I was excited going into this town since I liked the atmosphere and design. We could have gotten a cool gym challenge, maybe involving jumping between buildings and alleyways in some kind of maze, but all we got was a straight line and a gauntlet.
Piers himself is also a huge disappointment, especially as a seventh gym leader. When he said he wouldn't be using Dynamax I was thinking, cool, he has to be skilled in some other way. Maybe he's strong because he has higher levels than you'd expect at this point, or he takes advantage of the Dark type's plethora of status moves to be a tricky kind of player. But no, just a standard 4-roster monotype team.
It's a shame because they showed they were capable of a good, fresh take on a gym leader with Raihan's gym being based around doubles and weather as opposed to a single type. Fuck, this entire game is glimpses of effort and novel ideas amidst a pile of phoned in garbage.
