>>51334455It wasn't released yet.
Snivy isn't an awful design and that was the most buzzed about mon prerelease.
The little information to go off of didn't suggest anything was going to be wrong with the games.
Then people played it. They saw the whole dex. They saw the map. They saw the plot. They saw the rails. They saw the postgame. They heard the music. They saw the characters. They saw the battles. They saw the sprites.
And it became clear that something was deeply deeply wrong with Black/White. Don't get it twisted, there's always been pushback to the first outing since Ruby/Sapphire, but those could be fixed up and rereleased as BOAT games since the issue had always been a lack of content. But Black/White were the first games people at large felt were wrong on a fundamental level, like at root. And then BW2 released, which wasn't a fix at all, but something that "built off" something many people had already begun to loathe. And then that leaked into EVERYTHING about Gen V: the sidegames, the anime, all of it was tainted with the same fundamental poisons.
And as the years went on, the hatred and disappointment intensified and coalesced into ever more rationalized and clarified complaints as to what exactly went wrong. The more you dug into Black/White and Gen V as a whole, you only found worse and worse design decisions that were impossible to defend or reason away.
It was only until zoomer unovabortions, who grew up playing it and thus were unable to reason about it in comparison to real games, did its reputation begun to rebound---but only because they loudly scream against the haters, not because they are capable of arguing against any of their points. And that zealotry created a negative feedback loop that made the games and their fans more and more hated.
That's what happened.
