>>58589761I feel like the games we poured the most time into were the ones where we just had the most downtime to pour into. Pokemon games, good or bad, are fun to just fuck around and do stupid shit in. Breeding especially inflates the time spent in-game. Sometimes we just leave the game on for extended periods of time actually doing nothing
Rushing front-to-back doesn't really do the experience justice. It becomes extremely noticeable when a game that clearly is meant to feel like a fuller experience is missing key moments. Honestly even if SM was heavily cut down from what it was supposed to be, it doesn't really feel like it's missing key moments. The franchise could benefit more from experimenting like that instead of doing exhausted Gym shit at this point. Legends is a good approximation of this idea, but Z-A had to fuck it up by skimming on the dex and maps anyway
