Customer Ratings & Reviews

I don’t know where these positive reviews of this game are coming from, but as Casual but dedicated fan of the series since red version, this game is riddled with problems. Most new Pokémon designs look terrible, the world is open but feels empty simply because there isn’t much to do. The wild area is ok but seems like a missed opportunity. The camping and cooking mechanics are cumbersome and I rarely use either of those features. The story is one dimensional and boring. The dynamax mechanic is just gimic that isn’t that exciting. The exclusion of a national dex would have been bearable had the above issues not been there, but since the game is riddled with all these issues (lack on content and poorly designed Pokémon) I now find it inexcusable. This game had all the potential to be the best Pokémon game yet, but is one of my least favorite in the entire series. Tbh, don’t waste your money on these games. Hope that the next set of games are better

I don’t know why this exists. This is the easiest game I have ever played. I’m pretty sure if you gave a Nintendo switch with pokemon sword to an unborn fetus it would be able to beat this entire game. Not to mention the animations from the characters are a total mess. All 2 of them. And the trees look worse than most n64 games. With $60 you could get much better games. If you like to fall asleep while playing games, I would recommend it.

I Had this game snice launch I recently got a new oled and lost all the save files for Pokémon with the transfer. I'm getting tired of the Pokémon company not having a better solution on having a backup copy of the game. They need to find a fix because its not hard when other Nintendo games can have it.

Lots of interesting levels and hours of entertainment. Keeps attentionwoth Alan the different aspects.

Excellent game from a classic series, would recommend.

Received Pokemon Sword as a Christmas gift and played it for a little over 20 hours. It caused my (brand new) Switch to freeze twice (the second time causing me to lose an hour of gameplay). Brought the game to Best Buy to exchange for a new one as it was clearly defective (I've played other games - physical and digital with no such issue), but was told that I cannot exchange it beyond January 16 once it's been opened. Now stuck with a game I can't play any more as I don't want to compromise a system worth far more than the replacement value of the game. Very disappointed with Nintendo and Best Buy.