>>55929913It felt like the culmination of a video game series that grew up with its audience. It was known as the "plot gen" back when it first came out. Not to say that other gens had bad plots or that gen 5 had one worthy of an Oscar, just that GF never topped themselves thematically after gen 5.
And in all likelihood, they never will. With Pokemon, being a G rated dogfighting game, there's only so much you can do with it.