This opinion would probably get me crucified on Twitter, Reddit, Steam, Myspace, or anywhere else you're capable of expressing an opinion, but I really, genuinely enjoyed this game. I had more fun exploring the region and catching my favorite Pokemon as I saw them than I have with any Pokemon game in recent memory. Legends Arceus may be objectively more polished, but this game has it beat in terms of world design and pure "I want to go there" factor. I can't in good conscience rate it higher on account of the technical issues, but speaking personally, they hardly got in the way of my enjoyment. The worst I ran into were some admittedly bad framerates plus a few silly softlocks that resolved themselves quickly. Otherwise, this direction for the series is legitimately the best I've seen and I hope they keep going with it. If they can iron out the performance issues and patch out stuff like the Poke Ball dev cubes, these could easily be the best Pokemon games ever released. But only time will tell on that front.