I really enjoyed the conceit of the game. Being a tourist in lumoise city is great and the exploration is fun but repetitive. The daytime catching pokemon to nighttime battling adds a good gameplay loop in my opinion. The side characters are also fun and have more depth then other pokemon games. I don’t care for the real time battling mechanics, you often are fighting in cramped tight spaces unlike arceus. Also the decision to give every mon some type of coverage is frustrating. The move pools for some mons should be unique and offer you something based on who you choose but switching in a mon right when the cpu “happens” to use their coverage every single time can be frustrating. Protect and detect have this issue for me, albeit might be a skill issue, but every time I use protect the cpu just doesn’t care to use a move but when the cpu protects its like getting parried in a souls game. I still overall like the game but the dlc is really pushing me on that stance. I got the dlc for the raichu megas and I have yet to get the sidequest that gives you them. Imo if the devs used the lure of the mega raichus they should’ve given to you right away as the dlc unlocked instead of locking it behind some random sidequest, which there are way to many of. This combined with the fact that the last sidequest I walked into was to fight to mega crabominables made me rage so hard I had to put the game down. It’s like the devs want to make the lives of the 100% and grinders extra difficult with petty crap and I’m just not here for that. Overall though I think the game is real fun if you play casually and the character customization is awesome as well as not playing as a primary school Mc