>>46521971>They tried something differentLike what? No really, what did they do so different from the previous games?
>i-it had a bigger focus on storyThe importance of the story has been growing with every gen, so nothing out of the ordinary here. They kinda had an interesting idea for a story, with the whole morality of Pokebattles stuff, to bad they did absolutely nothing with it. In the end you could give gen 5 the same plot synosis as gen 3 and 4, only improvement was moving the climax to the actual end of the game.
>bu-but they only had new monsAnd that was unironically the worst decision GF ever made. As much as people cry about nostalgia pandering these days, nobody cared about it back then. They limited themselves for no reason and were forced to create new pokemon to fill the roles of older ones and that's how we get Woobat, Conkeldurr and Audino. I know it was the first game not to be based off Japan and so the native Pokemon should be different, but the also based the region of NYC, a place known to be a melting pot of culture from all over the world, so if any region should have Pokemon from everywhere, it's Unova.
BW2 brought back old Pokemon and they're miles better because of that alone. But by then it was too late.
