>>43862718Gen 8 was at least fun. As shitty as it was, gameplay wise it was genuinely entertaining and very smooth as well thanks to the QoL additions, the characters were nice and interesting for once, with varied personalities and ambitions instead of generic happy cookie-cutter characters, the battles were also set up in a very engaging way, making sure they make you, the player, the actual protagonist of your own story, like older games did. Sure, while playing you could see the glaring flaws everywhere, but it had a lot to make up for it. Gen 7 didn't. Gen 7 was the antithesis of fun, it was a slog, a chore, with annoying characters that the game shove in in your face in a weak attempt to make you like them instead of doing it in a more organic way, not to mention the spotlight was taken away from you and your adventure, something which you couldn't even have in peace in the first place because they constantly interrupted you to remind you this isn't your story. At its core, SM/USUM are not fun or enjoyable games, the story, characters, the region itself, they're actually all very bland and the game tries to hide this by making everything "colorful" on the outside, with no substance to back it up. There's a reason why this games are regarded as the worst to replay, because there's nothing to take out of them.
