An incredibly patchy games with high highs and low lows - the meat of the game is fantastic, with traversal mostly fun and the new mechanics being great additions. As is always the case with Gamefreak, they've removed a lot of that worked from previous games for their own reasons, which removes a lot of individuality of how you play and how you look. The technical aspect is diabolical, with slowdowns and awful textures throughout my run - the fact BotW runs and looks better and is 5 years old is incredible. There's a noticeable lag with any input in all menus and when using the bike mode, and the online is abysmal - it shouldn't take 30 seconds for me to get told I can't join a tera raid.

I say this for every Pokemon review, but this is a good jumping off point for the next game. I'm starting to think this will never be the case, and all we'll get are half baked games like this for the next few years.