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I still have yet to hear from you, yes YOU. 
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You're going to be waiting a while. Cuz I'm not playing the game to find out. If anyone cared, they could look through other peoples various complaints about the game for themselves.

[i][b]And there's more than three or four ARPG/MMO-type games where you can dodge roll. Believe me.[/b][/i]

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because you know you can't actually truly critique a game without playing it yourself. 
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And I know you've said this before. But you're just as wrong as you were before. You can (and should) critique a game's censorship, and various other shitty practices, without suffering them for yourself. 

If only because hundreds more will go "but something something, this is worse and you have no proof they designed their game this way, so you could pay for things later down the line."

Buy your Pokemon Sword&Shield pokedex expansions pack now.