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Why does the Wild Area have to be so bad?
It's not really that big, there is nothing to do until you get all the badges because they lock all the Pokemon behind the badges for some fucking reason. What's the point of that? If I can manage to catch a Pokemon 30 levels higher than what I have then I should have the right to do so, all they had to do was keep the old system where they would ignore your commands if they were too high leveled. It's not like the game isn't piss easy already anyway. It just irks me that I can see a Gengar or even a fucking Vileplume but nope it's really strong looking better run away!
The area looks like shit, too. Trees and grass look PSP-tier and it lags hard whenever there is any weather affects. Your internal clock doesn't have anything to do with the time of day you get. There are no caves to explore or interesting NPCs. You don't get the water bike til the end of the game.
The only saving grace of these games is the THICC Ice waifu and some of the new Pokemon are okay enough, I guess.
No more GTS, Wonder Trading isn't fun anymore, no post game, no victory road, no E4, no petting your Pokemon. I had some fun with Shield but it was without a doubt one of the worst Pokemon experiences I've ever had.