Hmm I'd like to know why you think it is lazy or uninspired. There was a lot of attention to detail in a lot of ways, hidden dialogue, new twists on existing pokemon designs, interesting new pokemon, gigantamax adding new styles to existing pokemon. I found that the setting was interesting and new, and I really enjoy the camping/curry as well as the outfits and trainer cards. While yes it would be neat to have 800+ pokemon, Pokemon Red/Blue had 150 and catching all of them took a fair amount of time. On release for Sword/Shield there were 400 pokemon, with 81 new. Add 110 with the aisle of armor, and 74 new with the Crown Tundra. I think the game has really been responded to unfairly and frankly holds its own even against some previous Pokemon titles.

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