Review: Pokémon Sword (Nintendo Switch)
Get ready to experience Galar, an expansive region with diverse environments, from a peaceful countryside and contemporary cities to a thick forest and snow-covered mountains. The people and Pokémon who live here work together closely to develop the industries within it.
Pros:
- Cartoon graphics.
- 9.5gb download size.
- Poké Ball plus support.
- Ongoing tutorials as you play.
- Gotta catch em all battler gameplay.
- Save when you want.
- Online and offline setting.
- Fast loading times.
- All-new Pokemon along with some familiar ones.
- Can see the pokemon walking around.
- Flying taxi-acts as fast travel.
- Same familiar controls.
- Wild area-new thing where you can see other players, interact with pokemon, see higher level pokemon and battle in raids with other players.
- Camp-build a tent and play with your pokemon, heal and rest in the wild area.
- Smoother, quicker intro to the game with it getting into the action a lot quicker.
- Gyms-you still faces off against people but they are a lot more opened and have puzzle elements to them.
- Shortcut button when fighting to use your Poké balls.
- Really handy pop up explaining items when you pick them up for the first time.
- Dynamax Evolution-greatly increases the size of your Pokemon and gives them new actions and abilities.
- Nursery-leave 2 pokemon to be slowly cared for and level up and you have a chance to get an egg to hatch into a pokemon.
- Can set it to skip cutscenes.
- Whistle-attract Pokemon.
- Fishing available from the start.
- Clear easy to read the map.
- Play how you want.
- Bouncy happy soundtrack.
- Online-battle/random trade/raids etc.
- You can connect to online for interactions manually.
- Shops to buy items and rest your pokemon.
- So much fun to play.
- Addictive.
- Faster paced combat.
Cons:
- No touchscreen support.
- No voice work.
- You have to find a person and interact with them just to be able to tweak audio settings.
- Still no fast forward button for fights.
- No real advancements or changes in the overall experience.
- Lacks less interaction than Let’s go.
