Pokemon Sword and Shield is a Bad Game and Here's Why [06] - RadicalSoda
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this episode of the Worlds Largest Sword and Shield Review, we take on trial after trial! And I'm not talking about the Gym Leaders, moreso the abysmal storytelling.
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Just imagine a soccer stadium filled with a million people all talking as one.
actually that would be terrifying I didn't even think of that
"MAKE SURE YOU LIKE. COMMENT. S U B S C R I B E."
Thats some creepy ass cult shit right there.
Tbh we do have chants we make in football games but thats the limit
I don't need to. I live in england and its pretty much like that when you're there. Besides when people are cheering for a goal or when a riot is going on.
Usually the tv channels turn it down or replace it with stock crowd sounds. Otherwise you get that one weirdo swearing on tv because they thought it was funny >.>
guys, I think rad doesn't like pokemon sword and shield
how can you say that i love this game
@@RadicalSoda Just want to say, thanks for responding and I love your videos
@@vegetables3375 ;)
@@RadicalSoda Rob can you slap someone with your hair
How can you possibly tell?
Theory: this series isn't a review of how bad sword/shield is, it's a showcase of Radical's slow descent to madness because of how bad sword and shield is
i thought it was obvious from the start
Let’s be honest, he’s been on a downhill slope since Forces.
@@minnesotanfreedomist3147 Who wouldn't be?
@@Somethin5041 Exactly.
My comment is gone?
Radical's ending dialog is something that I share a lot of sentiments with. Pretty much everything he says is spot on. Even as someone who really loves pokemon, the games have become indefensible unless you act delusional.
@Gabriel Mota That's hardly a hot take cause you're absolutely right. Most if not all the people who express their critique are those who have played most/all of the games and been a fan for the longest.
And I would argue that most of the apologists started at gen 6 and 7 and thus they think SwSd is not that bad cause their standards for a good Pokemon game are extremely low. This is of course just an assumption but I find it hard to believe that people who played through the masterpieces that are the gen 3-5 games back in the day could seriously claim that SwSd are anywhere even close to as good. Not only are gen 8 games terrible Pokemon games, they're just straight up bad video games. And that's a fact.
It really pisses me off when I see the apologists painting people who express critique as nothing more than "haters" and then proceed to declare themselves as "true fans". It's literally the opposite, we hate the games cause we love Pokemon. And those who think the games are good like this have no standards whatsoever.
@@yiangaruga4928 yeah I was fine with this game until I started playing Gen 5 again. My thing is that I’m Gen 5 which I think was one o the best games EVERY SINGLE POKÉMON was animated. I’m also pretty sure 2D pixel animation is harder then 3D animation yet they still did it y’know? The difficulty was also great, it was VERY challenging as the whole game your around the same level as your rival and other trainers. Then they went 3D and it all went down the shitter.
You know, it might be fun drunk... or like 06, where you're there to make fun of it.
I just either turn off my brain when playing, it makes it decently enjoyable.
@Gabriel Mota depends on who you call an apologist. There is a difference between people who like a game and people who are an apologist who defend literally everything they do.
I need to make this clear because for some reason pokemon fans have basically considered these two groups one in the same
"If you like Pokemon games you'll like this."
I liked Sun and Moon more than this. And I *hated* Sun and Moon.
Not to mention that Sun and Moon and their Ultra versions were actually challenging to boot.
Tbh I liked sun and moon mainly because the story was actually somewhat decent for a Pokémon game. I hated it because no post game content
I haven't liked a pokemon game since black 2 / white 2 lol
@@miracle_the_cat I hated it for the handholding, tutorialization, hallway world design, too easy difficulty etc.
Usum was actually good minus the forced linearity. The elite 4 and champion rematches are magnificent. It rounds uts characters well among other things it does.
Holy shit, you just made me realize how Bede is one of the best rivals we've had in some time, yet he gets sidelined in favor of two of the lamest rivals we've ever had.
Technically he’s the only rival we’ve had in a long time.
@@justincanu9153 cuz the past 4 games have had friendship is magic shoved down our throats XD
I agree i actually like his rude personality and he actually is interesting to me i hate to say it but hop and marnie were kinda lame to me
@@TheCatslock lol ikr
If you like abusive ones yeah
I think we can all agree that the Pokéball hairpin that Poppy has in the thumbnail of this video is hella cute, right?
Thanks Pizza man I drew it meself
@@RadicalSoda No problem, bro! You drawings for each thumbnail are so good and inspire me to draw more often to make my unique characters! Thanks you for your incredible drawings!
I mean, Poppy is pretty cute in general.
@@fursuitjumpscare Agreed!
The first time in a while that the hairpin isn’t a demonetized symbol
Sword and Shield have sold over 19 million copies as of today, making them the highest selling games in the mainline series since Gold and Silver released in 2000. With the worst production on any Pokémon game to date.
They are not going to change a damn thing.
D and remake leaks from a credible source came out. Prepare to have your memories destroyed.
@@sechabatheletsane9784 Sinnoh remakes? Oh god please no.. Platinum is my favourite Pokemon game but I literally don't want them to remake them cause I know they'll find a way to ruin even them.
I bet they'll add dynamaxing in it, remove explorer kit, nerf all opponents including Cynthia, remove battle frontier and resort island...
Seriously, this is their one chance to make new great 3D models for the pokemon. They can just include only the pokemon from 1-4 gen and focus on making new models for *those* so that they can make the rest on gen 9. And yet I'm like 99% sure that's exactly what they *won't* do. They'll probably just copy paste everything and we'll see Barry having the same animations Hau and Hop had... Ugh just thinking about all this makes my head ache lmao
@@yiangaruga4928 No way they are remaking Platinum. They couldn't even do the courtesy to Emerald and no, I don't count the delta episode.
