>>first jump to 3d in mainline
gen4's entire over world is 3D and ugly, same as gen5
>>introduced battle gimmicks
gen5. powergems, rotation battles, triple battles. all gimmicks we never see again
>>introduced player customization
gen4 pbr
>>began the trend of cutting content for horseshit reasons
gen4 neutered contests, secret bases, and the frontier.
gen5 doesn't have a game corner, secret base system, contests, ribbons, berry farming, frontier, and other stuff
>>began the trend of overanthromorphization
mr.mime, blaziken, lopunny, etc
>>began the trend of friendly "rivals" and an overabundance of handholding
>friendly rvials
may/wally, barry, cheren, bianca, and hugh are all friendly fags
>handholding
unova is especially railroaded to shit and full of boring tutorials
dancing men? pokestar studio and pwt tutorials? hello????

GenVI only continues the nugen cancer brought upon us by the previous 2 gens.