Best theming for a Pokemon game - styling it after sports championships with giant arenas and fans is really fun and a smart choice. Dynamax goes hard, the music is great, and it's visually gorgeous - I can't understand why that's critiqued. The story however feels very much incomplete, there's a number of potentially interesting things in there but it feels rushed out. Gameplay is still too easy, I needed to swap my team around constantly to not overlevel and ruin the fun - but that's how every modern Pokemon has been, it needs fixing but this game is not uniquely bad for it. The postgame is entirely lackluster, the trend unfortunately seems to be DLC as a replacement. The Pokemon games need to lengthen the development cycle again, there's something really special here but it's not given the time to reach full potential

Reviewed on Oct 10, 2023


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