Guessed by @UnderwaterFunktown
I talked in my Black & White post about how I've moved on from the Pokémon franchise, and that process happened after X & Y, the last Pokémon games I truly loved - and the ones I loved the most.
Yes, starting around 2016 I began getting into the Digimon franchise, and gradually moved over completely. My love for that came mostly through its anime, however - Digimon games were always a little too limited, that is until Time Stranger came out this year and, even through its faults and shortcomings, was an absolute dream come true as a fan of the franchise. It was the kind of huge step forward, a real evolution if you will, that I'd been waiting so long for.
I've been thinking about X & Y a lot since playing that, because well, X & Y was the last time a monster-taming RPG made me feel this way. It's crazy to think it's been 12 years, but Pokémon X & Y back then was a real dream come true for me, an enormous step into new territory for the Pokémon franchise with its re-rendering of every Pokémon in 3D, and a more cinematic (if simpler) storyline. These games had a lot of shortcomings and a lot of room for improvement, yes, but for the time they came out in, they were everything I wanted from Pokémon.
