>>55399237I don't really get it either, especially for ORAS. It is my favorite remake and Gen3 games are the ones I feel most attached to, so it would've been easy to disappoint me.
I think, when it comes to ORAS, many people didn't like how it gave you Lati@s during the adventure (personally, I didn't mind, but I boxed it right away), how the plot was rewritten to accomodate the Mega gimmick (I, on the other hand, think they did a great job with rewriting the characters and story, it felt a lot more bland in Gen3 and I say this despite loving RSE) and how they got rid of the Sky Pillar puzzle.
... Oh, and obviously the lack of Battle Frontier, which I personally do not care about but I get the complaint.
As for XY, it definitely felt too easy and some choices like the E4 not even having 5 Pokémon each was definitely stupid.
The pacing of the plot was a little weird and the eastern part of the region doesn't make much sense geographically speaking, the different biomes seem to change too drastically between the routes.
Some things truly make no sense, like having an extremely snowy route lead to Anistar City, which is followed by one route, one town and another route with zero snow ... Which finally connects to Snowbelle City, a town completely immersed in snow. And Snowbelle, once again, connects to routes that have no snow. It makes zero sense, geographically speaking.
Some places being very pretty and interesting but fundamentally empty, with nothing or very little to do (especially once they served their plot purpose), definitely feel unfinished at best and lazy at worst.
Which is a real shame, because despite everything I did enjoy Gen6 as a whole, including XY, and despite the pet peeve I have with some parts of its map, I really like Kalos as a region and it's probably my favorite after Hoenn and Johto.
