| shikamaru317 said: It seems to me like they made alot of improvements with AS/OR. You get a Latias/Latios for free now, whereas it was originally very hard to catch one, and you can fly around on it which is pretty cool. You can catch a Deoxys in-game, whereas he was previously event only in the originals. They added some new characters and the Delta Episode to the story. They removed the safari game from the Safari Zone, allowing you to catch Pokemon normally. Really the only thing I see that I don't like that much is that they completely redesigned Mauville. |
I wouldn't say gifting legendary Pokemon is an improvement. It was hard to catch them because they're legendary mythical deities. I thought the flying around would be cool, but it's really just the "airship" sections of typical JRPGs that has been done away with decades ago. It doesn't in reality feel fun because you're just in this obvious pocket map of Hoenn. You're not flying across a region, you're selecting icons from a hub world. The only positive is that you don't need a Pokemon with Fly anymore, even though Fly is a more convenient move since it's instant.
The whole Delta Episode is cool, and a highlight, but it doesn't come close to what it fills in, which is the Battle Frontier. Removing the Safari Zone was extremely bad, not good. It added variety, and was a fun change of pace. Using the old Pokemon contests when there was already an improved Super Contest isn't good either. Also, they turned Team Aqua and Team Magma into cartoon villians that didn't seem to take themselves seriously. The grunts are always supposed to be silly, but the Admins and leaders aren't. If the whole game was written like the Delta Episode, there wouldn't be a problem, but they didn't. They left any intelligent writing for the post game, which was the same problem in XY with the vastly superior Looker Quest. Both are likely because the post game content was so abysmal in both.
Also, the original had the Game Corner. I don't even mind the redesign of Mauville. It's not like the original was interesting.
