Nearly everything was bad.
To understand Kalos, you have to first understand how the Japanese view France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome>Idealized image of Paris – it is also speculated as manifesting from an individual's inability to reconcile a disparity between the Japanese popular image and the reality of Paris. The Japanese often picture Paris as a land of dreams, the land of beauty, culture, romance, and French people. However, they soon find out the contrary when they visit Paris for the first time.Paris syndrome is an actual thing, when Japanese go to France and find out it's not the nice super fancy kawaii place that everywhere in Japan reinforces. No, really. Been to Japan a lot, a fuckton of places use french word or make themselves look French in order to look fancier, they love it. Even a simple rural bakery near where I was staying for a while.
You can see it when you play XY. Fucking everything in Kalos is perfect, overly so. compare with Kanto which had pollution and rude guards, or Unova where Castelia was nice but also filthy in some places. Can you think of a place in Kalos that was supposed to have some kind of flaw? No, right?
This makes the region soulless as fuck and utterly boring. Everywhere is welcoming, everyone sucks your dick, most of all your friends. I have no idea what the fuck GF was thinking considering that the BW friends were fine when they made Shauna, Tierno and the other guy whose name I can't remember, but I made sure to see as few Pokemon as possible and I still beat his fucking pokedex record.
I feel like this picture sums up a lot. What would a scientist say about the poke ball factory being held hostage?
If the poke balls are stolen by team Flare, we
>won't be able to capture pokemon anymore >can't keep pokemon as out partnersInstead it writes it in just about the most infantile way imaginable. And for what? I really don't know. And your 'friends' are the same way.