>>48993287Gens 3 and 4 are widely considered the peak of Pokemon so it cannot be that.
Gen 5 while it had mixed opinions at the start it is still considered very good by the majority of the fan base, so it cannot be that.
Gen 6 was their first time going 3D and overall it was a little lackluster, was definitely the beginning of GF's shitty decisions so you could consider this the downfall of Pokemon...
Gen 7 picked up the slack a little. It wasn't by any means a good gen but comparing it to Gen 6 it was an inch better. GF seemed to have gotten familiar with making 3D games by this point and they did good enough, don't think it could have been this gen.
LGPE were designed and marketed towards kids and weren't supposed to be mainline games anyway so we can ignore this.
Gen 8 is what truly divided the fanbase and it failed to deliver on a lot of fronts. Especially with the constantly lying from GF to save face. Shit like remaking models from scratch when it was revealed that the models were copy-pasted from Gen 6/7. Arguably this is what truly killed Pokemon.
