As a Pokemon game, it was okay. The story is most likely the worst out of any of the Pokemon games I've played. All of the new QoL features, such as mints, are really nice to have, and the Wild Area is pretty cool.
Overall I feel like this was more of a transitionary game, so it was probably rushed.
Oh, and Galarian Darmanitan is absolutely busted lol.
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I’d be okay with some linear/open world hybrid or maybe just a ton of side quests in the next game. I really do think though that they’re gonna start actually using the switch’s capabilities more. I know that the reason we didn’t get all the previous Pokémon in the base game is due to the thing they used to transfer the Pokémon from ds to switch broke. I bet if they didn’t have to deal with that we would have gotten a bigger game in the first place. Look at their other major titles, Breath of the Wild or Odyssey, for comparison.