>>34178093I'm also questioning whether I should buy USUM because while I enjoyed SM, I never finished the post game because I got bored with soft-resetting for UBs.
I don't know if they're the best Pokemon games ever made, but they are definitely the most visually impressive. They're leagues above XY and ORAS, which were very impressive for their time. I'm amazed how good they managed to make SM look on the same platform as Gen 6.
My biggest complaint about SM was that the whole game seemed like easy-mode, just like XY. I know that Pokemon games are not exactly difficult, but I never felt challenged at any point in SM because my team became so powerful compared to the NPCs. I don't think I ever had more than one of my Pokemon faint during a battle in SM. At least previous gens actually had challenging bosses or dungeons with lots of high-level trainers.