This is objectively the worst region.
>Worst exploration
>Worst "gyms"
>Worst plot
>Worst characters
>Worst pokemon roster
>Worst online/communcation
>Worst mechanics (braindead z-moves)
>Kanto pandering
>Worthless pseudo-sequel rehash games (USUM)
>Soulless artstyle
>300k unskippable cutscenes
Prove me wrong.
plot
its the only Pokemon game with a semi decent plot
>hyperfocused on Lillie and her schizo mom
>you're basically just a side-character to Lillie's antics
>unskippable cutscenes about Lillie's BS before and after everything
>no depth
>no interesting lore
>slow af pacing
>lots of loose ends
>it's even worse in USUM with the blue space Black folk or whatever the frick
It's the WORST plot out of all of them
so how is its plot worse than gen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 again? let me see you defend gen 6
The plot is so corny, it feels like a cheap fan-fiction. All Ohmori games suffer from this. He tries too hard to be different and it comes out bad
exploration
"gyms"
plot
characters
pokemon roster
online/communcation
mechanics (braindead z-moves)
pandering
artstyle
>>300k unskippable cutscenes
But enough about galar
The characters in Galar actually had depth, the gyms were well-designed, the online didn't suck and the cutscenes were skippable. The wild area was flawed but at least they were trying something.
>The characters in Galar actually had depth,
Toppest kek
Rose could have been ironed out a a bit more, but the rest were at least somewhat like people and and not just cutouts. The same cant be said about Alola.
>but the rest were at least somewhat like people and and not just cutouts.
Nope, they were even worse than SM.
the longer you wait to fix something, the more likely chance it will never be fixed
It would be nice if the game explained that moronic logic. Or anything at all to be honest. Makes sense since the game was incredibly rushed and had a very troubled development as we know from the Nintendo gigaleak
An accurate portrayal of environmentalists
>”TWO MORE WEEKS!”
>Noooo he hurt my Alolaa
You can't speak with facts, homosexual.
>The characters in Galar actually had depth,
>Unbeatable CHARIZARD and bad at directions
>diet hau but whiny instead of smily
>ONE DAY
There are piss puddles with more depth than that
wow I can't
Honeslty agree on the exploration but the new Pokémon and characters are good. I didn't mind Z-moves too since they weren't as annoying as Megas were and the whole story didn't revolve around them. The story was also a step up from X and Y and is better than SwSh. Art style is fine as well but is hindered by the 3DS
and one western lady is the final nail in the coffin
the artstyle, character designs, and pokemon designs are all pretty good imo. the worst region is fricking paldea
yeah I was gonna say alola has really well done character designs and everything from the design standpoint in the region at least is really good and anyone who's been to Hawaii would probably agree
>worst exploration
tell us what this buzzword means OP
It would have been neat to actually sail between the islands. Make it a mini-Wimd Waker.
They really should've made them routes. Frick the water route haters
>Worst exploration
Not really, only the second island is fricking dreadful. There's way more to explore compared to XY and probably SS without the DLC depending on how you count the Wild Area.
>Worst "gyms"
None of them are really great, yeah.
>Worst plot
That's probably DP or XY, which just redo RS without anything good about it, but riding a lion through spacetime to fix a girl's mommy issues is really lame.
>Worst characters
Maybe, SM Hau is fricking awful. USUM Hau is a really solid character though, and the other characters show up and actually do things, so XY is probably worse overall (characters either do nothing or waste your time on average).
>Worst pokemon roster
As one of the post Gen 6 large Pokemon pools, that's really up in the air. If you're just talking about new Pokemon I dunno, comes down to taste (unless you're talking statistically, I dunno).
>Worst online/communcation
Maybe, definitely up there as one of the worst though
>Worst mechanics (braindead z-moves)
I think Z-moves offer more interesting decision making than megas (always mega evolve unless you're exactly Speed Boost Sharpedo) or bigmaxing (which is either done to pressure your opponent into doing it or in response to your opponent doing it).
>Kanto pandering
At least it has the reasoning of an anniversary year, and at least attempts to reference other games consistently and in your face. I do like Lillie leaving for Kanto at the end of SM specifically because it's a callback to something relevant instead of almost every other example of Kanto being referenced in the game.
>Worthless pseudo-sequel rehash games (USUM)
Straight up way better than base SM, not even a contest
>Soulless artstyle
I think it looks pretty good, way better in comparison to Gen 6's awful chibi attempt. The only souless part is your character's thousand yard stare (which makes one cutscene way funnier).
>300k unskippable cutscenes
PLEASE, somebody mod the game to remove them
>There's way more to explore compared to XY
No there isn't. XY has plenty of optional areas, including dungeons. The Alola games were the ones that started to remove dungeons all together, and had like one area that was optional.
>had like one area that was optional
ten carat hill
melemele sea
hau'oli cemetery
hano beach
malie city outer cape
blush mountain
haina desert
that's more than one
>I think Z-moves offer more interesting decision making than megas (always mega evolve unless you're exactly Speed Boost Sharpedo
Not that I fully disagree, but Sejun Park would pivot his Gyarados to exploit intimidate before actually Megaing it. Just that everyone was focused in the Pachirisu to notice it.
Same applied to Mawile, and even Kangaskhan would sometimes wait to Mega if it was more convenient to keep Scrappy and Fake out on a ghost-type
Which Pokemon region would be my home?
