>only half an hour long
>the bad takes up 15 minutes of a 20 minute review
Yeah, Sword certainly shat the bed on that part. But the game's so easy that you barely need an full team (of what's already in it) to actually win the main championship
ALL pokemon games are dirt simple, aside from maybe the GC ones and individual parts of other games. It's the principle of the matter that counts.
Inwas hanging by a thread before Switch era Pokemon, then fell off completely. Then S&V slit my interest's throat with a genderqueer knife.
It wasn't a good sign when the male and female (?) trainers in S&V are both wearing the same outfit.
I blame that on Gamefreak taking the lazy way out.
Same here. Starting with Gen 7, serious crap appeared, like no more surfing from place to place, dropped dex entries, and that "unfinished" thing. Also they removed that "battle test" feature. And there are no more secret bases nor soaring like in ORAS.
There's also more Western influence in the series too. One video on "woke" in S&V pointed out how much of the characters are ugly.
ORAS and Sun/Moon revived my interest in the series. Shame how badly they dropped the ball on the switch.
Most of the pokemon models have been recycled since gen 6 anyway. No excuse to not copy paste them and national dex entries like they’d done since Gen 4.
That was a dead giveaway. It was relatively subtle and innocuous on its own (at best it was charitably boring), but absolutely a harbinger of things to come, and boy did the queers cum--ALL over the fucking game. The series is in such a sad damn state, westernized and woke. It's a tragedy.
Maybe the Japanese staff made the mistake of thinking that USA Twitter freaks represent the average Westerner, when they wanted to appeal to Westerners as well as locals?