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it's amazing how bad it's ending up. This was my last chance for the games after sitting everything after SM out and even if the dex shit never happened, the game just looks plain bad. Dynamax puts me to sleep, the Wild Area looks like a part of the game that was tossed in just to have another bullet point on the box, and the pokemon, while not completely hated, definitely feel like a step down so far. Most of the pokemon so far either feel like retreads of old ground or look as if it was made to be an inside joke at GF rather than a good design.
Then when you factor in the dex fiasco, there's literally no reason to even care about the pokemon themselves anymore. Why get invested and say "Oh yeah Eldegoss is pretty cool and I want to make fanart of it." when it'll probably get banished to the shadow realm for another 8 years? It's impossible for me to get excited over a new pokemon when I know it'll just not exist soon.
Finally there's the fact that they seem to be talking up gym leaders just as much, if not slightly moreso, than the pokemon themselves. I literally could not care less about gym leaders, some one-note character that has 2-3 pokemon that you're lucky to even see once outside the gym.
It's hard for me to find even a single thing I like about the game. I have no faith that GF can put out something I will enjoy anymore. People can say "but dude it'll be the #1 seller on the switch" but I don't care. I know how people who say "for me pokemon died at gen whatever" feel now.