Pokemon Sword and Shield is the first mainline Pokemon game to be on a Nintendo home console, and after playing the first 90 minutes of Pokemon Shield we have a better sense of what’s to come. In an interview with IGN at Nintendo’s Pokemon Sword and Shield preview event, producer Junichi Masuda and director Shigeru Ohmori answered our most pressing questions regarding key gameplay changes and the future of the series as well as our most outlandish inquiries about the Pokemon timeline, Sir Fetch’d’s evolutions, and the classic, “Which starter are you picking?” For more from this interview, be sure to check out what the Masuda and Ohmori had to say about online functionality and the game’s length. Here are the topics covered:
Source: IGN.com What Pokemon Sword and Shield Devs Are Most Excited About and 7 Other Details