For me its like this.
+ The animations are simply sublime, awesome
+ Pass variety is also much bigger than in 2017
+ Slower gameplay
+ I thought GK´s were awesome in 2017, but they are even better now
- menus - ingame pause, when choosing team and strategy - the same as in 2017, it looks horrible and its not so hard to hire an graphic to do it better in term of hours
- replays should be like in fifa, where you choose the action you want, in PES, you have to skip, skip, skip, skip, skip and skip to finally see the goal from 80. minute
- player collision seems undone, players running through each other, not being able to do something when running body vs body with the attacker, never seen that in 2017
- defense seems underpowered, especially against the best players, if you run, run, run and run (and from time to time do a trick) with one of those, the defense seems helpless and simply let you pass and creat a shooting chance, too FIFAish, my biggest concern
I would take this as an example (but there are tons of goals like this)
https://twitter.com/KurosakiCarlos2/status/888063187299569664 5 or 6 defenders did absolutely nothing to try stop him, neither at least an attempt to block the shot. Come on, this is FIFA 17, dont make PES a game like this...
All in all, it looks like a better 2017, but since Im online only player, Im very, very afraid that it will be all about taking the best player and try to go past as many defenders as you can...