>>42229330The majority of this board thought they were ok/good and better than XY. The main complaints were just the unskippable cutscenes making repeat playthroughs annoying, and the ok at best post game. The reason SM had such negativity thrown at them here was the fact that,
>4chan is always overly critical about a product, regardless of the board>we had two games in a row that had a shallow post game, which considering how much time people put into each pokemon game here is completely understandable>and lastly, at that point we haven't had a single bad Pokemon game, which made XY and SM (and BW1 to an extent) look worse than they really were in comparison, so people were thirsty for another Platinum/BW2Now that we were given lets pee pisschu and shitvee and Swooshiekablooshy, people have became much more open to giving SM a fair chance. Personally, they are some of my favourite in the series, and now that we've had two bad games in a row, I'm glad people are starting to hate them less. Also, USUM having an actually good postgame helps too.