>>44224169>I don't know if it sold badlyIt didn't. It sold numbers other franchises dream of. dragon ball just celebrated reaching 11 million between 2 different games, and that's less than BW. People who said it did have a different motive.
>but it was definitely disliked. At the time of its release, I didn't know anyone who didn't talk about it the way people talk about SwSh nowBy nostalgiafags. Nostalgiafags dislike anything post Gen 2. BW is a post Gen 2 game and therefore disliked by nostalgiafags. It had a mon based on ice cream and one based on trash and nostalgiafags hate object mons so those were too on the nose for them, which is why they made more noise than other games, but they weren't hated. To push that they were hated by the fanbase is why people claim the sales were bad.
You just either interacted only with nostalgiafags or weren't in the fanbase back then, specially if you think it was nearly as criticized as SWSH. It's ok if you weren't here, but don't invent shit that didn't happen.
>But they were awful, low-effort, and often laughableOh, so you're one of said nostalgiafags.
>People also hated that the tryhard plot wouldn't leave you alone and that it was embarrassingly easyThe pokemon fanbase sistematically hates any sort of narrative more complex than the teletubbies, yeah, but it wasn't swsh levels even then.
