>>36815761>>36816078>>36816142Deep and complex plot is fine, the problem people have with Gen V was the shift from exploration focused RPG to plot based RPG, the whole maingame is a big straight line, you go from point A to point B in a highlighted way, there are few optional areas in the maingame, and the postgame despite being harders and having some chunks to explore, almost everything is highlighted on your map.
The handholding started in Gen V, and that isn't an opinion, it is a fact, look at the "tutorial" we have in BW/BW2, look at the level spread between areas. Good ideas like hard mode, seasons, dynamic dungeons and more were scrapped next gen, meaning they were just gimmicks for the developers and not features.
Gen V may be good plot wise, may have good level design in dungeons, may have cool ideas like PWT or seasons, but it is easy to see that the negative impact it left in the franchise was worse than the possitive impact, for crying out loud, we now have games where the plot is first and the gameplay is second.
