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I'm replaying BW2 right now, and I'm wondering why did they ditch all the cool little things the previous gens had? Even Gen 6, with all its flaws, still made it possible to actually do some neat things with your pokémon or customize some places/characters, but Gen 5 barely has anything but battles and more battles. And the minigames like the Musical and Funfest Missions are either boring as fuck or don't involve your pokémon at all.
Like
>Gen 3
>you can grow berries, make pokéblocks and feed them to your pokémon, play with the pokémon on Contests, give them Ribbons, decorate your secret base, play with your pokémon on a jump rope minigame (FRLG only)
>Gen 4
>grow berries, make poffins, dress up and play with your pokémon on contests, give them Ribbons, decorate your secret base and a fancy house, decorate your pokéball, have your pokémon follow you, train and play minigames with your pokémon on the Pokéathlon (HGSS only)
>Gen 5
>can only dress your pokémon up and have them dance while all you do is watch, have regular pokémon battles with a movie gimmick (BW2 only)
>Gen 6
>can grow berries again and get Ribbons again after Gen 5 removed them for absolutely no reason, can feed and pet your pokémon on Amie, raise their EVs with the Super Training minigame, can buy clothes and customize your character, record short animations of you and your pokémon posing, plus most of the minigames and features that were in RSE (ORAS only)
>Gen 7
>feed and play with your pokémon on Refresh, put your boxed pokémon on some islands to train, get items or plant berries, customize your character, plus possibly walking pokémon and whatever other minigames USUM will have
