I haven't played enough of the new pokemon to really judge it but I will say that it is the first pokemon game in a long time where I'm enjoying the core loop
It's very obvious that they wanted to speed it the hell up; literally everything in this game feels snappier than in any other pokemon game, and it's almost like a case study of ux design
many many things that in previous pokemon games were dialog boxes you had to button through are now transient pop ups, for example
the game is also just real-time and concurrent enough to feel responsive - you can throw a pokeball at a 'mon and then while waiting for it to catch or not throw a pokeball at another 'mon!
on the visual side, I think the culture of sharing screenshots probably has exaggerated how "bad" this game looks
I'd actually describe it as "inconsistent" and "technically below par" rather than say that it "looks bad". Some areas/scenes look obviously more detailed than others.
It also suffers from pretty low-rez textures in places where it's quite noticeable and some other issues. I'm not qualified to say whether this is down to gamefreak's inexperience with this style of game or the limitations of the hardware.
But it does look pretty in moments, and there are spots where clearly a lot of polish and effort has gone into elements of it. Pokemon animations, for one thing, continue to improve.
Overall this doesn't feel like a perfectly polished game where they completely fixed all the problems with the franchise but I hope nobody was expecting that
However they definitely have put a lot of emphasis into fixing the biggest problem with it, which is to say the absolutely rancid pace of play
like seriously, play some of this then go play either SWSH or BDSP. the previous games feel like wading through treacle
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