Gen 7 was the fucking worst. The whole game was just a fucking tutorial. You watch a cutscene, then walk to the flag on the map a few feet away, and watch another cutscene. That was literally the whole game. You were never free or on your own. Totems were cool and it definitely feels like effort was put into the region, but there's zero sense of exploration or finding anything. It's just constant cutscenes with the game telling me exactly where to go next.
And the cutscenes weren't just dialogue you could skip through like in previous games. They were long fading cutscenes, where some brown character says a line, 2 second pause, does a pose. Cut to your character, 2 second pause, nod. Back to brown character. 2 second pause. Line of dialogue. Pause. Pose. Cutscene end. Flag 15 feet away to go see another cutscene.
Worst Pokemon games of all time by far. SwSh was only slightly more tolerable. The only people who praise SM are underage shitters who were kids when they played
