Mathew Leong

This game is horrible and a massive step back from Arceus. Welcome back to the button mashing brainless Pokemon gameplay of ye olden days. The graphics are blotchy and stuttery. The battle animations are not interactive at all and reverted back to the old school animation overlay + a lil jiggle from the pokemon (Arceus and even Pokemon Stadium had better battle animations). The mechanics that made Arceus incredible was the boss balm battles and the ability to sneak up and catch pokemon by throwing a pokeball and never having to enter the battle screen…REMOVED This game is not open world. There is a very linear path that you need to follow else your pokemon are going to be vastly under or over matched for the area. I find myself often running around trying to find the appropriate leveled area of the map. The wild tera crystals are cheesy and require zero skill for an insta catch of a pokemon that is not rare or special. All that overdone animation for an easy smackdown and insta catch was a waste of development time. The use of the teraballs in regular battles also hardly feel meaningful and are over animated. I absolutely loved Arceus and am utterly dissapointed with this new game. I really thought Pokemon was innovating, but they lost me again.