Lane Stroud

This is a multi billion dollar organization. They produced one of the worst games of the year. The only reason anyone likes the game is because they get to see their favorite pokemon. If you removed the rose colored glasses exclusively used because its pokemon, this is barely even a game. The world is tiny, and monotone because it is 1 environment. There is borderline no explorative feeling because again youre just in 1 environment that is unchanging in any way. The pokemon in the pokemon game seem completely shoehorned in, and by that I mean instead of having their own unique environments and cool places they live that make sense, they're just all hanging out in slightly different parks around the city. All of the changes they did, battle scheme, adding megas, reative decisions like that are more individualistic in how theyre recieved. However this is barely A pokemon game. There is no immersion or worldbuilding that makes this feel like a real place. It feels very soulless and like Nintendo/game freak just didnt want to put effort in. This isn't even to start talking about the graphical laziness or incompetence. Just to reiterate, this is a 2 billion dollar company that got absolutely stomped and laughed at by indie developers multiple times this year. It's not that they can't do better, it's that they know the fanbase will just eat whatever slop they put out, so they just spit in our faces and laugh at us.