>>40347833The nostalgia of an old Sonic game stays with an old Sonic game. You can tell they're trying to carry the nostalgia into new games with Green Hill being rehashed, but ultimately new games carry very few features of old games and play very differently to said old games.
Meanwhile, the nostalgia of an old Pokemon game is carried into new games. Obviously, old Pokemon being carried over is the most obvious example of this, along with gratuitous Kanto and Sinnoh references (referencing these two specifically because they are the two most common regions for the fanbase to love), but the biggest example of this is the game itself. The game has hardly changed since Gen 1, both in presentation and execution, and when they do change either end, the game receives a lot of criticism both towards the change and towards unrelated parts of the game, because people are getting a small glimpse at just how outdated the formula actually is. I don't believe it's a coincidence that Alola receives more vocal criticism than Kalos for its single player campaign, even though Kalos was undoubtedly worse (not that Alola was by any stretch of the imagination good, mind you).
In addition, as
>>40347873 said, many Pokemon fans don't play other games very much, let alone other RPGs. As an example, If you've never heard another orchestrated soundtrack in your life (or if your only exposure was, say, Super Mairo Galaxy 1), of course you're going to think that LGPE's cover set was good, because you quite literally don't know better (or you've had so little exposure that you can't tell how cheaply made LGPE's ost was and just think orchestra = good).
I still love Pokemon deeply, and I don't like saying "oh, it's just nostalgia", but when you've got such an unchanging, outdated franchise that themes itself around bringing past experiences with you, it makes sense that one's personal attachment to the franchise will cloud one's view, my own included.
