This game has the meat of the best pokemon game to ever exist hidden in here somewhere. The new pokemon designs keep being amazing. That being said, I have never played even a Pokemon fan game that runs like the pile of gravel this game runs like and its frankly embarrassing. I really hope the patch starts to fix some of the problems with this but it wouldn't fix everything. Nintendo finally had a chance to do a legit open world style game but nope, its pretty much do it in somewhat linear order or you will either be pounded into mulch or be super over leveled. All I wanted was a Skyrim like leveling system in a Pokemon game if they were going to do open world traditional pokemon. PLA failed for me in the same ways and was a technical mess as well but not anywhere near this bad.