>>41053072There are some glimmers of good shit. The wild area and gym battles are great in concept, but botch in the execution. The strong Pokémon are pointless as you can’t catch them until you are stronger, eliminating the need of them being there till later. And the Gym battles do feel more dramatic intense with the dynamic music and dynamaxing, but they still run into the same trouble every set of gym leaders do.
The rest of the game is the worst of SM. Railroaded and packed with useless cutscenes. At least SM has a semblance of a plot. Swsh are devoid of it until late game, and it’s the laziest, most tacked on shit way.
I haven’t bought a Pokémon game since SM, and it looks like that streak is staying for the foreseeable future.
