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in reply to @caro's post:

words i live by (posted while gazing at my galar top3 posters thinking about making a galar top3 shrine page on my website with my sword and shield defense video essay script open in the background)

a) mainly w this post i was referring to the release reception. people are kinder to it now in general which im grateful for but back in the day you couldnt go two feet without tripping over a "IS THIS THE WOOORST POKEMON GAME EVVAAAR???? ONE GRAPHIC LOOK BAD, POKEMON COMPANY FOUND DEAD?!?!?!?!?!?!" thinkpiece. it's not just that the games are good and should be treated as so now, but they WERE good and should have been treated as so in the past. ykwim?

b) generally i find past is the prevailing tense for discussing not just games that aren't the most recent in the series, not only especially POKEMON games given that a large part of the community is interested only in official competitive play and therefore highly migratory, but ESPECIALLY THIS GAME because of the direct comparisons natural to make between it and its successor duo. this post specifically was inspired by watching wolfe glick's scarlet supercut and having to put up with him going "oh this is so much better than sword and shield" every other second for the entire opening act and beyond when, in my opinion, he is incorrect