"A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game will sell 10 million copies in 3 days" - Shigeru Miyamoto.

As a starter for this review i must preface that no Pokemon game without natdex would get more than a 2.5 from me.

That being said this game is comedic with how mediocre/bad it is in every aspect. Story is 3 different ones that felt under cooked and the fourth final story that ties them together does it in a really lazy way. Gameplay is just Pokemon which has mostly been stagnant for the past near decade since X and Y. Graphics are also terrible not even counting the constant visual glitches, without any actual style besides being cartoony/anime which is given no visual flair.

Saving the obvious talk about bugs, glitches, and performance issues last yes the game has many of them and in all honesty if it wasn't for the fact that it looked like garbage I probably would have not paid it any attention due to lack of natdex. I don't think i ever had a consistent frame rate the entire time I played the game, every where i went had many visual bugs, and about every 3 hours I'd restart the game so that it would run smoother again (smoother not smoothly big difference).

Now for positives in concept this could have been interesting, the open world can be fun to traverse but its not very interesting, The gameplay is fun for the basic Pokemon formula but it is again stagnant, And unintentionally was a great experience for me and my friend who isn't even into Pokemon as it constantly gave us a good laugh with how bad it is.

I won't give any pity points for it due to it being the largest media franchise, plenty of money could have been poured into this. Fans should only demand more and more but more often settle for less and less which is a shame really.