So let's talk about game mechanics:
No pokemon riding or biking.
No interactions with pokemon
No pokemon emotions
No flying mechanics like we used to have just teleporting
Megas are weird and horrible
Small map
Small Wild areas
Legendaries make no sense like you'd never naturally find a kyogre in the city
The way to catch the Megas are underwhelming. They show all that beautiful housing and what not for victreebel and all we get is it on the side of the street.
Your stuck in a city
Wild pokemon constantly wanna attack you. So it just feels like another monster game. Like why would a stunfisk attack outta no where.. like its really bad
Annoying kid that won't stop talking so I can play the game
Very few buildings you can go into considering it is a city
Storyline is bad
Etc (cause i know im missing something else to put on here)
Now let's talk about technical and other mechanics:
Battling pokemon-
Changing night to day during mid battle makes the pokemon go straight back to spawn with full health so all that progress battling it is gone
While battling you have a few glitches
During battle can sometimes pull up pokeball menu
Now other reasons-
No depth.
Graphics are flat
Hotel balconies and windows on both switch 1 and 2 are flat. We had better depth to scarlet and violet building wise and ppl complained badly about that game.
No shadows or clouds and yet scarlet and violet had it.
Everything is a smooth texture so I guess them saying it runs smooth they must've meant the bad graphics
I dont wanna hear that they say switch 1 couldn't handle the graphics and thats why switch 2 is better because scarlet and violet had 3 huge maps (bigger than this 1 city) and still had depth and better graphics just ran a little slower
Money wise-
Its a 60 dollar game + 30dlc thats not out yet so who knows what your getting + 15 for online if you want the mega stones of the 3 pokemon that were ORIGINALLY for x and y + 10 for switch 2 upgrade (you know cause apparently the switch 2 being known to already give better graphics need you to pay... for better graphics...)= at max unless you need to buy a switch 2 for that version at least 115 dollar game... its worth 30 max...
The price does not give 115 dollars worth of a game. They know this and laugh in our face knowing ppl will buy it. Basically saying its like taking candy from a baby because they literally took money from ppl and gave such a horrible game.
Trading from home to this one and can't trade back is dumb especially with how bad this game is... ill just keep all mine in scarlet and violet.
Also only 13 million spent so it seems as if the company knew people wpuld pay alot for the game just to make more off of it when they put little time and effort into it.
This game and pokemon companies cards, game, and apps have made me make this choice:
As a player and supporter of pokemon and Nintendo ill no longer be apart of a company that is greedy. Let me know when you bring the old pokemon company back that cared for fans. 👋signed a player since 1998 till now.. we deserved better.