Nah man, they just want your cash and that's it
On one hand, I love platinum and I'd love to see it remade. On the other hand, I'd rather not if it's going to be anything like SwSH
If they are going to remake Sinnoh, top of my head the main thing I want them to do is to make sure they keep all the optional areas, improve some of the cave designs (I felt when replaying them that they felt repetitive despite some unique layouts) and make sure they just don't mess up the remake.
This give us all consent to call all people who support Gamefreak Pokésheep.
"We're six years into 3D Pokemon." No...no. I'm still a young barely 20 basically-still-a-teenager! I...Oh no...
we're 8 years in 3D Pokemon, though. ahah.
@@abarette_ Actually, if you count Coliseum and XD... damn, if you count _Stadium..._ I'm... I'm gonna stop. I'm only 21 and I can feel my age creeping up on me...
“A delayed game is forever good
A rushed game is forever bad”
It’s a shame game freak forgot that
*is eventually good - for the delayed one, I'm thinking was how that saying goes
And you're right, very much right
I'd have gladly waited a year or two. Heck, we all know how warmly Animal Crossing was received this year, just Imagine the joy of 'hey it's still quarantine time, but we got you a new pokemon game!' and it'd be an actual proper game. Just imagine, the sales they've made might be half deserved instead of not at all
More of both GF and the fan forget this. I mean they keep asking for Sinnoh remake even after this game being terrible and before DLC complete.
@@owo4288 ughh so many people are demanding it to release soon. Just because it’s a remake of a good game doesn’t guarantee it will be a good remake. It’s gonna be marred with all the flaws of swsh.
Majora's Mask was rushed and that was a very good game. Some people consider it the best of the franchise.
The problem is there probably forced to keep up with the anime to push out merch, they probably cannot allow the anime and games to exist at different times, if one exists the other must as well
Still sad this is the first Pokemon game I have no intention on buying or playing...
Right there with ya. Even though all my friends bought/played it and talked about it a lot when it first came out, I still stuck to my promise that I wouldn't support this game because of the way Masuda and the other higher ups handled the dex cut. That, and the general direction the series is going by treating children like absolute morons with the attention span of a gnat, so they think creating games that actually challenge you are "no longer feasible."
I bought used shield, played it and sold it.
Lets say, i tried to collect all but the problems were just everywhere.
Its too easy, lagy, playing together in a raid is a nightmare because you get errors most of the times or nobody wants to play with you.
Render distance is sh*t, story is sh*t, characters are boring or annoying, the world weather system makes little to no sense.
So yeah, you aint missing much
Unless you are a mega pokemon fan and want to keep up with VGC or something...I think you are making the right choice. Playing through SwSh is like playing through the game in an Alpha/Beta stage. You start to realize stuff isn't animated right and the story is confusing or garbage. Home, Pokeball Plus thing, and to some extent the DLC are scams. Spend your money on a wiser decision.
You played X, Y, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire
@@redhood7778 x and y were first 3ds pokemon games and even those were more impressive at the time.
Oras was pretty good even doe they didn't put decent end game, the gameplay was still pretty fun and enjoyable
Hot take: Pokemon had a rough time transitioning to 3d
@A 1995 very mature. If that's the best you got, you know there's a problem
Not exactly a hot take though. Very well established among the fan base
Pokemon has had a somewhat rough history ever since its transition from the 2nd to 3rd dimension.
@@joniejoon2 That's the joke
What a hilarious chad comment
Of all the people who wanted a pokemon with pokerus. Someone who doesn't want it got it.
I’ve never heard of it
Well you did now !
10+ years of playing Pokemon, 4 boxes full of shinies and not once have I gotten any pokerus mons
@@IvanGarcia-qd7rf I have 2 boxes of pokerus. I don’t even know how.
Well that's because this is even more complicated than shinies!
As soon as Dingusting evolved, I hear my roommate flush the toilet. Absolute perfect timing.
You should do a post mortem on your thoughts, and then if anything has changed for you now that they've released DLC. Proving they were lying about being unable to bring more pokemon in, they were just incompetent.
Not a bad idea! However I think I should probably finish that Unleashed review next...
@@RadicalSoda good idea
I dont think they were being incompetent but moreso wanting to hsve some pokemom behind a pay wall. It was weird when people thought in hindsight the dex cut was inevitable cause the roster is getting bigger, even tho absolutely no one predicted this would happen. It had nothing to do with time constraints or space.
They weren't being incompetent, it was clear they didn't have the time to be able to add the rest of the Pokémon in right away and thus added them later through DLC.
@@thatsprettyfarfetchd9888 All the videos showing that the models rigs have been the exact same since X/Y utterly ruins that argument.
I could FEEL, the pain when you where ranting about the game, it's honestly sad how people try to make excuses to how shallow and cheap the game is.
What's worse, ninten will shoot down any fan attempts to fix it
This game sucks, so why is it so fun?
"bUt NeSsA tHo" she's just a bandaid on a festering wound. SwSH sucks
@@NotGeno most of the fun comes by just laughing at how bad the game is (at least for me)
@@chiiyon No, this is more real fun
"The idiot's way of measuring."
Stone?
Nah, he is clearly talking about the English system.
In the wise words of DJ Khaled: Another one
I thought you were gonna use his other phrase that gamefreak lives by no matter what they produce: We The Best!
