Vodacixi said:
Well, let's be honest here: Sword and Shield may lack the National Dex and lots of Pokémon. Pokémon Sword and Shield may not have cutting edge graphics. Sword and Shield may reuse every asset Game Freak can recycle from Sun and Moon. And Sword and Shield may lack things like Megaevolutions or Z-Moves. But it will most likely also be a very, very good game. Just like every main Pokémon RPG has been. Pokémon has been recieving criticism since X/Y (maybe even before those) for various reasons. Including Game Freak, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo's unwillingness to do a game with the quality standards that corresponds to the biggest media franchise in history. But no matter how simple its graphics are, or how very little they evolve the core structure of the game, or how it's essentially the same thing we got on the Game Boy... Pokémon games are always very good games. And I would be very surprised if Sword and Shield turn out to be any different. They will probably score 85 on Metacritic at least. Don't get me wrong: I absolutely hate how Sword and Shield are being handled. I think a lot more effort and a lot more passion should be put on it. I think every Pokémon should be in the game. And I will not buy the game at launch because I don't think they deserve my purchase. But... whoever buys Sword and Shield will surely end up having an amazing time. |
Right now a game has to score an 87 to stand a good chance of being in the top ten, for games this year on opencritic. I expect Sword/Shield to review about as well as Gen 3. That puts them just out of striking distance of the top ten games of the year.
MTX riddled games get about the same treatment. Apex Legends, Gears 5, MK 11, etc. all could have gotten higher scores if they hadn't gone the MTX route.
