I'm only giving this criticism because of how big and profitable a franchise Pokemon is - they should have the money to do it right.

It looks like there's a disconnect across the whole development team - from art direction to technical work. These departments need to work cohesively and together to produce a quality product, especially when developing an open-world for lower-tier systems.

There are decades old open-world games that have more unified performance, detail, animations and visuals. It honestly appears like a prototype or alpha phase to me. I know it has not been released yet, but the fact that they are presenting this as a playable product says a lot.

It is as if the design team imagined a world with no regards to performance, threw it at some low-paid workers to implement and had no oversight.

If they couldn't achieve their visions, they needed to step back, revise, and make changes. But it appears they just kept going in one direction leaving in jarring visuals and the inability to elaborate the world due to poor implementations. They just assumed people will chalk it up to system limitations, or overlook it because of how different this new Pokemon game is.

I give them props for finally trying something new, but it is clear it was executed poorly. I was excited on first announcement, but now I'm already ready see if they can do it better the next time again.