>linear as fuck
>handholdy as fuck and started the trend of putting forced tutorials everywhere
>roadblocks at every objective
>dialogue spam
>focuses too much on the story surrounding other characters instead of just letting you do your own thing i.e. tries too hard to be a jrpg
>forces the player to interact with side content instead of just... leaving it as side content
>region is a set of hallways layed out in a linear circle
>theme park region design i.e. spams biomes everywhere instead of just honing in on one climate type like hoenn, johto and sinnoh
>three pokemon per gym leader and four pokemon per elite four member
>inb4 kalosperm
HGSS was the peak of Pokémon. BW, B2W2, XY, and everything else that came after HGSS, is equally garbage.
