>>44718676it's pretty overrated. yea it adds a lot of extra hours but a lot of it is spent breeding & grinding up comp-level teams and fighting the same repetitive AI over and over. pokemon battling against the AI becomes dull when you're on an even playing field.
there were some cool facilities though. factory requires no prepwork to play, and pyramid & pike offer genuinely nice twists since you have to deal with wild pokemon too. gamefreak should've polished up the good ones instead of cutting it entirely