(Spoilers for the ending and various post-game stuff! Obviously!)

I can finally remove "pokemonlegendsza" from my blocked tags! Yippee! I actually finished it a few days ago, but still! I think I finished it, at least?

Anyways, I completed the main story (i think) and caught Zygarde with my team consisting of:

• Todo the Feraligatr, my starter
• Misty the Delphox
• Knight Slash the Aegislash
• Kookie the Alpha Krookodile
• Madam the Chestnaught
• And Princess the Gardevoir, who was a pre-order gift Ralts :D

I love this game! I'm really glad Zygarde got its time to shine even though I wish there were a little more scenes with it ^^

I WASN'T EXPECTING AZ TO FUCKING DIE AND ZYGARDE TO GET A MASSIVE CANNON IN ITS MEGA EVOLUTION THOUGH WHAAAT?????? I ALSO WASN'T EXPECTING ZYGARDE TO GET A MEGA EVOLUTION IN THE FIRST PLACE

Ahem yeah THAT PART OF THE GAME WAS CRAZZYY

I also caught some Shiny Pokémon! One was a Mareep (that's now an Ampharos named Shiny) you can get in a side mission, but I also caught a Shiny Kadabra as I was running away from a bunch of other Pokémon lol! I named her ★Star☆

After completing the main story and unlocking the 20th Wild Zone, I was walking around to train up a low-level Pokémon in my party for it to evolve, only to encounter a Shiny Hippowdon, too! I named her Green 'cause I didn't have a better idea lol

Before catching Green however, I actually failed to catch a Shiny Fletchling just a day or two ago :,) Since I was running around in the city, it must've flown away and disappeared before I could save my game and try to catch it OOF

Buuuuuut, just a few days after catching Green, I actually managed to find another Shiny Fletchling in the city and could luckily catch it and name it Firecracker this time ^^ I don't like how city Pokémon that can easily run away aren't Shiny-locked, but still ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I also found a Shiny Aggron in the 20th Wild Zone as I was leveling up Firecracker! I named him Diamond
Later that day, I found a Shiny Houndour as I was exploring Lysandre Labs for a Beldum :D Haven't given her a name yet tho

I also caught Diancie but it was kind of underwhelming unfortunately :/ Since Diancie is a Mythical gemstone Pokémon, I was expecting to be exploring a massive, deep cave possibly outside of Lumiose filled with gemstones and Carbink and such, similarly to Area Zero in Pokémon Violet. Instead, it was just a battle on the roof of a building with a bunch of Mega Crystals so that's ;-; Hopefully Hoopa gets better treatment in the DLC tho lol

Another thing I don't like about this game is the large focus on Pokémon battles, TBH. Don't get me wrong, I completely get why Pokémon battles are popular and I also like battling Pokémon, but I kind of wish it wasn't such a big focus as it is

I honestly love Jacinthe's design so much, but MAAN did I not like her (and still don't lol) (┬┬﹏┬┬) She was so obsessed with me coming to her tournament and stuff that not only did she show up to a Team MZ group meeting completely uninvited just to push it further, but she even made it impossible for me and the rest of Team MZ to even LEAVE an area just so we could battle Lebanne like??? Ma'am we're like 15 leave us alone 😭😭 I already didn't like Nemona at all in Violet due to her loving battles so much, so this was awful lmao

Another thing is the Infinite Z-A Royale T_T I get why it exists since we can't just throw an entire mechanic away all of a sudden lol but why do I need 50,000 points in order to get a Challenger's Ticket to enter it every single time?!?! Battling trainers over and over again starts to get incredibly boring after a while so I just stopped doing the infinite stuff at like 6 wins 'cause like 😭

There also seems to be a lot of side missions involving battling too, whether it be battling while only using one Pokémon, battling using only a specific type, etc. Another thing I don't want to do because I don't care for battling this muuuuuucccchhhh T^T

Also, not battle specific, but I really dislike how trade evolutions are in this game despite being completely absent in Legends: Arceus. I really wanted to have a Slurpuff but got confused when I couldn't evolve Swirlix normally, so I looked it up and was so disappointed the Linking Cord wasn't even here like .·´¯(>▂<)´¯·. Mannn I don't have anyone to trade with and Pokémon Home support for Legends: Z-A isn't here yet

Like I said before, I still love this game, but I just wish certain things were better lol. I actually haven't completed the Pokédex or tried seeing what happens when I try to leave Lumiose yet, so maybe those'll be interesting ¯_(ツ)_/¯

oh yeah and also there's an NPC in this game that says "yeet" so 0/10 game actually /J