Despite introducing a lot of popular and familiar Pokemon, Gen 4 might've been overshadowed by pseudo-Fighting types as I guess GameFreak thought they would be more appealing than regular Pokemon powers. This also expanded to the new evaluations of past Pokemon, with many being unnecessary and ugly evaluations of already-competitive Pokemon (although some were necessary) and weirdly-designed babies (Mantyke may be the only regular-looking one here, and Munchlax was a cutesy Gen 3 leftover that managed to not die down).
Also, the anime was still good (every two generations it goes into a "reboot" phase), despite having some rather questioning plot choices, specially the fact that we have to see all of Dawn's content battles.
Also, the anime was still good (every two generations it goes into a "reboot" phase), despite having some rather questioning plot choices, specially the fact that we have to see all of Dawn's content battles.