It’s absolutely hideous but I love it. The moment to moment gameplay is the best it’s ever been - I’m worried that the negative backlash to this will send them in the wrong direction, when what I’d really like is them to tighten up a lot of these mechanics. Realistically they’re going to want to release another game in 2024/25 on whatever console is out at that point - I just hope they take their time with it and get it more polished than this. That aside - this is a brilliant game, even the story is surprisingly good. The only other issue I have is with the level scaling. “Do anything in whatever order” doesn’t really work when you have a level 60 Slowking and the last gym you face is all level 10 mice pokemon. There’s also a bit where you cross a tiny bridge from one identical section to another and the other side of the bridge has pokemon 30 levels above the other side. Fix that and we’re grand.

Reviewed on Feb 10, 2023


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