This....sounds like a missed opportunity. Random battles, choosing attacks, leveling up and connecting with your pokemon is the draw of the game. This sounds like very little of what I would want out of a Pokemon game.

I’ve played almost every big FPS out there, and I never even noticed this through beta and the last few days, and wouldn’t have if I didn't read this.

Nice try, Bastion player.

“It’s a shame people are pretty much stealing it.”

Is there a way to disable the finishers (besides avoiding them entirely)? They really seem to slow down the flow of gameplay by pulling you into a precanned animation for 2 seconds.

Would probably help if he didn’t look like a clown. It’s really that nose.

That said this is salvagable if the evolved forms look substantially better.