>Political CorrectnessWhere now?
I do appreciate how BRISK the Game Boy games are (RSE too most of the time). You could just power through good chunks of them in a couple of hours. HGSS getting ranked so high in part for having most of the important modern mechanics with only a little of the modern bloat makes sense. Their openendedness is overstated, but also a legitimate perk; it lets you control your Pokemon exposure, and the Olivine/Cianwood and Mahogany split was great because by the time you finished one or hit a roadblock in the other you'd have been ready for a change of pace anyway. Hoenn's not doing that left a number of good Pokemon late-game, even if a number of those Pokemon would have been worth making time for.
The series should have settled somewhere between DPP and ORAS as far story/gameplay ratio goes- doomed to never be as concise as the Game Boy games but at least you're playing most of the time. I would swear Sinnoh's slower performance is a bigger detriment to time than a bit more dialogue.
>"I'm the most powerful trainer in the world!"I didn't get that as a kid because I didn't grasp the intended magnitude of this brat being the best of the best. Now I like it. Then there's "Now is not the time to use that!" and every other Team Rocket grunt.
>>36360465To be fair the series is only just starting to figure out how to make characters that don't follow you the whole game come off as "Hello, I am accomplished person with an emphasized trait. Have at you!" A lot of it is we fans filling in the blanks.
