Pokemon Sword

I can’t remember the last time I felt this much joy when playing a video game.

Pokemon Sword and Shield's single-player experience is filled with neat characters and a new region that's brimming with personality, but running around the Wild Area with other players offers a special kind of fun. Quality of life improvements to the metagame, including the ability to change your Pokemon's nature and rent teams for fights, gives you good reason to stick with the game after you're crowned the new champion of the Galar region. Despite the controversy, Sword and Shield offers a great time.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are arguably the best 3D entries so far, but the game lacks in content and it makes the game just remarkable and not excellent. However, the adventure is really fun, beautiful and surprising, with some of the best designs ever made. Wild Area is a blast, and the soundtrack just amazing. This game makes your time valuable, and the result is close to what everyone expected.

Sword & Shield is a really tricky Pokémon entry to pigeonhole. It retains the old Pokémon charm, but it's not without flaws.

While the game is just as fun and addicting as ever, the awkward dialogue feels shoe-horned in and the stark difficulty drop off in the mid-game is unfortunate to say the least, making the latter half of the experience a breeze. It’s still an enjoyable experience and a treat to explore the Galar region. It may not be perfect, but it is a strong step in the right direction to giving us the ultimate Pokemon experience.

Pokemon Sword & Shield doesn't take enough risks or attempt anything really new and important. The overwhelming amount of re-used assets and shortcuts leads to one of the biggest missed opportunities on the Switch to date. Newcomers will find a lot to love here, with no previous games to measure it against, but longtime series fans will likely be left wanting in almost every area.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are not bad games. But fun character arcs and inventive, creative designs of new ‘mon are often offset by poor pacing and restrictive world design. The world of Galar is charming, and is a Pokémon interpretation of Britain I’ve dreamed of since I was a kid, but between gating what Pokémon you can catch behind Gym Badges, some half-baked route/City designs and a modest amount of post-game content, Sword and Shield can only be called ‘good’ Pokémon games… not ‘great’ ones.

Underated as hell one of my top 5 pokemon games of all time i hate to see people trash it.

pokemon games are meant to be enjoyable, and this game certainly delivers in that aspect. a fine game from other aspects but enjoyability is where this franchise shines

this game was the pokemon game to hook me into this franchise. the game doesnt try to change the gameplay too much; its the same formula but with one of the best regional gimmicks. the soundtrack is a way better improvement from the last games, but it is very easy and moderately expensive. however, as of 2026, you're better off buying scarlet or violet than one of these gen 8 games due to the online services being dead.

Graphisme bof. Histoire nul. Starter correct si ces bouzes de 1 ere evolution n'existait pas. Bref, mauvais jeu qui aurait du couter 10€. Mais comme nintendo es nintendo il en coûte 60.

kinda crazy how you're charging me $80cad for zacian to turn around like a brick. game is also wayyy too easy. pokemon shield is so much better and is definetly a 10/10.