We're firmly of the opinion that Pokémon Sword And Shield – while not perfect – is a fine video game that has clearly had a lot of blood, sweat and tears invested in it. However, it would seem that in the effort to get the title to market, developer Game Freak slipped up a little when it came to creating the ending.
During the end credits for the game, a mouse cursor is clearly seen floating around the screen. The video is shown below, and it goes without saying, if you'd rather not have a portion of the ending ruined for you before you see it yourself, then navigate away from this page as quick as you can – this is spoiler territory.
Still here? Good, then watch the video here to see what we mean.
Now, on first inspection, you may be tempted to assume this is some kind of elaborate joke, but other videos have cropped up online which show the same mistake.
We'd imagine this problem will be patched out of the game pretty quickly, but it made us chuckle, at least.
[source gonintendo.com]
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We're basically beating a dead horse now, listing everything buggy about this game, haha.
Theres so many issues with this game it's becoming sad.
I'm still laughing though.
I don't even care about Pokemon, just heard about this and decided to look into it. Good job GameFreak. lol
Woah rookie mistake hahahaha
The fact that we are even talking about this completely inconspicuous and inconsequential issue is more revealing to me.
I wouldn't bother to fix that either. I mean, just imagine the laundry list the developers are confronting up to release...
Seeing the mouse pointer during the credits honestly made me laugh. It was so random, I didn’t even expect it.
And Grookey has clearly left a coffee cup in plain sight!
Sure is surprising to hear about yet another "coincidental" colossal mistake from this high quality masterpiece. So much blood, sweat, and tears, though!
Huh, I didn't even notice that while playing the game. Oops.
Just play the DS games and call it a day.
I had to watch the video twice to even see it at all.
Yup, sure is a game-breaking error that shows Gamefreak's dark heart and money-grubbing agenda. Boy howdy, they're basically Hitler at this stage.
Holy crow, we're reaching Sonic Boom levels of bad, aren't we?
What a bunch of inept developers, I thought that they had years of experience under their belts. But I was wrong!
I didn't see something wrong by accidentally there was a mouse cursor during credit roll.
Looks like a parody for me. 😆
At least you made that holiday deadline, TPC.
For those defending this as nitpicking... Of course this is nitpicking, but you totally missed the point here. Such a mistake, while inconsequential to gameplay, shows that proper checking was not done for the game. These little problems (and big problems that everyone already knows of) add up, and given that Game Freak had already done a lot of cutting from the game while (giving the excuse that the delays and cuts were made to 'polish-up' the game), of course people are mad.
C'mon GameFreak have a bit more coffee and get your S&!% together!!
lol
I'm sure Nintendo Life are enjoying this whole controversy. Take a hardly news worthy occurrence and pile up the clicks cash because everyone is jumping into an article to cry that Game Freak ruined their lives by not giving them the game they wanted blah blah blah EVIDENCE THAT GAME FREAK ARE EVIL I'm pretty sick of hearing it all now and doubt the elitists are ever going to shut up about it now.
I legitimately wouldn’t have seen that if someone hadn’t slowed the footage way down.
@ProfessorNess Fortnite is the biggest game in the world and has major issues every update (bi-weekly) that renders items unusable, challenges impossible, cosmetics broken, etc... Pretty sure no one is missing the point.
@bluemage1989
Although I agree it is being milked all the way, I think NL is being pretty easy on Game Freak to be honest...
@ACK Have you seen the comments about Fortnite on this site? These people expect much higher quality from Pokémon. Lol
@Snaplocket Ok, sure. But are we talking about efficacy or just looking for things to complain about?
I see stuff like this in all forms of media, shrug, and move on. This issue is among the tamest... Likely to go unnoticed by the vast majority. That we are combing through the end credits days after release and spending any time parroting something so unobtrusive tells me we are going in the wrong direction.
All the magic is gone.
@ACK
Apples and bananas imo... Fortnite is a game that receives updates constantly so bugs once in a while are to be expected, but Pkmn is a game that was (or should have been) years in development. Also, wish Pkmn looked like Fortnite :/
@Snaplocket It's clear that you are moaning because you like to do so and it's the internet "cool" way to do.
You lost me when you implied this game had actual effort put into it...
Gamefreak put as much effort into this game as I did in typing this comment.
@nintykid Fine subsitute Madden and nearly any other EA release, Assassin's Creed and nearly any other Ubisoft release, or Falllout and nearly any other Bethesda release.
But I stand by my Fortnite example... I'm not just talking bugs, I mean they f*** that up regularly. Chapter 2 is as boring as it gets.
