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on the 17th of October about a month out before the release of Pokemon sword and
shield there was an embargo lifted for a whole bunch of people who have had a
chance to play pokemon sword and shield for about an hour and a half or so today
is the day that they decided to release all that information and I'm going to be
going over all of the talking points from six different articles let's get
into it there are three YouTube videos by Alex of VG 24/7 Alex from Nintendo
life janae and max from IGN The Verge Eurogamer and Game Informer quite a lot
to go over I'm going to be going through all this and I'm gonna just edit the
good talking points that way you have a very concise list of details that you
want to know about these games without all the fluff in between you can use the
switch pro controller at the beginning of the game you get to choose your basic
looks gender skin tone etc instead of professor starting out the game and
explaining things you see chairman Rose in the middle of a stadium in the style
of a TV broadcast after a brief speech the undefeated Galore champion Leon
emerges to begin a battle with a character that cannot be yet discussed
William calls out his Charizard and it cuts away just as Charizard starts to
Giganta max your mom is called mum cuz the game is based in the UK the first
small town of the game is called wedge Hurst no matter which starter your
choose your rival hop is going to get the one that is weak to yours the
champion Leon then gets the starter that's strong against yours and then you
start with a rival battle that's where I want to jump to something that Alex from
Nintendo life said that this game does not do a lot of hand-holding at the
beginning instead you're thrown into this rival battle and hop is going to
have the starter who's weak to yours but in addition to that starter Pokemon your
rival is also gonna have a wool ooh you're gonna be able to take Wu down
you're gonna gain a level get an elemental type attack a vine whip ember
water gun whatever have you and then because you have that super effective
move you're gonna be able to take out that starter Pokemon and gain healthy
amount of experience that way it seems like that's a running theme that they
don't hold your instead they actually lead you to doing
a mechanic and you get to explore and do that mechanic like doing this you
learned about leveling up and you learned about type advantages and then
you don't need someone explaining those things to you because you just did them
after getting your starter you have to go back home to wet charts to Professor
magnolias lab and Lulu is broken through the fence by your house so you have to
wonder into the eerie slumbering Weald to find it we see that whoa Lou appear
in the countryside just hanging out and Butterfree up there in this slumbering
Weald there's a couple of different types of new Pokemon which cannot be
spoken about as they venture deeper into the woods a mysterious creature appeared
before them well they can't spoil what happens
I eventually exit the slumbering Weald we loop on my side and I'm back on track
toward wedge Hurst this may be our first opportunity to see the evil legendary or
a antagonist of the game maybe it's space chicken I'm gonna go with space
chicken galore and pokey centers are a one-stop shop that allows you to heal
your Pokemon change their nicknames rename them and delete moves you can of
course access your PC and buy supplies in the shop returning mechanic catching
pokémon gives you experience nice and each encounter splits the XP between
your entire team automatically as we learned before you cannot use an
experienced share because experience shares on by default and you cannot
disable it the name of the big steampunk gear city that we've seen is called a
mana Stoke you receive your letter of endorsement and then a shiny object
falls from the sky or space this wishing star grants the player the access to the
Dynomax ability which causes your Pokemon to grow massive and powerful in
battle returning mechanic TMS and sword and shield are a multi-use but before
going to mana stoke you have to go through the wild area so we know that
the wild area you're gonna get access to that very early in the game within the
first hour and the wild area it feels very large from the beginning you get to
rotate the camera a full 360 degrees there are different biomes present in
the wild area with unique Pokemon flying and running around weather changes
between different parts of the wild area dictating to an extent which Pokemon
appear for example if it's hailing we'll see ice type Pokemon if it's
raining we may see an influx of water-type pokemon in the much larger
city mana stoke that's the first time that we get access to the clothing
boutique there's also a good chance we're gonna be able to change our hair
and our eye color at this point or if we didn't get to choose our eye color at
the beginning the zero game or not have a dynamic website what is this 2012
there are now three types of encounters visible roaming Pokemon that you walk
into which we've seen those just walking around in the wild area traditional
random encounters in long grass cool and exclamation mark encounters in long
grass that you can either provoke for an encounter with a rarer pokemon or sneak
to be avoided in the wild area if you wander into the wrong part you'll
discover that the Pokemon and the wild area can now be drastically over leveled
like it should be like an RPG should be like if you're playing Final Fantasy you
go someplace you shouldn't be a level 40 dragon shows up your team is level 12
and you all die that's why you could always dip your toe into the odd high
level route on the other side of a city but never get caught in a battle with a
level 50 third stage evolution Pokemon with your starter and a level six Pidgey
Pidgey confirmed we've seen something kind of like this that in the wild area
