>>39146470You, uh, kinda messed up your reply formatting there.
>This could give challenge to literal braindead peopleOr children. As in who the games are made for.
Pokemon has never been meant to be challenging. As you said, the challenge was usually just circumstantial design (outside of Ultra Necrozma who was definitely meant as a "hard" boss).
Pokemon is meant to be accessible to players of all ages and skill levels, so it's generally really easy. That's why people do the self-imposed challenges like Nuzlockes to make things more interesting on repeat plays.
Instead of raising the difficulty, they're making the gym battles more of a spectacle to create an impression. Again, i don't know if that will actually work, but I'm still gonna give it a shot and see.
