This game and all the drama around it ruined a franchise for me, but even without it, this game is still bland and boring. Its story is played so safe that characters are boring. The gameplay design is either snore inducing with how mindless it is or groan inducing with how restrictive it is. You can see every cut corner that they cut off to sell back to you as DLC or Paid Apps. The dex is fine, but this is my least favorite batch of Pokemon ever.