Kallie called everyone criticizing the decisions of game freak children, telling us to grow up on twitter, before this review even came out. I was sincerely hoping she wouldn't be the one reviewing this game, but GameSpot really screwed up here. She's in no way impartial, and there's so much bias here. Not only that, but she blatantly disrespected, in the most condescending of ways, a ton of your viewership. Now to the review, are you really going to tell us the only con are the designs of the starters? As someone who has played every gen. of Pokemon, I have a few cons to point out.

-The animations are absolutely juvenile. We still have characters and pokemon in cut-scenes doing 360 turns because they can't walk directionally. Building upon that, pokemon in battle still don't have detailed animations for attacks. We're currently in late 2019, but this game still latches on to 3ds tech limits. Which brings me to the next point.

-Game Freak blatantly lied about the reason why they cut pokemon - they were going to make new models. THEY DIDN'T MAKE NEW MODELS. The game has been datamined and they imported all of their models directly from the 3ds generation, not one model is new. There's no disputing this. GF lied straight to our damned faces about why they cut pokemon, but why?

I feel like these are two rather large cons, bigger than "bad designs of starters," that should probably be included by any reviewer worth their salt. But remember, most game journalists aren't hired on merits or education, and they're certainly not all critical thinkers. Don't blindly accept what people like Kallie have to say.