My first impressions of the game of mixed. The first few hours are very handholding, which is par for the course for Pokemon. But after the intro to the Gym challenge the game seems to start to flow a bit more. The environments look pretty good, even the battle backgrounds despite some wariness pre-launch. Not appreciating the pop-in issue but for from my experience these mainily seem to be present in the larger cities, which I haven't spent much time in.
Just got to Tuffield, my least favourite place so far is the Galar Mine. It reminds be of an old ZP comment. It is both too busy and extremely boring. Turn things up to 11 and stay there an it's just as bad as being at 1.