you would care about korrina and ansha if you had played xy, the dlc was a love letter to older fans not newer fans
Wow you did not just try and claim I am a "newer" Pokémon fan 😂
My first game was Leaf Green. I played XY when it released.
I have a complicated relationship with XY. The region is great, the aesthetic fantastic, mega-evolution is the best gimmick mechanic the series has introduced. The plot was.... meh, and outside of Professor Sycamore, Sina and Dexio the cast was utterly uninspired, forgetful and not to my tastes.
In comparison Legend ZA has one of my favourite cast of characters in a Pokémon game in a long time. Especially the members of Team MZ. The feeling on companionship and comradary is very real to me. Their connections to Lumiose, a City that feels very alive and lived in, in this game, is very believable.
Korrina being missing for the whole events of the main plot and turning up and acting like she deserves to take part in this mission over Lida and Naveen is honestly annoying to me because she is not in any way more interesting than Lida and Naveen who still had so much space for development and exploration of their characters. Same for Urbain/Taunie.
Ansha is a bit better mostly because of that first part of the DLC where its Team MZ trying to chase her through Hyperspace Lumiose. That part was like in an anime when your group of chaotic teens are put in charge of an even more chaotic child. But overall she only really exists to facilitate the donuts mechanic which to put it plainly I hate that mechanic. And she is not charming enough to counteract my dislike for the gameplay she is attached to.
The actual plot with Darkrai is good, makes sense and the moment with AZ is hauntingly beautiful. It deserved to be in a different, better DLC. Not having Lida or Naveen there for that moment with AZ is honestly fucking criminal, like do they not deserve closure too? Did they not also fucking live in that Hotel?
And as for the Hoenn Trio part. Just doesn't fit, onlt reason its there is cause ORAS had Mega-evolution so they felt they had to fit them in but that Rayquaza fight is utter bullshit. Its just not fun putting a timer on an already challenging boss.
So yeah. I have played XY, on release. I like those games even if I have my issues. That doesn't change the fact the DLC to Legend ZA is bad. If they had to reference XY characters (which I do think they should have done more of) it should have been Sycamore, Sina and Dexio.