@@sechabatheletsane9784 I contemplated
Sechaba Theletsane well Pokémon’s music is praised a lot so going “WE THE BEST MUSIC” is actually something they can boast about
@@TheKpa11 Honestly even in terms of music Sword and Shield was lacking
Gecko Bon
You wouldn’t think that with this review or others apparently it’s “One of the best”
I've legitimately had people say to me that GameFreak lying to the fans was perfectly reasonable and that I shouldn't be mad about it.
Reasonable how?
@@chibi3593 one of them said that every game company reuses models/assets at some point or another, so no one should care about GameFreak lying about it
@@arcticdino1650 this is a load of barnacles
some people are real morons
@@arcticdino1650 dude imagine lying to people and said "its okay.. Im a company, therefore its good that I tricked you.. for.. reasons"
Normal people: Who the heck is going to watch a UA-cam Video at 1 AM?
Me: Oh boy 1 AM!
3 AM baby. Love his Sword and Shield rants.
Chairman Rose has got to be one of the worst villains, with the DUMBEST motivation, in all of gaming. It's one thing to blatantly rip off Sun/Moon's twist villain, it's far worse still to rip it off only to create a villain that's such a giant downgrade from the last one.
He didn't even have to be the villain. Just completely rewrite the Rose Tower take over. I think maybe we could go with the guards and Oleanna trying to keep the kids from getting hurt by refusing to let them get involved. Oleanna is... Oleanna enough to turn a "hey, this is dangerous" to a full on battle gauntlet in an attempt to maintain control of the situation while the Gym Challengers accidently make the situation worse by reading it wrong(they _are_ kids, after all.) Then for Rose we establish him finding a secret technique to conserve energy early on in game that we're made aware of, and have Eternatus break out of the egg on its own due to Rose unintentionally disturbing it with the power draining he's doing. Continue with Rose and Leon trying to clean up his unintentional mess(by making them take on the side goal of clearing out berserk Dynamax 'mons) and have Sonia search for the Doggos with Hop and Victor/Gloria stepping in when Sworward and Shielbert interfere because they don't want their ancestors' cover up story to be exposed. Then they coulda just made the DLC postgame instead of charging $30 for it.
It's not the best, but it's loads better than what we got.
The best part when Radical Soda uploaded a video is always the thumbnail xD
Accidentally made a bad game ✘
Intentionally made a bad game ✔
Only Pokemon can do it and still make successful sales
They're like EA sport games
what makes you think they meant for the game to be bad though?
@@Jdudec367 because if you use the previous games as reference, then it can clearly be surmised that the overall quality of the game was intentionally diminished for two reasons. Firstly, to save money and thus ensure a higher payout, and secondly, because they for some reason assume that the general intelligence of children and tweens has been reduced to such a level, that they are practically vegetables.
@@rokmun680 Well yeah it was meant to be rushed. But I don't think they actual tried to make bad video games. Just to rush the games out the door.
@@Jdudec367 huh. You're not bringing up gen 5 to be your example of a bad game like you usually do. So what's stopping you?
@@ct2xperience749 I have never actually called gen 5 a bad game. I compare it and say it starts problems that later gens get blame for....but I never call it a bad game. It's far from that.
I like how people praised what the DLC brought to the table. Completely ignoring that they paid 30$ for something that should have been in the game from the beginning.
Did people praise it? I thought they were just glad they put more Pokemon back in the game
Im more wish I could just buy the DLC and ignore buying the base game. $60 for nothing but rushed garbage then $30 for the actual content
Reminder:
"Genius Sonority" is a dev team that was formed with the LITERAL PURPOSE of bringing the Pokemon experience to home consoles with good reception.
Hmm.
"GameFreak" has only ever really been at their peak with the older 2D handheld games.
Hmm, okay.
What is GameFreak doing nowadays?
The mainline games now on home console with mixed to poor reception ever since.
What is Genius Sonority doing nowadays?
THE FUCKING MOBILE SHIT PUZZLE GAME RESKINS THAT ANY STUDIO COULD MAKE. THANKS POKEMON COMPANY, YOU REALLY THOUGHT HARD ABOUT THIS ONE HUH!?
Denpa Men tho...
Gamefreak poached a lot of Genius Sonority staff during gen 5. That company is a shell of its former self while Gamefreak refused to keep up with the industry and are getting rightfully add blasted because of it.
RadicalSoda's rant at the end reminds of SomecallmeJohnny's rant at the end of his Sonic Forces review. We've just reached a point of laziness/bad budgeting/crunching that shouldn't be tolerated with both these franchises.
Forget Sonic. The franchise that ACTUALLY had a rough transition to 3d is Pokemon.
I mean, what 2D game series _didn't_ have a rocky transition into 3D? Duke Nukem, Metal Gear, Mario Kart...and I struggle for any other examples.
I think Kirby was fine when 3D got involved in their games.
@@niapurdue230 Kirby just continued being a 2D platformer with different graphics, though. It didn't become a full 3D platformer.
That's true. Hopefully someday, HAL is smart.
@@RoninCatholic "metal gear"
*Wha-*
As someone who greatly dislikes these games, I've enjoyed watching this series. But man that rant at the end really spoke to me. It hurts so much watching my favorite series shit itself constantly in the name of profit. I wish they would do better in the future but I've given up hope at this point. They've broken me.
This series is bad. SwSh, while not perfect, are better than these videos
@@MidnightDragonProductions "Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong."
@@MidnightDragonProductions then you are part of the problem
If Gamefreak spent as much time on this game as radical did trying to finish this series, it might've been better :/
Edit: Guys this is a just a meme comment ;-; I actually still enjoy these games, don't take this to seriously.
But no, we got the A team for Let's Go games and the C team with sword and shield.
@@JeskidoYT you and the 5 people liked you, if going by the Pokémon snap 2 trailer : the "c team" is much better.
