SM was way too fucking linear. Not only we had little to zero freedom in exploring, but we also had constant cutscenes that were avoidable if they were actually competent to make people talk without interrupting the gameplay.

I mean, it was a better game than XY and ORAS but for fuck sake if this is literally the future for next pokemon games, I wont buy it. Those annoyances really are killing any complexity. There are no dungeons besides vast poni canyon and even that one wasnt that good. Sure, there were improvements, but overall gameplay was dumbed down a lot.

I dont want to be the one who says this, but I think remakes are the only option now to get that old school game design with new graphics. We will run out of them eventually though...