 Wait a minute, me cats! You can't make a video on Pokemon Shield! Now, my favorite YouTuber already gave me his opinions! That means your opinion is wrong! Now that we have that over with, alright, Pokemon Sword and Shield. Well, I mean, I guess Pokemon Shield for me, it was, uh, it was okay. You know, it's not some magnificent work of art, but, you know, it's not completely terrible either. You know, I know that a lot of people are people watching. I've already gotten their opinions from some other reviewer YouTuber that was like, I gotta go quick! I gotta go fast! If I don't get my video out first before everyone else, how would I get my parents to respect me? But I decided, you know what, wouldn't it be amazing if I actually took the time to play and enjoy the game? And I know that might sound crazy, right? A bit illegal, alright, but just don't call the cops on me. First, we'll start off with the good stuff. Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know. But before I start with the good stuff, I want to make one thing perfectly clear. This right here, this thing right here, was the biggest downgrade in the entire franchise. This hyperactive, delusioned idiot that thought he was gonna be the champion. No, no, no, you stupid bitch. I'm the champion. I remember the good old days with Gary. Bro, when Gary used to walk around town, any time a woman stuck within a three mile radius of this dude, they had to change their underwear. Now we got this kid that will probably get bullied into jumping off a bridge if he was put into the real world. Can we please get Gary back? The stuff that I like and think Game Freak did a good job on was the region. You know, Pokemon Sword and Shield's world is beautiful. Everything's really pretty, well designed with great detail. You know, the colors look nice. The characters and gym leaders are pretty good. A lot of them are just exaggerated character tropes, which it's expected, but Game Freak's been doing a better job making them less one-dimensional. You know, especially Final Bosses by giving them more gray areas of... Yeah, you know, he's doing bad stuff, but is he really evil? The starter Pokemon are pretty cute. The greatest to least greatest design would be Saabu, Shorbunny, and then Grookey. I'm sorry to all the Grookey lovers, but he's just not as cute as the other two. And with all due respect, his final evolution looks stupid as shit. The best part of this game that many other people probably hated was that they finally got rid of mega evolutions. My God, that was the most disgusting feature of the franchise. No, no, no, no, no, no, shut up. Shut up. I can already hear you whining. I know you literally have Pokemon with not even 350 total base stats. Meanwhile, you got Charizard out here flying around your neighborhood with two mega evolution states. Huh? No, I'll admit. All right, they did give some mega evolutions to Pokemon that were just downright horrible. But a lot of the Pokemon with mega evolves were already, you know, were at least already average tier Pokemon. And I know there's some 30 year old dude mad that he can't hop on mine anymore and be this dick while he's one shot and everyone in mega form in Uber tier. But my God was mega such a terrible innovation to the game. It kind of still exists with the Gigantamax forms and stuff like that. Kind of. But it feels a lot better than every Pokemon can at least Dynamax. You know, giving me the feeling that every Pokemon has more potential than, you know, just their final wall state in battle. The Pokemon centers are a lot better. You know, they're faster to use and it feels more satisfying to get your Pokemon healed with the animations that they've added. Camping and playing with your Pokemon makes you feel much more immersed in the polka world. You know, you can play fetch. You can you can make them lunge at you with a stick, you know, you can cook for them with berries you find on trees. And, you know, you could build a pretty good bond with them. Oh, I almost forgot. No more having to use your Pokemon for HMs. I mean, I know they also did this in Sun and Moon, but it feels so much better in this game because they also made it so that your bike can just turn into a damn boat mid dry. Like, no more of that walk into the edge. And then, you know, having to go through like a selection screen to pop into the water. No, no, no. You just grab your bike and hit that Jesus mode, bro. The transition scenes in a battle are really clean. The Dynamax stands are cool for whenever you want to go off of the story and just relax by battling bosses, you know. I'm also going to talk a little bit more about this later in the video, but the game encourages catching and training Pokemon with a built-in secondary EXP. Like, instead of having me use an EXP share and split experience, the system is now made so that the Pokemon that actually goes in a battle gets all the EXP was going to get anyways. And then there's a reserve secondary experience that the Pokemon in your party that didn't battle get to have. Well, which makes the Pokemon party feel more united and as an actual party, you know, not just six different entities. This fixes a lot of problems where, you know, you want to catch Pokemon and have more friends on your team. But then you think to yourself, you know, is it really worth stealing four to seven levels of experience from your main Pokemon and potentially costing yourself a gym battle? The way the Pokemon interact outside of battle is also really nice, you know, instead of having a seizure through the bushes just to see what Pokemon are in a specific area, they actually pop up and chase you like how they would in an actual Pokemon world. It also makes it so that you have a better chance of avoiding Pokemon without having to use repels. Now, let's move on to the bat. All right. This game is kind of easy, you know, trust me, I'm not one of