 I don't know if I even want to make this video because Man, this is tough. I know you guys want this I know that but there's the last video I made you guys told me I shouldn't made this instead, which oh, that's always a great Feeling I have a lot of opinions on Pokemon sword and shield. There's a lot of things I really don't like about the games There's there's some things that I do actually really like about the games So I really don't know how to do this I'll start it by saying if you watched me unbox the Pokemon switch light the other day I talked about my hype for the new Pokemon game. I talked about how I was going into these games completely unbiased I was staying away from all the leaks and I was doing my best to stay away from all the negativity Just to love Pokemon for Pokemon and go into these brand new Pokemon games as a brand new experience And just see if I like of the games and the unfortunate thing is the more we learned about these two games The lazier game freak appeared while not having every Pokemon didn't really bother me personally It does leave me to wonder what they did with that free time Not having to redesign these Pokemon and just include the 80 ish new ones and I really don't know what they did with that time because Oh, I guess we'll just go ahead and do this. This is gonna be a Hard video for me to make Because my own mind can't seem to make itself up Are you ready for this? I'm about to review the brand new Pokemon games, you know Literally the world's largest franchise all of all time the biggest Multimedia property. I don't know if those are the words I'm looking for but Pokemon is literally bigger than Disney And these are the new Pokemon games. That's sad Let's go ahead and talk about them The game immediately starts with Rose the chairman for this Pokemon League adventure thing. He kind of oversees all of the gym battle thing Pokemon league thing who really even cares at this point. It's always pretty much the same thing except this time There's Pokemon that can grow really big or wow Starting this off great. I know Pokemon games have never had voice acting in them before but this This just feels really empty right here The character himself is making all these grand gestures and he's standing in the stadium of people cheering him on With some royalty-free beats playing in the background It doesn't really even sound like Pokemon music and he's giving this grand speech about whatever it is He's talking about I already can't remember because I really didn't care at the time It was a very uneventful opening to a Pokemon game. I really don't like I just don't whatever this is I'm not I don't care the very next scene was where I believe the Pokemon game should have actually began You starting your adventure leaving your adorable little cottage I really like this more natural third-person view to the Pokemon games. I have wanted I have begged the Pokemon games to go back to this style ever since the game cube games I love that we're finally here. That is awesome So this is where things immediately get kind of weird because some assets in the world look really great Clean crisp and beautiful and then other assets in the world Mostly the environments the grounds the trees the backgrounds are just very Bad and when you mesh them together it ends up creating a somewhat pretty picture But I can't help but focus on the things that look bad For example this cutscene with the three new starting Pokemon I mean the Pokemon themselves look fantastic But Subble's diving into this very lifeless unanimated water Ground textures are just rough looking Also, I have complaints with the story at the start here. It was just so slow and uneventful I don't know if it's just me that feels like this It starts with you just so happening to have this best friend whose brother is in the Pokemon league He's one of the top Pokemon trainers of all time He walks up to you and his brother and he gives you both a choice of picking a Pokemon He lets you go first and not his brother and you just pick a Pokemon and then you battle each other You obviously win because for some reason his little brother Picked the Pokemon that is weak against mine. Not a great choice there, buddy, but it's fine You beat him and now all of a sudden this top league player is like Yes, I want to endorse you to be in this esteemed Pokemon league the best of the best Like like in this reality in this world to even enter the Pokemon league You need to be endorsed by someone already high up in the league And all you need to do to be endorsed is just get given your first Pokemon and have partaken one little backyard battle Not to mention favoritism on the brother's part. He let him in the league too and he lost That's not really an esteemed league that I care about being involved in I don't know for me The entire start of the game was just me spamming the a button to try and get through all the text Because I really didn't care and it really wasn't that exciting. Also. I regret picking sobble. I'm sorry spoiler alert here He evolves into like the worst things ever The first thing he evolves into is like this little emo kid with the worst color scheme of all time And then the last one he evolves into is like this like slim slender looking lizard thing and it's fine It's better than the emo kid, but like I just he doesn't it's not I don't I don't know Maybe it's just me. I don't know that's very opinion-based because pokemon is subjective the way they look Appealed to different people, but I hated the way sobble ended up looking also going back to the oh my gosh I hate so many going back to these gym battles I