It’s crazy to think that after almost 21 years the Pokémon franchise still manages to capture that feeling I had during my primary years. Pokémon Sword & Shield is a total fresh breath of air to the franchise that’s now legally aloud to drink. While the game itself might not be the open world hyper realistic pseudo MMO people always seem to hope for, Pokémon Sword & Shield may be the most refined and polished monster fighting, pokeball throwing, Zubat stomping, backpack wearing simulator I’ve played yet.Pokémon Sword and Shield is the best looking in the franchise for pretty obvious reasons. But the game’s visuals don’t just end at a high poly count. Everything in this game has an attention to detail and level of style that only a developer like Gamefreak could pull off. It’s the little details that really bring this game to life such as the GBA style sprites when viewing your monsters in the menus, or the fact that I was able to make my girl avatar strike a pretty fierce pose when twirling the left stick in place a few times. Enemy trainers now have a vision cone, which is great when you don’t want…