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Does this game have good or bad press leading into its release? All I know is that I heard it was an open-world game with gym leaders (not sure whether true). I'm really hoping this game turns out good because all of the other major Nintendo IPs have delivered big time on the Nintendo Switch.

Sword/Shield was such a bare bones skeleton of a Pokemon experience that it killed off any interest I had in the series. I tried Arceus and liked a lot of the things that they did in the game but ultimately quit due to boredom from the repetitive gameplay loop and the excessive dialogue in a ho hum run of the mill JRPG story. It did however renew my interest in a future mainline Pokemon (said future game which is now Pokemon Scarlet/Violet) game because I'm hoping it would turn out to be the experience that Sword/Shield failed to deliver.