>>41310402>Overworld encountersThey already blew that load on LGPE
>Wild Area is a great place to spend time at any given time in the game, letting the player decide how to pace themselves through the storyIt's just a horribly laggy empty field though, idk how it paces the story apart from deciding how overleveled you want to be
>Huge Pokemon variety before the first Gym, most potential for Nuzlockes and repeated playthroughsSame for 6 and 7
>Best pacing in a main story since BW2Flat out wrong, you spend far longer getting to the first gym then the last gyms combined and the actual story is horribly compressed at the end despite long cutscenes the whole way through
>Best towns in the series except maybe gen 5Subjective, a few are pretty but they're tiny with fuck all in them
>Best level curve in the seriesMaybe idk
>Exp Share and Pokecamp are usable without breaking the game or even be overlevelledIf you ignore wild encounters it's fine, USUM was far better
>Best Gym puzzles in the seriesI'll give you this
I mean it's not the worst game but it's the worst pokemon game by far
Appreciate the answers though