don't know. I feel like this formula that the pokemon games have had for so long is just it's been done And it doesn't really work anymore. I never really understood how this linear path through the gyms Is exciting to anyone still now in like 2019 or even for the last 10 years It's just not realistic and it's not fun for me I mean, I don't want to paint a picture of a pokemon game I wish I had because it just seems pointless at this point But I dream for a pokemon game that is a little a lot more open Where you kind of just start the game You're in whatever town you're in and you can go anywhere you want at any point You want any direction you want to go in and you just know that there's eight towns out there that you have to Eventually get to and each one has a gym and each gym is tough and then eventually when you get good enough You can start tackling these gyms that feel like these epic like I have made it to the pokemon league I don't know. Maybe I'm I'm dreaming too much now And I'm not even talking about the actual pokemon games I'm supposed to be talking about so let me get back to it You smash a on a bunch more text and then you end up in a town with characters that are popping in and out Depending if you're six or three feet away from them. I don't know why this bothers me so much That I hate this it will say that the town itself looks pretty nice and cute again Some things look really good. Some things look really terrible At this point, I can only assume that the terrible things are the assets They've reused and couldn't be bothered to remake so the new stuff looks good A lot of the areas you visit in the game look absolutely stunning Like the cave looks great The one of the forest later on looks really great because everything is new and created for the first time But I feel like wherever they could they used assets I already had and that mix just doesn't look good I don't think considering this is a brand new generation of pokemon game on a brand new system It would have been that hard to recreate some of the things that they have just chosen to reuse So you set off on your adventure and you immediately realize how linear this game is going to be The only saving grace is the wild area which looks awful I love it in concept. It works brilliantly in concept I have spent hours running around the wild area these random really strong pokemon will pop up I love that you can see the pokemon in the grass now as well as they've meshed in random encounters It's a really clever idea because I feel like the pokemon audience was split down the middle Some people liked the random encounters. Some people liked the pokemon seeing them in the wild I was on the wild side because who likes random encounters And then I've even managed to catch one shiny so far that aspect is really exciting Of course and even when you see a pokemon you already have if you wouldn't if you'd like a shiny of it It's always worth checking. Let's go back to the things. I hate. Oh my gosh these trees What the heck? So when you first get introduced to the wild area it pans down across it and it's night time and I'm like 95% sure they made it night intentionally because you would think the first time you see something like this They would want it to be daytime pretty beautiful. Look at this world. We've given you but instead they shrouded it in darkness At night So the first time you see it you can't really see it and that's for the best Like the lake here looks more like tar than water I feel like I should be avoiding bt's more that I should be worrying about pokemon And then they give you these establishing shots of some areas Like it's supposed to be hyping me up for this really awesome new area But instead I'm just like cringing and yikesing all over the place because it looks really bad And then you walk straight out and then you see the trees and I know there's like a whole meme around the trees Looking terrible, but they really do look bad And even watching them in trailers and and videos and seeing memes of them online You don't really get the scope of how bad they are until you're standing there in this area looking at them Obviously it is an old asset from the 3ds games that they've just thrown over into this game I don't understand it though because For one, how hard is it to make new trees? Not that hard because they've done it. Yeah, as I said You go to a really nice looking forest area and all those trees are brand new and they look good So they have made new trees not only that but the berry trees that you shake They're scattered in amongst to these terrible looking trees and the contrast Oh Like how did they not see this next to each other? It just makes it even more obvious what is an old asset and then what is a new asset like this Nothing here can be justified It's pure laziness and and what makes it even worse even worse is that it's the same terrible tree Copy pasted around the entire wild area. I'm not kidding. It is the same tree So all it really had to do Game freak all you really had to do if you were going to do this anyway All you had to do was design one More new tree and copy paste that one around the entire wild area and it wouldn't look nearly as bad Sure, it would still be obvious that you've only made one tree But it wouldn't be nearly as obvious as this mess I know one tree one awful looking tree shouldn't matter and it's it's almost like you're making a big deal I'm a mountain out of a molehill, but this tree symbolizes the entire game the laziness throughout the entire game No matter what excuse game freak tried to give for something like this time budget Money staff none of