god soo many different opinions and controversial answers :3
Love to see them. Also i was gonna add on another of my favorite franchises: Pokemon (my signature says it all). I Really disliked Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, and also really didn't enjoy Sun and Moon. It depends on the season which one i dislike more soo i had to mention both
My shit take: I hate Pokémon.
Please allow me to explain before you judge; when I was young, my younger sister often watched the TV show before going to school; this is before the games and card game blew up into what it is in America, back when it was still very new in the states and hadn't gotten a lot of media attention; back then, only the nerdiest kids liked Pokémon, and it wasn't cool to be nerdy or into video games at that time. That said, I've always been in a kind of proxy to Pokémon as a series.
Found out you could not get Pikachu and I became immediately disinterested; some years later, I heard about a game you
could start with Pikachu as your main starter Pokémon, so I changed my tune and decided to try it.
After getting to Mt. Moon and getting 3 gym badges, I was devastated to learn that you
needed to catch other Pokémon to use HMs and learn abilities to pass obstacles, and that was when I gave up.
...Or was it? No, a temporary failure, but I decided to perservere, and got all the way to.. Volcano place of some sort, I don't remember the name. Only that I had 7 badges before I quit playing the game entirely. I think it was because I wanted to teach Surf to my Pikachu, and didn't feel like putting in the effort to catch a water Pokémon it would work on.
So, my first attempt at Pokémon was of me trying to solo Pokémon Yellow with a pikachu. I've never really looked at the series the same since. I still think about it now and then, but then I realize that there's millions of games I could be playing and having more fun doing so.
But it's not even all that which made me despise Pokémon; it's the fanbase.
Thank you for coming to my rant.