with a kind of low-level team there was a wild roaming Machoke and a Gavin
chilla so these evolved higher level Pokemon just kind of exist in the
overworld and if you start to see them roaming about outside of the grass you
start to know that either it's a rarer higher level Pokemon or the
Pokemon in that area are just generally higher level than you should not be
going there yet but it makes me wonder that if you catch these higher level
Pokemon with a lucky pokeball or a quick ball is it just smooth sailing from
there there's a kind of vendor in the wild area which seems that they could
grind out for a dedicated currency for if I really wanted to and buy
super-strong TMS with it early on this ties in was something that i GN said
first of all you get access to your pc from the start menu wall in the wild
area let me say that again for the people in the back while in the wild
area you hit the start button and you can swap the Pokemon on your team kind
of like how it was done let's go pay to an Eevee
in more traditional roots and Pokemon centers were led to
believe that it's going to function normally and that you have to go to a
pokemon center between roots or something like that while in the wild
area you earn a special currency called watts to buy camping gear and curry
ingredients from merchants in the wild area the game also supports local and
online multiplayer in which you can battle and trade like normal you can
visit each other's camp sites which we've heard about you could team up for
max raid battles which we know about however you can only and I quote ping
your friends in one location or right outside the wild area and with this game
having no native voice chat and I doubt that it's coming to the Nintendo app you
are probably never going to speak to these people you're doing raids with or
set up a discord server or join my discord server discord Emme slash Austin
Jean plays in the wild area there's now an objective marker and a little
sentence in the top-left reminding you of what to do a pleasant quality of life
update that's more about modernizing Pokemon as an RPG then dumbing it down
Eurogamer and VG 24/7 both spoke about being in based off of you know Scotland
and England that there's a lot of British slang like people will call you
mate call the television a telly your mother is no longer mom is mum and
there's a drink stand in a city that looks like a British pub from what I've
gathered you're going to be able to save right in front of encountering your
starter there's a very quick scene and then you get to nickname your starter in
which you get a full screen of that Pokemon on this screen we're typically
shown if it is shiny so if you want a soft reset for a shiny starter Pokemon
then you can do that and of course on the switch there still is no soft reset
you need to close the application and restart it the Pokemon arch RPGs have
like behind in pure visual fidelity for some time even by the Nintendo console
standards and technically sword and shield are no different everyone says
that the frame rate is stable there's no hiccups or drawbacks however the game
runs at 720p docked at 30fps once again 720p 30fps and as Alex from Nintendo
Life said I should probably change that that's slightly better Pokemon on the
3ds was a real visually stunning this is what you want to aspire to and now on
the switch it's kind of an average game visually speaking that's fine you don't
play Pokemon for the visual quality we've been playing on something that's
240 P for the last decade one of the most interesting additions is a quote
very strong looking quote Pokemon if you remember let's go with the smaller large
Pokemon with the red or blue or is it's a similar idea a Pokemon with a barely
noticeable yellow glow will appear on very very rare occasions in the wild
they only saw two of them in their entire hour-and-a-half playing and
you'll get a bit of flavor text when the battle starts noting that their apparent
strength rather than size though these have much more unusual aspects yellow
glowing Mons have at least a couple of Max IVs and they have an egg move rather
than the regular ones too nice I feel like this is going back to what we used
back when Omega Ruby alpha sapphire when you start the game and there's the rush
filling grass and then you go in there and get a Poochyena with the egg move on
to the Verge's article where they did state that in the beginning of the game
you have a chance run-in with a powerful Pokemon of ancient legend space chicken
setting up a fateful meeting far down in the line for the narrative most Pokemon
games in the past start off slow and predictable with the standard tutorials
and a lot of time spent wandering around tall grass so you can catch back up
Pokemon or trainer starter enough to take on the first gym leader none of
that really happened I did catch some new adorable Pokemon and I did pick the
weeping sobbing my starter because who would dare choose another gooky gang
merch available at Austin John plays calm the game's first gym leader is
going to be in that big steam punk looking town massive environment filled
with wild Pokemon trainers fishing spots and underground dungeons that contain
what Game Freak is calling max raid battles what underground dungeons is
that little beacon of light that we see actually an entrance to an underground
dungeon and that's where the max raid battle happens I'm confused again for
Giganta max and Dyna max max raid battles you're going to use AI team
members which game freak's says will be standard for all
line play everyone pretty much says that the max rate battles aren't a joke they
take a while so only one last note and that's from
the VG 24/7 article which confirms that there's no voice acting in the game but
the characters lips move while their text boxes appear that seems to be the
end of all the real noteworthy things that I have come across between these
six news sources and I hope that this consolidation of all of it was super
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