Now that Gen 8 is coming to its end, what are your genuine final opinions about:

>The Pokemon
Some standouts like Toxtricity, Drednaw, Corviknight, and Hatterne but otherwise but I could take or leave most of it. Alot of flash-in-the pan mons (pokemon that seem interesting but have no staying power in my mind)
>The characters
Though Cara Liss, and Kabu deserve more attention. Nessa's also deserves some discussion that isn't abut her skin color from seething racists. Otherwise mostly forgettable outside for Sonia (porn), Rose (idiot), Oleana (crazy), Hop (worse Hau), Leon (CHARIZARD).
>The game(s)
meh. Nothing abut Galar interests me, Wild Area seems like a Beta testing for Legends, Region tries to look nice but its mostly window dressing on a bland hallway, and animations are laughable. Also story is insultingly bad. However, QOL props it up abit. Worst pokemon game mainly because it presents itself as more than what it actually.

The dex cut is a major stain that will continue to be a stain.

worst pokemon of any game
awful but that's a given with pokemon
bottom-tier games

>The Pokemon
As a british person i'm torn, on the one hand having my entire country and nationality boiled down to "lol football", "lol stonehenge", "lol tea" and then a bunch of other random/vaguely related concepts was a little annoying, but on the other hand I love the fucked up fossils, Polteageist, Galar Weezing, Runerigus, Corviknight, Dubwool, Falinks, etc. and some of designs I disliked have even grown on me like the dogs and Calyrex.
>The Characters
Genuinely dogshit. Fuck Leon for being the most annoyingly smug and yet easiest champion ever, fuck Hop for being little moe than a slightly more useful clone of Hau (which isn't a high bar to cross), Fuck Rose for having the potential to be a goated villain but being fucked by awful plot. Only good NPC I can think of is Mustard, he was at least fun to interact with.
>The Games
As much as the dex cut still stings, I can at least say it's not the worst game i've played. Plot was bad but at the very least the battling feels smooth and the DLC redeems the lack of postgame content, even if it's stuff that should have been in the base game.

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>The Pokemon
Overall has my least favourite designs of any generation. The starters were especially awful. There were still a handful of great designs in there, though. Hatterene and G-Slowking being some of my favourites.
>The characters
Mostly fine. The gym leaders were all pretty fun, and I loved the unique dynamax animations. I seriously dislike Leon and Hop, though.
>The game(s)
Dexcut killed this generation for me. Besides that the games are very mediocre and I think the weakest in the series.

Specifically only talking about SwSh because I haven't played PLA or BDSP.

>pokemon
a nice 4/10, there are some good ones but most are unremarkable
>characters
second best of the series besides unova
>games
bad

idk never played it lol

the franchise would've been better off without it
all of them
better off without the games
better off without every single character
better off without almost every single mon (seriously only like 3 I can say I genuinely liked out of this atrocious batch)
every. single. one.

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>Pokemon
I like the dex alot more than gen 7. Glad they added less legendaries/mythicals this time around. Don't like the starters though.
>Characters
Kinda wished they went with Leon being bored out of his mind because he never loses so he acts like a passive aggressive asshole until you beat him.
>Games
Never played BDSP or PLA. SwSh were alright but I seen better. DLC does improve the games and I enjoyed competitive until Crown Tundra caused major powercreep.

>The Pokemon
This gen's batch is decent. I like most of the dex, even designs that aren't all that popular like Duraludon, Calyrex, and Coalossal, but I can't deny it also has quite a few I'd never consider using like Boltund, Stonjourner, and G-Stunfisk. It's also produced a ton of mons that slot neatly into my Top 30 in Falinks, Grimmsnarl, Perrserker, and G-Slowking, H-Typhlosion, and Basculegion. Better than Gen 5 and 6's dexes honestly.
>The characters
Honestly the characters themselves were fine, they were just trapped in a shit story. In most cases they weren't any worse than most other Pokemon games (barring Gens 5 and 7), but they also didn't really get to shine because of how rushed the narrative was Hop's a fine rival and people who claim he's a Hau clone are legitimately too stupid to understand the botched narrative of a children's game. There's a reason he tops character polls over "muh waifu Marnie and "dick rival" Bede
>the game(s)
base SwSh was bad but the DLC is peak 3D Pokemon map design, so it has that going for it at least. PLA is some of the best Pokemon in years and even more fun than a good chunk of the 2D games. Didn't play BDSP because I already didn't like DP and the game doesn't seemed to have changed a whole lot

>Pokemon
Based, only a few designs are bad and even some shit designs grow on you
>Characters
Based, it has everything going on from chocolate bunnies, to cunny, e-girl, femboy and mommy
>The games
Mixed feelings, SS, LGPE and BDSP all have some flaws but also are great Pokemon games in their own way, Snap was a great spin-off, PLA on the other hand was a terrible spin-off and I rather have more SS DLC than PLA, Unite was just hot garbage, played it day 1 then unninstalled

>Pokemon
A few I like, a few I don't like, it's pretty middle of the road. My favorite new mons are definitely the new evolutions in Legends Arceus. Also like a few of the Hisuian forms.

>Characters
I liked a lot of designs, I just wish a lot of them were fleshed out more.

>Games
Can't lie, it's been pretty rough, I though SwSh were okay, but are definitely very flawed, BDSP might be my most disliked Pokemon game right now, it got so fucked up, and Legends Arceus was the best part of gen 8 for me, it was a breath of fresh air for this series, but wish there was more to it, looking forward to see what SV carry over from it.