>>56476720>but there's other things to enjoy the games forThe main schtick of Pokemon is the catching, training, and battling. Everything else that gets tacked on are subsidiaries of those things - and often not even good enough to call them new enough that they stand out.
Shiny hunting is a derivative of standard catching only for the clinically insane. Contests are gated to certain gens and their remakes. Raid battles are just "battle but bigger," and often with superficial rewards that used to be part of the main training processes of old.
Making the new designs and story the forefront of the games when the whole purpose of the games are actually fundamentally when broken down, are just CAPTURING, TRAINING, AND BATTLING.
If you force people into playing differently ("look, new pokemon, use those instead") then you end up with how Gen 5 started. EVERYONE hated it if they were part of the Old Guard. By fundamentally taking out pokemon and moves from the new games, and COMPLETELY WIPING OUT THE FUCKING MOVESETS OF TRANSFERRED POKEMON, you have effectively reduced your actual fanbase, as the only ones who stay around anymore are all part of the same FOTM crowd.
And hell, with everything happening with Palworld right now? Nintendo and Game Freak are not necessarily on ANYONE'S good graces.
You would have to be a flaming, megalomaniacal, full-tism RETARD to think that - in any way shape or form - that Pokemon is "good."
