>>53654106Nostalgia pandering is bad when it's super lopsided to one thing, because it's really transparent that it's just there for marketing reasons. Nostalgia pandering is good when it takes from the entire series, because that means the entire world they created is being considered. XY's Viridian Forest with a different name is shit because there's no good reason it should be like that. PWT doesn't include the Elite 4 members because there needs to be somebody to protect the region when most of the rest of the strongest trainers are gone.
>>53654158But B2W2 also had a Battle Pyramid/Trainer Tower-ish feature and a Battle Sim like feature. That's arguably less than Platinum, but Platinum had less than Emerald, and Emerald had actual garbage like the Battle Palace, so I understand wanting to cut stuff that isn't good or doesn't differentiate itself enough.
