Jason says, “It’s Pokémon. It’s going to sell doorbusters. The good news is that they’ve finally decided to modernize aspects that are important: namely catching and battling Pokémon as well as world traversal methods. Additionally, you’ll be doing these things for a decent amount of time, barring no ability to do it against other humans. But then things go downhill from there: it nails absolutely nothing in the presentation department, and I can guarantee you that if it wasn’t called Pokémon, it would undoubtedly sell less under today’s standards. In summary, it’s still enjoyable because they’ve modernized the core gameplay loop and I’m all for it, but they did little else.”
