>>716158947
been playing pokemon shining pearl and it's a sickeningly bad game. legit 0/10. it gives me the feeling i imagine you would get from playing a predatory mobile game teasing you that something good is just around the corner but it never comes. people joke about how common bidoof is but every trainer in this game keeps throwing geodudes and zubats and magikarps at you. every area teases you with hm blocked side areas that give the impression of this huge world to explore and then you go back to find brief side paths with max revives and rare candies. the game is so fucking slow, the battles are treated with this immense fanfare (it's 10 seconds into a battle before you can even press a button, longer for trainers) but the fights are almost always completely insubstantial. i don't even know how to begin talking about affinity.