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RingoGaSuki on 21 November 2018
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Now that I've actually played through the game I'll give my actual impressions:

TL;DR - It was much better than I expected.

The Bad:

  • The controls - My god they are terrible. The motion controls for catching in docked are super janky and their forced nature is ridiculous when there's a good alternative in handheld already. (not perfect though; let us aim with the right stick instead of the bloody motion sensor!). They're unnecessarily exclusionary too, completely pushing disabled people away.
  • Fleeing - Pokemon fleeing just shouldn't be a thing. It isn't fun at all and completely ruins the flow of the gameplay. There's a reason it was dropped after Gen II originally.
  • Character design -  I was fine with the chibis on the 3DS, but they just look out of place in the world with the great looking Pokemon.
  • and the biggest one-
  • No wild battles - Removes a lot of the connection I feel to the game and my Pokemon. I'm not battling/raising as much as I do in a normal game, and in catching 500 of the same Pokemon, they feel more like 'catches' rather than 'my team'.
  • Length - There isn't really any postgame outside of Green/Cerulean Cave; gym rematches, master trainers and Red/Blue. It's great as RBY postgame, but feels very lacking even compared to the Sevii Isles we got in the first Kanto remake 15 years ago.
The Good:
  • The music - It's just straight up fantastic, all of the remixes are great.
  • The level curve/difficulty - The game's difficulty ramps up perfectly, the best pacing since B2W2 easily. I never felt overpowered (after I took the nuke Pikachu out of my team) and yet I was never way underlevelled either. The AI is good as well, actually attempting to use some sort of strategy against me (I had a trainer use sleep powder, then growth, then mega drain on me; never been set up on by the AI before). 
  • Pokemon in the overworld - It's a great change. The spawn rate is high enough to feel alive, and for battles whenever you feel like, which is great. Makes the world feel a lot more alive.
It's a diversion from the main series, and it's nice as its own little thing. I'm thinking an 8/10 is right now. Definitely not what I want out of the main series, but as a one off it's fine.