Beat the game, completed the Dex and thought of trying a Battle Tower mode because I've always wanted to beat it but putting in so much time to make a team has always been a chore for me but, luckily, this game makes it so much easier to build a competitive team but, unlucky, no Battle Tower.

The game is pretty... lacking? I don't know what to say because the world was very boring for me, it felt like a huge sandbox with nothing standing out particularly. You can do the gyms in any order but there isn't any level scaling to that.

The story is the same thing, bad guys, beat 'em and gym challenge, beat the gym leaders but they packed the game with interesting lore to areas in the world. The evil team has an interesting story to tell this tike around like in Sun and Moon and their bosses can be challenging if it gets out of hands.

I was happily surprised by how they put more focus on building the world's lore and through the finale of the game, after you beat the Champion, you get an other-worldy story experience such of any good crafted JRPG that I was enjoying so much.

Sadly, the game taking so long to tell me something interesting at the very end of the game doesn't make up to the three main arcs being repetitive and the world being uninteresting.

They make competitive team build easier with each game but it always seems they're taking smalls steps and never adding any in-game encyclopedia to understand competitive so you will always have to seek it out yourself on the internet, it's silly.

Music is lit, as always with Pokémon games.