You act like there is no gameplay outside of the turn based combat lol. You can literally walk around and let your Pokemon fight without going into a battle. And that shit was sluggish as hell at times. Also, if you move at any speed above walking speed, the game struggled to keep up with loading assets on screen and is a stuttering mess, which is kind of a big deal in a game that introduced one of the more open ways to explore the world in the Miraidon/Koraidon mounts. The feeling of all that affects the player's experience.
I have it opened up on my PC right now just so that I wasn't remembering it wrong and making it seem worse than it actually was.
There's a lot I enjoyed with the game, and I agree that it's one of the better ones with everything they introduced in this game, but to pretend that none of its performance issues matter because it's turn based is dumb.
Also, a quick side note that has nothing to do with the above: Playing SV right now to remind myself of its issues made me realize that Pokerogue has ruined me lol. Anything slower than its 5x speed seems so slow now. I wish the official games had a way to speed it up.
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