those guys that dig right difficulty in the game. You know, you won't catch me at the annual Dark Souls Circle Jerk Town meeting, you know, but it is a little easier than the majority of the Pokemon franchise. In fact, I'm on my second one on the game and we're currently soloing the game with a Della Bird. Yes, Della Bird, you know, this brings me back to what I was seeing earlier about the leveling system. You know, it is great and allows for more Pokemon, but I think if Game Freak wants to continue Pokemon with the same linear stat system it has, they need to upgrade how types interact with one another. Like, for example, maybe they can make it so that let's say instead of water type moves, always doing two times damage to fire type Pokemon. If you train your fire type Pokemon against more water type Pokemon, they build up a little bit of resistance to water types, you know, up to the point where they take only 1.5 times damage from water type moves instead of 2.0. You know, this would be, this would also be a big fix to Pokemon that just have terrible typing like Ice Grass or Grass Bug, you know, giving them instead a times 3.0 weakness to common typing instead of a 4.0. Also something that's extremely irritating is that one of the main lessons of Pokemon never gets manifested in the game. This game is no exclusion, you know, and in the Pokemon games, but mostly in the shows, they're like, as long as you care and love your Pokemon to the fullest, you can beat anyone with any Pokemon. There's no such thing as a bad Pokemon, only a bad trainer, which is absolute bullshit, alright? This is not how Pokemon the game works. In the actual show, right, in the show, you got stuff like Charizard beating Blastoise, Rowlet beating its final evolution state. Meanwhile in the game, you got Delibird being 20 levels above a rock type Pokemon and still dying to a single rock slide. Huh? Someone with a Butterfree, no matter how much they love the Butterfree, you know, you will almost always get wrecked by someone with an Arcanine or Charizard, regardless of how much they love that Pokemon. Someone that just loves Calm Beer Vest between will almost always get smacked by a Charizard. Actually, maybe it's just that most every Pokemon in the game gets beat by a Charizard. I think the best way for Pokemon to start incorporating what they preach in the show into the game is by giving weaker tier Pokemon a better end result, you know? The lower the base stats the Pokemon has, the more friendship level has an effect on them. So let's say, you know, once they get around level 50, or you know, they can even, they can even make it as far as level 100. They should get better friendship effects and have higher friendship limits. You know, right now, the game just has the same old battle theme, you know, type weaknesses, stat checks, game frequencies that start doing patches, like you know, like the way Nintendo already does for Smash Bros. And make some big changes and updates to buff in their certain Pokemon to start shortening the gap between uber tier and pu never used ones, you know? Cause it's kinda sad when you fall in love with a Pokemon's design and they just get completely Batista Bond by 90% of every Pokemon in the game. Now, let's talk about the elephant in the room. Alright, a lot of Pokemon got cut. This action by itself warped a lot of people's opinions of the game. I mean, just think about it. You know, imagine playing with a Pokemon that you love for like 10 years, 10 years, you know, being able to import them in every new Pokemon game. Then sword and shield drops and they're like, Hey, why should we care about your feelings when we can spend more resources giving Charizard yet another form? So yeah, you know, if your main or favorite Pokemon got cut, you probably won't be enjoying it as much as the next guy speaking about Charizard. Man, Game Freak just loves that Pokemon. Every other starter got next. Alright, guillotine. But they still made sure Charizard came through. In fact, he's like the main Pokemon for the champion of the region. Oh boy, this Pokemon is like the literal definition of a money pinata and it's so annoying. Another thing I'll add is that Game Freak tried way too hard to make the dragging trainer hip and cool, you know? To the point where everything he does, it's just actual cringe flakes. Please, stop. Also, why can't you walk with your Pokemon when you're prancing around town? But there you have the walking animations already created for the camps. I just don't get it, you know? That's like a missed out opportunity. Just let me stroll my boys around the village. Lastly, my biggest complaint about Pokemon Shield is that it doesn't really have a good end game. You know, you beat the champion, you beat these two punk ass dorks, and then the game just kind of evaporates quickly after that, you know? I don't see how hard it would be to make like a new game plus with smarter AIs and higher levels for the gyms. Overall, I don't think it's a bad game. You know, I know that there are complete losers out there saying shit like, bro, there's literally a mouse that pops up like three times in a game for 0.07 seconds. This is literally the worst game ever. Just an update. Sarfa Quality, this is like a super old cheap Android phone that I've had for quite some time, but we ended up soloing in quotes, soloing because there were certain moments where the game forces you, you know, it forces you to have at least two Pokemon or else it won't allow you to battle at all, but pretty much soloing the game with Dullbird. I'll explain the specifics in the comments, but I don't want to make this video way too long. Damn, bro. You're still here? All right, fine. Listen, listen, listen. Since you're still here, if you click like on this video, I'll release three of your family members or three of your family members. Now, if you subscribe, I'll release two more.