Galar appreciation thread? It's time
>Biggest region to date with 2 mini regions
>You can actually see pokemon out in the overworld instead of having to deal with boring random encounters
>Characters are kino, they all have their arcs and good designs
>Best gym system in the series, actually trying something different by making it a big deal and changing the elite 4 to a tournament where you fight 6 trainers instead of 4
>You're bored of the main story? It's okay man, just go back to the wild area and do some raids
>You can camp and cook by finding ingredients, adding more personality to each pokemon as well as 151 curries of content
>Main gimmick is actually balanced instead of being given to already OP legendaries or simply being a nuke button
>Strongest region to date, hosting the strongest champion and gym leaders who could be champions
>Has league cards which flesh out the characters and give them back stories instead of the literal who gym leaders in gens 1-4
>Great for competitive pokemon, with an actual ranking system as well as bottle caps, TRs, and mints allowing all your bros to become properly trained with little effort
>Brought back following Pokemon
>Brought back jerk rivals
>Brought back apricorn balls
>Added things to do online other than just battling and trading
>Added marks
>Added Brilliant Pokemon
>Added square shinies
>Has fun minigames like Rotom Rally
>Has fun side quests like finding 100 Diglett and finding the footprints of the Swords of Justice
>Is still being updated with new events to this day, over a year and a half after release
>Has 4 battle facilities that each operate different, basically a Battle Frontier
>Useless bloat moves that have no reason to exist were finally cut (Barrier, Foresight, Constrict etc.)
Yeah I'm thinking KINO
