>>37087658>no random encountersNot necessarily a bad thing. JRPGs have been moving away from random encounters for years now, and even in the Game Boy era there were RPGs without random encounters. They should just keep overworld Pokémon but start a battle when you encounter one, though, instead of the Go waggle bullshit.
>less battlesMaybe if the battles were good. Unfortunately with such a small cast of Pokémon it's hard to make interesting battles.
Like, in SM and USUM most trainers had only 1-2 pokemon as well, but you'd be hard-pressed to find two trainers in the same route with the same Pokémon. Compared to gen 1, where you'd often find trainers with a bunch of nidorans or zubats or rattatas or pidgeys, most trainers have at least one 'decent' Pokémon. The same is not true in LGPE, and neither is 'less battles'. I played through Pokémon Tower with my gf yesterday and it was just endless repetitive battling against level 25 Gastlies or Haunters (and, for some reason, a suddenly very difficult trainer with 3 lv32 Haunters without warning).
>paying for MewDumb but essentially how it always was. Pay to go to an event, then get a free legendary out if it. Now you pay for an accessory. Mew was never free anon.
>when I play themYou can't release Pikachu or Eevee. I don't even think you can let them out of your team because you need them for HM moves.
