You crazy I aint play death stranding but Gears 4 was great. Nothing brutal about it. Ol Hyperbole ass lmao
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Pokémon Sword and Shield | Review Thread (READ STAFF POST)
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As usual the Nintendolife review text doesn't match the score. Sounds like a pretty postcard of a model village. I'll wait for the updated game in 18 month and hopefully they've filled in the gaps (and no I'm not on about the Pokédex, over 700 Pokémon is intimedating for a casual player like me)
Hopefully the water levels and the amounts of it are to her liking though.
Some of these reviews are interesting to read after closely following the leaks, that's for sure
Same, my man. I see a lot of issues being repeated from that game here, but at least the presentation was more polished there and it not only had an actual existing online infrastructure, but also the best one in the entire series.
Oh, I liked them alright, but these ones seem to take all the bad queues from them.
I love how as soon as that Opencritic score slipped below 80, the Nintendo fans lost their shit.
Anyway, what it seems like in the end is that the games simply did not get the development time they needed to achieve everything they set out to, and there are cutbacks and compromises all around as a result. They have still turned out fine, due to the core Pokemon formula being strong, and an inspired decision in the Wild Area, but Game Freak is working on thin ice here, and probably needs to severely rethink its approach - and the time it takes - on future games.
It has 10 reviews... Gears 5 was at 86 for along time until it slowly dropped down. I would wait.
IGN: "Raids are categorized with a one- to five-star difficulty rating (or more – five is the highest I've seen so far), and those four- and five-star Max Raid Battles can be genuinely challenging."
Eurogamer: "Dynamax raids themselves, a headline feature, pop up perpetually at "dens" all over the Wild Area, and are disappointingly simple. You tackle them 4v1 - with online friends or NPCs - but the battles themselves, after the initial awe, are underwhelming and really of little to no consequence. Lay the beat down on whatever giant baby's thrown out - a Bonsly or a Whooper, say - and in a couple of hits it's over."
Not sure who to believe here, but I hope IGN's take is more accurate as the co-op raids sounded like the most interesting part of the game to me.
Eurogamer: "Dynamax raids themselves, a headline feature, pop up perpetually at "dens" all over the Wild Area, and are disappointingly simple. You tackle them 4v1 - with online friends or NPCs - but the battles themselves, after the initial awe, are underwhelming and really of little to no consequence. Lay the beat down on whatever giant baby's thrown out - a Bonsly or a Whooper, say - and in a couple of hits it's over."
Not sure who to believe here, but I hope IGN's take is more accurate as the co-op raids sounded like the most interesting part of the game to me.
On the other end I always felt like the better games in the series like B/W never received their due plaudits either. It always seemed like Pokemon games were largely treated like sports games by reviewers where they're not quite invested enough in the culture to feel confident in publishing a strong opinion.
But most Nintendo fans are apparently happy about it being sub-80?
That's why this pokemon game is perfect for newcomers to the series.
This one sentence has been Game Freaks motto for like 7 years. It's pretty amazing how good that concept is.
I think this is pretty accurate. There are outlying reviews on occasion, but the sports game treatment is apt.
Arguably the best online in the series, overall great presentation, trainer customization and generally good Pokédex additions?
You have my sword (and shield).
GameXplain - "The game is too streamlined for its own good".
I think if there's one thing Pokemon fans DON'T want, it's for things to be even more streamlined.
That comment and the Eurogamer comment on no dungeons really makes me worried about this being the easiest Pokemon game ever.
I think if there's one thing Pokemon fans DON'T want, it's for things to be even more streamlined.
That comment and the Eurogamer comment on no dungeons really makes me worried about this being the easiest Pokemon game ever.
No one deserves that. And I'm not sure why people would even be surprised by the score. Casey loves Pokemon to a fault.
There's so many big companies that do so much wrong and you chose to focus all of your attention on the guys who make the cartoon creatures.
That only happened to Sonic after a few duds in a row so I think Pokémon is in the clear
Slightly lower than most Pokemon games, on average, was always going to be the case here. For people playing it casually, going through the main story, it's the same as any other Pokemon, just with less polish.
If you're playing games as an enthusiast for that particular genre, you can never really trust mainstream outlets. It's like for strategy games or fighting games or what have you - a vast majority just aren't capable of analyzing the minutiae.
If you're playing games as an enthusiast for that particular genre, you can never really trust mainstream outlets. It's like for strategy games or fighting games or what have you - a vast majority just aren't capable of analyzing the minutiae.
Lol of course not, if it is then it's a lot smaller than that
The reviews that I've skimmed over basically amount to:
It's still Pokemon. Thanks for that, I guess. Good to know GF isn't capable of botching a tried and true formula completely.
It's still Pokemon. Thanks for that, I guess. Good to know GF isn't capable of botching a tried and true formula completely.
i'll mirror what I said in the leaks thread, it seems like if one never played a Pokemon game it's fine, long time fans not so much maybe?
like the cut pokemon for example mean nothing to me because I never played the games, nor would I ever capture the 400 or whatever it is the game has, let alone 900.
like the cut pokemon for example mean nothing to me because I never played the games, nor would I ever capture the 400 or whatever it is the game has, let alone 900.
Honestly I found those parts in previous games tedious. I never found there to be much puzzle to those parts and it ended up feeling like wading through busywork.
I am happy we get good pokemon games. But I wanted the new games to be the best in the series.