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I still prefer HG/SS, but it's definitely the best of the recent crop. Once they moved to the French region(the one with fairy types), I feel like the games have gone downhill.

The core gameplay is still fine because it's so simple you just have to add small tweaks every couple of generations, but everything outside of battles has gotten awful. They try to make these deeper stories but they're still at their heart written so that 7 year olds can understand, so what you end up with is a game that's constantly interrupting itself as soon as the gameplay starts to feed you an awful story.

They're also overly handholdy now. You get funneled along a set, predictable path with the same amount of trainers that each have 1-2 Pokemon. It's just boring.

Now, Arceus might still have a poor story but it actually lets you just go out and play the game, and playing the game is done how a Pokemon game should be. You just go out in the wilderness and catch every pokemon in sight and every now and then you battle another trainer. It's simple and it works because that's all Pokemon needs to be.