>>34030965No, they weren't. They really weren't; they continued the decline.
-No post game.
-Piss easy, with key trainers having pokemon with horrible movesets.
-The Routes and cities were just too small meaning less exploration, couple that with the removal of dungeons and caves. We didn't even have a fucking 'Victory Road'.
-They didn't introduce enough new pokemon.
-The alola forms were horribly executed. No extreme stat changes.
-So many slow pokemon. The average speed for the Generation was 71.2 base, the only gen lower is Gen 2. This fucked up the starters stats too. All fucking slow.
-Festival plaza is a shit. It cannot compete with the pss and it is tedious.
-Ally calls in wild battles are fucking annoying.
-TOO MANY CUTSCENES. The cutsenes in SM aren't comparable to their predecessors, they're so long and cumbersome.
Have I left anything out?