>>32436173>No more chibi modelsSure, that's nice, but hardly worth mentioning.
>Grid based movement is goneOnly to fuck it up by restricting movement on the 3ds godawful analog stick
>HMs are gone Hms were a non-issue since gen 5
>The region actually feels like a real >place instead of a simulation like every game before it. That's nice, but graphics are such a small part in the totem pole of important game design, and even then, SM are far below the presentation of other 3ds titles, and that's largelybecause GF is terrible at properly optimizing the hardware they're working with.
>Characters are actually good this time and aren't one dimensional card board cut outs like X&Y>Improved battle animations Some are better, some are worse. And the lag is even worse than the gen 6 games
>Deviation from the gym formula which was getting stale after 20 yearsOnly to give us a terribly under-utilized island challenges that are even more mundane than gym battles.
>Pokemon designs are good, most feel like they belong in the region which helps with the immersion.This is way too subjective, but I'll just simply say I respectfully disagree with you.
>Z moves although a bit cringed have made the competitive scene a lot less predictable, and boring to playI haven't touched competitive Pokemon since early XY, so I got nothing on this.
