It's a fairly standard Pokémon game. Nothing really stuck out aside from it unfortunately being.. kind of a slog? There's so many long stretches of nothing but 50 back to back double battles just to have to backtrack again anyways because Wallace did child neglect on your ass and left you to deal with a demi-God battle happening on his front yard.

HM moves are such garbage cock ass and this game forces you to use all of them to get through Victory Road. That is something that is a minor annoyance in normal gameplay, but absolute torture in a Nuzlocke. Why did we live like this before?? I don't want to suffer anymore!!

The music is fine on it's own but listening to it on repeat literally gave me a migraine. I love me some trumpets, but the midi version of trumpets might as well have set ants loose into my brain for the same effect. I could not stand fighting Team Aqua/Magma because their song is like listening to dying cats, very fitting since they're all psychos anyways.

It's also completely UNPLAYABLE since you can't get Lickitung easily in this game, but it's still leagues above Sword/Shield. Rayquaza does slap cheeks red though.

Reviewed on Oct 17, 2023


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