In short I thought sword and shield was better. I'm not going to talk about the graphics because there's been enough of that and personally haven't had a problem yet because I've only defeated one gym and titan and have no intention of keeping going.
The game play is so un entertaining it's like they've sucked the soul out of the whole game. From the start I seen the tree with fruits and tried to get them only to realise I couldn't, that alone miffed me off I guess I liked the berry farming. Then I try to walk in the houses to talk to people but they are all sandwich or ice cream shops, like every single one of them. All the items are boringly on the floor so you don't have to talk to anyone. The HMs aren't needed to get to get to new places so honestly I've lost interest. The pokรฉmon selection is alot better at the start unlike most games but the annoying 2 minutes it takes logging them into the pokedex making a song and dance about put me off catching them and once again no search features on the pokedex so your left scrolling through every single one of you want to find a pokรฉmon. The maps confusing and annoying and the game is just very samey with no actual enthusiasm to explore new towns because they are the same food shops. The battles using the tera moves is painstakingly long with all the scenes needed just to make a move. I do like the raids for the xp candy the feature in x and y were they were mini games to level up was better. I also don't know who thought it would be a good idea to have groups of pokรฉmon and then a evolved version, it makes me think of them as a family I don't want to rob their babys ๐It's just not the same old school game I once knew. I don't like it atall so I'm dusting of my ds and playing the games on that.