>>54860435Bad =/= soulless
All 3 of those games have soul. SWSH is basically James Turner's passion project and you can see it directly in how the entire game is based around British culture and aesthetics way more than other gens based around a specific country or region. No first games are soulless since they're building an entire region and game from zero so they obviously have some interest.
BDSP was done by a different team who were clearly instructed to do a faithful remake but still built an engine from scratch and decided to add new features and nods to Platinum whenever possible
LGPE is basically Masuda nostalgiafagging over his first game.
I'd say the most soulless games are FRLG since they weren't a passion project like HGSS nor distantly removed from the originals enough like LGPE for the devs to care. It was a cashgrab to try to recapture Pokemania. It's a miracle a decent game came out of it. Either FRLG or Yellow since it was an anime tie-in cashgrab.
