A company / franchise that is worth more than almost any other franchise and this is the garbage they feed us? Don't get me wrong, the game is passable and functional but the graphics are subpar, the animations are subpar, the story is subpar...
The fading animation of the camera clipping through objects looks like it was ripped from a ps1 game, the trees look like they were ripped from an n64 game, the animations don't fit the pokemon half of the time. I just completed the game and during the last battle where you catch the legendary, there is no hype music or environmental sound effects (which there should at least be those... you are on top of a building). All Gamefreak gives you is quiet, echoing footsteps as you walk around. After this, you find your rival befriended the other legendary who randomly wants to be his pokemon (and give up it's hundreds of years of independence... but whatever), Hop walks 2 steps away from it, then throws a pokeball (that you can see his hands are empty) full force. Nothing says friendship like a 100% effort throw from 2 feet away.
I enjoyed it, it brought back some nostalgia, but this is more of a 40 dollar game than a mainline, premier, 60 dollar game.