>>43873293I don't like how the region feels like a guided tour and you are Lillie's babysitter. Nostalgia was pretty forced with things like Charizard being the Fly user (even though it isn't even in the Alola dex), Alola forms being Kanto exclusive, Z-Moves (besides Alolan exclusives) are Kanto exclusive, and giving so much importance to Red and Green to even call them "Battle Legends". They removed Triples and Rotation battles and the cutscene fest was a pain to replay.
On the other hand, Totem Pokemon were pretty fun and a fresh change as boss battles, characters were based (especially Guzma, Kukui, Lusamine, and Kahunas for me), Pokemon design was great, Regional forms were an amazing concept, Ultra Beasts were interesting to say the least, and it offers better challenge overall than gen VI.
I think if you take the best features of both gen VI and VII and put them together you'd make the most based 3D mainline game. SS clearly was an attemp of doing so, but they cringed on most things.
>>43873308The only downgrade is the story (you don't have the Ultra Lusamine battle and the new characters barely do anything), but it has more minigames, availiable Pokemon, postgame features, characters in both Battle Tree and Title Defense, sidequests, and things like customization are far superior. Ultra SM are based.
