these games are an absolute fucking garbage fire. faithful? faithful, my ass. faithful when it means not doing any fucking work. the underground is gimped and the decorations are replaced by lazy texture edits, super contests are gimped without any dress up or appeals, the game corner is now a fucking boutique except the actual "customization" part from xy is gone and it's just trying on a couple outfits. but it's definitely because of faith, not because they were too lazy to model a chimchar doll even though the trees and textures in the overworld look like something out of a 2006 korean MMO.

and of course, who can forget the "faithful" addition of nu-affection, which even XY had the foresight to lock behind a mini game. if the exp share roiding your pokemon like the USA cycling team wasn't enough, now you are met with INFERNAPE HELD ON SO YOU WOULDNT FEEL SAD :(!!! any time you get in a spot of trouble. and of course, this is something that naturally happens while you play the game (these games, not the originals that they are so "faithful" to), so the only way to avoid it is to shove herbs down your luxray's throat until he's glaring at you like fucking cujo. oh, and never use the following feature they shilled so much in pre release (not that it's any good anyways, considering your torterra will crawl across the map like a geriatric while the player is 3 screens ahead and halfway to pastoria city). KUSO GAME.