I absolutely love the region, it looks great and feels fresh. But the actual pokemon themselves are lackluster for me.
They've got some good pokemon like the starters, Rockruff and its evols, Type: Null, but that's as far as it goes for me. I just feel like lots of the pokemon are either facialess or its very hard to see their facial features, there seems to be too many pokemon like Crygonal, Sigilyph, etc. which are pokemon I don't like. All of the Island Guardians for me fit this category, as well as so many pokemon in the region. They just don't seem like creatures to me, which I understand that doesn't need to make it a pokemon, like Voltorb and Magnemite are examples when it comes to older pokemon, but there weren't many like that in their region, or throughout each region, but this time, it seems like that's all there seems to be. And like someone mentioned earlier, the grass types just feel like general lackluster pokemon from the past, plus there are too many pokemon like that in the actual region. It makes me a bit disappointed because my team is going to lack so many new pokemon which I don't like doing when I start a new game.