The absolute worst Pokemon Game in existence. If Nintendo could refund me i would immediately nab one. I picked it up because I started with Pokemon Go again.
Graphics are Wii or older era. Grainy, jumpy. It's as if the game was made by two people in the basement as a hobby. Pokemon Arceus was far better and still had horrible graphics.
Audio. It has the most basic audio like it was downloaded from some royalty free library. Uninspiring, no energy no Pokemon feel like "Let's Go Pikachu". I swear there's a total of like 4 sounds in the entire game, including that infuriatingly annoying Interface click sound you hear 1000 times per game clicking through dialog.
Dialog... Absolutely horrendous. Just the dialog system itself is slow, clunky, excessive conversation that I just want to scream and make everyone stop talking so I can just go do boring pokemon battles.
Pokemon Battles, they are challenging i'll give that. With "Let
s Go Pikachu" I beat the entire game with a single pokemon and never needed to swap. Other than battles being somewhat of a challenge they're absolutely mind numbing boring. Like I have no desire to catch a Pokemon. Zero desire to catch a Pokemon, yes I said it twice. THe whole point of these games is to catch Pokemon and I don't want to because it's so boring. I need to jump back to Arceus, the last good game.
I bought this with the DLC and started the game. Within an hour I made the mistake of going to the DLC village and swept away into so much dialog I was praying for a dragon to swoop in and burn the place up. But no meteors struck, no dragons came. I was forced to talk to the two weirdest siblings with horrible haircuts.
I can't even recommend this game to people I despise. I feel bad for the fans abused by zero effort Pokemon games.