Just finished my first run in Alola. I wasn't browsing this board when the game came out originally.
I found the exploration underwhelming. And the story very underdeveloped for all of the fucking cutscenes there were. What gets me is that characters like Guzma,Plumeria and Lusamine were pretty good concept wise but their stories were never really resolved.

Was this what everyone else on /vp/ was saying too?

Also no fucking national pokedex