#gamefreaklied

Apparently it’s “Melon” with a y. 

This feels like a pretty accurate summary of the Sword and Shield situation.

Ok #gamefreaklied is very VERY true

Ok 1. They lied about spending time working on new models, which they just ported from the 3ds and Lets go pikachu eevee

2. They cut more than half of the dex for better animations and battle mechanics. This is extremely false because most of the animations are the exact same except for the new Pokémon moves on said new Pokémon, they even have wooloo’s evolution do a KICK for HEADBUTT but jump up like Scorbunny for DOUBLE KICK

3. They said this was for older fans, but I heavily disagree. They forced XP share onto us, had so much handholding, the gyms looked very very easy, and you can be very overleved with xp share on when going into the gyms

There’s so much about this game that just isn’t good. It doesn’t look polished whatsoever, it looks like it should be on the fucking 3ds. The render distance is abysmal, and oh did I forget to mention THEY LEFT MOUSE CURSORS IN THE GAME. I am NOT joking, they left mouse cursors in the beginning into, end credits, and in the Nintendo direct trailer. This is beyond unprofessional. And it is NOT a Easter egg, if it was why was the mouse behind the video? If it was why did the mouse go off screen quickly like it wasn’t supposed to be there? If it was why did it suddenly pop into existence?

Fuck these games, and Masuda. Not saying he is a bad person, but he is making the Pokémon games look unprofessional and bad, he became head executive during X & Y and from what I heard, it’s not a good game. I honestly do not want Pokémon going in this direction, I have been with the games since either HeartGold or Black and White. I would be sad if pokemon failed as a company, but everything and every brand has to fall sooner or later

As the game is being release I would like to take the time and share my opinion about this controversy and in general how much of a controversial game swsh are

This whole situation echos fallout 76 to an eerie degree. Like how sword and shield were handled by the b team at gamefreak similarly to how Bethesda has their smaller b team work on fallout 76. This controversy also brings up an issue I feel have been plaguing gamefreak since the very beginning, bad programming. Fallout 76 is far more pronounced in this regard but it is still undeniable that each game exposed a history that in hindsight was pretty obvious. I could go on and on.

I will stand very firm in my descision to not get either game until I can see some genuine improvement in the games. Gamefreak chose to make sword and shield as controversial as it is and I disagree with how Nintendo as the publisher stands idely by as gamefreak manages to push out a half baked bare bones Pokémon game. My reason also stems from how lazy gamefreak is to not include all of the Pokémon but yet reuse the models and animations despite what they claimed in interviews