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I know it's a common complaint, but the games are ridiculously easy. The attrition that represented the only semblance of difficulty in past games is gone; Lillie, the kahunas, and trial guides fully heal your team every five steps, even between battles. Not to mention that the trainer rosters are a total joke, like the team skull grunt in po town with an underleveled spinarak as his only pokemon.
Other than that, the pokemon placement/variety is horrible. Yungoos/Gunshoos is in practically every route, along with some dogshit normal/flying type and some other crapmons. There's little variety between routes, especially in the water areas, so you're probably going to run into the same stock of 6-7 pokemon until you get to a completely different environment. A lot of the later gen pokemon have 10%, 5%, or 1% spawn rates, or only spawn during SoS battles, so goodluck trying to pick those up. You could very easily finish the game with an entire team of Gen 1 pokemon without even doing it intentionally, just because your options are so limited.
The story is alright, but there are too many cutscenes, too much dialogue, and not enough freedom of movement.
Also, there's too many fucking legendaries. Half the new pokemon are post-game legendaries or ultra beasts. I know they've been cramming more and more into each game but it's getting ridiculous at this point.
