Corpse Run 928: #GameFreakLied
First things first, it certainly appears as though GameFreak is totally full of it and they’re deserving every bit of criticism thrown their way.
All the problems plaguing the Pokemon Sword/Shield release seem to have been dealt with deceptively on their part and by all the clips I’ve seen of the game prior to release it looks like a barely runnable alpha version of a game from a first time indie developer.
That said, I will try to enjoy it.
If it really plays like garbage, I’ll be sure to let you know my opinion. I complain.
A lot.
I’m a big complainer.
Whats the main complaints?
I read a great thread on Twitter from a person familiar with the industry that put most of the blame on The Pokemon Company, the publisher. In a nutshell, the game absolutely had to meet that deadline because all other Pokemon media was based around it. TPC was the cause of the lack of resources that led to the importing program being screwed up and not fixed, and GameFreak can’t do anything but take the blame because telling people who really deserves blame is career suicide for anyone who does it.
I’m going to call bull on that twitter thread. The Pokemon company in the past has put in filler content to give Game Freak time to develop the next game. The Orange Islands and Battle Frontier season to name a few. They also were able to drag out a season for as long as they wanted, looking at Emerald coming out before the third gen season was close to completion. If Game Freak would give good endgame content like they would have extra time from TPC to create a better game. The fact that the game looks like they reused all the models from Sun and Moon proves that they could have put in the National Dex Pokemon with plenty of time to released Sword and Shield. ScottFalco did a video highlighting all the cut content from past games along with some of Game Freaks excuses at the end and it is eye opening on how bad of a developer they are. Like this is EA level BS.
My starter this time around is Grookey, and I always love Pokemon games. So far, I am enjoying the games.