>>54966635>How did Pokemon monopolize the monster-catching RPG genre?>No other franchise has fans that are as utterly repulsed by competing games as Pokemon fans are.>Pokemon fans will NEVER enjoy Digimon, or Monster Rancher, or Coromon, or Robopon, or Telefang, or ANYTHING that doesn’t have the Pokemon name on it.Pokemon understood that people want pets and the "monster" portion is flavor text. Having human designs and extremely blatant human elements like Digimon does thus proves inherently repulsive to someone committed to that premise.
Another thing is how "tasteless" such design philosophies are. I even hate Blastoise because the cannons are literal cannons slapped randomly into its shell. Very low tolerance for "lazy" design like that, which doesn't attempt to be naturalistic with the design.
To a Pokemon fan, particularly those who aren't introspective, it's just visceral how much "worse" other series's designs are---fundamentally unpalatable. We even shit on fanmade Pokemon / fakemons---shouldn't we actually theoretically be more sympathetic to those? But we aren't.
Pokemon has a secret Krabby patty formula thing going on, and Plankton Digifags just can't comprehend it and believe it's some sort of willful conspiracy.
