i'm okay with them cutting the battle frontier since all of that was CBT in the first place tbh. the biggest problem with rse is fixed (water encounter rates combined with slow swimming speed), so it's actually a pretty solid game

lots of lame stuff here but lumiose city is still probably the coolest city we've gotten in any pokemon game. super immersive and tons of cool stuff to do

better than bw1 deadass

first passable pokemon story but the region is still too linear and uninteresting

best pokemon ost but the engine is still slow as shit and the level curve is completely broken

quite possibly the slowest game engine in human history. unplayable compared to gen 3, and that's ignoring diamond and pearl which somehow manage to be even slower

phenomenal game but it's way too similar to botw. basically the same exact structure with the same overworld; ultrahand is really what makes it fresh and worthwhile

boss battles are easily better than any in the first two games but then there's all this tacked-on stuff that bogs the game down (motion controls rip)

retro said "hey people didn't like the backtracking in the first one so let's like double the amount of backtracking and make the bosses three times as long and boring as shit." other than that the atmosphere is good

backtracking... so much backtracking

CEO MINDSET

fuck this evil, stupid, miserable behemoth of a game. seems fun and kid-friendly until you realize playing this shit is like reading ulysses. it never ends.

goated 2d platformer

super hard and borderline unfair at times but it's still pretty good

gameplay and ost are so goddamn good but the dialogue makes me want to kms