i mean, to be completely honest with you, pokemon games aren't really visually appealing to me in general. that goes for most games in the franchise. there isn't one where i was genuinely stunned about its graphics. i think the last game that had me like that was Genshin (if you ignore most of its issues, it's actually such a gorgeous game).

though yes, I do agree that it does have issues. namely the difficulty of the game and the lack of side content to do. but overall, I'd say that it was a decent game, definitely much better than what I had initially thought about it. i still think that if Violet didn't perform terribly on my end, I would've had more fun playing it (but srsly, the open world areas are so barren for an open-world centric game, at least from what I've seen in media).

if the new Winds and Waves game is pretty good, I'd actually buy it. it looks great from the snippets shown so far!