Pokémon Sword - Nintendo Switch

This is the worst Pokemon game ever. As someone who has played every mainline entry since the original Pokemon Red and Blue, I am particularly disappointed to see the quality of Pokemon games declining for the past few years. First, over 60% of all Pokemon have been cut and do not appear in any playable form in this game. All previous starters except the Charizard line and all previous legendaries, for example, have been removed by Game Freak. I have been training my Blastoise since Pokemon FireRed and transferring him to each new generation. I never thought I would see the day I could not play with Blastoise in a mainline Pokemon game. Game Freak's excuses are also unforgivable. The Pokemon models and animations are the same as those since Pokemon X and Y. The Nintendo 64 game Pokemon Stadium has superior, livelier animations than this Switch game. And they are charging $20 dollars for less Pokemon, costly Internet, and recycled models.Look, instead, go buy Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Dragon Quest XI or The Witcher 3. These masterpieces offer a superior story, engaging battle mechanics, and modern visuals. It's a shame that Pokemon has fallen. Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild set the benchmark of what a Nintendo franchise can offer on the Switch. However, Pokemon Sword and Switch have set a new low for the series. To buy this game is to perpetuate low standards in a multimillion franchise and corporate greed from Game Freak's part. Save Pokemon and boycott Sword and Shield!

My children are 4,6,9 the game has problem solving reading and exploring my husband and I are pokemon fans happy to have our children join the fun as well

In short, this game is awful for advanced players, mediocre for casual player and it's desirable that this is nobody's first Pokémon game, least they get the wrong impression. It is the worst Pokémon main duo ever released and the only positive aspects are derived from the standard Pokémon formula. Being understaffed isn't even remotely enough to explain the unacceptable low quality of these games; GameFreak has serious leadership issues.This trash heap is the result of complacency, and a lack of effort and dedication. If it had been developed with care and the consumer's satisfaction in mind, it would have been a polished title with a lot of content complementing the new features. Sadly, this is not the case.Bugs, no endgame, half pokedex, mediocre graphics, less features than previous games...should I keep talking? Save your money and don't buy this dumpster fire of a game.

Minimal effort from Game Freak. I've waited YEARS for this, and we get a subpar game. Oh well, at least I have Animal Crossing to look forward to. #GameFreakLied

This game is exactly like the older versions (red, blue, yellow, etc.) but with better graphics/gameplay! I opened it and have not stopped playing since I got it! You level up your Pokemon through BATTLES with wild Pokemon, trainers, or gym leaders. Gotta catch them all!

Absolutely sad excuse for a game, this is quite possible the worst game from any top developer in the past decade (not just GameFreak). Nintendo should be ashamed to be associated with this garbage. A very short list of issues:- Graphics are OBJECTIVELY worse than Let's Go Pikachu and I would argue they're worse than Pokemon USUM. This terrible excuse for graphics is why we lost over half of all Pokemon in the game? What a load of garbage.- We lost over half of all Pokemon in the game. Not just uncatchable, but they're not even in the game, you can't transfer into the games because they excluded excluded metadata for them and decided to exclude EXISTING Pokemon models from the game, which is what they did for other Pokemon.- Only 80 new Pokemon overall. They didn't even try.- Their new Pokemon battle concept is essentially: "Look, the Pokemon is now bigger! See how big it is? Pretty cool, huh?" No creativity, it sounds like a throwaway idea someone said jokingly during a meeting that they took as a serious comment and went with it. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.- You'd think that Pokemon becoming bigger versions of themselves would mean Pokemon size would be an important thing to scale. Nope. They have Wailord shown as being slightly smaller as the 4'10" trainer (~150 cm). Wailord is supposed to be a 50 ft (~15m) long behemoth. But nope, huge (literally) details are no longer important.- Finally, the straw that broker the camel's back: the game froze when I was battling in the Ice-gym. I had auto-save on, but also kept manually saving anyway because I couldn't trust anything in the game at that point. When I restarted the game after it froze, the save point there was in Route 6, basically half the game ago.At that point I juts gave up on the game. I lost half the progress because this terrible-developed game couldn't bother to QA their garbage product. I'm going to try to return the game, but doubt I'll be able to. This left a bad taste in my mouth and I may never buy another Pokemon game again unless management changes and they start making respectable games again.

The Good:-Its Pokémon...-Slight Upgrade on graphics (Compared to Lets Go Pikachu).-First (Next Gen) Pokémon to come to the switch.-At least for me it seemed faster loading for battles..compared to sun/moonThe BAD:-The story is below average.-The pacing is slow.(Very Linear).-The writing is sub par for Pokémon games.The UGLY:It’s pretty sad to see my favorite series hit a new low. Am I surprised no, because no matter how anyone feels about the game (liked or disliked), the game still sells the same every generation. So they don’t really care about feedback. You would think with all the money they’ve made through this franchise, that they’d atleast try to make it more unique, better, and innovative.I would only recommend to those who just love Pokémon as a series, but if you’re expecting something new and innovative, this might not be the game you’re looking for

Terrible decision de compra, el juego se siente incompleto, mal hecho, la música como de gameboy advance, historia corta y aburrida y no se digan los muchos bugs que encontré como paredes invisibles, cosas que desaparecen etc, compren cualquier otro juego de pokemon si tienen un 3ds disponible, estas nuevas versiones no valen la pena

Visualmente es el mejor pokemon que hay, dado que los demás son para consolas portátiles. Sin embargo para ser un juego de Nintendo en Switch, es bastante mediocre. El game play es igual que en cualquier juego de pokemon así que es bueno. La historia es pésima, pero nadie juega pokemon por la historia. Todos los personajes y pokemon pasan de no existir a aparecer mágicamente de forma visualmente incomoda lo cual es muy desagradable. Dynamax es poco original ya que funcionalmente es una mezcla entre movimientos z y mega evoluciones. Faltan una gran cantidad de pokemon favoritos, mientras que algunos que a nadie le importan están presentes. Los pokemon nuevos son en su mayoría geniales. En conclusión es un juego bueno pero no ha dado el salto que merece y queda debiendo. Se siente como si, de haberlo hecho para 3ds, hubiera podido quedar igual o mejor funcionalmente.

4 puntos que considero del juego:1.-La dificultad bajo mucho con respecto a sol y luna.2.-solo ofrece 400 Pokémon.3.-la experiencia de viajar por las rutas es pobre, pero se compensa con las áreas extensas.4.-es buen juego pero puede mejorar con algún parche que salga en el futuro.

The media could not be loaded.  Apesar do produto ter chegado até bem rápido, não era o produto prometido. Me disseram que era a versão americana de Pokémon Sword, mas eu descobri se tratar da versão européia. E ainda por cima, veio danificada! Não tem como defender a Games Mix. Me venderam a versão errada de Pokémon Sword.

Llegó la preventa el día de lanzamiento por la mañana, excelente servicio. El juego a pesar de las críticas está bastante divertido, llevo alrededor de 12 horas y aún voy por el 4 gimnasio, ya que me estoy tomando el tiempo para recorrer las zonas y la introducción del área salvaje (aunque tiene sus fallas) puedes pasarte horas perdiendo el tiempo, en incursiónes, recogiendo cosas etc ... Le doy cuatro estrellas ya que horas después del lanzamiento estaba más barato de lo que me cobraron.