that is acceptable the reason being what I said at the start of this video It is the largest franchise of all time. It is above disney by quite a bit if you need more staff Get it you have the money if you need more money You already have the money and then we go into the pokemon themselves. I don't mind the assets being reused I think the pokemon still looks great. My issue is nothing is animated Look at the way this guy toxicetry or whatever it is one of my favorite new pokemon By the way, look at the way he this move is animated. They just take the entire character model No part of him moves no like nothing changes on this character model They just take the entire thing and they just shake it around and they put him back down It looks awful. In fact, this entire battle I had against this pokemon. He didn't move once They just moved his character model around and it looks really bad. It looks cheap So I don't get why in 2019 with a franchise like pokemon I'm looking at this right now You start doing the gym battles and while I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by dynamaxing Like honestly going into this game. I couldn't tell you one thing I cared less about the nut than dynamaxing, but I ended up growing on me. Hey joke not intended I really wasn't intended growing on me. I kind of like it's kind of cool One of my favorite pokemon is this like big happy squirrel guy I can't remember names to save the life of me, but making him grow really big with his big cheesy smile It's dumb. It's pointless. I kind of like it for what I don't like about these gym battles Are that stupid pointless crap you have to do before you even get to the gym battle some of them are fine Like the water one we need to do a bunch of puzzles, but that's kind of how pokemon games have been We have had puzzles before gym battles. So I'm kind of fine with it Even though it feels kind of disjointed in this game. What I don't like is the things like having a herd sheep Before it this that's just point like what is this do to the game? You never do this again There's no reason to be doing it in the first place It's nothing to do with pokemon being a pokemon trainer. It doesn't benefit you in any way It's just a stupid little mini game and the worst one. What's the the spinny cups? Like you're at disneyland on the teacup ride. Why why no obstacles in the way There's no danger no spikes like there's no there's no any reason to be doing it and it's not fun It just feels very disjointed and pointless. Hey, but let's talk about the good There's probably more Things that frustrate me about the game, but I guess my overall takeaway on things I don't like it all stems from laziness. I feel like just it wasn't done. It wasn't ready It wasn't finished and I don't even think adding in all the extra pokemon would change that None of them are gonna feel real feel alive feel like they have personalities be on their little Animations that you see in the pokey decks when they smile or something like that That is the only part of the game that gives them life and personality The rest of the game is still gonna feel cheap feel rushed with elements missing Pointless gameplay moments and at the end of the day a linear game design that I feel like has been regurgitated to death So the biggest thing I guess it all stems from is what I'm trying to say It just feels lazy. It feels rushed It feels unfinished and it doesn't feel like it has any heart or any soul anymore Ironically, let's talk about the good. Don't worry. This won't take too long I actually like a lot of the new pokemon designs. Typically with a new pokemon game I look at a lot of them and I'm like, what the heck have you run out of ideas? But this time around there's actually a lot that I like. I really like snicket and thievall I think they're adorable the little toxic monster guy. Oh my gosh. He might be my favorite I want to get him as a plushie So, yeah, there's a lot of new pokemon that I really like and because I sort of didn't really play much of the Previous generations a lot of those pokemon I haven't seen before too So I'm still finding a lot of things that I like that even if they're a little old as I said despite its flaws I'm really enjoying the wild area. It was a fantastic element that they added into the game If it wasn't for this wild area, I probably wouldn't even be enjoying the game at all It just adds So much not only in itself with how cool it is as an idea But the break that it provides from the linear story and pointless dialogue and all of that crap Just being able to get away from it every now and then and go back to the wild area and explore more Find new pokemon. I haven't seen before again The really strong ones that pop up and present an actual challenge despite how ugly scenarios look Despite how lifeless it feels other than all the pokemon that are in it I do really like this wild area and I hope it's something that they keep or flesh out in the future and then um Corrion rice I just can't help but laugh every time I make some Delicious Corrion rice sadly. That's about all that I really like though I'm actually enjoying my time with the game and I know it might not have seen like that despite all my complaints And I doesn't like invalidate any of my complaints But I am actually having fun And most of that is stemming from the wild area because I have spent at least half my game in that area I like it. I just you know, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but I like it I would recommend it What are your thoughts on pokemon? I know you have some would you recommend liking commenting and subscribing? No, never. Bye