I'm curious - what did you like about them? I hate them with a passion so I'd like to hear a response from someone who isn't a consoomer who thinks everything Game Freak does is right.
I liked the new Pokemon, especially Obstagoon, Grimmsnarl, Spectrier, Frosmoth, and Wooloo. I really liked the characters for the most part. I loved Leon. I don't care if he's just there for fanservice, he's a Champion who actually has fun, and tries to get shit done at the exact same. Also, the fact that he gets lost in his own home town because he literally has no sense of direction is hilarious to me.
The graphics are not nearly as bad as people say they are with places like the mines, and mushroom forests actually looking very beautiful, and being some of best looking areas in the entire franchise. The game does have a lagging issue, and some of animations are kind of jank, but for most part, these are the best looking mainline Pokemon games we've had so far imo.
I liked the camp and cooking mechanics even if I thought they could've been expanded a lot more. Watching my Pokemon scamper across the camp was really cute, and so was playing and cooking with them.
The battling was still very fun. I liked designing my team, and using new 'mons. I liked having to get creative, and shit. I didn't care for Dynamaxing, or Gigantamaxing, and lack of otherwise staple moves annoyed me, but I still had fun just going around, and battling, and catching Pokemon. I really appreciated being able to actually see the 'mons I wanted and not have go through a bunch of random encounters until I did. The battle music was also really good, especially the gym leader theme which I'd argue is one of the best tracks in the entire series.
I liked some of the gym leaders, especially Piers because not only did we finally get a Dark-type gym leader, we got one who's also a rockstar. I also really loved Raihan. I don't care if he's literally just a human Charizard, and also just there for fanservice. He's cool, and clearly has fun with what he's doing. Despite the fact that's he's the Dragon-type gym leader, he's still a really laidback who just wants to just battle, and have a good time.
And I guess when you get down to it, I have the same mindset.
Listen, I don't care if Pokemon doesn't have the best graphics, or a bad story, or if it's too easy, or whatever. I never played it for that. I played it to have fun.
Pokemon for me was always just about going around, collecting 'mons, battling, and having fun. It was never anything else, and I was fine with that. It didn't need to be for me. It if happens to have a good story, and graphics, and a balanced difficulty then great. Shit, that's why I think Gen V is still the best one to this day. But it doesn't have to have that stuff for me to enjoy it.
It just needs to be fun, and at the end of the day, even with all its flaws, SWSH were still that to me. And if that makes me a consoomer, or whatever, then fine. I really don't care. I just wanna battle, and have a good time.
