>>56055159If by "soulful" you mean lazy and degraded, sure. ORAS took the most soul-exuding region in the series and dragged it through the mud for the sake of zoomers.
They turned Mauville into an ugly, urbanized hub, completely spitting in the face of its preestablished lore. In RSE, the New Mauville is an area Wattson and his crew constructed in hopes of modernizing Mauville as a whole. However, the project was abandoned and everyone decided to embrace the rural nature of the area. This plays into Hoenn's "natural > artificial" design aspect. ORAS goes against this design philosophy and they ruin the optimal egg-hatching route in the process, which is a perfect encapsulation of how Game Freak's attempts at being modern and refreshing actually end up doing more harm than good.
This is pretty much ORAS's design philosophy: ruin as many soulful aspects of the original games as possible so that zoomers will play it over their shitty phone games." Feebas's encounter method, water routes, the Battle Frontier and general difficulty have all been altered for the sake of zoomers' fried dopamine receptors. They also added shitty features from XY like automatic experience gain and unnecessary, hand-holdy cutscenes so that zoomers won't struggle too hard and put the game down.
All in all, ORAS are utterly soulless games that turned the best region in the series into a complete mockery. BDSP are LIGHTYEARS better than them in terms of damage they've caused.
