The Pokemon Sword and Shield version differences have finally made buying both games make sense as opposed to the past where each would only have a few different monsters.
NE: "Today, we're looking at Pokemon with odd or unfitting moves as part of their movepools and examining whether they were by accident or not."
NE: "Today, we're going over some of the most forgotten Pokemon of all time."
NE: "We list and rank 10 of the best Pokemon games of all time! More specifically, which of the main series games are best to play."
It should be:
1) Gold/Silver/Crystal
2) Red/Blue/Yellow
3) Ruby/Saphire/Emerald
The rest can be put in any order you want.
I liked Sword/Shield (Which didn't even make the list) way more than Scarlet/Violet, but everyone has opinions.
IMO I think S&S is better because it's more visually appealing due to it's nice backdrops and linearity, but it was still meh. I couldn't bother finishing Scar/Vio, they managed to make an even more boring broken game only 2 games after S&S and that's quite impressive.
the amount of games with forced exp share making this list is depressing
even games like ranger or colleseum/ XD
or mystery dungeon, way more deserving
See changes likes this I approve of.
I'd of loved it had they put every Pokemon in the games but divided them into 100 that appear in both and then another 700 divided between the two with the final 200+ having to be imported from other games.
But having each Gym be different (or even just different Pokemon) and even a different Elite 4, would be cool.
Having total different stories would be cool, and with your rival being the avatar of the other games main character.
Now let us transfer between the games
They can't even make it worth buying one let alone both, as of right now these games have less content than their 3DS counterparts and look about on par graphically. None of this matters when we're running around on stretched out .PNG maps with low poly assets, floating objects, and pokemon just popping in out of nowhere with their exact same 3DS models and animations. Nothing you would expect from a multi billion dollar franchise, not even close, at this point it's so pathetic it's almost laughable, but it's actually more sad than anything because they completely screwed up the series first real entry to home console.
But hey it's okay we don't have a National Dex because they used the extra development time to make sure the game was extra high quality... oh wait.
What's sad is even though they clearly put zero effort into these games, I still want to play them just because the new pokemon actually look pretty good. I'll just be buying the game used because they honestly don't deserve $60 for this, not even close, maybe $20.
But there is absolutely NO WAY I will buy both versions, that's just a scam and always has been.