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It's alright. It handholds way too much, but the important battles are of an appropriate difficulty, not too easy or hard.
Pokemon selection is "good enough" but too many interesting pokemon are saved until later, I would have liked a much bigger selection earlier.
The atmosphere isnt very good. It doesnt really look like a pokemon world, it just looks like your regular bland cities covered in concrete and paved roads, with tall grass in between.
The dex is hit and miss, most of the first and mid stages look better than the final stages imo. Most types have decent variety but the dropped the ball here and there, for example making too many pure fighting and psychic types that play the same way in battle as each other.
Overall solid gameplay and good for when you want a different feel. But not what I'd want as the standard formula for the games.