Review of the game Pokemon Sword - there will be no revolution

We have been playing Pokemon games from the Game Freak studio for 23 years. And imagine that in the latest part - Pokemon Sword (and Pokemon Shield) you will still find the same mechanics that welcomed us to Pokemon Red and Blue in the 90s. If you dreamed of returning to those years of charming childhood, then the latest Pokemons are towards this great excuse. It's the best game of warlike creatures in terms of technology and affordability, although on several planes the new Game Freak attack can be described by the well-known phrase: "It's not very effective ...". I will not particularly dwell on what Pokemons are, because I assume that this series has been ossified enough for years to become part of the DNA of players. For those who have never seen Pokémon, I am summarizing: it is a story about a young hero who one day leaves his hometown to become a pokemon master. During the trip, he catches more creatures, trains them and puts them to fight in a turn-based classic RPG system. When he collects 8 badges, he will fight for the final fight. And so for 23 years.

The most beautiful pokemons

A few years ago, when I was playing Pokemon Pearl, I raised my hands to the heavens, shouting: How can you ?! As you can in the era of beautiful, three-dimensional games, create something that looks like something drawn from the RPG Maker! My voice clearly echoed across continents and oceans, because in the end we received the game in many respects maybe not modern, but simply modern.

Old, not to say archaic, gameplay known for several decades has finally been encapsulated with beautiful, colorful and fully three-dimensional graphics. Now villages, towns, mines, caves and forests look like we expect from a magical and bizarre world inhabited by pokemon. No more brave and pixelated bitmaps. Models of creatures and people have been well prepared - in this installment we definitely need to use our imagination, because the attacks are no longer conventional. Explosions, lasers, rough elements, earthquakes and other special animations await us. And while some things could be refined (some beings were treated rather negligently), this does not change the overall impression. Thanks to the graphics, the fight became spectacular and full of explosions as if it was directed by Micheal Bay.

However, the most important element of this small, but long-awaited "revolution" are the locations mentioned. All you have to do is see what the family, idyllic village of Postwick looks like, or the magical, full of colorful and glowing Ballonlea mushrooms, and you will quickly understand what this series has really been missing for years. And there was no proper showing of a twisted world. The capital of the Galar region, Wyndon is in fact fairytale London, with the River Thames, Big Ben, the Eye of London, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, with red telephone booths and the subway. And even if we don't really have much to do in these places, we visit them with the greatest pleasure.

PROS:

• Beautiful, colorful, fully three-dimensional graphic design;
• Well made pokemon models;
• Striking, explosive fight;
• By fighting in Pokemon Gym we finally get the impression that we're actually fighting for the championship;
• Beautiful and atmospheric locations where you want to run and ride;
• Affordable for the youngest and new players.

MINUSES:

• These are probably the easiest pokemons you have ever played;
• Annoying tech - music is a nightmare;
• Contemporary setting will not hide the fact that the game mechanics are over 20 years old;
• Unused potential of Dynamax;
• The story is naive and stupid - even for pokemon.