@@aquanaridllcl970 ????
@@aquanaridllcl970 So they did this shit intentionally???
Yeah, because 6 videos of 30 minutes were so much more difficult to finish than a game from step 1.
To be honest, I'm having way more fun playing the pokemon mystery dungeon remake
Really glad that series is still going because I thought it'd die after Super didn't perform the best. Which is a darn shame as Super Mystery Dungeon is honestly one of the best Mystery Dungeon games.
The mystery dungeon series is great imo. The storylines are better than the mainstream pokemon games anyways, at least on average
@@evasmiljanic3529 PMD 1 and 2 are better than every single main series game and that’s a fact
Is that the rescue team dx one?
@@rokmun680
Yes
these games are just sad, i remember back when these were announced early 2019, and the amount of hyped i had for these games, they showed, so much potential and the whole idea of it being based on europe and britain was so cool, we all wondered how the next and first brand new generation of pokemon would be on the switch, i mean with previous major nintendo franchises like zelda and mario having these great and amazing games, we were all hyped for what pokemon had to offer, immediately my heart dropped after hearing the dex cut and that megas and z-crystals werent returning, honestly i hope game freak hears the fanbase screaming out in agony of these games, and hopefully, steps up there game, tho with how corruption and money is, they probably wont, and its just sad.
Edit: apparently past me has no idea what punctuation is :p
not defending game freak here. but they still made so much money because the fanbase is just dumb, why put it effort when you can just put out garbage and still get loads of moneu. the only way we can get them to make a somewhat better game is to just not buy these shitty pokemon games, but nope the fans still do. and even if they make some good games again they will just become lazy again. the only way i can see for pokemon to become good again is if someone else does it.
@@jeffboy4231 i mean, it's only downhill from here, maybe this gen will keep buying but will it draw in the next?
Not very long term if you ask me.
Fuck Z-crystals, other than that I agree with everything you said.
Just goes to show. Never get hyped for a game, it's ALWAYS a mistake.
This whole paragraph is a single sentence
I dont have anything of value to add, i just found that amusing
Hey it’s only what 12:13 am where I am. Perfect time to lose sleep
Actually it’s an awesome time to lose sleep
Same how could you tell?
#EastCoastGangGang
Same here. Who needs rest
I mean you could just sleep at 3:00 or 4:00 and sleep until 2 pm to get the reccomened time of rest
And the rumors of the Diamond and Pearl remakes make me worry that they are going to do the same thing with them and make them a husk of their former selves. If this is the case, I don't want them touching those games at all.
That’s what I’m afraid of. They clearly shown they don’t care enough to put in extra effort in these games (and both these games were in development when x and y were around)
It’s probably better we don’t get remakes cuz game freak will just Half bake it and call it complete.
AHAHAHHAHA
3 years later, it's actually WORSE than this game
@@Nighterac True
I don't understand why Pokemon fans allow Gamefreak to walk all over them. When big gaming companies cut corners, people call them out for it. But Pokemon? They get a free pass apparently. This game had no business selling as much as it did despite all the controversies before this game was even released. And yet people still ate it up and bought it. I just don't understand. I know its Pokemon but if you are truly a fan of Pokemon games then you deserve better. I'm talking about you guys, not me. Because i haven't played a Pokemon game past gen 3. Just sucks that you guys let Gamefreak take advantage of you. Sword and Shield sold so well that you can expect another cheap game in the future since they know people will just buy it regardless simply because its a Pokemon game.
Eh, it's the same reason companies like Apple get away for all of their scummy decisions: loyalty nostalgia, and money. I grew up playing all the games from Diamond onwards, even going back to play FireRed at some point. I enjoyed all of them up until Ultra Moon, which felt like it should have been $20 DLC for Moon, at a point where they had a console that could actually implement DLC. Then Let's Go Pikachu was just...boring. Nostalgia ridden and pretty, sure, but it really didn't have anything of substance. I refused to play Sword after seeing the E3 footage and seeing evidence of their lies. I was burned twice in a row with their latest games, and after briefly trying Sword from a borrowed cartridge...I'm not missing a thing. I don't even like most of the Pokemon designs this generation.
"Because it's for kids"
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Gamefreak for some odd mentality of "We can't alienate the casual players!" By instead removing the competetive side content and alienating the hardcore players.
@@NachoCheeseDorito-Kun When people use the "it's for kids" excuse to defend something of low quality, it usually means they're talking down to them. Kids don't like to be insulted or taken advantage of.
It doesn't matter what your target audience is: treat them with respect. They're the reason why you became successful to begin with.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 You get the point. Kids deserve good games too.
The DLCs didn’t even bother extending the story any further in either chapter.
You’re honestly not missing out on much, even if Klara, Mustard, Peony and Calyrex are fascinating characters.
Obligatory comment that explains why the games are called Sword and Shield: The Sword cuts out numerous existing Pokémon while the Shield deflects the criticism towards it’s shallow hodgepodge of missed potential and hate towards the executive’s disingenuous bald-faced lies.
I did like the added bit on Rose's brother and that they both caught cufants together and use that same pokemon on their main team. I also liked the added cut scene with Oleana. But they definitely could've done a ton more.
During that ending bit with Rad I realize something. They don’t have to try anymore. This is cheaply put together game out sold smash bro‘s in three days and it’s probably going to reach near Mario Kart 8 deluxe. The higher ups at the pokemon company know now all they have to do is just throw a game out every year or two and they’ll easily make back profit. Doesn’t matter what they do to the game they just know it’s going to make money regardless
GF puts love and care into making black and white, fans hate it, and they become the worst selling Pokémon games of all time.
