As I've said repeatedly, never expect technical prowess from Gamefreak games. No matter the hardware, their games never push the system, are poorly optimized, and are far behind the better-looking and most technologically advanced games on the system. This isn't anything new and has been true for decades. The fact that this game has an open world at all - with Pokemon out in the wild instead of random encounters, is a huge step forward for the company. It's what Sword and Shield should have been.
I wish they had gotten Mololithsoft to help with the graphics design so the textures, water effects, and foliage looked on par with the Xenoblade games. I hope this can still capture the sense of wonder actually having Pokemon in the wild should bring despite the quality of the graphics, the wonder the worlds of Xenoblade with their huge beasts capture so well. But as long as Gamefreak is working on their own I never expected better graphics than this.
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