>>56504896PLA isn't the inventive refresh the series needed like people think; they stripped everything out (many pokemon, mechanics, features, towns, battles, trades) swapped it with badly copied mechanics and design from other games (mobile games for one), and rigged it into a trend they're 15 years late to.
All you ever hear in defense of it is the same echoes of reddit posts from the game launch, "first time i blah blah a pokemon game in forever", "finally did something new", "step in the right direction", "needed change", but nothing about the game itself.
No one talks about it, except shiny hunting. Apparently you're supposed to like this game cause they devalued shinies and made them really easy to get. Right, so waiting around doing nothing for a color swap to pop into the N64 landscape is what makes this good.
