Well......my thoughts......
honestly, I’m so so disappointed and deflated by these games. The Sinnoh region holds a very special place in my heart, it is my favourite region with my favourite characters and favourite set of starter pokemon and probably my favourite Pokémon available.
FRLG, HGSS, ORAS, we’re all brilliant tributes to their the original games, they helped redefine their regions and brought them to life in the current graphics of their time, and then what made them better, HGSS allowed you to tackle the region again but made it possible to bring newer pokemon to the region and try the game out with them, being able to rediscover the region in a whole new way.
So I was waiting for these games for many years, I remember being in my teens, when HGSS were released and thinking of the future and how Sinnoh could be reimagined all those years later. And here we are.....and yet they look exactly the same, just slightly upgraded to 3D. All that potential I imagined, gone....it’s proper disheartening.
To make it worse, we had the have a sacrifice of Pokemon in SWSH, my favourites were cut, my play style has always been that I take a Minun and Turtwig with me and have them part of my team each time I do a new region. Whilst the rest of my team is filled up with new pokemon and a few new reserves too.....so I was absolutely gutted when the Dex cut was announced, and found out the majority of my favourite Pokémon were cut, in fact none of my top 10 made it into the game originally. And so, the DLC gave me hope, they started bringing back pokemon and whilst only Garchomp and Swampert made it back in out of my favourites, the clues pointing to a DP remake gave me hope that my favourites would be returned and a patch would be made to make them transferable to SWSH and I could play them with my chosen play style, in the region that is based on the country I live in......
But alas, that looks like the chances of that happening are slim as these games are too different to SWSH that I doubt connectivity is going to happen.
And I am not very hopeful that with these 2 new types of games releasing that they will then still be patching what will be a 3 year old game by the time these release.