I recently beat the mainstory of BW and while I totally hated the gen, when I played it during its release. It felt strange and not like Pokemon, because of the graphics and of the mons.
Now after I beat white again I must admit these games are way better than I thought and it is a shame people don´t like it.

+ 150 new Pokemon, we knew how awesome XY was with 72...
+ awesome story and lore. They finally tried to make a more deep story, with nice characters.
+ World is filled with life, many secrets to discover
+ Difficultiy is good
+ Post game content is nice, catch hidden(!) legendaries, beat the remaining plasma fags and explore the other half of the region

But eventhough there also some things that weren´t good:
- world was linear as fuck
- too less regional dex mons. Seeing only new mons was nice, but the variaty wasn´t that good. Twindrake gymn only had 3 different mons for fucks sake. At leas BW2 fixed that
- world map is too fucking linear despite it beeing rich of sidepaths.

Gen5 was awesome, but Gen 6 with its complete linear design was compared to gen 5 really really dissapoiting.

Why do people hate this gen so much? Oh thanks for reading my blog.