[Spearichu]

WARNING!!!! LONG ASS RAMBLING POST INCOMING!!!!!

Ok I was going to wait to see if anyone had good things to say pn here about the Isle of Armor. But it has been a few weeks since I asked with no one responding that post seems to have played it so let me see if I can do my own little makeshift review of it.

Now ignoring the Dexit thing because I find it really dumb that it shouldn't matter as much as long as the game is good.

Lets start with some pros and cons of this dlc.

Pros:
- There are mushrooms on the Isle that will help make your pokemon get it's gigantomax form

- The place does look nice to explore

- Gen 5 pokemon available which is my favorite gen so yay

- uhhh got to swim beside a Wailord in it's natural size which was a nice sight

- uhhh what else what else . . . uhhhh there are a couple new curry items

- oh you can now make your bike white or black with a sparkle trail

-They brought Apricorns back

Cons:
- The gigantomax mushrooms should of already been in the game where I shouldn't have to pay more money for something that should of been obvious

- By the time you get to the Isle your team is already strong enough where this becomes too easy

- Probably because the Isle of Armor is so easy to complete that they put in a lot of grinding segments and tedious side quests

- You have to train Cubfu from like level 5 to 70 which felt so tedious for me at this point that I just did something I usually am very against doing which is using the Exp Boost item that I apparently had a crap ton of to jump Cubfu from mid 40's to level 70.

-Hey did you like the Zygarde quest from Sun and Moon where you had to find all 100 cells? I hope so because they got something similar but a whole lot more annoying. You have to help a guy find 151 Alolan Digletts all over the Isle of Armor. You will only notice them if you can somehow see their yellow strands of hair sticking out of the ground. If you try to complete this try not to do it at night unless you are searching the tiny, tiny desert section where it might help you a little bit.
When you reach certain amounts you are awarded Alolan Variants of pokemon where at 100 you get a Popplio (at least I did, not sure if others might get a different starter). Not sure as to what you get when you find all 151 Digletts as I don't seem to hate myself enough to waste a day off from work on that tedious crap.

-The wife of the Dojo Master wants to upgrade the place with stuff like a PC, hair stylist, vending machines, and a stuffed fridge. To do this she will need a crap load of Wattz. Hope you been saving up your wattz because I had over 500,000 wattz before starting this one and now I have none with a few hundred thousand wattz to go to finish this one. The end result better be worth it.

-To get the gigantomax forms you need three of the mushrooms I stated earlier. Well to get one to appear randomly on the Isle you have to do raid battles which I like the idea of this for it gives me a reason to do raid battles ( I find raid battles to be boring). Problem is there is no guarantee that one mushroom will appear on the Isle after one raid battle. So you might have to do a few raid battles for one to appear but only like one or two raid battles seem to show up on the isle at a time so it will take a lot longer just to manage to get three mushroorms for one pokemon.
Now this wouldn't be so much of a problem if I could get more wishing pieces but I have to save up what ever little bit of wattz I can gather for the wife's quest. So make sure you have a crap ton of wishing pieces,

-I must of misunderstood in the teaser for this but I thought we would get a lot more customization options for our avatars but so far I have not found much of anything. But I have not fully beaten the Isle as I am trying to gather the shrooms for cubfu's evo to have his gigantomax form before I fight the Dojo Master one last time. So maybe they will appear after that which I am hoping.

-HOW IS IT SO FUCKING HARD TO DO THE APRICORN POKEBALLS RIGHT?! They have a machine that you stick four items in and recieve a random item. Now there apparently "recipes" for some items but even then it seems the results might still be random. So I thought oh cool I will just shove four of the same color apricorn to get it's pokeball, sounds simple right? BUT NOPE! I got a normal pokeball from this. So I repeated this a few more times even with different combinations of apricorns. Still random pokeball. So I looked up what apparently is a recipe for the apricorn balls. Tried and still just a random pokeball. I think the only good pokeballs I got out of this was an Ultra ball and a Diver ball, but still no apricorn ball.

My opinion: Isle of Armor is a decent post game. Soooo why was this not the post game to begin with? This dlc is not great. Now I did have points where I did enjoy my time exploring the place and seeing my favorite pokemon roaming the wild (I think I shed a tear of joy when I saw a Larvesta, Volcarona, Scolipede, and Venipede just roaming around). But eventually I remembered I paid $30 on this two pack which then I started to get tired of this dlc.

If you could of bought Isle of Armor seperately I would say it would be worth $5 to $10 at most. Now I will admit I may have missed some things as I have not fully finished this dlc because the stuff I need to do now in it are very tedious that like I said I don't want to waste a day off of work doing. Didn't even bother looking up stuff besides the Apricorn ball recipe because I wanted to go into this blind and give it a fair chance.

Should you get the two DLCs? Personally I say wait till Crown of Tundra is released and see how it is received. Crown of Tundra better be worth at least $15 so I don't feel like I wasted my money. Now if they maybe put more time into these and gave us stuff that didn't seem like they ripped from the main game just to charge us more then I would probably be fine with paying more for this dlc.

Now let us hope Crown of Tundra makes this worth it.