Because of leaks early on, describing just how woefully and unacceptably incomplete Sword/Shield were (488 Pokemon missing, per the attached image, along with a slew of moves), that they reused models and animations from the 3DS games - thus meaning no improvement to move animations or Flying-type models to suit the much more powerful hardware, and how ugly the Galar region itself was, I never bought the games. Oh, and half-assed online features too, but that's not my cup of tea. They also flat-out lied about the reason why they removed 488 Pokemon, never mentioned just how many were removed, never told their native Japanese audience about the removal whatsoever, and broke promises made in 2018 after Let's Go removed 656 Pokemon. #GameFreakLied, by the way.
Now that they're charging $30 per DLC, per game (so $60 for both DLC for one game; $120 if you have both games) and $16 to store 6 MB of data (Pokemon files = 1 KB. 6000 files = 6000 KB = 6 MB) along with bringing back non-retarded versions of the GTS and Wonder Trade, my refusal is even more firm.
The ONLY reason Sword/Shield sold 16 million copes and counting is because of the Pokemon brand, instead of their actual quality, and seeing how Game FrEAk and The Pokemon Company have shifted priorities to 'rely on brand name' instead of 'rely on game quality' (which they did until 2013) has me realise the series is practically dead now. A mere shell of what it once was.
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