Get Ready For Sword And Shield's Isle Of Armor DLC With These Four Mystery Gift Pokémon

Got the first one yesterday

Curious to see if this is trying to say that the release date for the DLC is June 19th, which is what the release dates of these Mystery Gifts implies

@DarkTron I do read the exact same here

Not bad little freebies. Can't complain. Looking forward to the DLC quite a bit. Presumably a nice shake up to the competitive scene.

One feature I'm really hoping they change alongside the DLC is allowing us to have longer time limits online. 20 minutes is more than enough for 4v4 doubles VGC style, but just too short for 6v6 singles often times.

The mons themselves are not really rare or anything and the Mr. Mime I received didn’t even have very good stats, but the awesome thing is they come in a cherish ball and have you as the original trainer. I always like that.

Yes i hope its still coming in june the dlc not delayed cause of corona whatsit. I think dlc will make the game much better and i bet reviews are ranging from 9 to 10. reviews of the dlc i mean

well at least we know "by the end of June" is literally a month a way

no release date yet but no delay either..

Only good HA is on Corsola imo.
But those are common enough to get via mystery trading...

The fact that they’re giving out so many large Exp Candy makes me wonder just how powerful the trainers in the DLC are going to be.

"Will you return to the Galar region?"

I'll say. Eleven days ago two things happened - one, we got the Paper Mario: The Origami King trailer, and two, it was my birthday. I've received Pokémon Shield as a birthday present (because of the lack of alternatives for the occasion), and given I've been a dexer - and still am - you might be curious about what a complainer could say after actually playing the game.

Long story short, my complaints were hardly ever about the game's own merits, which are admittedly good. But as far as the vanilla version of the game is concerned, then this game is basically the franchise's continuation rather than its evolution. The Wild Area was supposedly the game's first foray into MMO territory, but in reality it's not that much more than a glorified Festival Plaza. That said, the streamlining seen with wild versions of hard-to-get evolutions (wild Dusknoir, wild Rhyperior, wild Eeveelutions...) is a good thing, although the bureaucracy involved with the partial reversion towards single-use TMs kind of makes the whole thing moot.

Pokédex aside, the most glaring flaw about the game has to be the online. Nintendo and online never went hand in hand, but now that it's paid the Big N really needs to up its ante. I'm looking at the online co-op Max Raid Battles, where the best Raids are always locked, and the ones that aren't usually get filled before we can even figure out whose Pokémon the outline is.

Same goes with Mystery Trading, which functionality-wise is an atrocious downgrade from what we've grown to love about Wonder Trades. The trades now need confirmation, and the prompt can come straight away but it could also take tens of minutes before going "Trade Completed!". The list goes on.

The assumption Game Freak "lied" can be seen outside the whole Pokédex thing, because truth be told, there's literally nothing that could get me to say "well, now I see why they cut the Pokémon". Nope. Bite is still a flashy light effect, Double Kick is still a stamp, and the list goes on. I challenge anyone here to look at the Max Raid Battles' announcement without thinking we've been lied to - the video was edited, and carefully framed, to make it look like four players outside a Max Raid den were also the same ones taking part in the Raid. No, that was a lie. Players in the Wild Area cannot be interacted with, not outside a generic cooking gift (uh, thanks... I guess?), stickers do all the nasty work, and those four players in the trailer gather via stickers, not by interacting in the Wild Area.

Tl;dr: The game, as a JRPG, is kinda fine. As a Pokémon game, it just fares a bit better than what we, as fans, feared... which, let's admit it, is not exactly the greatest compliment we could say about the game. But it's okay, because the game's launch period is gone and we can talk bad about it without getting lynched.

Already have these Pokemon. Question, why do we have to pay for the expansion if the game was twenty dollars more than normal? It's a joke to pay to get more Pokemon, we already paid more for the game. There has yet to be free DLC, BoW had free DLC. Splatoon has a bunch of free updates that they give things away. Animal Crossing has given a bunch of free content. Parents won't be happy.

I forgot that the game is even getting DLC. I don't think I'll be buying it. The game was fine but I haven't touched it after I finished it. I haven't even caught the box legendary. I'd like some new spin-off games that feature the new Pokémon since I really liked their designs.

Very cool. I’ll be grabbing each of these. I’m definitely looking forward to the expansion

@biglittlejake you don't have to pay to get more pokemon, you can get the via pokemon home or via trade

also botw didn't really have free dlc exept the xc2 costume, the rest was paid dlc

Cursed body corsola! That’s excellent.

@mariomaster96
Breath of the Wild you received ingredients for cooking too.

@biglittlejake when did they distribute free cooking ingredients.

@Eel
It was last year via a notification on the news page.

@biglittlejake well that’s kinda like these free Pokémon and items they’re giving right now then

@Eel
I guess I am not happy that there are new Pokemon that are available only in the expansion pass.

@eel cursed body corsola is a TANK

@AlexSora89,

While I hear what you are saying, and in no way feel you do not have the right, or that your issues are not justified on a personal level, I just wonder do you have to voice them on every single Pokemon sword and shield related article?, I mean I get you do not like these games, but you and others have to let it go at some point and just move on, there will be an awful lot of people very excited for this DLC, myself included that also will have very little issues with the game.

Are their stats/nature locked or can you reset until you get a great one?

@AlexSora89 Mate.... you're kinda late to the party. Everything you said has already been said from the day this game launched.

@bones I think it's indeed coming in June. I could be wrong but I feel that if those are meant to prepare for the dlc, they would have delayed them as well if the dlc was to be delayed.

@biglittlejake really the dlc is nothing price wise than how they chose to make most Gen 2 pokemon available during Gen 3 and that was release them in side games on the Gamecube so this method of releasing them on new locations in the game as dlc is no different in that regard.

@AlexSora89 Quite a long read... but I agree with everything, unfortunately. 100%. Hit the nail on the head and only mentioned a handful of problems I have with Sword and Shield. I desperately wanted to like these games - I've been a Pokemon fan for 10 years now. But I think we can hold GameFreak to standards that are a bit higher... right? Especially now that they've been making games since since 1996. And the fact that they hold my childhood in their hands...

That last gift tho.

50 big nuggets oh my. We rich boys and girls.

I will use this chance to build up a new team with these Pokemon for the DLC. Might exchange one and add another Pokemon I haven't used before. Think there should be some nice gimmicks possible.

@Zenszulu
The Gold and Silver Pokemon were available on Emerald in the end game. You received a starters when you completed the dex. You did not have to pay for the gen two Pokemon as an expansion pass. Anywho, I don't do expansion passes. I really don't think their worth it. I think I have only done an expansion pass twice. I don't buy add-ons either, maybe three times.

@biglittlejake except when Colleseum was first released Emerald was still a year away and people would not have known those pokemon were all available in it so for a full year at least the only way legitimately get many of those pokemon was have the Gamecube games as it was pretty much sold as the the only way to get all of those pokemon. Saying that not all of the Gold and Silver Pokemon were in Emerald only about half of them and the rest were in Fire Red and Leaf Green so you still needed a combination of having access to people with multiple games. You may not have seen Pokemon Colleseum as a kind of expansion pass but for many at the time it was and is no different to this and a further way to get people to buy more Pokemon software.

@Zenszulu
I never bought or wanted Coliseum. I did get that Pokemon farm game on the Wii though. It was the only way I could get Mew. I wanted Mew, Mew was one of my favorite Pokemon. I guess what I was getting at is I would rather have a new game than an expansion. If it were an expansion for 8 more gyms I may buy it, or if a difficulty adjuster was made as DLC.