ZeroArmada

Love the game, if you're looking for a mature version of the franchise we all know (and wich nintendo continues to dumb down) this is probably a game for you. I'm not going to list the positives of this game because overall, what it does right, it just does right. However there are a few things that drag the game down for me to the point of it being somewhat decent instead of it being a serious contender on the market. The first of wich is the absolute lack of audio visual cues. Whenever you level up a nexomon, catch one, enter a building or defeat an opponrnt. There is a distinct lack of any feedback. A simple snapping sound, or the sound of a door opening whenever it opens goes a long way, and it's these things that make the difference between a solid/complete game and a chaotic and unfinished one. Mind you this game does have some great visual effects in places, it's just that they lack in some pretty important areas. My second gripe with this game is the incredibly cheeky sidekick, the constant 4th wall breaking severely negatively impacts the game rather than adding to it. It makes it feel like the developers are just doing whatever without taking the game seriously, and it just takes you out of the experience. My third gripe with the game is the very stale running animation, some weird issues when changing maps, and also the lack of map animation, wich makes the world feel very static. Whilst the game is still transitioning from one map to the other, your caracter can already seemingly walk forward while loading, making you sometimes lose the caracter on screen. This is just very weird and odd, and because you're doing this so often just becomes frustrating after a while, same with the lack of audio-visual cues and the running animation. The things you're gonna be doing constantly in a game should be the most polished, and that is not the case here. Finally my last gripe with the game is the fact that whenever a nexomon faints and i switch to another nexomon, my oponnent automatically gets a free hit on my switched in nexomon. This sometimes ends up in a situation where the oponnent easily sweeps my entire team without me being able to do a anything about it (this doesn't work the other way around btw) wich i feel is an utterly game destroying issue that should be patched out IMMEDIATELY. I have absolutely no idea why this is in the game but it's a big issue in a game that completely revolves around battling.

Great game, they improved about all the aspects of classic animal crossing, graphics are amazing and quirky, it's incredibly relaxing to play. Must buy!

The worst game in the series. I just cannot recommend anyone to buy this game at full price. As a genuine Pokémon fan I still cought myself genuinely enjoying the game, simply because it's Pokémon. However by the time it was over, I was left sad about what it could have been. Since 3D graphics the regions have progressively become shallower and emptier. The illusion of a big region is there, however you can't actually properly explore any of it. The fact they put a lot of effort into the new dynamaxing system actually makes me sadder, because aparrently a completely new uneccesary mechanic was higher on the priority list then polishing the overall game, and this while they already had a completely fine mechanic called mega evolution that they just decided to drop. The new trainer customization options are really nice, yet for the truly important battles you're forced into this incredibly ugly football uniform, for just no reason. On top of it all for the firt time in the series I hated every starter design so much I just decided to release my starter at the beginning, and just picked another Pokémon instead. This is on top of all the glaring issues that have already been pointed out by many others. For the first time ever I had a Pokémon game randomly crash on me. Gamefreak just seems incapable of taking steps forward in one area without taking several steps backwards in another. To top it all off, this is the most expensive Pokémon game released to date. With nothing to justify the increased price tag, there is just no way I can recommend this game to anyone at full price. I just hope the amount of negativity and backlash will serve to finally wake gamefreak up.