>>55782854>trying to distance itself from other regions. A soft reboot if you willYou all must not remember. Back in the 2000s nobody wanted “More new Pokemon!”. Players made jokes about this back then, and the designs looking like knockoff versions of Gen 1. XY dialing back the roster and adding Megas to old Pokémon was a plus for the game and it worked. But since then, Gen 5 fans have become more vocal in the community.
>less post gamepeople expected a sequel to fill in the gaps, just like BW1, DP, or RS originally. But Pokémon Z got cancelled for 10 years, so here we are instead.