>>52137813Havent played yet, but the fact that its got open world, but then also traditional turn based battles almost certainly makes it better than PLA.
I enjoyed PLA, but the new battle system was completely incompatible with multiplayer, and lacked depth even for single player. The post game ended up being very finite, and once you caught all the shinies you were interested in, it was essentially a brick wall of "nothing to do".
I'm happy to wander around in an open setting like PLA, but SV being a true open world, while also having ANY sense of meaningful post game (ala pvp) beyond shiny hunting means itll get way more out of me by default.