MK404 Plays Pokémon Shield | Stream Session 1 - For Gloria and Victory

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Published on July 25, 2021 3:58:43 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIiZJMbIys

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Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019)

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Let's Play

Duration: 6:16:08

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Recorded on September 9, 2020
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With me are Mel, Ron, and Kris. Duck pops in a little later. Ace even later.

Shoutouts to Matt who bought me the game and the Expansion Pass 'cuz I wasn't about to.

Deploy the shields.

Hey. You all should know my rocky relationship with new age Pokémon stuff by now since Black and White. By Gen 4 I thought I was done, but Gen 5 brought me back in hard. Gen 6 was... okay with X and Y and pretty good with Omega Ruby and ALpha Sapphire. Gen 7 was great!... on the first playthrough of Sun and Moon and by the time the Ultra Beasts ran wild the cracks of the foundation were becming way more noticeable by long-time fans. Coupled with current game development trends being sketchy -at best- and totally debilitating at worst led me to the decision to skip playing Sword and Shield for the first year... and rightly so! The games' divisive reaction to the fanbase are all well known by now and I didn't know if I wanted to be a part of this waveriding going forward.

But, well, it's still Pokémon, and I do enjoy my Pokémon games, warts and all.

The Galar region has had its ups and downs, both externally and intrinsically within the core of the series. For every change that's derided, there's another that I think is really cool. And it's like this all over the game. It became really obvious in this first stream session that, for all the good it does, Pokémon and Game Freak are so, so far behind the times I can't help but pity them, being forced to continue to thrive in this cyclic anguish out of sheer necessity to maintain the franchise because those in higher power won't let itself take a break. It's pretty sad.

So is Hop and he's a wee moppet.

This first session has Gloria step out of her comfort zone and brave the world of not-England as much as she can before being railroaded back to do stuff. Even when trying to seek out the Isle of Armor content(it was new at the time of this session), the start realization that the maingame demands progress first before the isle can be scaled in its entirety forces those plans to a halt. Oh well. At least your 'Mons can grow big in this one.

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TIMESTAMPS

- 0:00 - Start
- 1:15 - Intro/Potswick
- 16:38 - Wedgehurst/Choosing your Starter
- 29:30 - Slumbering Weald
- 51:47 - Meeting Sonia
- 1:34:00 - Meeting Prof. Magnolia
- 2:11:50 - Entering the Wild Area/Attempting to breach into Isle of Armor
- 3:21:34 - Motostoke/Attempting some form of fashion
- 4:02:48 - Budew Drop Inn/First encounter with Team Yell and Chairman Rose
- 4:54:48 - Galar Mine/Bede the Beast
- 5:43:14 - Tuffield/Badge 1 - Vs. Milo

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