It was the Gear Pokemon that was literally two gears slapped together that did it for me.
Then I got the one who is literally an ice-cream cone with a face.
On the verge of dismissing the whole gen altogether, I then got the Pokemon who is literally a bag of trash.
A bag of trash.
Trash!
Yeah..... No thanks!
To be fair I did put some time into the game beforehand. I did the trick of buying it as a present for somebody else but then playing it a bunch before wrapping it :lol.
I arrived at the big city with the cool graphics that was constantly featured in screenshots and on the back of the (Euro) case. The game was nice enough but there really wasn't all
that much new in terms of gameplay and I was turned off by the designs so no deal. I wasn't a fan of Pearl either so not really sure where I stand with the series right now. Maybe I got old