>>53258559>Are you honestly trying to say they were bad.The way they were implemented was.
Compare PokéStar Studios to the Pokéathlon in HGSS. After you beat Whitney the Pokéathlon opens up to you and she mentions this once in her dialogue, you have to pass through the gates to it going up to Ecruteak, but you can still completely skip it if you want and come back to it later.
Meanwhile, in B2W2 the PokéStar Studios is a part of the plot (which is fine in itself), but the fact that you're forced to play through it to progress through the story is so shitty and retarded that it genuinely makes you wonder what the devs were thinking.
To be honest, all of Gen 5 is like that to me. So much stuff is forced on you when it really didn't need to be. It's like the devs thought kids would miss it if they didn't literally strap the player up in a pram and force them through it to make sure they saw it.
Even in DPPt, Contests were a part of the plot, but they didn't force you to play it if you didn't want to, it was a nice way to introduce the player to some side content in case they would've missed it without forcing it on you like Gen 5.
Not hating, just stating my thoughts.
