>>30583871I have a lot of whining to get out.
The game was too easy. I did everything I could to try and make it challenging while still having fun with it. I never once grind for experience in tall grass, I never used the exp share, I didn't care for good natures or IVs, I didn't EV train, I had battle mode on set. The Kahunas, Lusmine, the Elite 4 and Kukui were so fucking easy that I was able to beat them with a team that was usually 3 to 4 levels under theirs. The AI is just bad.
I hate how slow and boring the first 2 islands are with the cutscenes every ten steps. I like a very small amount of the new pokemon (Brionne, Mudsbray, Bewear, Tapu Koko, Xurkitree). The Alolan forms are, for the most part, a good idea that was horribly done. Restricting it to just genwun is retarded and inexcusable. Hyper training is also a good idea with miserable implementation. Pokemon has to be level 100? Fine, then at least give us places like the Black Tower/White Tree, with opposing pokemon reaching up to level 90, to train in. I'm sick of grinding in the E4 and Poni island tall grass. Also bottle caps are a pain in the ass. I hate the seemingly immortal battle tower re-skin they continue to recycle while leaving out the battle factory. I hate the story and the over-focusing on Lillie and Cosmog. Solgaleo and Lunala are ugly. Getting rid of triple battles and shitting up the frame rate just to add trainer models to the battle for the cringy z move dances is such a stupid idea
Some positives. Team Skull is great, SOS battles are great (EV training a whole team while shiny hunting) The music and region are beautiful. Acerola is my fucking wife.