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XY was the start of the end for me. I was never convinced about the jump to 3D models because I didn't like how they looked like. At the moment I was hopeful, but not convinced. There's also the whole thing with megas, which I remember divided the board 50/50 on the matter. To this day I think they were a mistake because the Pokemon franchise had managed to keep a unique identity with their world building, avoiding the usual shit other "monster" games like do. That was until then.
When they actually came out I was heavily disappointed with the execution of those 2 things, and then there's streamlining and the casualization.
The last time I felt hype was when ORAS were confirmed. While I started with Crystal as a kid, I passed my early teenager years replaying RSE over and over on an emulator.
I should've known better considering they were coming out in the same generation as XY.
By the time Alola came I just didn't have it in me to have hype at all. And as expected, GF is more concerned about introducing more "mega-like" gimmicks that take away from Pokemon unique identity rather than putting actual effort and gameplay quality. Not to mention the Alola dex is mediocre as fuck with only a few lines worth saving.
And now we got LGPE, which apparently is decently successful on the west and some retards here are celebrating it, not realizing we all lost against kanto pandering.
In retrospective, I don't even dislike Kalos anymore: at the moment of gen6 I just didn't think it could get worse than that. But looking back what XY did was tame in comparison to where the franchise seems to be headed now.
