>>48732754Gen 7 stumbled a lot but I give them credit for their attempt at changing up the formula - island archipelago, no gym challenge, side characters play a larger role in the story and are more fleshed out than usual, and the twists of the villain team being a humanitarian extremist group, the mascot being a character we already have seen, and different dimension Pokémon.
Gen 8 was the absolute most stereotypical Pokémon game and it felt like copy paste shit.