>>31421762They were far from the worst but far from the best, too. It was an enjoyable experience but it was also a short-lived one I feel.
It's been two months now. The honeymoon period for SM is subsiding, so fans and cancerous poketubers alike are now retracting their statements that claimed that SM were the greatest Pokemon games of all time. I always saw through this kind of bullshit ever since the release of XY. Even people here set themselves up for disappointment by having really high expectations for this game.
And they weren't entirely wrong, either. In terms of marketing, Pokemon had a phenomenal run this year with Pokemon GO (which I'm rather lukewarm about) and the fact that it's the franchise's 20th anniversary. This was the most opportune time for GF not to fuck it up with half assed lazy game design and unfinished/rushed aspects that games in the past have had.
>B-but, Stars is coming out! Surely the third version of the games in a generation are always the best games!As much as I want to believe this, the days of having quality games like Crystal, Emerald, and Platinum are gone (at least for now). Pokemon is a huge franchisr that figuratively prints money, so GF can afford to be lazy fags, either because of the massive success of Pokemon GO, the sheer amount of marketing, or the autistic fanbase eating more and more shit and defending it for a short period of time.
I noticed the glaring flaws of SM that I'm only seeing people complain about now. Like fucking clockwork. This happens for many games that get released nowadays and Pokemon is perhaps one of the biggest offenders.
tl;dr SM is an above average Pokemon gane at best and a mediocre video game at worst.
