hey boys and girls. Should I buy the new Pokemon game? I bought

Sun and Moon are the worst mainline Pokémon games yet.

The level design is atrocious because it is so heavily streamlined and boring. There are no puzzles and the aptitude for exploration is at an all-time low (not completely absent). The Sevii Islands in FireRed and LeafGreen - which are separated from Kanto and mostly postgame content (not to mention in games that's 13 years old now and on far inferior hardware) - have more dungeons, puzzles and optional locations to explore than the entire Alola region. With a tiny region, things like the Mt. Lanakila elevators or the cave entrance in Wela Volcano Park that teleport you to the top of the mountain, the smallest number of towns and cities yet, this aspect is as barebones as it has ever been.

The narrative is hyper-prominent and chokes the player with dialogue and cutscenes, but they rarely add anything to the story being told. Most of the time the characters are just gushing over how cool you or the current location is. The dialogue is very one dimensional and the plot fails to make sense at critical points and is full of missed opportunities. Since you haven't played it and I don't want to spoil it I can't provide any examples though. (1/2)

>>32159448
The auxiliary features and content in the game is also some of the worst the franchise has yet to offer. Poké Finder is immensely grindy, repetitive and pointless. Festival Plaza is likewise a massive grind, but also requires good luck in order to get the facilities you want. The so-called "minigames" of the Plaza simply consist of running around in circles. It's like they took Pokémon Snap and the Join Avenue, removed all the cool things about them and shoehorned them into the game. Poké Pelago is very convenient, but ultimately it's just waiting, barely making it a feature. The items you can get from it could have been locked behind fun and engaging minigames like the Pokéathlon instead.

There are numerous smaller, miscellanous points to make, such as the butchered fishing, noticeable frame drops and poor optimization under certain circumstances (even on a New 3DS), and the removal of the National Pokédex.

Overall the good points of these games boil down to three things. The graphics, which are the best they have ever been (also taking into account things like move animations), the music which is mostly good although not spectacular, and the removal of HMs, one of the most annoying mechanics from older games. The other basic aspects of video games - level design, writing and content most notably - are the worst the series has had to offer yet. (2/2)

the story is "lillie lillie lillie MALASADA lillie lillie GET IN THE BAG lillie lillie lillie lillie lillie"

it's better than usual for pokémon but not at all good

>>32159461
So it looks like I'm going to wait for the next game to come out!

>>32159416
If you ask /vp/ for advice, all they'll say is the game is shit. There's a demo, form your own opinions instead of listening to the place that insists that anything new is garbage (e.g. all of 4chan).

>>32159629
>anyone that's not saying it's good is full of shit
>opposing opinions are not allowed
>GameFreak could never make a bad game
>all arguments are invalid
>/vp/ is one person
This is you.

>>32159659
>the past months of boxart spam and samefagging don't exist
>people should get all their opinions from /vp/ and /vp/ alone
>everything new sucks, there's nothing good
>copypasted responses from old threads with some changed words are valid
>the same fucking retard samefagging for months should be considered a valid source of opinion
This is (you). Also note I didn't reply to you originally, I was simply telling him not to go on the board that always spams the same shitty boxart threads for months to get actual opinions rather than shit from you, the guy who has done this for months. You'll of course deny it, but you have the exact same typing style and the post is an almost identical paste from one of your old spam pieces. Nice try.

>>32159659
He's right though. Any SM thread is always just samefagged to death by one guy shitting on anyone who likes the games and he drowns out any opinions other than his own. A lot of the stuff you said is just projecting your assumptions, he said to get your own opinions from somewhere other than this echo chamber.

>>32159659
Don't worry bro I got this
Sun and Moon is shit don't buy it
only play gen 4 dude, it's free and on an emulator too
fuck gf pokemon is dead
sheeelll

Are we done now? Close thread?

>>32159416
Oh boy, another boxart thread. Gee, I wonder what's going to happen here.
>>32159739
Just don't reply. In fact, you're the stupid one here for taking the OP as genuine.

>>32159416
>>32159448
>>32159461
>>32159559
Next time, try to make it less obvious