>>53364035Just pulling back the shilling a bit and adding to the Kalos originals would've done a lot. Make the Kanto starter a sidequest instead of an unavoidable story event, maybe make some Kalos megas and swap Lucario for one, don't blatantly recreate Kanto content like the forest, Snorlax, Lapras, etc during the main story. replace those events with new content, like featuring the rivals in actual stories or giving some Kalos mons a spotlight.
Maybe also take Alola's route system and split encounters between grass patches more to avoid bloat (they already had grass and flowers on some routes, but usually the encounters didn't change much between the two)
It has a decent base, just needed some cleaning of its weaker design choices made from fear of losing old fans.
