Easily the best Pokemon game we have ever gotten, especially in terms of story. Pokémon's story has always been super simple with characters being memorable more so by their visual style rather than their personalities. SV manages to give us new characters and rivals that have defined goals that are independent from the main character.
Open world does end up suiting Pokemon well and I hope this game is essentially the blueprint going forward. What drastically holds this game back is the lack of optimization. It is plagued with framerate drops and unloaded textures.
It is in no way the worst Pokémon game we have gotten and people do judge this game too harshly. But the technical issues around the visuals and the clunky online Raid battles are unacceptable with a budget like Pokémon.
Open world does end up suiting Pokemon well and I hope this game is essentially the blueprint going forward. What drastically holds this game back is the lack of optimization. It is plagued with framerate drops and unloaded textures.
It is in no way the worst Pokémon game we have gotten and people do judge this game too harshly. But the technical issues around the visuals and the clunky online Raid battles are unacceptable with a budget like Pokémon.