i would consider a 5 to be generous
I would be considering a 5 to be generous if the game was half its fucking price, the dlc was free and this was not a fucking pokemon game but an indie of some sort.
Finally the general public has awakened from the pikanosis.
This amount of hatred towards Game Freak should have happened a LOOOONG time ago.
It happens that 2025 has been one of the best years for videogame releases, so people had multiple examples of games that, in comparison, makes pokeslop look like the liquid diarrhea it is even worse.
With Deltarune and Silksong, we got 2 times Steam crashed this year for indie releases that were long awaited and, in my opinion at least, came to meet up on their impossible expectations.
Then we got Expedition 33, a game that too took time to develop but rapidly came to be as the sole positive contribution fr***hs had to humanity has a species, and not only its most likely gonna win GOTY, it's also half the price of pokeslop itself (50$ vs 70$ + 30$ DLC).
I knew it was a lost cause when i saw people defend Scarlet and Violet, games that run at 20fps, look like dogshit and are glitchier than vanilla Cyberpunk. Pokèmon fans are battered housewifes and deserve to be assfucked by Game Freak.
Mainstream hatred toward pokeslop games predates ZA thanks to Scarlet and Violet, and same goes with comparing the newest game to the latest Digimon release too.
The difference there being that this time there were far more warning, both because of prices and also the showcases.
The absolute state of the cards right now.
I don't know what's more pathetic between scalpers, who are literal parasites, and adult pokmemon card collectors that loves to open packs on livestream and have the most idiotic reaction whenever they pull the shiny card for them to resell.
I guess Maxmoefoe had a good idea when he decided to stop doing that shit...