Quoted By:
Gen VI had some really solid Pokemon, probably one of the most solid batches of Pokemon so far but everything else about that gen is absolute garbage. XY felt like betas and even shipped with game breaking bugs that had to be patched out. Outside of the Pokemon it had the least memorable everything and I have to strain to remember anything about it. ORAS was no better, and actually made me realise that Gen III kind of sucks, and this is coming from someone who literally wouldn't shut up about how Emerald was the perfect Pokemon game for years and years. The only upside to ORAS was the Delta episode and some of the more cinematic bits, but that was about 10 minutes of fun following hours of boredom. They were wise to just drop Gen VI and move on so we don't have to fuck around in the monotonous and uninspired hellhole that is Kalos any longer.
I was actually really not feeling SM until some of the newer reveals, and I'm still a bit wary given how garbage Gen VI was.
Even though I'm sick of Gen I pandering, I've grown a renewed appreciation of Gen I as of late. All the Pokemon feel very... humble? I'm not sure how to describe it but even the more surreal ones are down to earth and everything feels very deliberate. I still consider Gen V to be one of (if not the) best, but it also just sort of copies a lot of Gen I and II's beats and that's unfortunate. I want to get the feeling of mystery I had with Gen I and II as a kid, seeing something like natu for the first time and having no idea what it was or what it did. I wish they'd mix it up even more and take some risks, but at the end of the day I'm just happy with more monsters really.
