I'm aware the game is universally lambasted but I'm having so much fun with it.
I was battling some woman and a group of five smolives walked by in the background and I noticed one of them had a black olive instead of a green one. After I won against the woman I ran up to the little one with the black olive and it was indeed a shiny. I named her Madeline.
The woman in the city who rates your pokemon's size says I have the thiccest jigglypuff she's ever seen.
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Sending out my tandemaus couple for the hundredth time only to find that they've started a family
is probably the most fun surprise I've ever had playing a pokemon game.
Seriously the open world is fucking barren. It looks like World of Warcraft circa 2005. Which is especially embarrassing given how beautiful the world in Arceus was.
Trainers don’t even force you to battle so I forget to fight them until I come back to get the bonus reward for the area and just cream them.