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I didn't really like SM, but only a year later I liked USUM a lot more. The main problem was that it still was SM at the end of the day. If you like video games, USUM is pretty much the better choice if you haven't experienced Gen 7. I've still got a lot of gameplay issues (for example, the entire second island) but at the end of the day I appreciate what USUM did more than whatever the fuck XY or ORAS were doing (although I do like what ORAS did with the multiplayer stuff). They are definitely not a replayable game from a pacing perspective (I blame the cutscenes making the experience uneven, as opposed to XY where the game itself is the uneven one), but that's also arguably true of every game after Emerald, maybe after B2W2 if you stretch it (I'd rather replay any Gen 5 game than base DP, personally, and I really don't want to replay any of them). Honestly some sort of modded USUM might be a really good game someday, but I don't think we're at that point unfortunately.
