>>54657223having replayed them recently there are definitely things i appreciate, like amie, super training, and the enormous variety of mons, but overwhelmingly, they're bad.
the story is dogshit to the point i wish there was literally nothing instead, the characters are completely forgettable when they're not being comically inept, and the region is perhaps the most boring in the franchise. the only track of music i can recall off the top of my head is lumiose city. there were no battles that challenged me or even excited me a bit. it was like a fucking baby sensory video the whole way through, i might as well have been drooling on my touchscreen and the inputs would have beaten any fight.
they also have the unfortunate circumstance of being sandwiched between actually good games, dooming them to mediocrity at their best. even ORAS was better and that game bored me to tears to the point of never having replayed it again. i would - and have - replayed SM and USUM more times even if I have to mash A through the cutscenes because that is at least a level of interactivity with the game, one that XY cannot manage.
