>>55915630>first three gyms being extremely long and then the rest of the game going back to the length of a normal Pokemon game...It's not the same length, you breeze through most of it. It means they took a lot of time crafting the early game, put everything upfront instead of giving things time to breathe and time to ramp up, and never stopped to find and address pacing issues.
>as opposed to a ton of other games like BW which doesn't have rematches at allWhich always felt hollow after emerald, simple improvements should raise the standard not come and go.
>game doesn't match your fanfic. Is Gen 5 rushed because almost no one uses Triple/Rotation battles outside PWT and there's no sports minigame?What fanfic? It's exactly what the game shows us but doesn't let us participate in, which is a missed opportunity with evidence to suggest it was going to happen at some point. Considering we had the pokeathelon in hgss there definitely should've been something similar in gen 5's sports arena. Adding battle formats only to hide them under the rug is definitely a waste of the resources that went into it, give us opportunities to play them.
>Regigigas got shoved to gen 4 and Arceus and the genies got shoved to gen 8Any evidence regigigas was in the works for gen 3? Would be cool if so, but all I've seen was it being tacked on in gen 4 and tying back to expand what was already there about the ancient golems that were sealed away. We already got arceus's lore in dp, the plates and the events are there they just decided not to distribute the flute, doubt anything new about it in pla was part of the original plan if it took nearly 15 years to come up, but again would love to see anything suggesting otherwise. The genies also had their time to show they controlled the natural phenomena in Unova but definitely lacked stuff, enamorus (and the swsh dlc regis) were definitely later additions they're too different from the older stuff to have been original without major reworks