>>55704162The terrible nosedive in quality happened alongside the casualization in XY.
While XY were decent, ORAS being lazy pieces of shit really pissed of some fans.
Then SM come out to be lazy pieces of shit with no postgame for the third time in a row, so more fans got pissed.
Then USUM was announced and, despite literally every breathing person thinking they would be sequels, they were even lazier pieces of shit that didn't even do anything with the unused areas in the shit SM games. Even more fans were pissed.
All of these bad feelings and cut features, culminated into the shitshow that was the SwSh pre-release.
Then, knowing how bad BDSP looked, Gamefreak announced Legends next to it to soften the blow.
It worked perfectly, PLA ended up being peak Pokemon.
SV came out, they were decent at least, and it looks like the franchise is moving in the right direction again.
