>>37203586A lot of neat concepts and an interesting world held back by a complete lack of any actual exploration, forced handholding (I can't stress how ridiculous handholding is at this stage in the franchise's life) and a general lack of effort put into almost all aspects of the game, particularly animations, music and gameplay. Gamefreak's continual removal of good features with each generation of games is as baffling as ever.
I like Alola as a region a fair bit. I like a lot of the pokemon designs and the trainer designs are particularly top notch. That's about where the list of nice things to say ends, XY already felt like a mass-production, by-the-books game and SM only further drove that home. USUM was the final nail in the coffin because holy shit what a fucking waste of everyone's time those two games are.
