>>44881419>GemsThey added the Fairy Gem, if that isn't meant to imply they were going to be available not sure what to tell you. GameFreak is incompetent and forgets features, what else is new?
>Wonder LauncherNeeded a rework. Inverse battles are far more interesting
>EntralinkThe minigames are definitely a hard loss. XY's cut "Teams" feature probably would have amended this but at least consider the role O-Powers and the PSS played.
>Dream WorldSad to see it go but remember that they completely squandered its release. It was a pain to use and they either needed to rework it or cut it. We got a much more involved PGL out of it that showed all of your game stats, though. XY had the best berry farming in the series
>Not being forced to pay monthly to transfer Pokemon from older games.It's monthly now. Bank actually functioned properly unlike Home and was $5 for the whole year.
>Hard modeThat's BW2. Don't get me wrong, XY sorely need it. But the argument here is that XY didn't cut anymore than BW did from HGSS.
>Post-game>StoryXY put a big emphasis on lore AND story even in the postgame although it was admittedly
Sure, the argument that BW2 had so much content might hold up, but that doesn't excuse the things XY did wrong. The point is, XY were absolutely the perfect foundation to take the series to 3D and even though it flopped on some areas, the real crime is that they only degraded on them instead of building them.
We seriously believed the things XY brought would be mainstays for every future game. That wasn't the case at all. Now that those basic things are gone that made the experience all the more enjoyable, XY seem much better in hindsight. It doesn't help that they constantly teased us with some sort of conclusion to the games that never came. Zygarde's cave in fucking SM was called "resolution" cave and yet it raised more questions than it answered.
It's clear Z was in the works. Thousand Waves/Arrows exist in Gen 6's code.
