Okay so my initial review was awful. This game is amazing. There is however a period that can be arduous to endure in the beginning. Overall the game is a great new concept that I hope game freak and pokemon keep expanding upon. It does feel like it can be better but overall a great game. It is very open world, pretty fluid (could be better) regarding game speed and frames, plus lots of things to do, come back to, and explore. The new battle feature is cool but you can get by without it as well. If this game and something like legend of arceus came together that would be pokemon perfection. I would like to hunt for pokemon when able to. It was nice to do that in arceus. I am not much of an online gamer so I don’t know how that is. The story is pretty superficially pokemon. Not too deep but is entertaining at times. Overall I’ll play it for hours and hours like i usually do. Highly recommend.