>>55317514>>55317535It's not lazy in terms of the art team, but it is lazy from a product standpoint when your game is meant to tell a story and the story isn't complete.
XY would have benefited from an additional 6 months even of dev time, but we can't have nice things when nintendo and shareholders demand their paychecks.
XY had a lot of things going for it that all felt incomplete, and had TCP actually continued to expand on those concepts instead of this lunacy of 'eVeRy ReGiOn hAs tO Be CoMpLEtly UnIqUe' then gen 7 would have been incredible.
gen 8 though was the true turning point. While gen 7 actually expanded on characters and gave them more personality and flare (the unnecessary but appreciated details with guzma comes to mind most easily), gen 8 was a step back despite 3d allowing for more expression potential.
Leon suffered the hardest in terms of character building. They went out of their way in gen 7 for a few characters, yet here they just said "...eh, give him a hat, a pose, and a charizard, good enough".
gen 9, they listened to those complaints seeing how everyone loved the characters so much who they did give personality to (raihan being the most popular it seems for male characters) and gave us actual depth to Arven and Kiki.
but it still isnt the kind of quality and world building people need to be immersed in a 3d setting.
