>>48234956>Everything about XY aside from maybe the onlineDon't care, not why I play Pokemon.
>USUM having better onlineBlatantly untrue, in fact that's one of the biggest complaints about Gen 7 as a whole. Now, with the Gen 5 games you do have to jump through a few hoops to get the online working, but you can do it with a 3DS and a modern internet connection with relative ease so it's kind of a moot point.
>writing in USUMReally it's just Hau's character, which is definitely better than anything base SM does so I don't mind them tanking the rest of the cast. At least Bianca's arc had a satisfying conclusion in B2W2, and I guess I can extend that to Cheren but that feels more like a stretch from where his character ended in BW.
>difficulty in USUMSuper arguable, but both games do have EXP scaling, and Gen 7 actually does it fucking right by giving you the lucky egg in the postgame (I'd really prefer if it were just a menu option but we all know Game Freak would rather ruin EV training than let you turn off EXP Share these days).
But yeah, USUM is probably the best game of the 3DS era. It's not HGSS to B2W2 levels of good in my opinion, but it has a lot of what I specifically like, even if it makes me regret pirating SM in retrospect. For my money though, I'd rather play ORAS than XY, and there's a lot of shit in ORAS that specifically pisses me off but it makes up for it by doing some actual interesting things with Gen 6's online system.
B2W2 hits the right amount of variety for me, it's got some very specific things that no other game does even similarly. Like, Pokestar Studios is sort of like Battle Sims from Gale of Darkness, Black Tower/White Treehollow are sort of like the Battrle Pyramid or Trainer Tower, and PWT is sort of like gym leader rematches mixed with the Battle Dome/Hall tournament structure but the type expert tournaments encourage more variety in teambuilding.
