>>49124644The whole "it's for kids" argument is retarded. Do kids play Mario games? Yes. Do only kids play Mario? Fuck No. The Mario and Luigi RPG series are not hard at all, any kid can play them, yet they're still challenged. It's a challenge to lern how to dodge different enemy attacks while the Pokemon game's combat is just rock, paper, scissors. So you take a game with an alreddy easy battle mechanic and simplify it even more by dumbing down dungeons and caves and having players literally telling you where to go and stopping you from going anywhere else. The style of the Pokemon games are fucking boring too, it's all sanitized crap where all the characters are happy and everything is happy and gay and they all talk to you like a baby while M&L's style is bright, colorful, cartoonish and lighthearted without it being too childish to appeal to older people. The tone of the Pokemon games have this very forced lightheartedness which makes them bad.