an almost empty open world, hugely obvious lack of polish and bugs hold back a very fun and addictive blast that is a great example of a pokemon game with very interested characters and story, for the most part really good pokemon design and a diverse and interesting story. it is sorta easy but having an overlevelled annihilape mowing through everything with close combat may give me a slightly unfair perspective on that. i do really enjoy this game but it sadly has issues and couldve been something really special if it was given more time. also the art direction makes me want to vomit.

what a disappointment. an interesting and generally well designed roster of pokemon and a pretty fun journey with huge issues on a deeper level keep this as not bad. however, a terrible and messy story that feels like a cheap knockoff of games with actually good pokemon story, map design thats so linear its suffocating, really bad art direction that somehow is on the same console as totk, the worst evil team and villains in pokemon potentially and more make this a low for the main series games. also no way im paying twenty seven quid for a few more hours of... this.