Played for a few hours before I decided to stop and sell my copy because the game looks like shit and runs like shit. "Bad graphics" aren't inherently a problem but in cases like this where you can see what the game is trying to be and how short it's falling it's really rough. And, of course, it feels awful because of horrible optimization.

And for what? A pokemon game that's nominally open-world and is otherwise the same exact thing again? The biggest problem with pokemon games (other than their complete lack of polish) at this point is their refusal to allow the player to engage with any of the mechanics they designed which are pretty much all multiplayer-only. AI trainers don't even switch pokemon. A battle where no one switches is just test of whether you remember the type chart. Piss-poor AI results in a massive number of moves, abilities and entire pokemon being essentially pointless as there's never reason to do anything other than swing with super-effective attacks every turn of every fight. I'd love a hard difficulty, but that's not really the problem- where's the fun of exploring a new region full of new pokemon if a new pokemon is, in gameplay terms, the same thing as any other?