>>53470137>b-b-but whatabou-There's no need to deflect. Both PMD and main games have terrible gameplay, but this is a PMD thread.
PMD's is arguably worse anyway. It's at least cool to discover a new route or a new town or something. In PMD all the dungeons are basically the exact same and the town you spend the game in barely changes.
In the main games it's cool to have a feeling of maturing and growing along with your Pokemon and to grow and add to your team. In PMD you can't evolve anything until the postgame for the dumbest fucking reasons and there's no real reason to use anything other than your main two characters.
The main games have sidequests, hidden off little areas, reasons to return to older areas with new abilities. PMD has none of that which in the case of the first two things is actually frankly bizarre for a roguelike. The most you have is the revolving line of quests which barely have anything to them and could all be interchanged.
PMD is just bad. There's a reason why it's firmly stayed in the shadow of the main games and it's not because it wasn't made by Gamefreak.
