>>27727088>Replaced the winding paths of previous regions with the most linear map yet, which 6 only barely began to recover fromJust replayed through Black version, this is such a forced bullshit meme. Unova has actually quite a lot of backtracking, winding paths, and multiple routes to take. Sure, it's laid out in a linear way overall, but the route you take is no more linear than Johto.
>Drove home the 'friends' bullshit with Cheren/Bianca/Hugh that ended up resulting in the shitheap that was Gen 6's rivals.The rivals in Gen 5 were far less annoying than the Gen 6 ones and unlike Gen 6 actually served gameplay and plot purpose. And don't act like we haven't had friends since Gen 3.
>Expedited the series' long-standing cycle of removing pretty much all non-battle features, such as bases and contests, many of which having only returned with ORAS or still being absent to this day like muh frontierGen 5 didn't remove bases. And Gen 5 literally kept contests and just changed the name. Stop.
>Focused too hard on a story with little more substance than average, which led to them trying to do it again with XY and failing because the people who liked BW's plot had turned 13The story in BW is fucking grand for a Pokemon game. Stop being a faggot and go replay it or at least look into it.
>Introduced a fuckton of ridiculously broken abilities that have annihilated the metagame to this very day (it also gave us the genies, which are themselves a huge cancer even in ORAS)Nobody cares, metafag.
>jumpstarted the transition from muted 3d and nice sprites to ugly 3d and constantly moving pixelated garbage, ultimately resulting in XY being forced to continue the trend instead of sticking with glorious spritesGen 5's visuals are great. Maybe play it on an actual DS screen instead of an emulator next time, sweetheart.
>fucked up the level curveWhat? Do you have Alzheimer's? The level curve in Gen 5 is great.
>removed pokemartsThis is satire, right?
