tbh i – as someone whose played these games for more than a decade – completely agree. Pokemon games should be better than they currently are. They haven’t kept up with other games. When I was a kid playing battle revolution, I never expected that in 10 years time the main pokemon game (now to be played on a home console) would have worse animations. Had so many dreams about the ‘future’ of the games back then

You make some good points there but others I disagree

I actually know from experience that some of the trainers are definitely not just your typical laughably weak Gyms (Gordie, Nessa and Leon all were pretty tough). I feel the plot this time was supposed to be the gym battle journey it’s very odd cause most times it’s almost the opposite where we go more towards lore of Legends and evil teams but the gyms are just mandatory hurdles to go through but now they prioritized the gyms over the rest.

The rest I do agree with the graphics even compared to New Horizons are pretty bad and the flow is incredibly disjointed especially when you start the gyms much later than any other game and then if you technically discount the two times you backtrack you go gym to gym the entire game with nothing in between

Would be cool if they utilized Dragon Scale for that – Kingdra “Am I a joke to you” lol

Yes, they come out in 2 parts, Isle of Armor in June 17th and the other one later this year. Check the price for your region in the eshop.

Do they come out at different times tho? How much

There is only one expansion pass to buy.