Pokémon Sword and Shield

[YPrrrr]

Tfw you spend days shiny breeding for a shiny deino and get nothing but breed one Stonejourner for someone and get instashiny

I mean it's cool to get any shiny but I feel like I used up all my luck on this dumb rock

[Samus Aran]

but is it a ~square shiny~

[YPrrrr]

That would have been on theme but no it is star shiny

[AAAAAAAA]

Just finished. Did all the single player stuff, decided I'm not going to complete the Pokedex. I got over 200 though.

Overall, this was decent, but it felt like they played it too safe overall, or rushed it, or something. It's a little bizarre how linear Galar is. There are no nooks and crannies, no dungeons, only a couple areas that are barely maze-like. It made the whole thing feel less adventurous, like there was nothing to explore. What's there is nice, but it's just so stripped back. This clearly was a conscious decision, but I wonder why. Did they not think dungeons were fun? Or is it just a way to get the game out on time while making a new engine.

The Wild Area is neat but ultimately just a toe dip and kind of dull. Game Freak evolve their games so slowly, so hopefully there will be a much better and bigger instantiation next time.

Story was also pretty bad, even for a Pokemon game. I liked the characters I guess, and I liked that gym leaders had a little more to do than just be fought once and disappear.

I liked some of the QoL things like accessing your box anywhere and being able to fly early and pretty much everywhere. Camping was ok, but cooking too slow so I hated doing it.

That's a lot of complaining for what is a really good game, but man, it could've been a lot better. It's a huge step back from VII, which might actually be my favorite gen. I suspect that in a year I'll barely remember what happens in this one, just like VI (seriously, that one's a huge blank in my mind for some reason). Hopefully the next gen will push things forward again, now that the Switch stuff is figured out. I guess this has been a trend since gen IV... First game on a system is meh, second one is amazing. Really hope that continues.

[Samus Aran]

cooking is initially cool because of how convenient it is, and the minigame is very very cute

but yeah man eventually i just started using healing items like in old games instead lmao. it gets really tiresome. HOWEVER i had to do some camping regardless because that's how you get sylveon in this game. playing with your eevee.

[Samus Aran]

so anyway

lmao