>>36988572The worst part is I can see Masuda sitting down and saying "Kanto didn't have a battle facility, what can we do instead to give the players a postgame experience?" then his stupid little head thought that players would be happy grinding things like Weedle or Chansey to lv.60 for a single 1v1 with a throwaway NPC.
This Master Trainer thing perfectly encapsulates exactly why Gamefreak is out of touch, they hear people want postgame and give us the shittiest, most boring, most unfun example of it and proceed to lock Red behind a 50+ hour monotonous grind and a $50 Mew Paywall.
Nobody wins with this. The casuals don't get to fight Red, the hardcore players need to dedicate weeks to leveling every single Pokemon in the Kanto dex for a SINGLE NPC battle that has nothing special for it except slightly higher than normal levels and a special ed Machamp.
>>36988581Remind me about the Melmetal grind.
