Before and after EV training.
>>55768927Basically the only thing that could realistically stop him from dragon dancing and killing your whole team is scarf Ho-Oh or Marshadow. Fanfic meta would hate him kek.
Alright so I'm going to format this review a bit differently, starting from the bad and going to the good because there's not a lot of bad to talk about and most of the substantial discussion points are in the good anyway.
>Shit I didn't likeArbitrarily nerfing a lot of mons with no documentation. Some didn't deserve it (Delphox, Stakataka), others are so obscure within wonder trade it shouldn't really matter (Regidrago, Regileki), and others it defeats the entire point of the mon (Aegislash and Dragapult missing their signature moves is soulless) even if they're still mechanically usable.
The game had a bit too much bleeding heart rhetoric given the amount of violence the tribes were already established to be committing against each other in-universe. I mentioned this before but their moralistic claim to the land when the pokemon where there first in a narrative that hard pushes human-pokemon equivalency is hypocritical at best and nonsensical at worst. I'm sad this point was never brought up directly, although I guess you can read between the lines and infer this is the Great Spirit's position on the conflicts.
The game is extremely slow performance-wise. I had to play basically the entire game on speedup just to make it playable. This type of bad performance is par for the course for essentials games, but it shouldn't be excused at all.
A lot of characters who do some actually evil shit get away with it scott-free because they end on a heroic note. I'm not opposed to redemption arcs, but for a game that tries to drive justice as one of its core themes so heavily, this short-term memory doesn't jive with the real and permanent harm these characters have caused.