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@Secret_Tunnel For me, the best part of the game was easily the co-op raiding with friends. Otherwise, I think the best word I'd use to describe the game is "underdeveloped," and I don't just mean because of the PokéDex. In any case, there are ways to have the game put up a fight if you want a challenge, such as switching up your team a lot so that none of your Monz are leveling a bunch. I wouldn't consider this to be an artificial challenge either, as part of the appeal of these games is trying out different Monz and seeing what they can do; this isn't like, say, skipping Heart Containers in Zelda games. Nothing to help with the shallow story though. That said, knowing you as I do(n't), I don't think this game is for you. @DrFinkelstein Playing raids in co-op with friends makes them easier (and fun!) than playing them with the worthless CPUs. |
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I beat the regular part of the game. Hear there's extra bits post-ending, but I'm probably going to pass on them. Which is interesting because before the end I was raring to go catch them all! My quick thoughts (and then back to work): I loved the first 70% or so of this game (except Hop) in a similar way to loving Pokemon Blue. It brought me back to that fun of young adulthood, probably mostly because I didn't take it super seriously and I named all my Pokemon cute little nicknames and really cared about my team. Been a while since I played a Pokemon game with that mindset. So that really had me enthralled. The last 30% of the game, though? I started kind of hating it. The Dark gym/town was awful and like an afterthought, and the ending felt both epic and totally anticlimactic at the same time somehow. It was weird. All in all I'm glad we bought it and I played it, but it really fell short by the end and that dragged the whole experience down. I'll tell you what really seemed to mess things up for me: The other gym challengers. The fact that there were so many NPCs who were "trying" to beat the gym challenge and failed (and QUIT) made everything feel off to me. It was like the game was trying to make me look like I was special, but none of these gyms required much skill, all it took was not-quitting. Even stupid idiotic Hop could beat them for goodness sake! So what's up with all the quitters? Why did they even join the gym challenge if they were unwilling even to level their Pokemon an extra 4 or 5 levels so they could beat the gym leaders? I know this "complaint" goes back to the original games, where how-is-Brock-a-Gym-Leader when he only has two Pokemon and they are so low level, but this game took that weird feeling and magnified it ten fold for me. @DrFinkelsteinYeah, Hop was the worst thing about the whole game. What a terrible friend AND terrible rival. "Come on, let's go do this thing together" he constantly shouted as he ran off alone. I hated him for 99% of the game. |
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@Pokefreak911Good luck! You love Sword/Shield more than the last two entries? You mean Ultra Sun/Moon and OG Sun/Moon? Or are you referring to X/Y and combining all the Alola Region games together as one? |
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