>>35756186>still has Pokemon catching>still has battling and trading>still has an entire region>still has Pokemon followingSee my previous point of " It has literally everything the main game has but watered down and casualized." Changing one or two things does not suddenly make it exempt from criticism, nor does it make LGPE a "spinoff". Let's use your logic for a bit.
Oh shit, Pokemon XY had Amie, that wasn't in Black and White! Guess they're spinoff titles now. Oh, what's that? Pokemon ORAS had contests? Must be a spinoff! Pokemon USUM had Mantine surfing and Ultra Wormholes? Is this route 113? Because there is so much fucking spinning going on around here.
The GO catching is a shitty gimmick and nothing more, everything else about the game is still intact, this is not enough of a divergence from the main series to say that it's a spinoff and therefore, I will judge this game as it is. A shitty cashgrab with no fucking content being sold at a whopping $60.