User reviews

Performance: 2/10 Story: 9.5/10 Gameplay: 9/10 Characters: 9.5/10 New pokemon: 7/10 Graphic: 4.5/10 Themes (music): 10/10 Total: 7.35/10

This game is visually bad, no doubt with that. It needed more care with the environment, the performance, the cutscenes, the lag, it's clear that it's incomplete.

But, and this is important to point out, the story and gameplay is very good this time.

I liked this game much more than Pokemon Sword and Shield, this one has a soul.

First of all, traveling with the legendary Pokemon from start is the best idea ever. The way the story is introduced is very sweet and the more you play, the more you get involved.

The fact that you can explore freely the entire map from start (after the pretty long tutorial) is very cool, adding a sense of real adventure to the game.

I played without ever using the teracrystalization (the new mechanic), this led to a slight increase of the difficulty of the game that I appreciated a lot during my gameplay.

The new pokemon are mostly bad, but there are a few that I liked a lot, so overall it's fine.

As said before, the performance of the game is the biggest letdown. I think that with 1 more year of development this could have been the best Pokemon game ever.

I give it an 8, because after being disappointed with Sword and Shield, I enjoyed a good old but new Pokemon game.