The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Chakramaster]

I honestly did not like the trials at all. Nothing close to what gyms were. Gyms will ALWAYS be superior imo. The trials did not even come close. I'm not a big fan Ultra Beasts. A lot of people don't like them, but to each their own. It's like favorites. My is Pikachu while many hate it. The choice of customization this time was far lacking in comparison to X and Y. Not being able to find mega stones outside of competitions and event codes is the worst idea possible. Don't even get me started on the Plaza.

Yeah the game is slowly staying to pick up in both story and soundtrack, but it's still nothing close to what PMD is.

[Noblejanobii]

I honestly did not like the trials at all. Nothing close to what gyms were. Gyms will ALWAYS be superior imo. The trials did not even come close. I'm not a big fan Ultra Beasts. A lot of people don't like them, but to each their own. It's like favorites. My is Pikachu while many hate it. The choice of customization this time was far lacking in comparison to X and Y. Not being able to find mega stones outside of competitions and event codes is the worst idea possible. Don't even get me started on the Plaza.

Yeah the game is slowly staying to pick up in both story and soundtrack, but it's still nothing close to what PMD is.

Gyms are so boring though! Battle a bunch of trainers, get a badge, battle a bunch of trainers, get a badge. There's almost no creativity to it whatsoever. At least with Sinnoh they had puzzles that weren't stupidly easy to solve. The trials were fun and some even had you use new mechanics that were implemented into the game like the Ride Pokemon or the Rotom Pokedex's camera. And the Totem Pokemon battles were legitimate challenges. With the gyms, I didn't have to be overleveled at all and I could wipe the floor with them just by having a pokemon with a super effective move. Totem pokemon? Nah, they got allies that'll inflict stats, heal the totem, and change the weather. When they announced the trial system I was so happy because gyms just aren't any fun anymore. They're boring. Plain and simple.

I mean, I'll admit, wasn't a huge fan of the UBs either, but like all pokemon, they've grown on me. Are they my favorites? Nah, but you can't say GF has run out of ideas for designs when we've got everything from a jellyfish to a christmas tree to whatever the heck Guzzlord is. It all just seems to fit in the big wacky world of Pokemon if you ask me.

Yeah the customization sucked in this game. On top of the prices being RIDICULOUSLY expensive, I couldn't find a decent looking outfit that I could afford until I was about to challenge Akala Island's Kahuna, which is stupid. And I'm not gonna disagree on the Plaza, that's just a mess.

You can't complain about the mega stones. You were literally just complaining about how SM didn't encourage interconnectivity, and this is how they're doing it. They're incentivizing it through battle competitions. Plus you can get all the stones later on even if you don't participate so I don't understand what the problem is. While it made sense in XY, why on earth would there be a bunch of really powerful stones just lying around in the region where they didn't originate? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially since they already have Z-crystals and no Alolan pokemon can mega evolve. It makes more sense to me that these powerful stones would only be available for powerful trainers, so they're in the Battle Tree.

You're right, it's not there yet, but it's definitely getting there. I mean the Aether Grunt battle theme is so cool.