I feel like this game has promise to it. It has the vibes of pokemon however it doesn't yet have the allure that pokemon has. Many grew up on pokemon, trading cards and battling and watching the show made it such a massive success and why it's so valued today as that generation is now older. They continue to build new innovative platforms that lead the way for gaming and continue to bring in new generations such as Pokemon go.
The game for sure looks and feels like many of the recent pokemon games but seriously I feel they kind of messed up a bit on sword and shield with some of the weird pokemon you could capture it seems like they ran out of creativity or got a little too overboard with it lol
Sword and shield was garbage I hear from most people. Feels like they try to bring a new "thing" to each game which no one's asking for.