>>41178219>don't mean anything for minute-to-minute gameplayDisagree, minute to minute gameplay includes fights where these hurt the most. This will only get worse the longer you play. Especially if you plan to engage in stuff like the battle tower.
>Wild area feels larger than it looksI'd say smaller, doubly so if you consider how much worthwhile content exists in the space as it is very low
>Graphics are pretty great, THAT TREE notwithstanding.Defend this
>but the last Pokemon game with a good story was almost ten years agoThat is legitimately coping. It was bad before isn't an excuse to be bad now, especially when the game needed to make up in areas.