Pokémon Sword for is one of the first games for Switch from the universe, and is, as are so many of the franchise offerings, teamed with a sister game, Pokémon Shield, also for the Switch.
About the Game
Pokémon are small creatures, which go through three or four stages of developments, known as evolutions, with each additional stage giving them more power, stamina or special abilities. Even the biggest Pokémon is quite small: the name is a portmanteau of Pocket Monster following the tra...
Pokémon Sword for is one of the first games for Switch from the universe, and is, as are so many of the franchise offerings, teamed with a sister game, Pokémon Shield, also for the Switch.
About the Game
Pokémon are small creatures, which go through three or four stages of developments, known as evolutions, with each additional stage giving them more power, stamina or special abilities. Even the biggest Pokémon is quite small: the name is a portmanteau of Pocket Monster following the translation from the original Japanese when the original game was released in 1996.
Players take on the personas of trainers who are humans who travel the countryside, with their current Pokémon, looking for new Pokémon to battle, capture and train. As each Pokémon is trained, they evolve as mentioned above. Once the player has a good stable of Pokémon in their stable, they can begin to battle against other trainers’ Pokémon.
Pokémon are kept in a Poké Ball, a red, black and white device that contains the Pokémon until they are needed. This ball is small enough for a trainer to carry six of them on his or her belt, and each ball can carry one Pokémon.
Pokémon come in different types, loosely matching the elements of earth, air, water, and fire, and these all offer various advantages and disadvantages. For example, a fire Pokémon is endangered by a water Pokémon, so will have to fight harder to win such a battle. This means that players must carefully choose their Pokémon before sending them into battle to try and give them the best chance of success.
What’s the Story?
The premise of the game changes little from release to release, relying instead on the desire of players to gather all the Pokémon on offer. These have increased exponentially from less than a hundred in the original game, to thousands nowadays. Each offers new powers and abilities, and once a player is a fan, he or she gets the bug: ‘gotta catch ’em all!’
The player is driven by the desire to be the best trainer in the land, and starts out with three initial Pokémon (see below for more details). They are then sent on their way to play through all the training gyms in the land until they have bested them all and end up at the Champions Cup, ready to battle to be crowned the strongest in the land.
The Starter Pokémon
Each game in the Pokémon series has the player start out with a pack of three Pokémon. For Sword, the three included Pokémon are:
Grookey: a green bodied, cartoonish chimpanzee-type Pokémon, Grookey has a small stick lodged between his or her hair tufts. This stick is used by the Pokémon to beat against objects and also helps to grow grass, appropriate for a Pokémon from the Grass variety
Scorbunny: as the name implies, this Pokémon looks a lot like a rabbit, and is mostly white but with stripes of orange and yellow on its feet, ears and neck. This energetic bunny is bursting with energy – so bursting, in fact, that it can start small fires from the speed of its footsteps! It is a fire Pokémon
Sobble: this timid blue Pokémon is something of a chameleon, with the ability to hide itself in water, where it blends in rather well. It has slender limbs, with grasping hands, and climbs well. It is a water Pokémon with a torrent ability
Pokémon Sword for Nintendo Switch is available for purchase on Instant Gaming for a fraction of its retail price. You will receive an official key and be able to play the game in seconds. Play smart. Pay less.
I chose Shiled mostly because I like Zamazenta more than Zacian but that should not be your main reason for buying either of the games. In fact, many regional pokémon and Max Raid battles should be the reason to buy them. This Pokémon game might not let you ride your Pokémon into battle all across the map nor will it show you a shiny pokémon when it spawns instead it will have you take a more challenging but much more fun path to completing it in its entirety.
2022-02-09T12:10:07-0500
After compliting the main story I can say that it starts off qute slow, still interasting if you follow the conversations. I nejoyed the second part the most. Overall a good pokemon story. I've been enjoying cathcing more pokemon in post story gameplay. The only thing is, I think wild areas whould be more spread out and better placed. The wather conditions changes are annoying.
The return of wild pokemon combat
Good graphics
Good story
2020-06-18T13:54:57-0400
This game was awesome although the animation isn't really ,,Nintendo-like". It sometimes feel like they didn't even care about visuals like blurry graphics and robotic, lifeless NPCs and Pokémon. It is also not very enjoyable that some Pokémon can be obtained with only trading. Gigantamax and shiny Pokémons are also a bit overly rare. But to say something good the story was great and challangenging and the game is well balanced. Every leader can be beat no matter what party Pokémon the player is using. It only needs tactics and knowledge. I beat the game using kantonian Persian most of the time just fine.
Great story.
Lots of Pokémon.
Balanced difficulty.
Beatiful visuals.
Cool Legendaries and Pseudos'
Bad graphics and animations.
Version exclusive Pokémon.
Too rare G-Maxs and Shinies.
Too expensive.
2020-03-29T11:46:47-0400
This game is fab! I love the amount of variety for character customisation, the pokemon are super cute, and the story was lovely.
I'm a fairly casual fan of pokemon, but this was right up my alley. You can meet other players online and nearby, and even fight in raid battles with them.
graphics
gameplay
playtime
can get a bit laggy in the wild area if connected to internet
2020-02-26T07:54:59-0500
i love this game so much to do the story the gym battles the random pokemon just doing their own thing the outfits that you can wear into battle are cool the massive raid battles you can do is great well worth getting this game
everything is great
2020-02-15T07:27:07-0500
I had great fun playing this game. However, it doesn't feel like there was a good enough improvement on the game for the Switch. Feels like a 3DS game on a Switch. Also, as someone else stated, I do miss my favourite pokemons.
I had fun and would buy again, but I was expecting more.
2020-01-02T07:24:27-0500
Nice pokèmon game, it miss various things but the characters and the story is very good
There is not a villain and victory road, the pokemon are really good but the online feature does lack of fps and stability
the competitive is funnier and easier
Story
Empaty
You are actually the champion even after the end
Raid
Competitive
No villain
No victory road
Online feature
2019-12-07T13:24:37-0500
Wonderful game. Its my first Pokémon game and i like it. It s funky, dynamax and gigamax pokémons are a grenat Idea and it will be a fantastic ans grenat endgame. I Hope Gamefeeak will add somefree content
On Switch
Nothing
2019-11-21T09:56:17-0500
I've been playing pokemon since Pokemon cristal
This is a huge drop in quality, don't buy it
If you want to know all the problems, just check pokemon subreddit
Also bad new pokemons, I miss my favourites
Bad Graphics for a 2019 game
Not all pokemons
Bad animations
Remove of mega evo and zmoves
Bad writing, and still no voice acting
2019-11-18T10:50:08-0500
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