>>54049148I never disliked it. Well, there are aspects I find dumb, like the time difference between the versions. Which is somehow both a terrible gimmick on its own along with a 'we're running out of ideas for gimmicks'. I liked the region. I liked the music. It's visuals don't really hold up in some spots. I liked the goofy evil team. They were pathetic in a charming way. The 'Aether Foundation is the real villains' twist was obvious, but the 'Now you're fighting a humanxpokemon hybrid' battle was absolutely unexpected.
Lusamine was an absolute cunt of a mother until they retconned it with USUM, giving us a very different kind of villain. Character design was on-point. (Alolan girls are just built different, I guess)
All in all, it was a good game. Very linear, to the point that they stopped coming up for reasons for roadblocks. (No more dancing people or psyducks or whatever. Literally just a dude gatekeeping). You can turn Exp. Share off. Which I didn't think would be a 'feature', but here we are.
