Very fun Pokemon game and much better to me than Sword and Shield. A ton of people have been having all kinds of crashing and visual bugs which obviously sucks, but in my 60+ hours I had only one crash and just bad pop in at certain points. Nothing to hinder my gameplay at all really. But yeah its a really solid experience and I would recommend it as the story and characters this time around are more enjoyable. This time the game is fully open world and you can do the story in no set order. I really enjoyed the turn based combat this time around and I don't know if the gameplay improved or if I have developed more of a liking for turn-based combat. I love the traversal this time around, continuing the evolution from Pokemon Legends: Arceus. There are some baffling steps back though from that game for some reason. For example the indicators for what pokemon is a shiny and the dodge move. I would say though there aren't any really steps forward for this game in particular outside of the fully open world. I really enjoyed the NPC pokemon battles and the three main varities of story so it doesn't just boil down to go to gym and beat leader. This game had really good writing at parts as well. The ending was definitely my favorite part of the story and I won't spoil the big twists. Yeah give this a shot as maybe the bugs and glitches might be slightly overblown, and beneath that is a great game. 4 ★