>>56430441Poorly-written dialogue
Poorly-written story
Poorly-written characters
Poorly-designed characters
Getting stopped every 5 seconds to listen to poorly-written, forced exposition instead of actually playing the game
Some of the worst side content/minigames in the entire franchise.
Obnoxious, forced, poorly-designed new battle types.
A bunch of godawful new designs
A bunch of cheap bootlegs of gen 1 pokemon
No day/night cycle
No berries
No following pokemon
No Gen 1-4 Pokemon until the postgame
No exploration until the postgame, and even then the game still railroads you HARD.
The best bug types in the entire franchise
The best EXP system the franchise has ever had
Improvements over gens 1-4 in terms of HM use frequency and TM availability
No day/night cycle
No berries
No following pokemon
No Gen 1-4 Pokemon until the postgame