Pokémon Sword And Shield Version 1.1.1 Is Now Live, Pokémon Home Also Updated

Still haven't played this game and I'm probably going to wait until both expansions are released with all the accompanying updates for the best experience.

And I'm still playing Ultra Sun, to be honest. (Great game)

"Been a while"? Didn't they announce the new mythical Pokemon and shiny Celebi stuff just last week?

It would be nice to know what fixes they made - I'd like to know if the issue with hacked Pokemon breaking surprise trade was fixed. I quite liked that feature but it's not worth using it if there's a risk some cheater is gonna send me something that breaks my game.

Does this update make it good ?

@Ardisan 300+ hours and counting of the best Pokemon experience I've had in years!

@Ardisan 250 hours here. Sword and Shield are the most fun games for Pokemon battles in the series to date, and I've played every game upon release. Sword and Shield have so much variety, I can go online and see different team setups constantly.

@Ardisan It improves the gameplay experience.

@Ardisan It already is a good game.

I'm around 100 hours, it's a good game all in all but for the next installment of the series they're really gonna have to step it up, this s**t won't fly anymore

@sanderev Well that's subjective.

From my perspective it's one of the worst games in the series and easily the bottom of the mainline games.

The biggest issue with this is how easy it all is.

Forced Expshare ruins this game so badly and you can basically beat the game with one pokemon, you'll also never faint.

It's so lame now, its for kids between 5 and 12, anyone older need a much higher difficulty curb to get any real engagement here. I put it down after 10 hours and regret ever buying it.

I made it all the way to the big Mushroom town, realised that was town 2 in a row with almost no content other than the gym and immediately stopped playing and put it on eBay - sold for almost what paid for so fair dos.
EXP share not being optional hurt this experience for me and I was so over levelled I basically 1-hitted everything. All round it felt lazy to me.
I get that loads of people love it and that's great. I, personally, did not.

@Razer Counter point: all Pokemon games are easy and you have been able to beat the games by exclusively using your starter all the way back to Gen1, I know I did it all the time as a kid (minus using an HM slave). Pokemon games are designed to be beaten by children so this will never change. The real challenge comes from competing in online battles.

After beating the main game a few times and then completing the Galar dex, there isn't much pulling me to play Pokemon Sword again, until I get Zarude, then wait for the next event Pokemon, getting the event Pokemon seems to be all that's left to do.

@Impaler-D Same here. Still playing my Pokemon X and Ultra Moon. I love the Mini games alot on X though! XD Also prefer the fashion there too~ As for Sword and Shield with all these Paywalls...I only may consider buying it at a 10% chance.

@Razer Right now there are other Monster-Capture games being released such as TemTem which is a great twist with challenges (and I MEAN Challenges). It's PC-based for the time being though. If you don't mind that along with the art style you can check it out and others on Steam. Console-wise you can give Digimon Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition a go.

Dont know if this is new, was just at the digging duo and the guy on the left was "all tuckered out". All of a sudden music played and he went, "Oh wait, I can keep going!" and proceeded to dig me up 3 fossils and an iron ball.

@bladedtaymaster This just happened with the guy on the right too.

@MajinSoul nah i have to disagree, while all the pokemon games have been easy, these ones are by far the easiest, there has also been challenging battles in previous installments, something that just doesn't happen here, previous pokemon games allowed for adults to engage with the game as well as kids.

It just seems to me that SwSh is more geared towards appealing for young kids only.

@Razer Okay, it's easy. It is a Pokémon game. They all have been easy. And basically you can beat all of them with just one Pokémon. If you want.

Pokémon games usually only get a tiny bit harder in the post game, but by then you should already be so strong you can easily beat anyone. I often read "Pokémon games are too easy now" I once replayed Pokémon Yellow, which was my first ever Pokémon game, and I could beat it without ever losing a battle. Which actually happened to me several times in Sword, because I was unprepared.

It is though, the best looking Pokémon game. Has the best story. And a lot more content than most games in the series. It may not be the best of them, but I rank them in the top 2. With X & Y being number one. (I didn't really like Sun & Moon)