I still believe that they were developing this for the 3ds originally and changed course when the Switch took off. It does have a “rushed/incomplete feel” to the game. However, it doesn’t mean it isn’t fun and it does have good things about it. Stuff like this just adds to the overall perception though, that we’re not getting a really polished product like we’re used to. I hope they bounce back for the next true installment, since sword and shield 1.5 next year probably isn’t going to win anyone over.
@FrowningCoach Yup, I'm stupid. But I do work as a game developer... Oops.
Still looking to relive contempt and create more conflict for these games?, ok, for me, do what you want, for my part, I play and enjoy the games without problems of this. ^. ^
Already those who want to feel bad about "touching" something of these games, it is their problem, not mine.
Well Nintendo isn’t going to fix it, that’s GameFreaks job.
Funny I suppose... It's hard for me to care, let alone get annoyed at such trivial things like this though.
It's only a matter of time before someone finds a Starbucks coffe cup in the game.
@tobsesta99 You obviously have no idea what clickbait means.
Is there multiple reports? I have seen so many people fake stuff like this to get clicks that I just distrust it unless it's widely confirmed.
I've lost all respect for this site at this point. I think I might just be done. Nothing but click bait articles and dumpster fire comment sections. Echo chambers of complaints.
What happened? I used to have fun on this site, people used to be nice. It was like a breath of fresh air from the rest of the internet. Now it's the same trash you see everywhere else. Sad.
@iLikeUrAttitude that’s with so many games. Honestly if you play it it’s an amazing and an addictive game. Excellent debut entry
Man...this game just gets worse and worse everyday. So much controversy.
@westman98
Actually......
@Heavyarms55 People are still nice in the forums of this site.
@Heavyarms55 When you see abusive behaviour such as personal attacks, simply report it. The majority of posters are pretty civil. Even with the controversy surrounding this game, I’d say most posters have been pretty good about attacking arguments, not other people.
Well I guess it's time Game Freak retired from making any new Pokemon games from this point onward as it seems they couldn't even evolve the franchise. Nintendo needs to hired a new dev team to take control of making future Pokemon games now. A dev team that we all know will never be this lazy, a dev team known as Alpha Dream.
Lmao.
Game Freak knows they can just mail it in now.
@Heavyarms55 well unfortunately you have 2 options:
1. Turn off the Internet as a whole.
2. Don't mind the people on the internet because everyone can have an opinion, even if it is a bad one.
There are no "safe spaces" here. Just people. Some normal, some idiots.
Nah I think this is funny
Too bad this mess of a game will sell millions xD oh well, at least I'm not buying one.
@JayJ
The answer is right there in the article.
Next article will be on the Metacritic review bombing. I have no interest in the game itself, I just find the fallout fascinating.
@Murbs why would they report twice on that
I call False on this one...
It's also a pretty embarrassing mistake to use a screenshot from a bad anime.
Once again, another game released without testing, YEY!!!
Ah wait, doesn't matter we didn't do any testing, we can just patch it when people complain - Devs nowadays
I honestly feel sorry for GameFreak. Id wish there was articles of more Mario Maker stages than articles of all the bad things in this game. I just feel sorry for this game.
Even this little mistake is really huge on an AAA game. Ive honestly never seen a game with this before. Not even amateur games.
Can Nintendo just put money on a new Wario land game?
Pesky Rotoms always causing mischief!
Seriously though this is legit the best Pokémon game I've played in such a long time. It's not a groundbreaking leap for the franchise but it's definitely the boost it needed for me! Gym battles are super fun, some of the new Pokémon have been such wonderful surprises and made me laugh out loud. There's so many nice touches everywhere I can forgive an awkward, completely non-game-affecting mistake like that.
Eh, I'm still enjoying the game despite the """controversies""".
Would argue that it's the best Pokemon game I've played in a while, but I don't know if that's despite the negative points or the fact Pokemon previous games haven't been particularly standout or fantastic in a while.
@ACK I didn't even notice upon watching twice. Laughable mistake for me, if anyone is really bothered... I mean...
@Heavyarms55 sorry you feel that way. We're well aware that the comments sections aren't as "nice" as perhaps they were pre-Switch and that's largely down to the massive increase in audience. We're doing more moderation of comments than ever before, but that does rely on people reporting stuff as we don't want to have to check every comment before it goes live - that's just not practical for us or the community. We're committed to keeping our rules strict and banning people that are just here to make trouble, unlike other sites/platforms. If you have any ideas that might help us achieve that then we're all ears
Turns out it's in the opening scene as well.
