Overall, not bad. I liked that we had three different parts of the story, not being extremely connected. So, while in most games, your usual journey gets interrupted by something, this time it felt like you could do them as "secondary quests". That said, I think the Victory Road path was nothing crazy, the usual path. The Starfall street was pretty meh. In general, I was not a fan of the whole "school setting" of the game. Good looking characters, but that was it. The battle mechanic was ok, but too easy and too mindless. I don't really like that particular feature, but I am fine with it being integrated in the games. I know that for some contexts is pretty useful.
The path of Legends was the most interesting, despite being repetitive. I will say though that see Arven's pokemon get better was extremely satisfying. The after Pokemon League part was of course the best one. I truly enjoyed that moment. The Area 0 part is truly amazing. The music, the scenery, the characters helping you, the exploration, the final bosses. I enjoyed that part of the story quite a lot.
DLCs
The 1st DLC had a nice story, despite having heard the lonely guy living on a hill because it's different tale many other times. It might not be exactly the same thing, but quite enough. I personally don't go crazy about Ogerpon's design, but i like the mask mechanic. I don't like the three pokemon. Overall, the story was ok, exploration wise it was meh, but the lake was cool. The good stuff was, like for SV in general, the characters. I enjoyed Carmine and Kieran. But, in all honesty, Kieran deserved Ogerpon. I totally get him getting angry at us and I wish that after catching it, we could make the choice of gifting it to Kieran. That's because it really gives a weird twist (in the meaning that it doesn't make much sense to me) to the story that Ogerpon trusts us more than Kieran.
The Indigo Disc was quite interesting, but overall, meh. This DLC was mainly focused on battles and I liked that. I made my own team with the pokemon I could find in the terrarium. It was a weird team and I had a lot of difficulty with the second Elite 4. Because of being a lot busy irl, I had to speed up the process and ended up using some of the other pokemon I had caught. I ended up playing "easy mode" and indeed it became pretty easy. But I loved the added layer of difficulty. I wish to have a DLC like that for each new game. I also love the Double battles format.
Exploration wise, it was meh. I was expecting more. It's fun at first because different areas and pretty vast space, but it soon becomes annoying and relatively repetitive. I feel like this part was made just for a short exploration, while the main attraction would have been the battling part. It kinda makes sense, in this way.
Story wise, I liked an angry Kieran that wants to battle us at all costs and is of course envious and angry for Ogerpon's choice. This makes sense. I am as disappointed as him lol. It's all good until we defeat him. Instead, I didn't like the after the Indigo Disc Pokémon League part. I liked that Kieran wanted to join just to catch Terapagos to defeat us again, and that the teacher doesn't care at all about that because all that she wants to know is the truth of Callugaris' words.
I didn't like the Terapagos part. Cool that Kieran caught it, but hey look something is wrong, we gotta be the heroes of the situation again. And so we end up catching Terapagos. I am honestly not a fan of the main character is the hero narrative, but that's what pokemon has given us for years. In this case though, it felt excessive because while in some other games, it's just once that we solve the issues, in this game it happens many more times, so it really feels forced. Also poor Kieran just loosing all over just because the main character has the "plot armor" lol. So, I don't like how the Terapagos part was developed, not even the exploration part. Indeed for a new area zero part I was expecting a lot more, especially, I was looking for something good enough to be explored again, while it just feels good only for once, for the story.
I think that Carmine is ok in the second DLC while she was extremely hilarious in the 1st DLC.