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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

What is it about 4 that people dont like?

basically, it's kind of a filler plot game, since it's mostly just a series of tournament arcs. Each round in the tournament has some mini plot episode leading into the fight. Sometimes there's also a mandatory minigame attached, like having to catch soccer balls (but they explode and kill you if you miss).

now, the other games are pretty episodic/silly plot wise, but this takes it a bit further since a lot of the tournament rounds are just fights against generic navi enemies instead of bosses. the way it's structured also means that you have to play through the game multiple times (since I think there's some rng involved in who wins the other matches in the tournament) to fight all the unique navi bosses and get their chips (not to mention, they're also split between the two versions of the game).

there's also the dark chip system, where you have powerful evil dark chips that you can use under certain conditions but they permanently decrease your max hp by 1 each time you use them so no one uses them.