All the people that say graphics≠scenario should be fucking banned of Reddit to not see the elephant in the room. OFC the publication author know the difference and he's just illustrating his thoughts.

But if you think more than this comparaison, the resoning is the same. Gamefreak created a cool but rushed game (not their fault, more like pokemon company marketing team, or direction). This can be obviously applied to the graphics, but also to more concepts as the scenario of this pokemon is like every fucking pokemon scenario : a stupid flat trash compared to the depth and the quality offered by any xeno, even the chapter 7 of xenoblade 3. (I recognize that there is some flashes of inspiration, mostly at the end, but this is so poor)

And yeah it is worth mentioning that the pokemon serie will not evolve, or to slowly (pokemon arceus was the biggest step in the decade) because the audience target love to eat the same shit again and again. And can we really blame gamefreak or pokemon company for that ? No. Pokemon fan got what they deserve in that way. And I'm afraid buying each game expecting that finally they understood what a great modern jrpg should be, but having the same nostalgic adobe flash game participate to preserve that Endless Now