HE CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

No the game isn't good. Ignoring stuff on a technical level the story and characters suck. Yes there is some funny stuff but most of the characters feel like that's their entire purpose. The story feels rushed and is just boring compared to the other games. It feels like Gamefreak had cool ideas but didn't know how to put them together so they got out the Ducktape.

The whole Rust Syndicate feels thrown in. Now I haven't gotten past them yet but the way they were introduced was bad. It's literally you see your rival has disappeared and Team MZ meets up and talks before your phone rings and that's when you find out your rival made a deal with the local loan sharks. After that you go to the building and sort things out with Corbeau and then return to the hotel. Your rival comes in and says oh sorry for being late this is what happened. Then they tell you that they helped a rust grunt and the rust grunt asked if they can repay them your rival says they want to make an ad and need money. So the rust grunt sets them up with a contract. Now mind you the Rust Syndicate is apparently notorious for bad business as mentioned by Lida. SO WHY DID YOU'RE RIVAL MAKE A DEAL WITH THEM?! IS THERE NO OTHER BANKS IN LUMIOSE CITY?!

Also the whole rogue mega evolution thing is boring. It just there it doesn't feel threatening and if I'm correct the whole rogue mega thing happens because of some stuff that happens a long time ago which is boring because there is zero foreshadowing and nothing really feels or looks suspicious which is bad because you want your viewers to be making theory's on where the story will go next.

Also I don't Like Canari, in fact I hate Canar. When you pay attention to her dialog she's a self centered brat. She literally gets her grandpa to do hologram meetups for her because she can't be bothered to walk away from streaming and playing games. When you get matched to her in the Battle ZA you have to do an entire questionnaire and beat it so you can ask her to battle you. Then you have to hunt her down because she refuses to touch grass. In fact I think she has forgotten what grass looks like. Once you find her you have to battle her grandpa first and when you finally get to her she whines about having to fight you before actually having to fight you. When you defeat her she says a bunch of angry symbols because she's mad she lost and in her own words says she usually doesn't mind losing because her fans keep cheering her on. Welcome to the real world sweetie. When you get back to the hotel the dialogue options are basically "oh she was nice outside of the camera." NO SHE'S NOT?! YES SHE DID HAVE THE REALIZATION THAT SHE NEEDED TO WORK HARDER PUT IT WAS MORE OF A "Oh I should get better at battling!" I can't tell if she's supposed to be mocking streamers or not because this entire game has held your hand, telling you stuff upfront and (correct me if I'm wrong) Scarlett and Violet had Iono who loved her fans and from what I've seen in the Pokémon Master Ex she cares and does her best to make sure they are having fun and enjoying her streams! I don't think Gamefreak has the brainpower to think to themselves "let's make a character that's poking fun at streamers!"

That's some of my tangent stuff but there is a lot more crap wrong with this game. Pokemon is literally one of the largest franchises and there pushing out mediocre games. But to make sure nobody gets ahead of them so they can keep being lazy they sue anyone that they deem to make any form of competition.