>>49538198>The lack of battling turned me off.There's battling.
>does the game do anything interesting with the catching partThe game rewards you with the catching part by giving you more coins and points, either resources makes it a lot easier to catch Pokemon. Shiny hunting is easier to do once you fulfill specific but easy requirements. The only real RNG that you can't just manipulate is how often a specific Pokemon appears, and even that can be fixed by just sleeping when the weather doesn't favor you
Don't listen to /v/irgins, it's another case of BOTW where they dumb down
the prominent features to make the game worse than they actually are.