>>50028158PLA is simply GameFreak looking at the entirety of what made Pokemon good in the first place as a whole, throwing it out the window, and replacing it with a very generic open world that's only redeeming quality is the fact that you do not have to battle every single Pokemon to catch them, as well as making levels a bit more arbitrary.
>haha no that was gen [insert gen I don't like]At least modern mainline games have the luxury of multiplayer connectivity outside of mere trading, PLA has nothing and its gameplay shows. I'm glad they did something different, but I find myself (as well as my friends, who were the people that would never buy the games post 2012 because they were the same every time) not wanting to go back to complete the Pokedex in that game for Arceus.