Sword/Shield Expansion Pass

After feeling a bit burned out from Sword and Shield, the expansion pass is definitely a step in the right direction. Certainly a lot cheaper than buying a new full game like in the past.

I really love the new Galarian Legendary Birds though, especially Zapdos looking like a road-runner. I am absolutely getting the pass later today.

 

All sounds pretty good. I'm glad they're doing this instead of just releasing another game. I'm starting to wish I had gotten Sword though since the new legendary is another fighting type. I have no idea why they would make the new one a fighting type when one of the box legendaries was also a fighting type. (Edit: or maybe not a legendary, I got it mixed up with the other one.)

I had decided before that if Nintendo ever started paygating certain Pokémon, I wouldn't play anymore, but given that they're actually adding more content, it doesn't seem too different from just buying a new game with new Pokémon in it, so I'll let it slide for this. One of my major complaints about the base game was that the wild area was a lot smaller than I imagined it being, so I'm glad they're adding onto it.

 

I don’t even have the game and I want to buy the expansion pass! Also the starters finally have Gigantamax forms, which they should’ve done in the first place, but Rillaboom has a full drumset YES!

 

I'll likely wait until both packs are out, then get both of them together. A lot of these new places do look intriguing.

 

Guaranteed it's not a griffin and the name is clearly a portmanteau of Ursus (bear) and Shifu (master) and it looks to be an asian black bear specifically with it's primarily black design with white trim on it's chest. Kubfu even looks more similar in that line albeit more grey than 'black'.
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Being that I have 0 interest in the game let alone the expansion I'll say that I do appreciate that the different 'evolutions' have different types without the model actually changing awkwardly and having Water type for the Rapid Strike Style is clever IMO, though I feel like the Single Strike Style given the description could have been Steel or Rock rather than ground and it would have 'fit' better.

 

I haven't gotten to play Sword of Shield yet, but I was really excited to hear about this expansion. I'll be able to get all this cool stuff when I finally get around to getting the game. I love the design of the galarian legendary birds, especially Articuno. So beautiful. I like the design of Kubfu and really like Urshifu. I'm really excited for all of this.

 

SwSh is so barebones as it is, I think it sucks you have to pay $30 more to get content that should have been included in the base game to start with. That's all I have to say about these dlcs.

Thoughts on the new Pokémon.
Calyrex - Sorta liked it at first but the more I look at it the more I dislike it. The stick legs bother me.
Kubfu and Urshifu - Kabfu sucks and shouldn't be legendary. Urshifu is cool I guess, but again, why is it legendary? This feels like Zeraora all over again.
Regilectric (?) - Love it. Favourite Pokémon from the direct
Regidragon (?) - Could be better. Colours are nice though.
Articuno - Amazing. Like it slightly more than the original.
Zapdos - Looks great. About on par with the original for me.
Moltres - Never been a Moltres fan but holy damn the new design is great! Miles better than the original
Galarian Slowpoke - Boring. Galar Slowking looks interesting from the teasers at least.
GMax Rillaboom - Indifferent. Fine for what it is
GMax Cinderace - This Pokémon looks way better with the longer ears. The base form should have looked like this imo.
GMax Inteleon - Big Inteleon fan. Love this GMax.
GMax Venusaur - Nice to see the other kanto starters getting love. My boy Venusaur looks pretty cool in his GMax. I've seen a lot of people hating on this one but I like it personally.
GMax Blastoise - Love it. To bad he won't shoot water from the cannons in the game

 

Since I don't have Switch in the first place (let alone SwSh), idk whether I should be excited or not. But still, for this being the first DLC in the main Pokémon games, gotta say that I'm impressed. I mean, remember when SwSh first came out? Back then, there were dataminers who managed to leak whatever weren't supposed to be out yet (GMax Melmetal, GMax Toxtricity, some past legendary Pokémon with "already available" models, etc.). Tbh I reckon that the DLC can be a good way to throw them off because things like Gigantamax starters, Kubfu line, Calyrex, new Regis, and more Galarian forms (Slowpoke line and legendary birds) weren't available in the original Galar dex.

That's all for now. I might edit this upon getting more thoughts.

 

Well, it's more content for a game that severely lacks that in my opinion. And to put it bluntly, I'm not really a fan of paying 30 EUR more for a game that already should have that content from the get-go.
But what do I think about the new content?
Why isn't Diancie there
Tbh, I'm not sure. The new GMax Pokémon look cool and all, but as I'm not really a fan of that feature, I don't really care about it. nice to have them though.
New Pokèmon. Well, at least they are adding some, even when it's behind an additional price tag.
So, I'm pretty mixed about this point too. Though I'm eager to see which Pokèmon have it made into the DLC.
The new areas. Well, more stuff to explore! Sounds like fun to me. However, I do hope they don't turn out like the nature zone (is it called that way in English?), as it was pretty barren. I guess only time will tell.

I'm not sure if I'll buy myself the expansion pass. It'll depend on how appealing further information will be for me. For now, though, I don't feel like spending 30 additional EUR would be a good investment.

 

I'm personally not excited for the new G-Max Pokémon (It isn't because of their design, but it's mainly because G-Max forms are kinda underwhelming to use if you ask me), and I also don't like the fact they're bringing in a few legendaries that weren't in previously (Mainly because they kill what was unique about competitive battles in the game to begin with imo.)

Though, I'm very excited for the DLC packs anyway, especially the second one since it's the exploration part and exploring a max raid den sounds very interesting. This game really needs DLC, and I'm very glad they decided to go this route rather than actually make two new games.

I'll be getting it...whenever I have money again.

 

I've enjoyed the base experience of SwSh, but other than replaying it again, there's not much else for it and paying for a 60 dollar remake of the same game has always been a little too much for me. If this DLC truly is Nintendo's switch away from overpriced remakes then I'm happy for it. As for the new content, I want to be as spoiler free as possible so I'm not looking at it. I don't expect Nintendo to change any of the graphical issues, I just expect it to be a good asset flip.