Definitely still remains as the best all around Pokemon game in my opinion. A very good main story followed by probably the best postgame in the series.

THE REST OF THIS REVIEW IS MORE ABOUT POKÉMON AS A WHOLE

However, when not being compared to the rest of the series I still think it’s pretty good but not incredible. While it doesn’t innovate at all when it comes to the gameplay, I’m not going to dock it much since it was still on the DS and it was more of them optimizing the style they’d had since the beginning of the series.

I think people need to stop the whole “well _____ is good for a Pokemon game” line of thought because this is a series that hasn’t even been able to scratch the surface of what it could be. Their stubbornness to tell the same kind of story over and over to maintain its kid friendly tone has seriously hampered its legitimacy in the industry in my opinion.

There’s a reason why fans of Pokemon often criticize these games differently from how they criticize other big franchises. It’s not even a matter of “make Pokemon edgy”, I just wish they’d be able to tell a real character driven story.

Check point for the first 10 hours:
- Chapter 2 (just got eaten by the big whale dude after running from purple spaghetti dude).

I find it pretty similar to XC1:DE’s opening this far ngl. The story is a little more engaging and it generally looks a lot better (combat especially) and running around the world is just mad relaxing.

Character design is very hit and miss for me thus far. Characters like Poppi, Nia, Morag, and Jin look incredible, but others like Malos, glasses dude, and especially Rex look pretty bad in comparison.

Unfortunately and surprisingly, the thing I’m most disappointed in this far has been the music. None of the music thus far has hit that hard for me. Ive done the whole “turn it up during dialogue, listen to podcast during gameplay”

Uhhhhh anyways, see ya later