>>54709445>shift from Japanese design and theming to poorly understood international locationsversus the very "well understood" japanese locations? get real
>region design becomes more restrictive and linear overallthis is true but mainly a consequence of complaints about gen 4 (which returned when BDSP released who couldve seen that coming). unova and alola are both regions filled with shit to do off the beaten path despite being relatively linear, kalos has a lot of minigames and online functions to dick around with when you're bored, and paldea uses the open world to remedy this from being much of an issue. galar can go suck a fat cock though.
>dungeons are sparser and sparserthis is very true
>longer and longer stories that nobody gives a shit aboutthis is very wrong, people love the stories, and this was one of the highlights of gen 5's release. XY had a good story too that was held back by lysandre, ORAS added in a lot of fun story beats, and SM famously had a (long) but great plot also. Hell the recent SV had a great plot, only SWSH dropped the ball.
>no Safari Zonebloat that was obsolete by gen 3
>no ContestsRNG mechanic for ribbon farming, not fun, not interesting, an excuse to give May and Dawn something to do
>no Frontieryou dont need a frontier to have good facilities but yeah this is pretty sad, especially for ORAS forward. at least XY had the chateau and maison.
>garbage Pokémon designs like ice cream, barnacle hands, Tony the Tiger and icecube penguinbait
>music is increasingly watered down (National Park GSC is 100x more memorable than anything in SwSh or S/V)nostalgiafag, the music has impoved significantly. SWSH had the worst soundtrack in the franchise but SV brought back good music.
>Pokémon cut to sell storage subscription services and as a low effort selling point for new gamesthis is very sadly true and im surprised how easily people accepted this.
>poorly programmed, run terriblyyeah
>no spinoffs that aren't gachashityeah
