IDK!! i know some of it is just varying cultural norms about what degree of independence is appropriate for kids, but in light of za actually giving some gravitas to xy's story, it just makes diantha come across poorly to me? she and sycamore seemed to be in denial about lysandre's......everything

cute, but it just made me really sad to see team mz being the first people to pay attention to her wants and interests, instead of just treating her like a trinket that could be put up on a shelf whenever she wasn't convenient

...........is it too much of a reach to say ansha reads like a neglected kid who tries to act older than her age in order to get the affection of an idealized version of her mother? her whole motivation was supposed to be

the dlc story was just the right kind of absurd and heartfelt, though.

balancing getting good berries to make good donuts to go into good wild zones (especially the 5* ones) just feels like a constant rat race, alas

being able to control sandwiches on such a granular level (insane sequence of words out of context) was pretty broken, but i feel like donuts go so far in the opposite direction that they might as well not have side effects beyond your time limit in hyperspace

i think the donuts/hyperspace spawn mechanics are the first miss from za for me. having the pokemon available and your means of manipulating encounters/valuable items be random just makes things grindy instead of exciting.

idk dude i just think it's fun to think about all these characters' dynamics with each other, their teams, and the larger world? i like having pkmn ocs who range from total non-trainers to team-of-six professionals and everything in between

there's plot-relevant stuff happening from the 1950s up to the late 2030s/early 2040s at this point, chiefly because i have a disease called "flesh out the life's story of anyone who has ever interacted with a single member of this family"