New around here, though I have been looking at others posts, when I didn’t have an account. You all seem quite pleasant so I think I’ll post around Orange Islands for a while.
Anyway, three unpopular (at least judging from what I’ve seen) opinions:
First is that I actively don’t care for story in pokemon games, while it does make good filler in the games I’ve played so far (BW2, Platinum, UM, SwSh) I just want to get to the fights. I’m not opposed to it, but for this reason I’m not as big on the “story” entries, and thus, I haven’t played them (SM, BW).
Second is that I think the XY anime isn’t great, it feels like something they slapped together and called it a day (I’ll admit Team Flare, or I suppose Lysandre is pretty cool, but I haven’t played XY yet so I can’t compare but that seems to be a shining positive that people agree on). I’m not gonna say that it was lazy or anything, because it’s a pretty well drawn and surprisingly well acted series, but I much prefer Sun and Moon, even if there are a lot of flaws it has (Ash being the main character disrupting the Lusamine arc, Ultra Necrozma being anticlimactic as heck, and the pace being absolutely ridiculous).
Lastly, I’m not exactly pessimistic about the future of pokemon. I don’t have much hope either, but after the year GameFreak has had, with no one who is a representative of GameFreak being able to catch a break about the latest entries, something tells me that they may get down and try and have some effort next time. However, this is probably unlikely, because GameFreak’s quality has declined very steeply, from USUM to SwSh, and if they can rake in the amount of sales SwSh has had with it being a bad game, something tells me that unless a mad boycott happens to the next series games, they will keep continuing what they’re doing, and like I said, I’m not exactly pessimistic about it - Pokemon has a great formula, meaning if you just upped the graphic department and the gameplay department even the tiniest bit, many would still have fun with it, like me, which is sad and at the same time kind of relieving, though I suppose that’s mostly sad.
Anyway, feel free to critique these opinions of this post and I’m looking forward to posting here more :)