Pokémon Designer Shares Special Artwork To Celebrate The Release Of Sword And Shield

This game looks and feels fantastic and frankly if you say you disagree then I don't believe you've played it yet.

Let the complains begin...

Yeah no thanks.

Alright Im prepared, dislike me all you want

After playing...this is way way worse than I thought. People who like it have never played a pokemon game before and dont know how standards work. This is a multi millionaire conpany, not a small indie team

@Lemonyoshi I also really like it. I'm glad I'm not a "true" pokemon fan as I can take it and enjoy it for what it is and not what my expectations led me to believe it would be like.

Careful not to take criticisms of the game personally. Or the opposite. It's okay to share how you feel on the game, but not nice to insult others because of how they feel

These are adorable.

Anyway please let's drop the "if you say X then you are Y" stuff. It's not needed here, please find somewhere else to play that game.

@PBandSmelly I've played Pokemon since Crystal and honestly Sword and Shield is beyond my expectations for a Pokemon game. If it doesn't impress you, maybe you just don't like Pokemon? There are a few let downs like national dex and I'm not huge on the new starter evos... but all in all if you started this game up and didn't go "WOW! That's beautiful for Pokemon!" I find it more likely you're the person who's never played a Pokemon game before...

@PBandSmelly or its maybe because you just don't like the game and some others do. Be a hater if you want but let the other make their own opinion

@Kidfunkadelic83 Glad you like it! I've been a fan for a long, long time and went in to it open minded - it's impressive to me at least. Maybe I don't expect enough out of a $60 game, then again, maybe I was just so hyped for Pokemon to be on my 65" TV that I didn't care... Either way, loving it! Cheers!

I have watched the gameplay video from Youtube.
So far so good to me. 😀
The funny part i found was if your ingredients for cooking curry was wrong, it will became Koffing Class taste aka Disgusting, even your character and your starter Pokemon will suffer in yucky taste 🤣

Cute artwork! Still not getting the games. First mainline Pokémon games I'm not getting but I just can't with these. Especially after two already disappointing generations.

Sorry Game Freak. You lost me.

Playing a little bit before going to sleep. It's pretty fun so far

I won’t be supporting this but I’m happy to see some are enjoying the game. It’s your money after all, the final word is always on the player’s side.

In going to celebrate a game that was save corruption problems that doesn’t support cloud saves. Thanks Nintendo you did us all a favor by allowing developers to disable this incredibly useful feature which is part of your subscription service!

@Lemonyoshi absolutely. Sure it would be awsome for the series to be built from the ground up and be a pokemon game in a fully open world as big as BOTW etc but at the end of the day, it's not! We've just got to live with that at the moment and take it and enjoy it for what it is.

I'm loving the game. I've luckily avoided spoilers and every new pokemon is a nest surprise. My only complaint is the background of battles inside buildings. It's pretty bland and lazy.
HOWEVER. I'm loving the game so far. It's so beautiful and the new mons are awesome. Like, a dragon apple? I hate that I love it. Hahaha

I genuinely wish he would step down from any position in power with Pokémon.

Leaving work at 1pm to head to Game to pick up my Steelbook of Sword. Then home to hibernate for the weekend.

@PBandSmelly Yes to that, bro. 😊

I am not getting the game.....

But that artwork is so ADORABLE!
One thing that will always be amazing in Pokemon is the artwork (character design and even pokemon designs). Can't wait to see more!

As an old-school Nintendo fan and therefore (very) casual Pokémon fan, I am genuinely surprised to see how toxic the Pokémon fan base is. I seriously had no idea how spoiled and entitled and just generally terrible you guys are. Every single article or tweet that I come across relating to this game, no matter how innocent and seemingly innocuous, is plagued by melodramatic complaints from people claiming to be “fans” of this series. It’s shocking and comical and gross all at the same time. It’s just such loser-ish behavior. Honestly, you guys don’t deserve the effort these devs put into these games for you. Get a grip on reality and grow the f up.

Prepare for a new wave of outrage. Digital versions of the games are reported to be corrupting all data on SD cards if Autosave is on and the game crashes.

