>>41154727XY, but it had a chance to regain its footing. SM held the place steady, was still a decent game, but LGPE was the harbinger of the doom that is SnS and everything going forward.
It definitely peaked in gen4/5. Moving to full 3D and subsequently "evolving" past grid-like maps were killers in my opinion, it's a hell of a lot harder to make complex and memorable routes and dungeons now. I don't need graphics any better than DS, I just want Pokemon to be something to look forward to again, something that presents good surprises, like Underground and Contests and new battle formats, instead of nasty ones.
