honestly the most boring & easily the second worst instalment in the franchise aside from the dumpster fire that was bdsp. Hand holding at the beginning is painfully boring & lasts around 3 hours before you can finally play the game (i actually got frustrated & put the game down at one point…it would be highly beneficial i feel to include an option that allows players to skip tutorials entirely or have some dang voice actors to keep the audience engaged…The ‘wild areas’ are miniature biomes with around a hugely underwhelming 6 pokemon total in each although some of the pokemon are the same like pidgey being available in 2 wild zones & pidgeotto being available in another….most of the pokemon are not even from the kalos region either….the map is tiny & empty…pokemon are hard to find & repetitive. The side quests get boring quick & result in your pokemon being hugely overleveled for the storyline…character customisation was a welcome return after they for some reason scrapped it altogether in sv but doesn’t save the game from being bland.