So I finally finished Pokemon Shield. I am not really sure what to say. All around it was pretty disappointing. The story is terrible, Hop's whole thing could of been interesting but they fumbled that and made him the worst rival in the entire series. The ending is also super anticlimatic, and while Eternatus is cool everything else is just uninteresting. They dont give any time to flesh out nearly any character and the only one I liked in the end was Marnie. The game is also just really boring at times. The combat is still the same old, but with barely any animations or flare to it its just really quite dull. Also its about time this series gets some voice acting, its seriously jarring to just see a bunch of mouths moving with nothing in cutscenes. But its not all bad. Its pokemon so there is some banger music, depsite Hop sucking balls his battle theme is one of my favorite pokemon songs. The character customization is also really great, I dressed my girl up in the maximum drip, spent a lot of time on that and definitely made the game worth it for me. Also while some towns are kinda bland, some are really beautiful and seeing Pokemon on a larger scope makes me happy, hell even just being able to play Pokemon on the TV with the switch dock nearly made me cry but that's just more of a cool thing with the switch than a positive for the game lol. What else did I like uh.... the new pokemon designs are all pretty good? liked most of those... hm. Thats kinda it really. It's not a bad game by any means and I definitely liked it more than I disliked it but for Pokemons mainline debut on a home console it just kinda falls flat. This series has so much potential and so much fucking money that its absurd its getting this little care put into it. Pokemon can do better. Legends was a step in the right direction. I really hope they can do something better with this.

Champion Team
Inteleon lvl 60
Falinks lvl 60 (best boy, so cute)
Coalossal lvl 58
Hatterene lvl 59
Toxtricity lvl59
Corviknight lvl57

Time Played - 36 hours 53 Minutes
Nancymeter - 64/100
Game Completion #36 of 2022
April Completion #5