>>44180351Inferior to Emerald, debatable inferior to RS. Introduced some good features like Soaring and DexNav (which just ended up getting dropped in the next games anyway).
ORAS fucks up a lot of the good stuff that was in RS, the first half of RSE is probably the best the series has ever been in terms of pacing, that lead up to the battle with Norman having you complete a full circuit of West Hoenn and learning about Devon Corp, Wally and the Villainous Team was all pretty well done. ORAS meanwhile shits on that by constantly interrupting the flow with needless reminders that the villainous team is going to Mt. Chimney and May needlessly healing you too much.
ORAS also likes to just pull the player around, it's not as bad as the later games but that shit where you're forced to go to Mauville City after beating Norman instead of being allowed to explore the oceanic Routes which are literally right next to Petalburg City or at least get to use the Route 103 shortcut which now has no reason to exist.
Then there's Zinnia who may as well have not appeared in the main plot at all since I'm pretty sure you don't even meet her until post-game and she does fuck all prior to that. Then there's the free Latias/Latios which along with the fucked Exp. Share makes the games even more trivial than XY were in difficulty.
I get the impression the devs really wanted to make ORAS better than RS but they went about it in entirely the wrong way and basically made issues where there weren't any to begin with, from ORAS onwards though there is only a small sliver of the games in the series content being actually good.
