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The one after looks amazing, but it doesn’t give the same feeling as other really big cities; it isn’t a place you can get lost in searching for things, unlike Lumiose and whatever the really big one in B/W was.

When they do show, some of it is good, and some of it is animation the camera probably should have avoided, where a cut would have been less jarring than a character awkwardly pivoting and slowly walking due to what's meant to be near the climax of the story.

A lot of the towns don't feel as interactive as they did before, but the town with the 7th gym is really bad for this.

As much as I love these games mechanically, you can kind of tell the point where they really started running out of time.

After the 6th gym, the game starts breaking the "show, don't tell" rule a lot - leading to the villain, and the evil team feeling underdeveloped. "Oh, a scary thing is happening off screen!" *one load screen later * "It's alright, the Champion already dealt with it" shouldn't be something that happens repeatedly.

Also enjoying max raids a lot more than the Go equivalent - I like consistent methods of catching Pokémon, and max raids mean not having to try turn 1 quick balls or bringing a false swiper

I'm still doing gyms without it for added challenge (and to see if there's any additional dialogue from doing so, which there hasn't been so far - while characters would remark on not using z-moves), but I'm using it a lot in max raid battles to speed them up
(don't know how it'll be in competitive play/the battle tower of course)

I think this is the element of these games that has surprised me most - before launch I was expecting to hate it, thinking it'd be a 3 turn z-move without the item restriction for any hint of balance

but it turns out the item restriction was part of the reason I never used z-moves - my in-game lead always has the amulet coin once I find it
additionally the moves themselves don't seem quite as OP as z-moves were - along with having potentially more effect in doubles

again, i really hope game freak can take a year out of the annual release cycle after this, since every aspect feels like it needed more time

if genius sonority are still around, i'd love a new battle focused game to fill in the gap

i don't like being a font of negativity over a series i love a lot, but

my assumption through some of the leaks and datamines has been "these games aren't ideal for me, but I'm sure they'll be plenty of fun for people that just want to play through the story once"

but both the gamexplain and eurogamer reviews say that towns and dungeons are scaled back even compared to rby, that there's not much to them other than the gyms

hey if mutuals want my switch friend code let me know!

convention plans for next year so far: no idea, maybe golden leaves con if one friend ends up going (it's been far too long since i've last been to switzerland), but i can only really do one oct/nov con

maybe it'll come in a day 1 patch or something, i don't know - or maybe Home will come out and that will have the GTS* - but unless they've made significant backend changes, everyone would have been fine with them copying and pasting.

* (I kind of wish they'd talk more about everything that Home will do so I don't pour too much hope into it).

It's great that they've improved Wonder Trade, I love Wonder Trade - but I also like being able to go online and get the other starter(s) easily, or trade for version exclusives easily without having to bug a friend.

It had problems (too many legendary requests, not great for trade item evolutions), but it also wasn't broken.

ok if they've actually cut the GTS in favour of let's go's system of having to get a code from another player, that one will sting

I'm getting both versions this time, but the GTS made it so I didn't have to for the vast majority of things. HGSS was the last time I bought both games (and my copy of SS was the JP version)

i am going to breed and wonder trade so many libero scorbunnys once i get one

(libero has the same effect as protean)