These are not good games. They have horribly streamlined level design because the region is small and doesn't have enough aptitude for exploration and no puzzles. They have an awful story because it is poorly paced and constantly stops the player to spoonfed them dialogue from characters that talk without saying anything of substance or interest. They introduced new features that are mostly either bad or useless (E.G Plaza, Poke Finder, Battle Royal). They do not offer enough longevity via postgame content as is reasonably expected and desired from Pokémon games.

The only good things about them are the graphical improvements, the implementation of Hyper Training and the removal of HM moves. These are very measly positives that don't weight much though.