LogFAQs > #932220942

People claiming the outrage was just people whining for no reason or because their favorite Pokemon wasn't included are, as usual, simplifying the issue.

People were upset to start with, yeah, some very much so. But a lot of folks were just kind of annoyed or disappointed. The outrage was because the explanation GameFreak gave for why they couldn't include all of them was flat-out bunk. They essentially said that they didn't have time to do models for every Pokemon because they're made from the ground up, and that the development time that they could have spent on that was instead directed towards polishing the game itself.

Turns out they imported models from Sun and Moon, so the first part was just a complete lie, and while it's obviously subjective whether they accomplished the second part, it's far from an unreasonable opinion to say the polish is largely absent when compared to a lot of modern games.

Then there's just a lot of smaller complaints which, again, may not bother an individual player, but that are still perfectly valid. EXP Share has no "off" option for absolutely no reason. I've heard many people say the rival is terrible or that the game is too hand-holdy. The trend has continued where features that people quite liked from recent generations have been removed.

All in all, I get the impression that a lot of longtime fans like myself would probably enjoy it just fine if we played. It's still Pokemon. But after many, many years of a real console Pokemon adventure becoming something of a holy grail, and after seeing what other much beloved franchises have put out on the Switch thus far (whether the comparisons are fair or not, and you can make your own determination there), Sword and Shield is just kind of a letdown.

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