This is a great Pokémon game. We need more of this, hopefully a sub-series: “Pokémon Legends”. A large problem is that in terms of open world games, there are many better ones due to the pure quantity of them and that this was taken out of the oven a bit early. I did find it repetitive at the points when I wanted to level up my badge; at times I just wanted to explore the next area already but I needed to grind to level up the badge. I didn’t feel like there were many surprises in the open world (like Orebrough Cave, my personal highlight) and the environments weren’t varied enough to make it constantly exciting to explore. The main driving force of the game was finding and catching Pokémon. The battle system is seem-less and the feeling of catching an unaware Pokémon is fantastic. Possibly the worst aspect of this game was the story. The story is something that bored me very much, and I found that I never cared what was happening and just wanted to get back to the open world.
Overall, It’s probably the best Pokémon game since gen 5, or just the best one outright.