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Pokémon Sword and Shield

Wild Area and co-op raid dens moved mainline Pokémon toward shared open spaces.

Released 2019 Developer Game Freak Publisher Nintendo Platform Nintendo Switch Genre RPG Era Live service & the long tail

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Pokémon Sword and Shield inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Day/Night Cycle 1983Internet Client-Server Play 1996Dynamic Weather 1999Coordinated Raid Encounters 1999

The Pokémon series in this dataset

1996
1999
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2019
Pokémon Sword and Shield this page
2022
2022

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