In many ways, this is exactly the broken piece of garbage you already know it is, but god damn it SV are so ambitious and heartfelt that I can't help but like them. While technically playable on Switch, emulation is the far better experience if your PC can manage it, as the image quality and performance are so utterly fucked that you really need to just brute force through it with a beefy machine to get something presentable. It's still a mess afterwards, but the bs is reduced enough that it's easier to peek through and see what's actually going on here.

If you want to enjoy gen 9, you've really got to approach this one the same way you might Jurassic Park Trespasser or Spore, filling in the blanks of an incomplete pile of ideas which were loosely stitched together with your imagination. If you come at it with a charitable outlook, there's just enough there for you to, for moments here and there, fall into the massive 3D open world Pokemon game we all always imagined growing up. You'll feel like a child, and match Nemona's glee at every battle. (also Nemona is the best I love her so much aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) Inevitably something will break that illusion and you'll be back to playing a broken mess, but chasing those moments is absolutely worth it.

Game Freak absolutely needs to get their shit together and take their time at actually finishing games again, but these are still special experiences if you're willing to wade through the massive list of flaws.