GF puts there B team on sword and shield, they rush the games while making them as cheap as possible, fans love it and they become the best selling Pokémon games of all time...
Me:
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore....
Same
*_"Ugh, fine, I guess you convinced me Sword & Shield are bad games._* For the 100th times"
1:19 Lol... is that _Tenga_ disguised as pokemon?
I'm pretty sure the only worth thing defending in these games are the design of the "special" girls. Oh so that's why it's called Pokemon Shield xD
"What made you guys decide to make DLCs for these bad games?"
Game Freak : *"Money"*
“I’m assuming If you use them to get your dynamax level to the max you can gigantamax” - oh RadicalSoda, don’t apply logic to this game. Everyone knows using soup to make a gigantamax Pokemon makes more sense...
I mean like, logic doesn't apply to pokemon? so this is kind of a stupid argument.
I wasn’t arguing...it was just a joke.
@@neverwhere3416 oh my bad, sw/sh suck but i feel like there are enough reasons to hate on it besides like "haha soup bad"
Pokemon peaked with Black and White. After Gen 5, it's been all down hill.
Facts. Gen 4 and 5 was when Pokémon was at an all time high. After that....... nah.
@@ColdEmperor and 4 had the worse gameplay (aside the elite 4). That's saying alot. At the end, for my new switch I preferred buying a 2€ jrpg then Pokémon for a rpg on it.
I think sun and moon are underrated, but yah.
Gen 4 had terrible distribution (lol fire types) but it was still leagues ahead of this trash excuse of a generation called Sword/Shield.
The region design alone makes gen 1-5 games way better than gen 7 & 8. Heck, even X&Y had a fairly good region design, it was stupidly linear but at least the routes still had *something* to explore.
After seeing the claustophobic corridors of Galar and empty wild areas I lost all hope in 3D pokemon games. GameFreak has no idea what they're doing
I’m gonna be waiting for the inevitable dlc review
I ain't buying that bullcrap!!
@@RadicalSoda what if I or someone else buys it for you?
@@Bee-cw9ho
Hehe
But no seriously, my salary is on 5th December and if there's a way to get in touch with Soda, I'm willing to pay for the dlc
RadicalSoda aw, I kinda wanted to hear your groans of agony while playing it, specifically the isle of armor 😂
Why do the pokemon want pets you can't pet them in this game right?
You can't. They've made interacting with pokemon gradually more shallow with each generation. Its honestly impressive.
@@anothergamer112 Don’t you remember Pokémon Amie? Although the feature was removed in SWSH.
@@minnesotanfreedomist3147 thats actually what I was referring to. In gen 6 we had pokemon amie. Then in gen 7 pokemon refresh removes the minigames and limits grooming to after battles or status conditions. Then in gen 8 you can only watch your pokemon and the toys just amount to watching them in a slightly different way. At least curry making is interactive enough.
@@anothergamer112 Oh I forgot that Gen 7 removed all those features from ORAS.
I don’t know how as the Super Training helped teach me about EVs as a kid.
I can't really agree with the whole "I had fun" mentality since it's used as a massive shield against criticism with some of the more hardcore fans. The excuse of "Well I had fun so I don't care about all the issues" is a huge problem these days with some games. I guess, if you get fun out of the game, hurray for you but just as long as you realize that people see glaring problems with it.
I had fun, but a turd is a turd no matter how hard or long you polish it. If they weren't so scared of fans making adjustments to their games we could pull a bethesda fix outa our asses, but that would mean they have to admit they wasted their money, time and resources on other things and let their games go to shit.
@@TheCatslock I think the difference between Pokemon and the likes of Bethesda is Nintendo. Nintendo is a fucking monster when it comes to the idea of people messing with their games. It's why so many Pokemon fan games get C&D'd if they get found out before they're released and it's why emulation is becoming more difficult to do. It's mostly Nintendo clamping down on this stuff (although I'm sure other companies have similar sentiments but would never say it) and when one of the main developer teams has a problem with innovation, it can be a very dangerous combination. Part of me hopes the backlash will force some kind of change but since Sword/Shield are the best selling Switch games at the moment, I'm not too excited.
I'll admit I had fun with Sword/Shield
BUT why I still trash it is because every time I had fun in Sword, it was done so much in previoys games. The only thing SwSh have going for it is that its Pokemon. It has NOTHING to say for itself. Which isn't even a 3D Pokemon problem as Sun/Moon stands out with its heritage, region tradition and character base storytelling like BW but still stands out. While SwSh took SM story format and lazily shoved it in, if I was to choose to either replay Sun or Sword, why wouldn't I pick Sun, every single time...
@@briankelly130 yes and no because Nintendo gave a indie company there game along with a few other bought companies. Though Nintendo really hates fan games
It really does hurt. Just imagine what Pokémon could be...what it should be. It's a franchise I always told myself I'd play until I grew old. Yet I couldn't be more disappointed in SwSh and am just as ready as you are to give it up if the next gen is just as bad.
13:28 So you wait in the hotel for long enough that Hop assumes something happened to Leon, you run around town chasing after the dude in the shades, climb the tower and have a bunch of battles and when that’s all over Leon is JUST starting his meeting with Rose?
