[Wait for 19 or play the game now?]

1 hour ago, Kenneth said:

Wait for ep19. Other than the new episode content and the huge postgame content, there is going to be a ton of additions, like many more trainers to fight, both for insignificant and important battles.

 

If you played older episodes like 16, you are going to get annoyed by certain gameplay alterations, like enemy trainers avoiding healing items, enemy pokemon using their weakest moves against you once your mon's health drops in orange and AI malfunctions, like constant purposeless switching at points. All those significantly drop the difficulty of the game, or alter the "experience" overall if you prefer. There are hints that AI is going to get polished even further, for ep19, for the better obviously.

 

Also, in ep19, all moves will have proper animations, many of which lack one at present. And don't forget ironing out of bugs. Certain pokemon cannot learn legit moves from move trainers, a few pokemon have issues with their movesets and stuff like that... Which although small, leave a bitter aftertaste in general. Besides, if you 've already beaten the game at least once, there 's little else to do other than battling and trading and even that gets old fast!

I've played a bit of Episode 17 and I did find the AI a bit more lackluster compared to the previous episodes, but I don't mind it much. In terms of AI updates and such for the next episode, I intend  to wait for a proper hard mode to be released since there was a hint of that being a feature in a future release post Episode 19.

I wouldn't mind at all replay reborn again just for a hard mode playthrough.

2 hours ago, Jace3 said:

And if you replay it, you could also do it as some kind of challenge, like a mono run which is really fun. I'd recommend it.

 

I think you can't do anything wrong by replaying reborn. One of the best fan made games I've ever played. 

 

Or if you want to have more fun, there is a randomizer available.

If hard mode doesn't become an official thing , I could do that since I haven't done a proper challenge in a pokemon game before!

[Wait for 19 or play the game now?]

I lost my reborn save file and I thought "maybe I should wait for the next episode", at the time it was Episode 18, and when it did come out I didn't even play it. 

  With that out of the way, I'm here to ask - Should I wait for episode 19 or play through the game as it is? or maybe I should wait for more information about the next episode? 

 (and also one other reason might be the problem with gen 8 being added or not).