Can you believe this is our first Pokémon episode ever? For this Pokémon Sword/Shield podcast, my guest is Cory the senior games editor of Popzara Press and we’re talking about our first impressions, the game’s pacing, version sales, differences, and exclusives, the greatness of the Wild Area, our favorite gym leaders, Pokémon, starters, and types, problems with the story and Pokémon as a utopian society balanced with nature, character development for rivals, formulas and Nintendo, quality-of-life changes, saying goodbye to HMs, fan outrage and “Dexit”, missing Pokémon in Sword and Shield and whether it even matters, the boycott, thoughts on gigantamax and dynamax, aesthetic differences between Pokémon and Digimon, the accessibility of the series for all ages, and how that’s a great thing and part of the global phenomenon that is Pokémon.
Links:
thewellredmage.com/2019/11/19/demo-disk-pokemon-sword-and-shield/
thewellredmage.com/2017/09/09/vagrant-story/
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Red formerly ran The Well-Red Mage and now serves The Pixels as founder, writer, editor, and podcaster. He has undertaken a seemingly endless crusade to talk about the games themselves in the midst of a culture obsessed with the latest controversy, scandal, and news cycle about harassment, toxicity, and negativity. Pick out his feathered cap on Twitter @thewellredmage, Mage Cast, or Story Mode.
