I can put up with the graphical issues and even most of the slowdowns.
But I can't put up with the game outright fucking crashing on me. I've has 4 crashes at this point. For a game with a good Nintendo pedigree, that's ridiculous.
And the combat is so fucking slow. Awkward pauses before unskippable animations, followed by unskippable text boxes make it a slog.
The biggest example that I remember in particular, was one of the "Titan Bosses". It's a giant crab, with the Ability called Anger Shell. Whenever it takes damage that leaves it below 50% HP, it's defenses drop while it's Speed and Attack go up.
This is fine. Until you see it in action. When it triggers, the game pauses to deliver an unskippable text box about each stat change. So you literally get:
Klawfs Attack went up!
Klawfs Special Attack went up!
Klawfs Speed went up!
Klawfs Defense fell!
Klawfs Special Defense fell!
After EVERY SINGLE ATTACK that leaves it alive but with less than 50% HP. I made the mistake of using a low-damage, multi-hit Attack. It got hit 4 times while under 50%, so it had to read off 20 unskippable stat-change messages in one single turn.
The kicker is that PLAYERS can use this pokemon and it's actually pretty useful. But currently no one is because of how ungodly slow its ability makes almost every battle.
This is fucking pathetic in a 2022 game.
As for the "Woke" stuff, they did away with Male/Female options, so you have Troon streamers able to make the weird fetish characters they've always wanted.
And a bunch of the in-game models might as well be MtF troons. They have "Females" with man-faces and biceps bigger than their heads, and they have a huge number of the men looking like effeminate soyboys.
It's not overt yet, but you can tell it's starting to take hold somewhere in Gamefreak.
