Ogerpon is easily one of my favourite new Pokémon from gen 9. Once again I much more prefer the main legendary from the first part of the DLC than the second. Terapagos is cute but not particularly exciting. I also quite like Raging Bolt and Okidogi even though I dislike the rest of the Loyal Three.

Going back to more positive things about the game I have to shout-out the story, it genuinely is very solid. The characters are quite fun, especially Arven and his dog. Terastalization is my favourite battle "gimmick" so far and tera raids are much more fun than dynamax raids from gen 8.

While I believe the game is amazing I can't say the same about this gen of Pokémon. I feel that the only good designs come in the form of new iterations of old Pokémon while all the new ones are pretty meh. I really like Clodsire, Farigiraf and most paradoxes but I wouldn't really call those "new".

The gameplay is truly fantastic however there are some minor quibbles I have with this game that mainly stem from Pokemon Company pushing to release a game every Christmas because of $. The game could definitely be polished a bit more cause Switch is definitely showing its age performance wise.

Going through challenges given by Mustard wasn't particularly hard but it was enjoyable and the reward being Kubfu was cool. Legendary hunting in Tundra was a solid idea for the story in theory however the execution was so bad I might have PTSD, especially from chasing Zapdos. Calyrex was cool tho.

This wasn't a nuzlocke playthrough but I still want to highlight some of my favourite new designs that were great additions not only to my team but also to the Pokédex in general. Rillaboom, Coalossal, Toxtricity and Grimmsnarl were very fun to play with and I'll remember them fondly.

This run had a food theme and my MVPs were Ramen the Swampert, Nigiri the Hariyama, Chicken the Swellow and Bean the Latias. Next time I replay ORAS I'm definitely going to play without mega evolutions to add some difficulty to this otherwise fairly easy challenge.