>>31966191>The story is fine No its not. Team Galactic is boring and just a repaint of Aqua/Magma, they do random shit that doesn't make sense and its clear that no major effort was put into their design. Other than that, the "story" is the same as every other game barring gen 5 and 7. It's not bad, but it certainly isn't good either.
>the region has a few flawed routesYes. It's a badly designed region. Players shouldn't have to backtrack through dungeons in JRPGs with static levelling.
>the charactersThe characters are just as lifeless as the ones from gen 1-3. They have no personality other than "He's hyper" or "He's gloomy." There is no attempt at character development, not even a little bit.
>musicThe music for the routes and cities was great, I'll give you that, but they tried the same style in the battle music, making them boring as shit.
>gameplay are great.What the fuck are you talking about? Battles take fucking forever, it taked about 10-20 seconds for a mon over level 40 to faint. On top of that, the menus are god-awful, you really have to only buy hyper potions since it takes so fucking long to use multiple smaller potions.