I'm not a fan of the trend of new Pokémon being conceived first as concepts and then as creatures, more blatantly obvious in Gen 8 than ever before, but even if this shift in design philosophy was already present in Gen 7, the Pokémon all felt like a cohesive part of Alola, so I sought to catch them all. The story had its good moments and the level curve was steeper than usual. I naïvely expected more in terms of advancements to the formula. Wrist flick like Z-move (for real tho, fuck Z-moves).