>>32159194Ok.
>terribly designed region that forces you to backtrack constantly>terrible looking region (compare 4 and 5's visuals on any town or route)>low-tier story, while it wasn't particularly bad, it was just a rehash of gen 3's>laughably terrible evil team, Galactic has terrible writing, designs, and motives>pretty much every character is flat and with no personality (the same problem with 1-3)>slowness>oh god the slowness>the slowness itself could ruin the entire fucking generation>terrible cover legends, giratina was okay but dialga and palkia look fucking retarded>really pushed the "ZOMG LEGENDARIES R GODS!!!!" narrative, making unnecessarily powerful legends lore-wise for no reason>battle music was slow-paced and boring, something that worked for town and route themes but definitely not for battles>difficulty was ass, this is a casual handheld game, I shouldn't have to grind more than a couple levels for each mon>regional dex is god-awful (this problem was somewhat fixed in platinum)Those are the biggest flaws I can think of right now.
It's totally find to love your childhood games. We all do, myself included. But the important thing is to still look at them objectively. I love Bowser's Inside Story, but I can still see the many flaws in it and look at it from an honest standpoint. It's difficult, but still important.
To be completely honest, 4 wasn't terrible. There are gens much worse than it. Platinum was okay and HGSS are amazing. There's just nothing that they really did exemplarly in.
>>32161444trips of truth
