@BenAV Thankyou for responding, I think it's pretty rare for people to say they dislike the game and give their genuine feelings regarding that, instead of taking the route of saying something sucks because they didn't like it (an example for me could be: I loved the voice acting and visuals of XenobladeChronicles 2 but hated the gameplay, I can admit it was probably a pretty good game, but it wasn't for me) so your response was pretty interesting to me.

Pokemon for me is something that is forever changing, but always pretty similar. What I mean by that is there isn't really a unique story, you start out in the same sort of manner, and apart from the main goal of defeating the key rivals (including general rival/s, gyms, the villainous team, elite 4 etc.) to beat the game and become champion, it's really just about exploring and playing your own way.

The region for me was probably the best in a long time, (in my opinion) everything looked fantastic, especially the cities and scenery, although in places they definitely could have (and should have) expanded (the fairy area was a slight let down for me because it lacked size and variety, although I found it very visually interesting).

One of points you made (that I found particularly interesting) was the music, oddly enough I didn't really pay all that much attention to that during playthroughs (I don't think their music has ever reached the heights of their kanto/johto stuff in any other of their games though), but thinking about it now, I found it reminded me a lot of the music in Black and White.

Have to agree with you 100% on the whole dynamaxing thing. Whilst I like how it looks, I don't care for it at all. Dynamaxing is probably a step up from mega evolving, however it's not something I can really appreciate.

As you say, difficulty in pokemon isn't all that high, I set myself restrictions in each game (makes it a lot harder and, for me, a lot more fun). I understand when you talk about playing these games for most of your life, it's the same for me.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that it was the worst game you played all year, as it's so fundamentally similar to most of the other main games that I would hazard a guess that you may have outgrown the games, rather than disliking for this one as much as you do. Having said all this, the world would be an incredibly boring place if everyone liked the same things.

You might like a game called temtem, I wasn't a fan, but I know that a few people that didn't enjoy pokemon much really liked it.

Again thank you for responding, sorry if I've come off as condescending in any way (I don't believe my opinions are in any way more valid than yours), I just really found it fascinating to look at our opposing views and compare them. Take it easy