>>48897970>and it felt like it had a lot of content to justify it as a 3DS Pokemon gameFuck no. XY and ORAS were panned as not having enough content by any means, how is USUM, a game with even less, supposed to justify itself?
>even though the cutscenes drag down the game.The cutscene meme is a misconception brought about by people who didn't bother slogging through Gen 7 or 8. The issue isn't cutscenes, it's that there is no gameplay in-between them so it gets to the point where you're just arbitrarily walking to the next marker in pic related because god forbid you try to go off the beaten path lest you be stopped by some rando on their Stoutland-- this is only compounded by the fact that Alola's map design is abysmal and lacks any real dungeons with the only thing even remotely resembling one being Vast Poni Canyon and USUM Victory Road, but even that is a stretch.
Gen 7 are the games that are good as an idea but actually playing them shows just how shallow they are, they're only conceptually good and that's something it shares with Gen 8 except the ideas for Gen 7 were SO good that they pretty much give it its whole identity to the point where the only ones who bother defending them are conflating their opinion with pre-release SM or have never played Gens 1-6 to actually see what Pokemon is supposed to play like.
On all accounts, Gen 7 was a massive downgrade technically from Gen 6 and that is fucking sad because Gen 6 has always been bottom of the barrel.
