>>44495733>it's just better to judge and compare it to other pokemon stuff rather then something that's not like it at allIt's EASIER to compare within the same franchise, but if you don't compare the parts of the franchise to other media of the same genre, then it just becomes a circlejerk echo chamber that can't learn from other sources.
A Pokemon anime series could be considered a """good""" Pokemon anime but ultimately a bad anime in general, and people wouldn't admit that because they're too busy jerking in their circle. Same for the games and the like. Sword and Shield sounds good on paper but the features it prides itself on are severely lacking and the games are riding on the fact that "It's technically better than other Pokemon games because this is the first to do it". You have to judge it on a wider scale or else you fall prey to that kind of shit.
