The moment that forever changed the Pokémon series

The moment that forever changed the Pokémon series.

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for the better after the DS games incredibly stagnated the series.

Best Route ever made.
This and Oldale Town are the best maps in the entire franchise.

Discover a breathtaking 3D world...

Best route design in the entire series. Honestly, nothing tops this.

honestly why was this even made? was it to show off the 3d shit? I really don't get what the point of this was. Why couldn't they just incorporate the house into the city?

Route 1... Home...

>last only an hour
desu, the whole game should have been like this

>Why couldn't they just incorporate the house into the city?
Yeah, this whole part of the game should've just been the one starting town.

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yeah why not?

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to show off the 3D of course. and it really was nice when you played it for the first time. it's the same shit they did in Black/White with all the angled camerawork on skyarrow bridge and castelia city

>Massive improvements in all aspects
Compared to the downgrade that is XY, DS era might as well have been the last games

Then why the FUCK does PLA literally just have 15 wooden boxes as a village ?

It wasn't that impressive since they didn't use the 3D gimmick

What was the point of this being a route? You couldn't even find pokemon in it.

>>Massive improvements in all aspects
except the map design, pokemon distribution, puzzles, post-game.....

for being the first 3D games they still felt like DS games, battle models aside

it truly did. pokemon got so many people to return to their games after the failure of the gen5
it was a brief pokemania all over again, specially with the anime

X/Y + GO + XY Anime was honestly a brilliant time to be a pokemon fan

yeah just like how the DS games still felt like GBA games and how the GBA games still felt like GB games

it's almost as if the entire franchise since Gold and Silver is lazy and stagnant or something

PLA is the first Game Freak 3D pokemon game to feel like a 3D pokemon game.

>the DS games still felt like GBA games
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You know something that kind of sucks about all this? Neither of those towns has a Pokemon Center, and thus no PC. So if you happened to beat the league without your Fly mon, you have go through both towns and the forest all the way to Santalune to get anywhere else.

XY wasnt a downgrade. It was an improvement in ways BW were not, but carried all the bad changes BW made with it.

>they still felt like DS games
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