#lettered pole

the plot was fucking phenomenal, definitely up there in my personal s-tier of storytelling right there with the plot of black and white and the climax was fucking incredible to witness unfold even if I already knew what was coming. the pokemon designs really grew on me and I ended up really liking the tera gimmick more than I thought I would, I had a blast exploring and it feels like I haven’t even scratched the surface of everything I still have yet to discover, the school classes genuinely taught me things I didn’t know and the little moments of character development thrown into the lessons were very nice, miraidon is my son and I would die for him, I’m proposing to Hassel as we speak.

with that said though the performance issues of the game, the fact that the environments look rough and unfinished, the very questionable choice in shaders making parts of the game look washed-out, the glitches like dev cubes being visible, texture glitching, glitches with the models in online multiplayer, and climactic moments being ruined by weird little bugs happening in the bg, was all quite impossible to ignore. this game could have easily been the one of the best in the series if not THE best imo had it had a LOT more development time and it all was so painfully obvious with every single little bug or glitch I encountered or any time the fps dropped to the point the game was running at a crawl or any time the game wanted you to think something was beautiful but it just looked kinda “eh” to me because it wasn’t fully realized the way it could have been