>>34412219Don't pretend GF isn't one of the most laziest, incompetent developers in the industry, especially for one of the biggest gaming franchises.
Persona and the 3DS SMT titles manage to have solid main game content complete with actual level design, good gameplay and story balance, as well as a shit ton of side content they don't need to include and lots of replayability.
Gen 7 has exactly one area that can count as proper level design, and that's Poni Canyon and I'm being fucking generous here. The rest of the game is filled with linear corridors or huge spaces with pretty visuals, and most trainers have only one Pokemon. They can't balance gameplay and story for shit with all the arbitrary scripted dialogue sequences and cutscenes with clunky 3D animations the game makes you watch. GF still won't include something as simple as difficulty options, dialogue or cutscenes, which most JRPGs include.
Why would I want Pokemon to win over anything at this point when GF can't even handle basic shit like this? USUM doesn't improve on any of the problems SM had because they sold you DLC at full price with the only additions being minigames they probably coded in a week, new "areas" that are just more corridors, and a worse story.
The only reason you could say they pushed the 3DS to its limits is because of "future proofing" models at the expense of any sort of optimization.
GF may put in effort when it comes to designing the Pokemon themselves, but as for the actual game? Hell no.
