pokemon's best game in a decade. very impressive how they breathed so much soul and vibrance into this game. the first and likely last time i'll ever complete a pokedex just because of how fun the gameplay loop and recontextualization of mechanics are

i finished this game out of spite, i kept telling myself surely it gets better at some point ad nauseam until the credits rolled and it was really that bad

frustrating that as much as zelda's systems advance, its narratives never match the same level of innovation, disincentivizing me from caring as much as i want to