>>32073051It's honestly really a letdown, the games could be so much more. For being the entire game, there's really not much you can do with Pokemon themselves either. It's mostly just fighting and Refresh, which is barebones. This is why following Pokemon was good, because it gave them something more to do, even if it was really basic.
There's not even minigames anymore. The Game Corner's gone because of the EU's stupidity, and yet they have no replacement. Throw in some shitty pinball or puzzle games in a game corner, it's not gambling if you made a prize always appear based on score. They had super barebones minigames in Amie, but those are gone now too, again for no reason.
As for regions, there has to be interesting locations and optional places to explore. Alola didn't really have anything, the closest you got was the desert, which you were walled off from until a specific point. There's also nothing as jarring as seeing the old "3+ trainers standing along an empty straight path that you have to fight." All it does is really show just how empty the area is.
GF's this huge company with a load of money, they could put in more effort but just dont, and fill their games to the brim with baffling design choices. Insane railroading even when bypassing it wouldn't make a difference
This is a problem with all the games, withholding specific pokeballs/megastones for no reason, pokemon that are unnecessarily rare, pokemon that are too common, taking 20 years to remove HM's, disgusting obsession with cutting features that should be here to stay, I could go on and on.
It's depressing, the reason i have so many complaints with the games is BECAUSE i like the games, but they all could be so much better, they're just too afraid to change things too much. Trials were some change, but ultimately left me wishing i was just fighting a gym leader.
