>>58920052>trainer customizationirrelevant feature that only exists to satisfy agp driven delusions
>giving the pokemon actual animations and personalitiesthey did that in the stadium games, orre games, and battle revolution, and the pokemon have way more personality in them compared to xy where they stand around doing nothing for 99% of the battle
>making the pokemon more interactableit was just a gimmick to justify sylveon's existence
>iterating on previous content like berries and fishing and triple/rotation battles to give them more depth instead of lazily cutting themnobody used berry farming and triples/rotations were filler. also they cut the wifi tower in xy
>adding horde battles and super training and passive shared EXP to make EV training less tediousit's not any less tedious than in prior generations
>changing destiny knot to take breeding less tediousit's not any less tedious than in prior generations
>having more variety in the gameplay of the routes/mapsunova has seasons, repeated playthroughs have variety depending on what season it is
>nerfing poorly balanced mechanics like dragon type, gems, and weather hidden abilitiesyeah but they also added the fairy type, megas, and broken hidden abilities such as protean and gale wings which were arguably worse
>being able to see and quickly interact with all your online friendsbw also had that in the c-gear
everything xy does, games prior did better. xy is a fucking nothingburger