>>54210831Playing Sun and Moon for the first time. I was a diehard in the 90s, because I'm an oldfag, who kept coming back. HGSS/BW2 were the pinnacle for me and I stuck around for XY because I was convinced they were still headed in the correct direction. I ignored ORAS and was kind of hyped for some of the new shit they were trying in SM, but once I played it I just had lost all motivation to complete it. Nothing about that game captured my attention. Competitive was fun, sure, but I just watched it and it was a slog to complete the game. Between all the cutscenes, the emphasis on a shitty story, the lack of genuine routes or exploration and just slowly holding back some of the old content I couldn't feel as hyped. I skipped SWSH and I'm glad I did, though I did come back for PLA and SV because I thought they could recapture the magic. They didn't. I still beat both games, eventually, but I stopped playing once I did the postgame shit. There's nothing really interesting calling me back. I just want them to either go back to making a "traditional" 2D game that's as huge and expansive as BW2/HGSS or give up on trying to make the games into story driven fetchquests. I just want my Pokemon back, man.
