meleebrawler
Smash Hero
Pokemon as a franchise is huge enough that everyone enjoys in myriad ways. You can even be a fan without touching the games at all.Given that there's a few days left before release, what are your overall thoughts on Sword & Shield with everything we know outside of leaks? The good, the bad; the pokedex & graphics/animations controversies & the communication between Gamefreak & the fans.
These are easily the most controversial games to date and there all kinds of people: people who are outraged, people who aren't bothered, others who go out of their way to defend GF (sometimes blindly), others going to harrass the developers and people speaking positively about SwSh; and others who feel the need to boycott the games as a whole.
Can't say I fully agree with either GF or the community: they both have things that are right and others that are wrong/iffy. While i don't agree with some choices GF has made with these games (Masuda's statement in July was not needed as it made people even more angry and he didn't say anything), i also can't agree to bindly acussing them as lazy, greedy, etc. when there's no info. backing it up (though I have heard & seen that they struggle to program assets, models & other things efficiently).
I know the series can be better (holding the series to a low standard doesn't help either), but i've personally have not had any significant issues with the series. And i'm very much looking foward to playing Sword.
The dexit statements hurt now but will be helpful down the line. I'm only iffy on GF being cagey about Home, even though I don't use such services.
I got sick of previous games for taking too much effort to get to the genuinely new stuff (SOS Corsola for Mareanie, never again). These games have a much healthier selection of new pokes and varied scenarios to build teams for, accompanied by several means of streamlining the process. All things that enhance the main reasons I play Pokemon games, scratching an itch many other RPGS don't, who have their own appeal.