Pokémon Sword and Shield

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The beginning of eighth generation of Pokémon games, to see worldwide release on November 15, 2019.

So far, it is known that the games take place in the Galar region, based roughly on the United Kingdom (especially Scotland). In terms of design, it is more similar to Pokémon X and Y, leading some to assume that there is a connection between the two games.

More controversially, it was revealed in June 2019 that some Pokémon from older games will not be present in the new games: exactly which ones are not known, however. There is also a new feature called 'Dynamax' which enables a given Pokémon to increase greatly in size and power, but only in a certain area, and the previous features of Mega Evolution and Z-Moves are no longer included.

For these reasons, the opinion of fans as of now on the game is mixed.

Tropes used in Pokémon Sword and Shield include:

• Anime Hair
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Gigantamax, a form of Dynamaxing, which make some pokemon to become insanely huge (as much as 98ft).
• Character Customization: The Male and Female player avatar's clothes and hair can be customizable.
  • Poketrainers can make their own League Cards, which can be traded and given out across the region.
• Creepy Child/Goth: Allister, the Galar Ghost-type Gym Leader.
• David Versus Goliath: This can happen when a poketrainer encounters a Dynamaxed wild pokemon.
• Eldritch Location: The Wild Areas. It can be snowing in the section that borders the section with harsh sunlight - at night. The weather her is downright screwy.
• Everything's Better with Monkeys: Pokemons, like Grookey.
• Expy: The camping mode is similar to Pokemon Amie.
• Fictional Currency|In Game Currency: Pokécoins
• Food Porn: The Curry on Rice dish that gamers are encourage to make.

Nintendo Direct: "You can eat anything in the Galar region, you can eat anything..."

• • Averted. Ya can make vegetarian expies of those curry recipes, involving berries and other non-Pokemon ingredients.
• Game Breaking Bugs: After the game's launch, some players reported that SwSh deletes the save files of other games, this occurs because of the Switch's exfat driver. It constantly changes the folders and files, even when on reads and doesn't sync properly. Also, concerning exFat does not have a second FAT.<ref>UPDATE: Pokemon Sword and Shield Triggers Switch exFAT Driver Bug
• Haunted Technology: Rotom makes a comeback and decides that he will haunt poketrainer's trusty cellular phone.
  • Polteageist, the new ghost type, loves being in tea pots.
• In-Universe Game Clock: Akin to the previous Pokemon game installments, depending on the time of day, weathers, will effect the "little things" unnoticeable to gamers, like what type of Pokemon will appear, what typing they will have, and such.
• Killer App: It's a Pokemon game and one of the reasons to buy that dem Switchs and Switch Lites.
• Ridiculously Cute Critters: The starter pokemons: Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble.
  • The rest of the unknown pokemon that'll appear once the game releases.
  • And Wooloo. It already had many fans just a day after the trailer that revealed it.
• Rivals Mine: This usually happens when a Dynamzed wild pokemon shows up, because one needs to strategize and team up with others to try, defeat, and capture it.
• No Export for You: An in universe example, Dynamaxing (and by extension, Gigantamax) is a phenomenon that's only exclusive to Pokemons found in the Galar region.
  • Preordering the game from Walmart or Amazon will give gamers a special skin for the pokemon trainers.
    • Poketrainers that pre-order the double pack from GameStop will receive a double-sided wall banner.
• Precious Puppies: Yamper
• Scenery Porn
• Socialization Bonus: While camping, one can socialize with other real life trainers and their pokemon.
  • A team of real life Poketrainers are needed to capture a single dynamaxed wild pokemon.
• Rivals Team Up: In real life, gamers can connect online just to take down a wild Gigantamax pokemon.
• There Are No Tents: Averted. One can set up a tent and camp in the Galar wilderness, play with their team, and eat. It's even encouraged to meet other trainers whilst resting.