>>54967120>3 mons for all gym leaders>4 mons for E4How is this a problem? More doesn't equal better. Did you mean poorly designed teams? If so, that's reasonable for some of them, but others are designed perfectly fine. It's unfortunate that you rarely get a well designed encounter in any Pokemon game, the GameCube titles and Gen 7 are the only ones where it comes up consistently in major battles.
>Rivals appearing everywhereHow is this a problem? Shouldn't somebody who is a rival continue to show up consistently to enforce their rivalry? I mean, sometimes showing up less can work, Blue is fairly alright and Wally is a nice surprise once in a franchise. But when you've got shit like Hau entirely dropping out of the plot in SM for zero pay-off, it makes the time you did spend with him worthless. USUM fixed it. I think BW hits mostly the right amount of screen time for your rivals to develop, it's a shame that only Bianca is exceptionally written while Cheren is just okay.
>Low effort feature (musicals)Firstly, how are musicals low effort from a design perspective? Secondly, there's been a lot of features that could probably be considered low effort in previous games. If you just said musicals are fucking bad that would be agreeable, but you didn't.
>nonsense roadblocksThat's been a thing since Gen 1. Did you mean too many roadblocks?
