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Gen VI and VII have been doing a lot of frustrating Kanto pandering, especially off of Gen IV and V which were pretty original or at least tried to make an image for themselves
SM have the excuse of being the anniversary games, but they have a lot more Kanto pandering than XY did. Despite that, XY's pandering made even less sense as a result
>Most of the Megas were from Gen I
>You can have Megas of the Gen I starters
>Trash like Caterpie, Pikachu and Pidgey to litter the early game routes despite Game Freak designing new Pokemon based on these purposes
>Oh look, another Snorlax sleeping in front of the road
>Literally copy+pasting Viridian Forest's map
And so on. I think that's the issue with XY because it really doesn't have an identity of itself. A lot of the things that it does are cool are overlooked or have been done better in previous games
Also Alolan forms were a waste of time. If they were gonna be given to only like 18 shitmons, why implement it at all?