@BAN I wasn't going to comment but tbh everyone has a right to their opinion and the more people complain the more they might bother to patch up the mess and fix the issues so people like me who are waiting for such can get it, not having to stare at terrible textures, rubbish animations anddeal with bugs.

I know Pokes from 1st Gen and as I already saw, it's great. Fack haters, go play your next gen Death Stranding xd

@Yosher this is one thing no one would need to apologize for. It's an example of human behaviour as opposed to fan one. GF don't owe you games you might like, you don't owe them any chances to give that you might like the new game. "I've played everything before x" itself is often abused by fans as a pseudoargument to defend their imaginary "right to remain entertained" (read: access to new doses of their addiction), although it doesn't oblige anyone to anything either - it basically testifies that the audience member in question has already received a whole bunch of memories and experiences from the franchise in question to treasure as a part of their lives. Calling it quits or parting ways for years can happen at any point afterwards, and there's no shame in doing so.

With no sarcasm implied, good luck finding resonance with other games/franchises out there. And good luck being their audience rather (or at least more often) than their fan.

@nhSnork You are absolutely right that I don't need to apologise. It's just that I've been a Pokémon fan for so long that it just hurts to not get these games, y'know? And it also feels bad not to support those who DID work hard towards these games. Hence why I apologise even if I don't need to.

I've still got plenty of other games to enjoy so no worries there, but nothing will really be able to substitute Pokémon for me. That's why I'm hoping sales for these games will disappoint so that they will bring the quality of the series back up to what the series deserves. Because as it is now it just breaks my heart as a long-time Pokémon fan.

It is good to see people are still able to enjoy the games though at least, but I won't be one of them. Thank you for that message though, it helps me! <3

I think the problem is that people brought unreasonable expectations with them thanks to Breath of the Wild (a game that took 3+ years of development) and Pokemon Go!/Detective Pikachu the Movie. Nothing was going to satisfy them.

My simple question would be why would every Pokemon be everywhere, I mean how many Elephants do you observe in the wilds of the United States? Does this story feature a protagonist from a previous series that should have access to previous Pokemon that another trainer caught in a completely different region of the world?

I mean I get it, the game has been a yearly release cycle for a while and that never is a good thing for developers or players. But some of the expectations are just as bad. I just wanted a Pokemon Snap sequel on Wii U (a console that basically was designed for the concept), but life goes on.

@Kidfunkadelic83 I too would love to have such low standards. I really envy you.

@Darknyht the expectactions were high, yes, but I disagree that was the problem. See, the Sw&Sh reveal was great and I didn't saw a lot of hate about it. It wasn't until we saw that some features were stripped off without any apparent reason that the hate started to build up.

THEY LIED TO US! THE ARTWORK ISN'T SPECIAL!!!!!!!!!

P.S. How do I know it isn't special? I data-mined! XD

@Darknyht what does Zelda have to do with Pokemon, though?

Played since Pokémon blue and I love this game so far.

@Jayofmaya Of course everyone has a right to believe and say whatever they want. But that doesn’t mean that your beliefs and the way you express them are good. Hence, my use of the term “toxic” here. You guys are toxic. Congrats on exercising the right to be that way.

@BAN I don't believe so, that's a phrase usually used on those whom cause harm through hedonistic actions and words. I have expressed nothing other than the desire for a better experience for all the fans.

@Jayofmaya If you had actually bought and played this game(s), I MIGHT concede that you personally aren’t toxic. But the truth is that going online and judging a game that you haven’t even played is just adding to the cacophony of bandwagon-jumping malcontent fanboys. Your current polite tone is irrelevant until you’ve actually played through the game.

But even if you had played the game, I would say you’re missing the point. Which is that there are a lot of people freaking out online, who have been doing so since long before this game released, and I just find that behavior to be extremely bizarre and easily identifiable as toxic.

@BAN Honestly, doesn't bother me dude. I have a right to express concern in a civilised and constructed fashion, which I have done so. If you don't like the fact that I have taken on board both criticisms and highlights, that's your problem.