>>39229868I remember people saying that Pokemon was just gonna get worse and that we'd look back on X and Y positively.
I didn't believe them.
And yet, here we are.
PSS was good, the animations weren't recycled from an older game, Gen 6 had a great selection, Megas were interesting when applied to weak pokemon and made battles with the few that had them in-game more interesting, and Friend Safari was honestly a really really cool post-game reward/activity.
It's... shocking how good it looks in retrospect because the game is awful but things like Friend Safari and PSS feel god-like in comparison to the slop we got in Gen 8 and will inevitably get in Gen 9.
God, I just want these games to be good.