Well Final Fantasy is its only real other competition, and even though theyre stories are pretty good they’ve had their issues over the years.

I agree with you, but not all kids are like that 🙂 My little cousin (10) enjoys harder video games to test her skills and always begs me (her high schooler aged cousin) to let her play the harder games that I play because she hates easy.

My personal reasons for being disappointed:
X/Y: Loved it but,
-Too few new pokemon, only one evolution/pre-evo of an old pokemon, and only one new ground type who happened to be the regional rodent’s evo

-Tying into the other one, creators felt that mega evolutions were a suitable replacement to introducing new evos
-Weak post game
-Team Flare has the worst motivation since Gen 3 (Destroying the world to maintain its beauty)
-Way too easy, level was in the 80s when I reached E4 w/o grinding
-Waaaaaaaay too many old pokemon taking attention from the few new ones

OR/AS:
-Weak post game, weak post game, weak post game

-First game I needed an HM Slave since Gen 4
-First pokemon game I EVER felt like I had to power through, just felt like it dragged
-Felt rushed, like it was just something to satisfy fans between XY and S/M
-Had nothing to really set itself apart. It really was just R/S with Gen 6 graphics. As an example: Firered and Leafgreen extremely updated a dated Gen 1, HeartGold and Soulsilver had walking pokemon, pokeathlon and updated gen 2 mechanics, OR/AS had the primordial Pokemon Go AKA thelittle search function on your touch screen and Soaring which was fun, but wasn’t enough to warrant a remake. Gen 3 wasn’t that dated yet in my opinion.

TL;DR, They were lacking

Even without the inclusion of the battle frontier Oras was very light on content. Even compares to previous remakes. Delta episode was cool but there were not any new areas to explore like the sevi islands from frlg.

i guess you’re right 🙂

imo the one thing that keeps Pokemon from being a top tier RPG is the lack of any story.

B/W has that but it only really stands out because of the other generic stories the series has.

Why not?

Obviously, but it has a strong claim considering its the most successful RPG series of all time

Literally what I’ve been saying for months. xD What I think would be cool as well would be a “Pokemon Master” mode, which would be unlocked by beating Hard mode.