>>50892792>Gen 6 was a disaster because it was inmemorableSM/USUM/SWSH are unmemorable yet they don't even have a feasible reason to be replayed since there's no compelling gameplay in them to begin with.
>but the city names? The gym leader names? The gym leader fights? The storyline and villain grunts?Sure. Santalune, Anistar, Snowbelle, and Laverre are all great locales that really push home the theme of seasons Kalos's story has. Viola, Grant, Korrina, Ramos, Clemont, Valerie, Olympia, and Wulfric all do exactly what they're set out to do but have plenty of external character building given that they're either mentioned by people in the town or given spotlight through other optional events and dialogue. Their fights are shit because XY is a piss poor and easy game but memorable because of the atmosphere and unique gym backgrounds each one of them has. The storyline is unironically one of the better ones in the series and although Team Flare is criminally underdeveloped Xerosic has a great dynamic in the postgame and the game itself pushes you to believe that Lysandre is actually 100% correct and genius with story events at the Lumiose, Parfum Palace, Tower of Mastery, and even after he's defeated at the Pokemon Village and Looker Episode showing just how dystopic the Pokemon world really is. Serena/Calem are bland but people tend to remember Shauna because she actually has comparable relevance to other Pokemon rivals. Tierno and Trevor just needed more double battles at certain story points.
> It’s all a blur for people who didn’t start Pokémon with this gameIt's a blur for people who never played the game. XY's only failing was not being nearly as good as BW was as a first version but when compared to the even more rushed, unfinished garbage we got with SM and SWSH I'd gladly take a mediocre game wrapped up with a decent engine and great mechanics like XY. That's what make it memorable to me outside of the common praise about the PSS, Super Training, etc.
