I'm very excited for Z-A, I don't think I've been this hopeful and excited for a pokemon game in quite a long time. From the scraps we've been given it looks like it really will be something New! It's cool seeing Game Freak fully jump into real-time combat for pokemon; PLA had some of it as well as mechanics similar to Monster Hunter but its excited seeing it being pushed further.
I do have a few concerns though, mainly for aspects I didn't particularly like about PLA making their way into Z-A. The big one for me was how PLA really incentivizes you to always be rotating and catching new team members, making it so it's difficult to just build a good ol' 6 mon team. Catching was so seamless in PLA that it made the special, memorable push n' pull of a regular pokemon encounter completely absent. It's why I still prefer wild grass to a degree because it lends more creativity and imagination during a playthrough. Other than that though the only other things that made PLA kind of hard to play was the presentation and crafting system. Presentation as in the game's visual and the menus, which were weirdly hard to get used to and navigate within. Thankfully crafting does not seem to be in Z-A; This is entirely subjective but I am so tired of crafting in video games and I think I've had my fill for the rest of the decade 🙏.
All in all though these are mostly my own preferences, I think its cool seeing PLA get its flower because its certainly the most innovative out of the switch games. I can pick apart PLA all I want for not keeping or throwing out specific series stables but what I'm always looking for above all else is a refreshing pokemon experience.
I am worried about getting only the Switch 1 version though 😅, I am begging and pleading for it to run well.
