>>43585320>Gen 5 was the last great Pokemon game, It's the most mediocre Pokemon game.
>but its relative lack of financial success is what started the dark ages by telling Gamefreak that taking risks and putting in effort doesn't pay off.What risks and effort? Zero changes to the battle system, aggressively terrible spritework in a DS game that launched after the 3DS, and overall a title that's mechanically identical to gen 4 with less content. The only "risk" they took was trying to quantity-over-quality the Pokedex.
