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I think after SM i really and finally lost hope for GF to make good Pokemon games again.
XY was just a small sign that something is wrong because of weak story and lack of post game but at the time it didnt seemed serious because it was first 3D game, new console and so on. It was still in the range of saving by Z, just like Platinum saved DP. But that never happened
Then comes ORAS and this time it really feels there's something wrong. Sure, GF still provided some decent features like Soaring and DexNav but lack of many features from Emerald was worrying and disturbing, once again post game felt short and empty
But finally we have a long break and big announcement of 20th annivesary games Sun and Moon. It seems this time GF goes all out..and yet they didnt. At all.
There are positives: the game is more challenging than gen 6 was, they removed HMs and PokePelago is useful. But thats about it
The post game still is short and empty, the region feels limited by graphics, basically GF clearly tried to make the best looking game but then they realized they're not able to do so and they left the region half baked. There's no decent dungeons, caves, even most of buildings are closed or they have one room (tide song hotel anyone?). Its the first game where majority of Pokemon Centers are on routes because GF couldnt provide more cities. Same goes for human models. There's whole 10 old characters and even Alolans models are reused to create new trainer classes
The story focuses more on adventures of Lillie and Hau rather than providing some other dimension stuff they tease through the whole game. Despite having tons of cutscenes, most of them dont even bring anything to the plot.
Alola forms got even worse treatment than megas: less than 20, only Kanto and half of them are jokes. Z-moves dont add much, Zygarde has no role despite Sina and Dexio implying otherwise to your face, Searching for home of Solgaleo/Lunala...just gets dropped and fortgotten.
