I have some serious issues with the Gen . The good 1 . the new pokemon are great . I like the new comers a lot . 2 . Hms are gone . Hope they never come back and hm slaves can be liberated . But there is a downside . 3 . The whole challenge for gyms is beat and a fresh idea . I like it . 4 . Rotomdex is really cool as a character . 5 . I dig the aloha forms . Good twist 6 . Team skull is amazing . I love their theme song . It reminds me of the late 90 s punk games like jet set radio . The downsides 1 . Removal of the pps and super training . These were huge quality of life items that REALLY should have stayed . 2 . Festival plaza . The joint Avenue of blackwhite 2 returns . Ugg 3 . No poke stalking or radar . I had a great time with this mechanic and seeing that nothing replaces it is disappointing . 4 . The sos system . Ok so I get the idea however turning so many battles into 2 v 2 is beyond annoying if you ' re actually in a tough fight . Your pokemon is grinding out a win and with type resistances it ' s slow going . then oh mo they do the call and another comes . It ' s even worse if you ' re trying to catch the stupid thing . 5 . Island sizes . So the islands feel a lot smaller especially when compared to the or as games . 6 . Out of combat moves are gone . While the hms needed to go , moves like teleport and dig were fine to keep . I am going to finish my play through but I don ' t know if I am going to even bother bringing my Gen 6 pokes over . Beside her training which is neat , there is very little going for this Gen over the last .