I'm about 5 hours in now, and I'd love to give my first impressions.

Here’s the good for me:
-The music. There’s gonna be great lofi videos using the music from this game
-The graphics are gorgeous (more on this under bad)
-I am having a lot of fun building my team, exploring the city, and discovering new things. The city is way more diverse than I was thinking. The demo made the game feel smaller and I am glad not everything is so tight.
-The shiny sound is back!!!!!! I have found 2 shinies today.
-We can go inside buildings again!! (not all of them though!)

Neutral:

-Dunno how I feel about the battle system yet. I am pretty bad at it, but I think I need more time with it. I think I'd miss turn-based if they made the change permanent.

Bad:
-The graphics ARE good BUT there are some instances where they're horrible. Some stuff you can see up close is super low resolution. A lot of things are a flat 2D texture rather than being modeled. Some parts of the city are very empty and feel lifeless. Other parts are alive.
-I wish the wild areas we're a little bit bigger.

As I mentioned, I am having a lot of fun exploring the city and chatting about the game with friends online.

My team so far is:
Chickorita
Vivilon
Litleo (shiny)
Heracross

Agree with everything you said.

I like the verticality of climbing the buildings and having environments to explore on the rooftops, but it would've been super cool if they also had a 'sewer' or underground tunnel system as well. Would have added just a little bit more to explore and had more variety for the environment.

My team atm:

• Chikorita

• Scatterbug

• Spinarak

• Binacle

• Fletchling

• Soon: Espurr (want to catch in Luxury ball)

21 hours ago, pokejungle said:

Agree with everything you said.

I like the verticality of climbing the buildings and having environments to explore on the rooftops, but it would've been super cool if they also had a 'sewer' or underground tunnel system as well. Would have added just a little bit more to explore and had more variety for the environment.

My team atm:

• Chikorita

• Scatterbug

• Spinarak

• Binacle

• Fletchling

• Soon: Espurr (want to catch in Luxury ball)

I have been in tunnels!
Not huge ones, but there's quite a few of those. :)

I’ve been playing quite a bit but have only finished the first 3rd of the story I think. It is just too much fun running around and battling!!

Some of the mechanics aren’t the smoothest but nothing has been so distracting for me that I’d count off for it. Overall I’ve really been enjoying my time and cannot wait to unlock more Megas!!

My team is still a work in progress but I do have some mainstays: Emboar, Ampharos, Simisage, and surprise to me: Clefable!! I also have an Alpha Sharpedo and Aurorus, I really like them but don’t know if they will stay long term on the team.

3 hours ago, ConglomeNERD said:

I’ve been playing quite a bit but have only finished the first 3rd of the story I think. It is just too much fun running around and battling!!

Some of the mechanics aren’t the smoothest but nothing has been so distracting for me that I’d count off for it. Overall I’ve really been enjoying my time and cannot wait to unlock more Megas!!

My team is still a work in progress but I do have some mainstays: Emboar, Ampharos, Simisage, and surprise to me: Clefable!! I also have an Alpha Sharpedo and Aurorus, I really like them but don’t know if they will stay long term on the team.

That's where I get hung up -- I get so distracted just running around lol. I have a hard time focusing on the main story

15 hours ago, pokejungle said:

That's where I get hung up -- I get so distracted just running around lol. I have a hard time focusing on the main story

For real, it is so easy to do! I’ve begun to focus more on the story now that I’ve discovered certain Megas I want aren’t accessible until later in the storyline 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ darn my favorites!!