News: Game Informer reveals no Exp. Share or HMs

I love all this news!

I'm gonna toggle the Heck out of autosave when getting through a trainer heavy map, verses getting through a gym or trying to catch a legendary.

No HMs are fine with me, because I much rather teach a move if it can be deleted later, I was always torn over giving a Pokemon a move that I could never get rid of anyway.

Sure, like, Surf and Fly are super important, but I'm also someone who really only gives those moves to one Pokemon per party. So if I wanna switch the mons that have it, that'll be Nice. 👌

AND I REALLY HOPE that all 18 gyms will be in both games, because that's A LOT OF CONTENT, and that is very nice. Especially considering how nice the graphics and world building seem to be for SWSH, it will be really fun to have more of a main story to play through, so you can't beat the whole thing in two days. :>

18 gyms sounds really good, but I'm waiting to see how it's actually implemented before I get too excited.

Turns out it was too good to be true. Game Informer have since clarified that there may not be 18 gyms after all.

https://youtu.be/XuDNmKmO2zs?t=1556

Going to make a separate article on that, but updated the existing one in the meantime.

i feel like auto-exp share being a thing is something that was bound to happen eventually. i'll be honest here, i think Game Freak was being massively generous by allowing the exp. share as a toggeable option at all in previous generations, considering that every member of your party receiving exp has been a thing in most JRPGs if im correct for... how long, now? so really, i don't mind it at all.

no HMs is fine by me, keep that crap away pls, it's a stain on pokemon gaming and it limits teambuilding to constantly dedicate one pokemon as an "hm slave".

overall good on Game Freak for these two so far. gotta give credit where credit is due.