>>51257872That was Gen 7's entire hype cycle. A series of useless and half-assed inclusions that were made out to be proper inclusions or replacements of things they axed permanently only for them to never be that significant.
Festival Plaza, Battle Tree, Rotom Dex, Refresh, Ultra Space, Photo Club, Trials, Totems, SOS Battles, Island Region, no HMs, Z-Moves...
The only thing that was even remotely executed well was the Pelago, and even then they went and fucked up the story for that by not giving Mohn any sort of proper closure outside of USUM which even then they could at least have thrown us the bone that SM <-> USUM Mohn were swapped and that's why it's okay for the ending there to be so bittersweet. This same concept is double for Galar and Gen 8. Genuinely hope that SV delivers.
