>>54499578Holy shit, this, I loved the original Gen 2 battle themes (and music in general) because they were...concise? In what they were going for. I wish I knew more about music so I could articulate it better, but HGSS' music, especially the battle themes, were all over the fucking place, it felt like they were throwing instruments at the wall to make it sound more "epic" or exciting or something instead of just leaning on the good baseline made from the original and using a select few instruments to make it sound as good as possible. I had this issue in ORAS too where they had these massive orchestial arrangements for the music and in turn made them sound dull and unmemorible, as if people didn't actually love the brass sounding soundtrack of the original.
Does anyone know what I mean? It bugs me that I don't have the right words to say what I mean...Anyways that's my only real gripe with HGSS outside of maybe not having contensts.
For BW I think my only problem is how much stuff relied on 3rd party, out of game features, like the Entra Link, Dream World, Joint Avenue, etc. It was probably really novel at the time, but I played BW2 long after Gen 5 ended and I definitely missed out on the core experience. Both HGSS and BW2 are the best games in the series though, and I think people are angry at how consistently highly rated both games are.
