Quite shallow for a pokemon game, especially when you take in the amount of new pokemon in comparison to past games, the story is somehow more nonexistent than pokemon x and y. The pokedex cut was incredibly unnecessary, because they're using the same models from the 3ds games, it's disgusting seeing how blatantly dishonest this company is being now. Many of the move animations are terrible, moving around a static model, making it "hop" etc. All in all, do better Gamefreak. And stop rushing your games out before Christmas to get that sweet sweet holiday cash.