We’re nearly at the end of this amazing saga of rightfully tearing this sad excuse of a Pokémon game to pieces. I love how you leave no stone unturned when it comes to these gigathicc reviews. Keep up the great work mate
I'm seeing a pattern here. Many people say how post Gen 5, Pokemon has gone off a cliff, for the most part. It is attributed to many things but I think the loss of the late, great Satoru Iwata plays a hand in this. Many of people's cherished Pokemon titles, From Ruby and Sapphire to Black and White 2, had his masterful touch. Of course, his passing was not the sole reason the franchise is tanking, there is no sole reason. But he left a void nobody has been able to fill.
i think its also due to the fact that fans HATED gen 5 when it came out, like absolutely despised it, many of the fans here who're praising it probably said they despised it then as well, so i think pokemon was like "alright, this game we put countless hours of love and care into, this game we worked so hard on perfecting.. did horribly, nobody liked it and it sold poorly, we might as well not even try with our next entry." and then they didn't try and look what happened? better sales, so i theorize gamefreak just kinda gave up at that point cuz fans hated it when they actually tried.
After this long saga, I think we can agree on one thing.
If there’s going to be a new 3D Pokémon game in the future, let the team that made Colosseum and XD gale of darkness make it. GameFreak can’t be trusted anymore
That’s up to Nintendo. The commissioner of such things since they’re the trademark holders. GameFreak does own everything else regarding Pokémon so they’ll develop as long as time exists. Of course what makes people think Genius Sorority wants to do something on that scale ever again? Maybe they’re happy and content doing the occasional mobile.
Ehhhh, the Colosseum games aren't that much better than Sword and Sield. They are slow, their stories are laughably stupid, there's like a third of the pokemon in those games, and the difficulty is all over the place. I feel like people are looking back with nostalgia googles and forgetting how flawed to shit the Colosseum games are.
@@okagron yes, Ive been seeing this everywhere and it was getting annoying, the whole colesseum comparisson started as an animation and scaling thing.. but internet people spread it as if the entire game was just a masterpiece compared to gen 8
I just discovered this channel and this series recently. I am beyond happy to see that this video was released not too long afterward!
Feel bad for the people who design the Pokémon themselves and the games their designs are in.
Let's not discount the human NPCs or the town setpieces, either. The coding holding it all together is trash, but the designs are quite good.
Yea that's the thing. Most people are complaining about the art and trashing Gamefreak, but they DON'T make the animations. It's handled by a separate division of Creatures. If the devs don't get animations to work with, they can't do much. Shame they get blamed for all of it.
It's the pokemon company, so they definitely have the funds. But I always feel bad hearing "GF doesn't deserve to make a pokemon game". Maybe, say, Monolith would scale the pokemon and get some better lighting, but if the big wigs give them limited models, they aren't making better animations than whay we got.
@@raze2012_ Eh....they kinda do make animations though atleast partly. And that's the reason they used for cutting out old Pokémon remember? It's more then just gamefreak obviously the pokemon company takes major blame. Monolith? Eh....I think they could make better animations though.
@@Jdudec367 "they" only announced the company mentality. They didn't specify who made the animations (the credits do). GF is basically handling the PR so their only admitrence here is working with the cards they got (literally). Which is quicker, but not necessarily preferred.
And given all the discourse (even from Soda himself. Even from YOU), it seems far from "obvious" to people that GF isn't the sole studio working on pokemon games. Bamco is working with the exact same models and animations in Snap 2 and are being praised for it (IMO that will blow back HARD when people realize nothing's changed except for pokemon scaling).
Don't shoot the messenger. Be specific on TPC as a whole if that's the problem. This is like hating the Lion King movie and blaming the VFX studio... The studio that was under payed, crunched, and shut down while Disney walked away with a billion dollars. Clearly these relationships aren't equal.
@@raze2012_ Eh....there is a big difference between GF and Namco as developers though. For me it was always clear that TPC carried a lot of the blame really. Honestly with Snap the animations and models seem a lot better
with sword and shield it was both crunch and laziness though really. So GF still carries at least some blame
I plan on making a parody of “Christmas Time is Killing Us” complaining about Pokémon so far. It won’t be high quality or anything since I quit making videos years ago, but if someone wants to perfect it, let me know.
Whence Pokémon
Had begun with gen one
Fans were made from the fun that was greeting us,
But Shield and Sword
End up leaving us bored
Because Pokémon is cheating us
POKÉMON SWORD AND SHIELD MORE LIKE POKÉMON...
B-bad?
Yah I’m not that clever
You'd do great at GameFreak
Pokémon Bored and Greed
Pokemon Short and Sealed
Clever? No.
Right? Yes.
@@KingOfDarknessAndEvil IDK I think my talents would be wasted there
R.I.P Chumley
You will be missed :(
Part of me wants to see how he reacts to the post game. But that would be inhumane.
Jesus rad it’s like 12 am here, im on break and you’re still tryin’ to give me insomnia.
give into the insomnia
It’s 3am here.
@@infiniteoctopaw 2:43 AM here
I felt every word on that rant near the end, they've given me so much joy but unfortunately they don't seem to want to provide that same joy to the newer generations
personally, i think they're just tired of doing another pokemon game every year so they just threw one out there.
The DLC says otherwise. The DLC says, "Money. Money. Money. Money."
@@ODSTD56 pretty sure the DLC was planned from the start.
Also, any one else mad at the fact that they didnt let you take your pokemon out during the main game, just the 2 dlc? Or is it just me?
I wouldn't even want to make my pokemon follow me considering how terribly they executed it. It feels like a feature that got added on the last day smh.
@@yiangaruga4928 probably was lol, its very obvious that it was duct taped toguether with overworld spawn mechanics and some poke camp stuff in a day
1:18 friendly reminder, we lost Arbok and Seviper for, this thing
Seriously, the fact Weezing got an entire new form while Arbok still is absent in the game and the only snake Pokemon in the entire game is also the poop emoji Pokemon really grinds my gears. Also talking about gears, did anyone really want Klink Klang to return over something like eelectross?
