>>56446354It's a four-way tossup between DP, LGPE, SWSH, and SV for me.
Diamond and Pearl's Pokemon selection for the main campaign is pitifully limited. The games are very visually unappealing, none of the scenery of the game particularly stands out most of the time (Platinum definitely lifted the weight here). DP's dungeons are just very samey brown environments. And this feels like a nitpick, but man I really don't like the blue/violet/purple colors throughout Sinnoh's Pokemon and Pokedex. Usually you see complaints about the round/spikey designs but for me, it's the color palette of not just the Pokemon, but the overall games as well.
Let's Go's catching mechanics and lack of wild battles are just unfun. And when you're playing in Docked Mode, you're at the mercy of playing with the Nintendo Switch's controllers which can notoriously start drifting right out the gate, which makes catching a Pokemon the most difficult aspect of the game. This is of course more Nintendo's fault for shitty hardware, but I would also put fault on GF here for not letting you use a pro controller on docked mode, and not only that, you shouldn't be forced to play on handheld mode to get a "proper" experience out of this game. All that aside, this game is just Kanto again with a Pokemon Go casual experience which is cute I guess, kinda boring for the most part, and lacking in content which I guess was the point, those Master battles were taking the piss out of players though.
SWSH are probably the best and most polished game of this bunch, but this game's campaign is such a boring straight line full of no substance characters which the games is trying hard to make me feel connected to. This is at the point in the series where they're being also a bit more cinematic in moments but it really doesn't work when everyone is completely unvoiced. The Wild Area which this game had went so hard on pushing is stale, ugly and lifeless at times, and I'm not particularly favorable about Dynamax.
