>>40380448There's a lot wrong with constant Kanto pandering, both from a game design and marketing perspective.
Game design:
>A game focusing on monster collecting and fighting>A huge part of the appeal is the large collection of different monsters that add variety to the gameplay>Developers systematically ignore 80+% of their own creations and keep giving new toys to the same select few Mons, encouraging players to use the same Pokemon over and over again instead of trying out the new ones>New Mons are getting ignored in their own game because the spotlight is yet again given to the same ones that have been the focus of the attention for more than 20 yearsMarketing perspective:
>Long-time fans who actually play the games are getting extremely tired of the non-stop pandering and want something new for once (see: /vp/, r/pokemon, pretty much any Pokemon community you want. People are complaining about Kanto everywhere)>New trailers are getting review bombed with dislikes as a result and the hype for the series is at an all-time low>The group that Game Freak thinks they're pandering to doesn't even know about any of this. They stopped giving a shit more than 15 years ago and haven't played/watched anything Pokemon related since Gen I/II. Game Freak gets zero money from this group>These childhood nostalgia "fans" might actually be offended by all the changes to their old favorites ("wtf why does Charizard look so weird? That's not the REAL Charizard from Red and Blue...") and thus stray even further away from the new games (not that they were buying them in the first place since they don't give a shit)Saying something like
>There is objectively nothing wrong with ""Kanto pandering""is just pure shitposting and we both know that.
