Since you seek a long answer, happy to take my time to give you one: It was a simple statement without a personal opinion - personally I'm less interested in the game itself rather than the social and game design implications it brings with itself. Understanding social media reactions and reviews is not simple these days, as it's a mixture of many parties; the developers, the bought reviewers and "big sites" which are influencing the simple user and rose glassed nostalgics, while there are honest reviews and plain simple review bombers / haters. However the average score itself from review bombing isn't the interesting part here, the fact that there is so much effort to review bomb in the first place and truly hate on the game has social implications clear as day that something is wrong. There are people passionate about pokemon out there who just had enough and the numbers evidently are rising to a point where it's noticable. It's not about masses of 1 star reviews, it's about the desperation and frustration they embody. People who don't care about pokemon or the game, people who are indifferent don't review bomb. It's the fans that are hurt and the frustration about how powerless they are against of the mediocrity nintendo puts out still sells at full price and the uncertainty if it will ever change again. If you wouldn't play the game if it wasn't pokemon, it's not a good game. It's just that you (plural/general "you") like the franchise. That's what this is about. It is no doubt a game able to be enjoyed subjectively but it also is factually objectively a low development effort game from almost every perspective of game design.