>>54709426If you grew up with anything past Gen 4 as your first games you missed out, sorry zoomie.
>shift from Japanese design and theming to poorly understood international locations>region design becomes more restrictive and linear overall>dungeons are sparser and sparser>longer and longer stories that nobody gives a shit about>no Safari Zone>no Contests>no Frontier>garbage Pokémon designs like ice cream, barnacle hands, Tony the Tiger and icecube penguin>music is increasingly watered down (National Park GSC is 100x more memorable than anything in SwSh or S/V)>Pokémon cut to sell storage subscription services and as a low effort selling point for new games>poorly programmed, run terribly>no spinoffs that aren't gachashitJust admit it, Discordfag. The prime days of the series' games are long behind us and there's no improvements in sight.
