I was extremely hyped for the game, and I was looking forward to playing it. But it just did not meet the expectations, at the very least for me.

• The biggest flaw, in my opinion, is the content of the game. You are not really doing anything besides catching Pokémon and battling some of them. It gets old really quick. There is no battle gimmick to keep the player interested in the long run, either. You may consider the agile style and strong style as a gimmick, but it is very weak and stale if it is one.
• The characters are just not original. 90% of the people are just ancestors of already existing and established characters.
• The world is arguably big, but very empty. It makes sense in a way when you think that the world is wild and people are populated only in specific areas. But then again, the town that you go occasionally even has people only standing there, doing nothing. Just idling around. That's creepy and cheap at the same time. You feel like only you are running through a simulation of a world and being tested for every movement you are making.
• Open world where exactly? I am only allowed to go wherever map allows me upon unlocking specific areas.
• Exploration is excessively weak. The areas have certain places to walk through and go see. It gets even more boring once you walk through somewhere twice or thrice, and keep seeing the same Pokémon respawning each time. The areas where it does not allow you to walk through the stream, step on the grasses or basic movements just make it seem much weaker of a game.

Obviously there are things I do love about this game. The Pokémon models have been fixed on most cases, the battle animations are extremely good, Hisuian forms are an excellent involvement. However the gameplay feels like something is lacking a lot, and you desperately need something more. Although I love the team I built in that game, the story advances so boring that I have yet to finish my first playthrough.