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Pokemon Sword/Shield Crown Tundra
5 years ago
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I've played about 5 hours worth of it so far and gotten a feeling of what it's like so here are my thoughts so far:
First, I was REALLY looking forward to this since I'd discovered that the Pokémon in Isle of Armor scale in level with you, you can go from Wedgehurst to the Wild Area station, turn around and go back to Wedgehurst and go straight to Isle of Armor! That changes EVERYTHING and addresses every complaint I had about Sword and Shield. Play it that way and the game actually FEELS like Pokémon again!
I was hoping it would work like that in Crown Tundra and was therefore somewhat horrified when the first fight you come up against (the one you CAN'T avoid) is Peony and his TWO Level 70 rock/steel types! Yep! The entire DLC is Level Gated! If you cant catch level 60-70 Pokémon, there's not much for you here. It's definitely intended to be post-game content!
Fortunately, I've got several other games where my Pokémon are 80's to 100, so, I've been able to have some fun.
One of the first things you'll get to is a "Dynamax Adventure" where you choose one of three LVL 65 Pokémon to take on 4 Dynamax Pokémon in a row. You get to choose your second and third opponent, kinda the same branching system they used in Norman's Gym in Ruby/Sapphire. Every time you win, you automatically catch the Pokémon and can switch to using IT if you prefer (If you don't, one of your companions mights swap to it). . But, be careful! Two things to remember: 1st) You only get to have 4 on your side faint... during ALL FOUR fights. That means if one fights in all 4 fights, you lose. 2nd) the final fight is against Suicune! Once the adventure is over, you get to keep any ONE of the Pokemon you've caught.
Also, you'll run into Calyrex VERY early, and he's surprisingly polite and well-spoken. He asks you to help him re-inspire the people of the Tundra believe in him once more. So lot's of fetch quests there. And you'll also find sets of mysterious footprints which causes an old friend to show up and help you figure out that 3 legendaries were wandering around and once you find 100% of one's tracks, they can enter the data into their computer and find where the Legendary is! I've found 2 already. Won't spoil who they are, but I've always liked them.
I've also solved the first riddle and gotten into the first temple and caught RegiRock.
LOT's of older Pokémon are back as well, with TONS of Altairia and Jynx in the opening areas.
If you can hang with the big boy (and girls), I think you'll probably enjoy it. I have been and I plan to play more... which means the new chapter may be a few more days away. Sorry, but an addiction knows no limits!
PS
If you have the expansion pass, but still can't get there, quit the game, then highlight it on the Switch home screen and Press the + button. Then choose Update. That should get it downloading for you!
First, I was REALLY looking forward to this since I'd discovered that the Pokémon in Isle of Armor scale in level with you, you can go from Wedgehurst to the Wild Area station, turn around and go back to Wedgehurst and go straight to Isle of Armor! That changes EVERYTHING and addresses every complaint I had about Sword and Shield. Play it that way and the game actually FEELS like Pokémon again!
I was hoping it would work like that in Crown Tundra and was therefore somewhat horrified when the first fight you come up against (the one you CAN'T avoid) is Peony and his TWO Level 70 rock/steel types! Yep! The entire DLC is Level Gated! If you cant catch level 60-70 Pokémon, there's not much for you here. It's definitely intended to be post-game content!
Fortunately, I've got several other games where my Pokémon are 80's to 100, so, I've been able to have some fun.
One of the first things you'll get to is a "Dynamax Adventure" where you choose one of three LVL 65 Pokémon to take on 4 Dynamax Pokémon in a row. You get to choose your second and third opponent, kinda the same branching system they used in Norman's Gym in Ruby/Sapphire. Every time you win, you automatically catch the Pokémon and can switch to using IT if you prefer (If you don't, one of your companions mights swap to it). . But, be careful! Two things to remember: 1st) You only get to have 4 on your side faint... during ALL FOUR fights. That means if one fights in all 4 fights, you lose. 2nd) the final fight is against Suicune! Once the adventure is over, you get to keep any ONE of the Pokemon you've caught.
Also, you'll run into Calyrex VERY early, and he's surprisingly polite and well-spoken. He asks you to help him re-inspire the people of the Tundra believe in him once more. So lot's of fetch quests there. And you'll also find sets of mysterious footprints which causes an old friend to show up and help you figure out that 3 legendaries were wandering around and once you find 100% of one's tracks, they can enter the data into their computer and find where the Legendary is! I've found 2 already. Won't spoil who they are, but I've always liked them.
I've also solved the first riddle and gotten into the first temple and caught RegiRock.
LOT's of older Pokémon are back as well, with TONS of Altairia and Jynx in the opening areas.
If you can hang with the big boy (and girls), I think you'll probably enjoy it. I have been and I plan to play more... which means the new chapter may be a few more days away. Sorry, but an addiction knows no limits!
PS
If you have the expansion pass, but still can't get there, quit the game, then highlight it on the Switch home screen and Press the + button. Then choose Update. That should get it downloading for you!
of course if ya do like it then nothings wrong with that, i just dont understand why people arnt incredibly pissed off at the lack of content, especially since the pokemon are unobtainable for story play..i think the game had already died for me way before they released isle of armor but that was still the better of the two dlc just felt like i had more to do, games still pretty meh though