They definitely could have fixed all these niggling issues with a little more time in development...
Same thing happened in Tartakovsky’s Primal, there are cursors floating around in water.
The game is clearly a little undercooked, searching for stamps by friends doesn’t seem to work at all and online is threadbare. But it’s still fun in the Pokémon way. I don’t even mind shared Exp that much, though I see why people hate it.
@ACK there is no point in comparing Fortnite with Pokémon. Fortnite never gave an excuse of cutting down content in order to give a better experience. In fact they do the opposite. Like you have already mentioned, they have so many updates which have added so much content, and in a multiplayer-focused game where bugs cannot be found in a single test play though (which is easily accomplished in Pokémon), that bugs are only expected.
TLDR, Fortnite didn't cut content in order to polish the game. They kept adding more and more with each update. Pokémon did cut content to 'polish the game', but the game was not polished.
It's those little details that show how much love and care was put into this game. Bravo GameFreak!
@Eel I’ve clearly missed that one then!
If this was old pokemon games they would never be able to remove that even, modern patching allows them to make it go away. I'm still enjoying the game, but it does not run well and the graphics & animations really could have used more work. Also really felt like when that first scene of the game comes up this would have been a great point to bring in voice actors for main scenes.
@Kevember I’m pretty sure I do.
Also thanks NL admins for being absolute 5 year olds when it comes to “potty words”.
@Dark-Luigi Nah. At least Sonic Boom had ambitions. whistles
@antdickens It's not really a problem you can fix. It's a problem prevalent with internet culture in general. That you take such a personal hand in dealing with it is something I respect greatly as must other sites have just given up and let the cancer run wild, stepping in only when it's at its absolute worst - or when it puts their ad revenue at risk.
Since I can think of no solution I am just going to take a step back from the comment sections and all Pokemon articles on this site. With all due respect, your writers have fanned the flames of the Pokemon drama and only really made a token effort to calm things down. Perhaps that's good for getting people to read the articles and thus makes the site more money, all the power to you for that - everyone else does it too. But I had hoped that, on a Nintendo website there might have been a genuine call for people to be more decent and reasonable on that issue.
Regardless, thank you for all your hard work. I am going to step back for a while. I'll probably return eventually but I just need to stop with the negativity for now. It's made me so jaded that even comments that might have been intended as being reasonable seem antagonistic and hostile to me - because I've just come to expect that, everywhere online in 2019. Here, YouTube, all of social media, news sites, forums, everywhere has become echo chambers of "we hate X, Y or Z"
Maybe my rose tinted nostalgia goggles are just that, but I don't remember so much negativity online even as recent as a few years ago.
If this was found in a game like Fallout 76 I wonder what the reactions would be...
@Snaplocket I love how people are disliking your comment. Like they are in full denial that this game wasn't rushed.
@SpicyBurrito16 waiting for a pokemon based off it lol we got stuff based off trash and ice cream, so why not a mouse pointer or computer mouse? Attacks can be volt tackle, double team (power of right clicking), minimize, and fury swipes (with a clicker spinoff).
This was going to be my first ever Pokémon game, so the dexit doesn’t bother me at all, but that weird pop-in of NPCs and monsters was crazy bad. A mouse-pointer at the end would be the least of my worries
@Heavyarms55 I would agree that it certainly seems to be more negative online in general at the moment, and perhaps that is related to the general state of things around the world at the moment - I couldn't be sure. However, NL has always been a place to 'get away from it' in my eyes and therefore I won't accept the cancer to run wild here whilst I'm still running things. I do think it doesn't help that other sites/platforms don't do more in that regard, if people behave badly on the majority of sites and get away with it, then it really sends the wrong message as far as I'm concerned.
I think the depth and level of negativity around Pokemon took us all by surprise, sure we had an idea going into it but at the same time the reaction is much, much worse than any of us expected. That said, it does seem to be a vocal minority, the game is clearly a decent (not great) game and sales have been impressive to begin with.
I respect your decision to back away from the comments on those subjects - I don't blame you at all - but I would say that we need voices of reason and positivity in the comments so we'll do whatever we can to help support those voices.
I wasn't paying attention 1st time around, gonna have to re-watch now XD
@antdickens God bless you sir. Wonderful reply and I very much appreciate the sentiment. I'm still around but, aside from this conversation, I'm still going to hold myself back from the comments for the time being. I just can't really deal with the negativity for the moment. After I've had a break, I'm sure you'll see me throwing my two cents on almost every page again.
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