyway. the gen3 games had more content than sword and shield. i played pokemon sapphire for YEARS after i finished it and never picked up swsh ONCE. and dont even get me started on the fucking mess that is the STORY like. oh my god. its so bad. its literally just the story of su/mo but with absolutely everything done completely wrong. leon and the few hot gym leaders are its absolute only saving grace. the game is PUSHOVER easy and thats coming from someone who cheats at hard pokemon games because i LOVE to be overleveled and feel overpowered and sexy and never lose. not once in swsh did i feel like i earned anything it more felt like it was all just being handed to me. the storyline with hop is depressing and honestly ? that problem pervades what little story there is. its depressing. i do not want to think about the ENERGY CRISIS in the middle of my POKEMON GAME i do not want to see a SAD DEAD CORSOLA what is WRONG with you gamefreak. and its depressing on a meta level because its the beginnings of something awful for a franchise ive loved my entire life, that has helped me get through some of the worst times ive ever lived through. it signifies Making Money becoming more important to them than making something thats actually Fun or Better than what theyve Already Made

and i know. i know its not the gamedevs fault they were put under massive strain and forced to work a ridiculous amount. dont come after me with “they did the best they could with the time they had” or some old bullshit like i KNOW that. but the problems with this game are SYSTEMIC

like i always think of that one scene. im pretty sure it was near the end of the game when theyre setting up rose as a villain where youre waiting for leon, a guy known for getting lost and being late, but because he doesnt show up on time hop gets worried for some reason?? and you find out from oleana or w/e that leon is talking to the chairman and its framed like hes ?? in danger ?? and you have to rescue him?? despite him being the undefeated champion of this region for at least ten years and you being Two Children?? so oleana tells you how to get to the place she clearly doesnt want you to be and you have to battle through all the guys and her to get to leon but once youre there he just. LEAVES WITH YOU of his own volition ?? he was literally never in any danger at all ?? so the only reason we did that was to set rose up for his villain reveal quite literally the VERY NEXT DAY ?? if this was a cartoon or a movie or anything else it would be ripped apart for being stupid and contrived and badly written because quite frankly it Is so why are so many people just OKAY with it it drives me absolutely insane. the game holds your hand to a quite frankly ridiculous degree. at no point can you walk more than about two steps without someone showing up to dump exposition on you and give you free revives you dont need because the game is Piss Easy and tell you EXACTLY where to go like these games that have been out since 1999 still thinks youre too stupid to already know how to play them which granted has kind of always been a thing but NEVER to this extent. a catching tutorial is one thing but this is completely and totally Another 

i just. man sword and shield bums me out. the first mainline pokemon games on what some would call a real console since the n64 and all they amount to is boring predictable garbage with half the content cut out and sold to you for 30 extra dollars after the fact. everything in swsh probably could have been done 15 years ago on the Original DS and i really hope they dont continue with this trend. i really want to be excited for a pokemon game again. i dont want to think that like. theyve already made the last good ones theyre ever gonna make.

in the meantime im gonna play fangames and hacks by people who have actually put love and care into what theyre doing