Pokemon, what happened to you?

[Sengir]

A majority of my complaints come from the new evolution methods.

Needing an attack to evolve? Area-based evolution? 3 new stones that could easily be replaced with older ones.

I don't care if it screws up the continuity, I prefer that over giving us real oddball methods of evolution.

I mean, I liked Tyrogue's creative evolution, but this is going too far.

So, the 4th gen should have been a sequel as well. Instead, they made 4th gen its own story arc, as well. No connections from the 3rd gen were made. You couldn't even go back to Hoenn.

That's because they were making it closer to a 2nd Gen sequel. All the Johto and Kanto references made it seem like the 3rd Gen was forgotten.