>>55419915I always thought XY was passable. It's one of the games to introduce the most new stuff of the entire franchise. There was no third version and, it having post game, was expected (at the time first versions only had a battle tower at most) but it left the next game with a responsibility to have postgame.
ORAS' lack of Emerald enhancements, lack of Battle Frontier, and recycling the Battle Maison, left a bad taste in people's mouth. It gave the impression of laziness and the "kid's these days want to use phones, not play games" quote from Masuda only added to that.
BDSP didn't get as badly trashed because they fell back of Legends, and the game being good saved it from the hate SwSh got.
