>>38002072The closer I look at ORAS, the more I get convinced the game's state + the lack of a pokemon Z was because it was rushed due Masuda, the 20th anniversary and maybe even Yokai Watch.
>ORAS had a pretty short development time for a remake and the devs had no issue admiting that (exactly 1 year iirc), releasing 5 months after Yokai Watch 2 in Japan>There's no gym leader rematches even though XY had them (somewhat)>The battle contest data for the new moves introduced in gen 5 and 6 is very arbitrary and random>The Battle Chatelaines use a remix of Emerald's Frontier brain theme when they could've easily used the E4 theme like they did in XYIt wouldn't be a stretch to say the game was meant to be polished for a little longer and even have more features added before GameFreak saw the whole thing and wrapped up development because it looked "finished". That's why I can't bring myself to have faith in Sword/Shield even though Masuda isn't directing it.
>>38002229With his current minset there is none.
>>38006120I don't recall him ever saying that tho
