M. D.

Very disappointing. Graphics for a modern Nintendo game are embarrassingly bad. N64 textures, glitchy camera angles, tons of loading screens, lagging. Trainers you battle in open areas don't move. There's an insane amount of dialogue during battles and gameplay. It's like reading a book. It's never been that bad in a pokemon game before. The map randomly rotates every time you open it which makes it very difficult to figure out where you are and where you were going. Gyms aren't ranked on your map so you have no idea which ones you should be going to. Stores are just menus, you can't walk into them. No side quests from NPCs. It's useless looking around the cities for anything interesting. Camera during battles always glitches out, usually to points where you can't see your pokemon. There's no heart to the story. It's very wooden. A $60 dollar game, with taxes, came to $90. Please do not waste your money on a clearly unfinished game with no ambition from the developers. Quick money grab because Pokemon's popularity. I've played nearly every pokemon game since childhood, and I gotta say, this is the last one I'm ever buying. I wish I could get a refund.