>>56933553>dexShame shitty bloated dex we've had since B2W2. Like, I don't want another DP or to way lesser extent Gen 1, but 200-250 side Pokedexes work better overall. I guess given there's over 1000 Pokemon you can't really do that, especially in a post-Dexit world, but it's not objectively a good thing.
>charactersOutside of the main three they're barely written better, designs are just okay at best and the generic NPCs at worst (which is to say quite bad), in-game artstyle does them no favor.
>loreLots of Pokemon games have way more interesting lore, it's almost always something you have to go out of your way for instead of huge chunks of it being dumped on you during the main story.
The writing is actually good, but that's mostly due to the low standards Pokemon has. Still a genuine point in the game's favor. Shame the gameplay is fundamentally broken because the progression through the game and the leveling system are completely at odds, not to mention the map and encounter designs aren't worth the decisions they made. Grinding for dumb shit is rarely fun, and when the only non-grind content is online and raids that's not a great look (I'm sure there's more in the DLC but for a 90 dollar game there fucking better be, right?). Still way better than SS being a bad JRPG for no real explicable reason, at least I can blame a fundamental game design thing for SV's problem, and if you use a guide you can have an okay progression through the game as an option.
