>>43194330>"You never take part in the story!" when the entire story IS the gym challenge is retarded.Again, though, that makes this an extremely barebones Pokemon game. Every single main series Pokemon title, without exception, has featured the gym challenge, and every single one of them, including the ones that came out for the Game Boy over twenty years ago, managed to throw in some dungeons and boss fights against an evil team. I really don't care about SwSh having just as many poorly directed cutscenes, either; I'm purely talking in terms of gameplay.
As far as the lack of arenas go, you aren't doing yourself any favors by pointing out how SwSh favorably compares to handheld titles. Not getting teleported to a white void to fight in is the bare minimum that I expect from a console RPG. This isn't an open beta.
>onlineI don't give a shit about competitive battling, and I really don't think that a noticeable percentage of the ~16 million strong playerbase does either. If you enjoy it then that's fine, but it has never been "the meat of the games".
