>>51428320Im 34 and I think hes right
Back at launch Pokemon was a new and interesting phenomenon so by virtue of that it was overrated to heaven. First Gen was buggy as shit and had it released today wed be bitching that its a barebones unpolished game. Gen 2 Johto was short and barebones and only exciting as it was because "le 2 regions" meme. It had an even worse Kanto too on top of having poorly balanced leveling.
RS only shortcoming was that it didnt include a lot of Gen 1 Pokemon and neccesitated the Kanto remakes. Otherwise Hoenn was a complete region that had a challenging postgame (Battle Frontier) that wasnt just a butchered region.
Gen 4 and 5 had completely expanded on the mechanics, online and additional features. They also had postgames that werent just battle frontier. And they even remade and fixed Gen 2 for the most part. This is objectively where the franchise peaked.
Gen 6 was largely forgettable, had 60ish new Pokemon and was handholdy as shit. Its best feature was Megas and they were imbalanced as fuck and are gone from the franchise. Then they remade RS and removed one of the things that made Hoenn replayable. This generation is just a black mark on the Pokemon franchise and has no reason to be remade.
Gen 7 had a pretty aesthetic and introduced Z moves which added a layer of strategy on top of Megas. Otherwise the games are a linear joke that treat you like an accessory to the main character Lillie. The games have a lot of placeholder text that wasnt culled from final production and has loads of ULTRA CHANGES to make the second versions inferior to the first. Its all downhill from here.
And lol Gen 8. Not even worth the writeup.
