As a longtime Pokemon fan, it's kind of insane how different this game feels with its gameplay yet sticks the landing with it. Catching Pokemon is really addicting as well as the research tasks. And just simple stuff like being able to throw a pokeball in real time or send out your pokemon whenever you want is amazing. That's the reason it has such a high score as... everything else is kind of mediocre. The story is whatever, the world is pretty empty even if it can be fun to traverse, and the completion requirements are too annoying for me to go on (screw the time rifts and their non existent spawn rate). Hopefully Scarlet and Violet really take this new gameplay style and make a 'real' pokemon game out of it, that'll be insane.