The game was clearly rushed, and as with basically every Pokemon game beyond the first few, I find myself just sitting here thinking about how much better it could be with appropriate creative liberty given to the developers, as well as enough time to actually develop a game. The visuals - even aside from graphical glitches - are inexcusably bad.

It's still Pokemon though, and after skipped a couple generations I'm simply in a place to enjoy a game again. But I do so acknowledging that the game is not great, or even good really, and the franchise is doing a whole fuckload of heavy lifting to compensate for restrictive design and limited dev time.

I love Dudunsparce though, my doofy little baby - it is truly the perfect evolution. Overall the creature design is pretty good - aside from a few obvious misses just like every gen, there are some real standouts. Nymble / Lokix are really neat, for example.