>>37414023Fuck that.
>100% on-rails experience that constantly prevents you from having any freedom or input of your own>barebones, small region but padded out with NPCs and random events that dump minutes worth of text on you at a time>removed the fucking PSS, the one thing that XY did perfectly, for the goddamn Festival Plaza which is just Join Avenue but worse and not even integrated into the region itself (laziness)>trials range from glorified fetch quests to a retread of gyms we've already beat in past games, only the Wishiwashi and Mimikyu ones were remotely decent and that's just because of the presentation>regional variants are a very good addition but completely half-assed, only a little over a dozen of them and they're all kanto>barely any optional areas at all, and outside of ONE they're all shoved in your face to where you can't even discover them on your own>like two whole dungeons in the game and they're at the end>the forced story is rancid trash that has no business being in a Pokémon game, centres around some bland girl and her mommy issues instead of the protag or the Pokémon or something cool like the region SINCE IT'S BASICALLY FUCKING POKÉHAWAII AND IS RIPE FOR STORYTELLINGhow do you fuck this up so badly
I genuinely want to know
USM is the first time I've skipped a Pokémon game.
This isn't even all I WOULD say on the matter, but I think the attached image represents gen 7 extremely well.
Very, VERY good concept, but the execution was squandered, shat on, everything is barebones and half-assed.