>>56407153>>powercreptOnly the first three Gens were fairly equal power wise Every Gen after had some intense powercreep. Gen 6 Megas, BaraTigerofHealthyMeta, and Gens 8 and 9 as a whole seem far worse. than anything from Gen 5.
>>cripplingly underpowerednot really, Gen 5 has stinkers but there's nothing tier of shitmons from older gens like Luvducs or Ledian.
>>less detailed artisticallyNot really sure what you mean, usually i here people say Gen 5 is too detailed.
>>blatantly edgy panderingArguably started in Gen 4
>>kanto semiclonesThis criticism has some truth, but I feel most of the clones are different enough that its not jarring for them to exist along side their counterpart I'd argue e 3 has almost as many "Kanto clones'. And that the only reason Gen 2 and Gen4 don't is due to those being treated more like expansion packs, ad just use Kantomons for the common niches which is one of the reasons Gen 2 gets so little respect now.
>>conceptually shallow cartoon animals and objectsGen 1 gave use a rat that gets bigger, a bird that gets bigger a seal named Seel. and a pile of muck name Muk
>>blatantly ugly and unlikable on purposeOnly examples of this I can recall are Trubbish and Conkledurr and Seimatoad
>storyHonestly yes, The story is one aspect of Unova that I agree is overrated. to be fair, Plasma being full of shit is the point, but even that just sends that message that people who disagree with you are just liars out to get you and the only sensible course of action is to completely ignore them, which while true sometimes is an immature way to view difference in opinion/believes (weird considering Gen 5 was intended to have a more mature story). They could have at least tried to examine the relationship between trainers and Pokémon a bit more before just confirming that Plasma is the bad guy.
