Pokemon Sword/Shield Official Metacritic Score/Review Thread. (80)

[JWeinCom]

Immersiveunreality said:

JWeinCom said:

What exactly seems to be an improvement?  I'm legitimately asking, because reviews have kind of been vague on that, and I'm on the fence for this game.  I don't particularly care about the Pokedex issue.  I might buy it if I feel I can actually raise competitive teams without the huge time commitment of past games (which admittedly has gotten better with each release). I'm in law school right now, and if it's too much of a time sink, I probably won't do anything after the story, in which case the game isn't going to be worth it.

The scale,graphics and that semi open world area, also those big pokes to beat raidstyle seem like fun,no fixed camera and to be able to turn it how you want makes it more immersive,gives a greater feeling of freedom.

Heard there are plenty of gyms this time around and your character is highly costumizable.

But i'm not a good source to base your decisions on,i would firstly need to play it.

Fair enough, but those aren't the features I'm personally looking for.  Honestly the biggest thing for me is whether they have a feature such as bottle caps that let you raise IVs, and how easy they are to attain.  I just don't have the patience to hatch egg after egg.  Nature changing items are pretty cool though (although somehow changing a living thing's demeanor seems morally dubious).