>>48693789Good amount of interaction with your mons, different movement styles helps make them feel more unique to one another, like rattata running ahead of you or slowpoke moving at 1/4 speed making no effort to catch up to you or riding specific mons
Catching encounters replacing wild battles isn’t as bad as I thought it would be but some mon movement styles are definitely more irritating than challenging
Starter Eevee is game-breakingly overpowered, Pikachu is too but nowhere near as Eevee
Postgame challenge of specific mon experts is a bit dumb for some of them (mostly mons without much of a moveset like Caterpie) but legitimately challenging for others