Idk this game and what it stands for kinda sickens me
Sandaconda looks cool though :/
I like kinklang and its not their fault gamefreak felt like making you pay to catch the other pokemon
Dude.
That talk at the end of the video.
Really feels true man.
Good video, liked
This game honestly depresses me when you look at how quality Odyssey and BOTW are and how the first console gen could have been like that..
I just finished Part 5 earlier. What a coinky-dink.
Nice Miraculous Ladybug reference
The ending was so true the animation is so horrendous it honestly makes me sad my last favorite Pokémon game was black and white it just really scummy how these people are making these games
That wave of nostalgia that hits me every time I hear FFX-2 music at the end
Why does everyone act like pokemon emerald version doesn't exist? Its pokemon ruby and sapphire but better AND has a new storyline. Just sayin...
He mentioned Emerald, alongside Fire Red, Pearl, and Black and White :D
Oh my goodness! You live! Glad to see you back!
You too, Antonio Henderson
I remember when Pokémon Bank came out, and I was like "This is it. This is the downward spiral."
28:11 he actually uses an Ultra Ball in the anime to try and catch Eternatus.
I used a beast ball.... For the aesthetic.
@@smithcubs if there is one thing I agree with in this game is the 100% catch rate after a legendary boss, gets rid of soft reseting (unless you like shiny hunting) in favour of free pokeball aesthetics
Regarding the E4 fight, I think the fangame Pokemon Uranium actually handled this much more effectively. Uranium has its own issues, but what it does for the finale is what SW/SH wanted to do-- a single-elimination tournament against remixed Gym Leaders all vying to be the new Champion.
Uranium also heals you between matches, but the twist is that the matches themselves are *itemless*, and the E4 variants of the enemy teams are *brutal* (one of them is designed to be borderline impossible if you don't cheese the match). They also have the full gamut of Gym Leaders available in a randomized distribution, so you won't fight the same leaders every time you play through.
It's pretty funny to me to see the official games implementing that concept from a fangame, and I really like the idea, but, uh... wow they did it worse.
I really don’t have any motivation of finishing Sword and Shield, and I can see I’m not really missing out on the storytelling department.
Whoever thought using JPEGs to tell and not show what was clearly interesting events of the overall story, with the game not letting you participate in them, deserves to be fired.
Not only is that lazy, but it feels insulting. How does Game Freak expect me to be attached to this world’s region, characters, and all the going ons, if you’re removing any immersion where you feel you’re making an impact in the game.
If this game works for you for multiplayer and competitive experiences, that’s awesome!
But for a single player experience, it just feels bland and numb.
they dont, you see the brand, give them your 60 bucks and leave, and if you like the games for some reason or are invested in those competitive privileges they give to the people with the dlc you pay the other 30 and then leave :/
“you gotta buy a subscription to do it” little did he know Pokémon bank a subscription service would be released like a year later
2:25 Miltank says hello from the Isle of Armor
"Sonic Forces!? Oh wait, it's not. Wait is it?"
Don't apologize for Sonic Heroes being a favorite game. It is a solid concept with a awesome intro.
The saga continues god bless New Zealand
Don’t forget, this is the guy that made the “With the Addition of” games. :)
The what?
@@rocklee7737 Markiplier fan games
SO! About Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny and whatnot...in the anime, dopplegangers just...happen. There's like 3 or 4 identical Ashs running around, there's a whole episode devoted to Max finding a nearly identical Max and getting into an argument with him, there's a whole section on Bulbapedia for dopplegangers. Also, Jenny and Joy are last names. The Pokemon Centers and Police force in Pokemon are all controlled by a single family.
The more you know!
So there's a monopoly on all public health-care and law enforcement in the Pokemon world? No wonder there's so many criminal organizations and people challenging ten years olds to fights for money. Health care and security benefits must be practically non-exsistant.
@@lunarrobot9714 For Pokémon health-care the Joy family controls a large portion, but not for human health-care. I remember there was an episode of how Ash and his friends went to a human hospital to try to get medical help for a Pokémon, but the doctors didn't want to treat the Pokémon since they were human doctors. Most of the staff didn't look like each other from what I remember.
"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad"
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Perfect example of Sword and Shield being a rushed game that was bad, and Metroid Prime 4's development being restarted and delayed to create the best game possible.
The game only top sold because of brand recognition and brand recognition alone
Im both greatly depressed and greatly interested on how low quality pokemon is willing to go and how that will affect sales
Finally another episode of season one of Pokemon S/S is a bad game and here’s why, I can’t wait for the series finale at the end of season 13
It doesn't have that much content.
@@sechabatheletsane9784 You clearly have not watched Distant Kingdom then. Still going strong in Season 8
@@riotkitty funny enough I have😂😂 yeah okay maybe
True, the game has little content, but lord knows there's so much more to criticize.
Remember before SwSh when people were excited for the next Pokemon Remake?
Ah I still remember my first shiny in sword... I got it from a surprise trade and it’s name is literally a self advertisement
Ah, good old hacked pokemon
My first shiny in Shield was a wild Cufant. Thought I was gonna get Zamazenta during the campaign, so I boxed it. It’s still sitting there.
I'm so happy. I finally found out what the song playing in the outro is. From the one damn Final Fantasy I haven't played...
I love your review(s) of this game. This game really deserved an in-depth critical review because of just how much is wrong with it lol. It’s not TERRIBLE, but it’s definitely not good and GameFreak and GameFreak apologists need to understand that this is not very acceptable for a mainline Pokémon game, especially not one on a next gen console.
Damn your rant at the end really hit me hard. I agree with all of it. They're so shameless in their money grubbing endeavors. And it WORKS. It really is a shame how bad the games, and gamefreak, are now. Awful. Just awful.
