>>40122109I also think that hating on XY here is much more of a meme than a real deal, as many of the mistakes XY made were made by previous games already.
XY tends to be lumped with ORAS which was the actual bad game of Gen 6.
I think XY suffered from having their development cycle shortened because of BW2, and it was rushed because of it.
I think they took care of a lot of these "little details" such as imprinting some personality in the Amie animations, but the pacing and difficulty were its main weak points.
I wonder what would have happened if they saved some of the development time spent on BW2 to be used on XY.