>>50067662>Why was Unova such a drop in quality compared to past regions?>They stopped designing Pokemon how they used to, leading to an ugly dex most people disliked>They abandoned precedents in terms of powerscaling and introduced an immense amount of powercreep that further harmed earlier mediocre to bad mons' viability and set the precedent for even more inane and unrestricted power creep to follow>The story took a good theme, exploitation and even straight up use of Pokemon being ethically questionable, and slathered it in a badly executed intrusive, nonsensical, and ultimately generic story/plot that falls on its face trying to get you to care>Dropped the ball on key music themes like wild battle, trainer battle, rival battle, and champion battle, and added the EXTREMELY OBNOXIOUS and intrusive low HP battle theme>Too little postgame (in BW)>Questionable character design that somehow felt off>Abandoning Japan for the region's setting>Theme park settings and linear region>Unsightly sprite animation with extremely boring idle poses and almost no personality---almost none have the effort Kyurem-Black does in terms of personality; also constant zooming in and on for battle animations that ate up time>Awful rollout of Hidden Abilities, introducing nigh broken ones that further disturbed game balance, while making them annoying to get and not even properly releasing all of them in the gen>Crappy lore, none of the legendaries are interesting or compelling, at least compared to the preceding gensTo a large portion of the fanbase, Gen V was a disaster on multiple fronts. BW2 can be commended for adding PWT, very effortful graphical presentation in the overworld, and maybe some other points, it's still plagued by the issues with / flaws in BW.
