>>54147526For me, it's really simple:
Acknowledge me.
Most people who played the first generation games and lived through Pokemania are in their 30s, pushing their 40s. Yet there's never really been a game made for them. GameFreak is eternally chasing the 12 year old demographic and shovels out slop that caters to them, despite them likely not being that interested in Pokemon to begin with. Yet you've got this dedicated base of players who are desperate for something. They keep teasing the line, with PMD, PLA, but never fully commit into making a game for the rated T/M market.
Other Japanese developers acknowledge this, and build their games around it.
They really just need to license it out in a collaboration with a better studio like SquareEnix (great RPGs), Capcom (Pokemon should be where MonHun is), Bandai (rather well done licensed games), something.
