I'm aware the game is universally lambasted but I'm having so much fun with it.
I was battling some woman and a group of five smolives walked by in the background and I noticed one of them had a black olive instead of a green one. After I won against the woman I ran up to the little one with the black olive and it was indeed a shiny. I named her Madeline.
The woman in the city who rates your pokemon's size says I have the thiccest jigglypuff she's ever seen.
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Sending out my tandemaus couple for the hundredth time only to find that they've started a family
is probably the most fun surprise I've ever had playing a pokemon game.
It makes me feel like a mindless consumer to say it, but yeah I'm digging this game so far. Like really having a ton of fun.
Are complaints people are voicing about jank valid? Absolutely.
But is it a bad game? No.
Imo if you enjoy something, you enjoy it. Have fun. A lot of people are enjoying it anyway so it's not like you're the only one.