JFrombaugh
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First off, I apologize if this has been discussed before. But anyway...
A lot of players, from what I can tell, just really did not like Pokémon X & Y. And I can kinda understand many of the reasons why.
But yet, I feel like Kalos, as a region, had quite a lot of potential, especially when you look at how good the anime was, and looking back at 2016 now that GameFreak made the U-turn on third versions with USUM, I just can't help but feel an enormous sense of "what could have been", feeling like Pokémon X & Y really could've used a third version much more than Sun & Moon.
I remember many people were quick to criticize the Pokémon Sun & Moon demo as being a cop-out way of introducing Ash-Greninja to the games universe for all the kids who watch the anime, and the first time I played through SM I felt like all the Zygarde Cell stuff was shoehorned into the game for absolutely no reason other than because otherwise the Zygarde Forms would be an anime-exclusive phenomenon.
Of course, I was never a big fan of either XY or SM's Looker postgame story, but because I actually ended up liking what GameFreak did with USUM much more than I thought I would, I feel like I have to give the edge to Alola as the superior Pokémon region, even though I really WANT to like Kalos because of how much I liked the XY anime compared to this farce we've got now with the Sun & Moon anime series.
In the months leading up to Sun & Moon's announcement, I remember feeling like the inclusion of a Delta Episode-like postgame story revolving around Zygarde, as well as some anime features such as Pokémon Showcases, PokeVisions (10 second video of you playing with your Pokemon and an alternate way to raise affection to PokemonAmie?) was just waiting to be made. Instead, I got the impression that the original Pokémon Sun & Moon games were rushed, or that GameFreak just decided that they wanted Kalos to be a very anime-oriented region.
So does anyone else feel the same way? Or were you kind of glad that Gen VI was rushed?
A lot of players, from what I can tell, just really did not like Pokémon X & Y. And I can kinda understand many of the reasons why.
But yet, I feel like Kalos, as a region, had quite a lot of potential, especially when you look at how good the anime was, and looking back at 2016 now that GameFreak made the U-turn on third versions with USUM, I just can't help but feel an enormous sense of "what could have been", feeling like Pokémon X & Y really could've used a third version much more than Sun & Moon.
I remember many people were quick to criticize the Pokémon Sun & Moon demo as being a cop-out way of introducing Ash-Greninja to the games universe for all the kids who watch the anime, and the first time I played through SM I felt like all the Zygarde Cell stuff was shoehorned into the game for absolutely no reason other than because otherwise the Zygarde Forms would be an anime-exclusive phenomenon.
Of course, I was never a big fan of either XY or SM's Looker postgame story, but because I actually ended up liking what GameFreak did with USUM much more than I thought I would, I feel like I have to give the edge to Alola as the superior Pokémon region, even though I really WANT to like Kalos because of how much I liked the XY anime compared to this farce we've got now with the Sun & Moon anime series.
In the months leading up to Sun & Moon's announcement, I remember feeling like the inclusion of a Delta Episode-like postgame story revolving around Zygarde, as well as some anime features such as Pokémon Showcases, PokeVisions (10 second video of you playing with your Pokemon and an alternate way to raise affection to PokemonAmie?) was just waiting to be made. Instead, I got the impression that the original Pokémon Sun & Moon games were rushed, or that GameFreak just decided that they wanted Kalos to be a very anime-oriented region.
So does anyone else feel the same way? Or were you kind of glad that Gen VI was rushed?