Man, c'mon.

Pokémon is the most profitable video game series of all time, and if I had to count the number of times they cut corners with this game I would run out of fingers and toes.

There are plenty of great ideas floating around in this one in comparison to other Pokémon games, and I truly am looking forward to the possibility of an actually good and fun Pokémon game in the future. Catching Pokémon in real-time is an absolute joy, but as I played this the less it felt like a big freeing adventure and the more it felt like a checklist of chores.

The payoff was finally telling my friends that I finished the game so that I can play something else.

Best part of the game was throwing bean bags at boss Pokémon. The icing on the cake was waiting for the game to tell me to send out a Pokémon, ignoring it completely, and pelting the boss with more bean bags. If I'm being truly honest with myself, it was the only part of the game that I wasn't dozing off for.

If Game Freak releases Bean Bag Blitzer 5000 I'll buy ten copies.