You know when fucking free fangames manage to massively outclass your $60 games, you're doing something wrong.
Speaking of which, if you end up seeing this Rad, I wonder if you'd ever consider doing bite sized reviews of "fangames better than Pokemon Sword and Shield"
>a literal fucking alien god pokemon in the shape of a hand is right in front of you
>"Pistachio is feeling a little sleepy."
It still baffles me that there are people that call criticism of SwSh just people being pissy. Like what?
This game is an example of game freak not caring about their game because they thought "everyone will buy because it is pokemon"
but everyone DID buy it because its pokemon, in fact Im preety sure thats gonna be the trend by now, they got confortable with giving us just a bellow avarage looking game with poorly thought out story and features and just letting the fact there is pokemon in the title sell the game
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And everyone says Sonic had a bad transition to 3D.
sonic had much worse, you ever heard of sonic 06? 100x worse then sword and shield, as bad as sword and shield is. sonic hasnt had a good 3D game since 2010.
@@IamTealeaf original.
@@IamTealeaf yes but we got Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Heroes, Colors, and Generations which are better than Pokémon Sword and Shield
@@gloriousraccoon76895 yeah for sure, sonic 06 and unleashed were worse but sonic adventure (i haven't played heroes) colors and generations were better.
In general "at least i hade fun" is such a weak argument.
I also have fun sometimes rolling down a hill, doesn't make it a great thing/experience.
Also great job on taking a year for a game review - that's the real passion.
every time someone says "but I had fun so the game must be good" I say "but I hated it so it must be bad" and tell them how pointless this shit is
Nothing but facts
I actually broke down the size of Kanto and Hoenn and compared it to Galar
Like story content and number of maps etc
Galar has 10 routes, 10 towns/cities (Spikemuth doesn't count as a town) and 2 dungeons (counting Galar Mines as one)
Kanto has 20 routes (some of them can be classed as one route), 10 towns/cities, and 10 dungeons (only one being a corridor)
Galar is smaller than Gen 1 Kanto. What an embarassment
If Smash Bros was made by Game Freak half the animations would be copy/pasted from Melee, they would cut most of the characters and tell fans to deal with it, then charge a fee for them later, and they would make exclusive amiibos that only work with Ultimate and you wouldn't be able to use your old ones.
i mean smash already does cut half the characters, this is the first game that had every character so idk what you're trying to say here lol, a shit ton of characters were missing from brawl and smash 4, also the whole "charge a fee" thing.. smash did that too, mewtwo dlc, it used to be free in the game but now you have to pay for it in smash 4.
@@IamTealeaf Bringing in a character into a new smash game involves creating entirely new models and animations for each entry in the series as well as tweaking mechanics and such each release.
Pokemon has literally been porting the exact same models and animations since X and Y and appending its move sets over time for a battle system that has been unchanged since Diamons and Pearl, making it a ludicrously tiny amount of work in comparison.
Smash's roster cuts have usually been to remove redundant or functionally similar characters, whereas pokemon did it very plainly to make people spend a monthly fee on the scam that is pokemon home.
You can bellyache all you want about having to buy returning characters in smash 4, but the fact of the matter is that the assets and data for those characters didn't exist and were created after the feature-complete and content dense main game was finished. They actually had to, you know, put effort into it. Pokemon just had to decide when they wanted to drag and drop a folder.
@@IamTealeaf Most of the characters missing in Brawl were clones/redundancies. It doesn't even really compare to the amount of Pokemon that were missing from Sw/Sh. Like sure Brawl didn't have Roy but they added Ike as a replacement, who's a lot less of a clone from Marth. They removed Mewtwo, but replaced him with Lucario.
Let's not forget that Mewtwo returned in smash 4, and Roy returned in Ultimate with an entirely new moveset. They brought so many characters back, and have added new characters from entirely different franchises that people never even thought possible. I fucking wish Pokemon got as much love and care that Smash does.
34:41 I’d honestly like to see Genius Sonority try there hand at making a 3D Pokémon game again.
Maybe it’s my wearing rose tinted glasses but, from what I can remember Pokémon coliseum, gale of darkness, and battle revolution were absolutely captivating when I played them.
And yet, maybe the magic that made Pokémon what it was started dying when phones became the newest competition to console games.
Pokemon black/white 2 was also my favorite game. Played it 3 times with every starter.
(osawatt is the best one)
This is like a 3 hour review at this point...I like it
I think Sword and Shield had good ideas. The game was rushed and the people working on the game couldn’t make the game they wanted.
I also have a theory that the DLC wasn’t supposed to be DLC. I bet the team was planning on having the other wild areas in the post and mid game. Then they had gotten word on the dead line and were forced to repackage the other wild areas into the DLC. The Isle of armor story seeming to take place when you get your third gym badge because your starter should be fully evolved at the time. The Crown Tundra taking place after the post game.
So the game was rushed on purpose to make the workers repackaged content that should of came out on day one.
HOOOOOOOLD on a second.
Assuming the majority of fans were playing the game day one, the Isle of Armore hadn't been released. Meaning at the time, you couldn't make your Mons G-Max with soup. You found them in dens.
So either the Gym Leaders had access to the Isle of Armor that was probably planned to be a feature -butbecausethisgamewasrushedandgamefreakneededtosqueezemoremoneyoutoftheirfans-, or those are completely different 'Mons that they caught separately because at the time, either something was either born G-Max or not.
No way, RadicalSoda. The next games will be the fourth gen games remake.
Please no. Please don't let Game Freak ruin my childhood.
Gen 6 is where Pokemon died, 5th Gen was the last heart filled main series game.