>>53208489The biggest issue for me was the deprioritization of gameplay in order to tell a really not-good story as insufferably as possible. It also failed to iterate on or retatain a fair amount of content from previous titles, such as Ribbons, Contests, or the Battle Frontier just to name a few.
There was once a point where I would have called this the worst Pokemon game, but these issues only got worse and worse as the series progressed and now it's just middle-of-the-road.
