>>31026163>(PWT included, where you can battle any Gym Leader/Champion)Only good post-game facility after Hoenn's Battle Frontier.
>>31026469>The roadblocks are even fucking worse in XY.Precisely this is an issue that I saw improvement on. I was fucking annoyed at Unova's constant barrage of NPCs standing in your way saying "ther'es been a landslide/there are puppies playing/I don't feel like pulling a lever, go speak with the gym leader".
They weren't much better in XY and SM, but at least they were a little bit more believable (and honest in the case of Alola)
>The graphics are shit compared to BWOh please, the overworld looked atrocious... or rather I should say the overworld sprites. The overworld itself was nice (and so was Kalo's). But Unova sprites are fucking ugly and they get deformed way too often thanks to the fancy camera angles. And overall such deformations are quite more noticeable than in DPP sprites.
Battles get a medal for effort and speed, but that's about it.
>The locations were fucking atrocious.I'll admit Unova had better looking cities for the most part. But that's about it. And for most of them, I didn't feel compelled to ever return to them after leaving for the first time (which largely applies to Kalos too, but at least I did return to several of them).
>(try to defend XY's rivals)I won't. Calem/Serena was bland and I refuse to acknowledge the waifu and the other two as such... which is kind of a mirror of Cheren and Bianca, I could say the exact same of them.
Actually, IMO the only not-awful rivals are Green (he prick that is ahead of you and you are motivated to beat), Silver (not good, just acceptable), Hau (only because his team was a bit menacing to mine) and Gladion (because he feels like Silver done right).
Brendan/May were a disappointment, Wally was far too absent, Barry was annoying, Cheren, Calem/Serena and the guy with the afro were bland and Bianca and Shauna were just cute insecure friends with little more to them.
