>>34253726>spoonfed a Snorlax>spoonfed a Kanto starter>spoonfed a Lapras>marketing all about how genwunner stars like Charizard and Metwo can now digivolve>less kanto pandering that reskinned pokemon well-presented and integrated into a fleshed out setting Sure thing
also
>pokemon amount = difficultyDo you think the fisherman with six magikarps is the pinnacle of difficulty? Totem Lurantis alone is harder than aything in SM, especially the joke of an Elite Four and """"champion""""". Just compare the number of people complaning about XY's diffiuclty as compared to casuals on this very board crying about Ultra Necrozma.
Alola has a lot of effort put into fleshing it out as a unique, living place, as opposed to Kalos which felt like a shitty theme park with a full dex ROMhack Pokemon distribution. Cutscenes may be annoying but even Lillie and Hau are at least actual characters and weren't written to sound like toddlers trying to suck the player's cock all the time. The fact remains that no matter how shitty you argue gen 7 to be, XY will forever be worse in anything and everything save cutscene length, which only needs a fast forward of skip button to remedy.