>region with very few Fairy type pokemons
>region with many fire, poison and steel type pokemon
>ultra linear region
>region that is hell for Fairy type pokemons
>region where it is a very bad idea to have a Pokémon with Fairy type
>region with legendary major with fire, poison or steel type
>region where it is impossible to get lost and impossible to get stuck
>Which Pokemon region would be my home?
The shittiest one
Galar
I hate Zacian
and I said a region, very few Fairy type pokemons
Galar
Then I'm going to let Eternatus frick the Galar region.
I don't work with fairies
Orre
Reasons why the Orre region would be my home in the Pokemon World?
It's a polluted shithole without any fairies
thank god Orre has not been invaded by those horrible demons that call themselves Fairy type Pokemons
>It's a polluted shithole
Fair enough
>without any fairies
????? Who fricking cares
Unova
They couldn't do the tropical setting justice with that 3DS color palette.
Yeah I always thought Alola looked really dull, less than Kalos but still not vibrant enough for a region set in Hawaii. I think Galar should've been on the 3DS not Alola
>Worst exploration
Hoenn
>Worst "gyms"
johto
>Worst plot
Kalos
>Worst characters
Kalos
>Worst pokemon roster
Kalos
>Worst online/communcation
Kanto
>Worst mechanics (braindead z-moves)
Kalos (megas)
>Kanto pandering
Kalos.
>Worthless pseudo-sequel rehash games (USUM)
Kanto.
>Soulless artstyle
Kalos.
>300k unskippable cutscenes
Gen 4 johto.
exploration
>Hoenn
Cringe
alolan games are the best in the entire series
removed hms, made region exploration incredibly fun with ride mons AND still has the best ride mons in the series along with legends arceus (instead of partner pikachu/eevee, bike from swsh, or dragon bike from sv), comfy tropical theme, good story
they have two kinds of objectives that replace gyms: totem mons and trial captains
plus they have two gimmicks: z moves and mega evolutions
> removed hms
And it’s a disaster for that alone. "Ride mons" are garbage. Wild pokemon are supposed to attack you not carry you
you sound like a homosexual
Not to mention the horrendous homosexual suit that they force you to wear
that’s not unova
Woah you almost described galar!
That’s every game since XY.
>Worst "gyms"
Have you played SV?
exploration
aside from moun lanakila being the worst victory road, there's nothing wrong with it. there's plenty of side areas like haina desert and kala'e bay and there lots of routes, particularly on the first island, have little segments that open up after you obtain more ride mons
"gyms"
totem pokemon were good. 1v2 should have been the new standard for boss fights
plot
>Worst characters
never been remarkable in any pokemon game. if you're talking about character designs in particular then SV is undoubtedly the worst
pokemon roster
the pokemon designs were indeed bad, but every 3D era game has shit pokemon designs so that's not saying much
online/communcation
can't really comment on this because i never used it. i always did online stuff on showdown
mechanics (braindead z-moves)
dynamax and tera are way more braindead. z-moves only last one turn and they force you to sacrifice the item slot for it. dynamax and tera last more than one turn and you can stack items on top of them. hell, dynamax even goes as far as to remove the choice item lock and you can just spam boosted attack moves without any downside. it's pretty hard to get more broken than that/ z-moves actually feel balanced
pandering
yeah this is true
pseudo-sequel rehash games (USUM)
i liked the new additions like mantine surf and improved mount lanakila so i like it enough that i would prefer to play them over the originals
artstyle
SV has the worst art style
>>300k unskippable cutscenes
never had a problem with it on replays
characters
pokemon roster
Ill let you have everything else but this OP. What the frick do you mean, both Gen 7's dex and the character designs are well regarded by everyone.
i'm one of the few alola fans on this baord but i really do think the pokemon designs were some of the worst aspects about the game. the starters look like some deviantart furgay's OCs and regional variants were just an excuse for gamefreak to be lazy and not come up with more new mon designs. it also has the worst regional rodent
>Worst exploration
Yes. Since the game is holding your hands through most of the islands, no area feels like a discovery.
>Worst plot
I wouldn't say the plot is bad by pokemon standards, but the game interrupts you way too much.
>Worst characters
Agreed. The game is filled with nothing but bland waifubait characters.
>Worst pokemon roster
This generation had some of the worst designs in the franchise, I agree.
>Worst online/communication
100% agree. The idea to replace the best bottom screen in the entire franchise was dumb, but to make it so you can only access wi-fi from the shit plaza place was fricking terrible. There was no point in seeing a Charizard cutscene every time you wanted to go online.
>Worst mechanics
I also hated z-moves, specially when compares to Megas.
>Worthless pseudo-sequel rehash games (USUM)
I wouldn't even call them pseudo-sequels, they were an outright scam. They tried to cover up they were shitty rehashes at first, even going as far as to release a map of Alola with large portions covered in clouds (to give the impression of new areas), and the Ultra Hallway being depicted as a giant city was outright false advertisement.
>Soulless artstyle
Yes. I could never get into the games because the MC walked like a robot and had a soulless smile plastered on 99% of the time.
>300k unskippable cutscenes
Agreed completely. The worst ones were the rival showing up, making the camera pan to a spot already on your bottom screen "always on" quest marker, and then fricking off.
>This is objectively the worst region
sounds like galar
actually that's paldea