I'm very conflicted on this one because while it's the most fun I've had with Pokemon since gen 5, it's also a broken mess. I love the story, the characters, all the new designs, the new QoL mechanics, the music (Toby Fox!!!), and mostly love the open world implementation. On the other hand it runs like shit, looks like shit, and stripped out a bunch of features from previous games. I think I'm willing to overlook all of that though, obviously Gamefreak needs way more time to let their games cook, but I love this despite its many, many problems.

I think my feelings for this game are best summed up by the ending bringing me to tears only to smash cut to an Ed Sheeran song which drained me of all emotion.