>>57359211>When did Pokemon start to go downhill?'98 when the decision for Gold to be the final title to the franchise was undone. The first time they
>cut heaps of content to bottle and sell to (you) for later games>hastily squished Lugia & Pokemon Silver to inflate sales of another cartridge>cut the Unown storyline to just be an ad for the Game Boy Printer>undid creative decisions to be on the safe path for brand perceptionImagine the parallel world where they finished Gold as per vision, and it became the grand-staple gold-standard game of the GameBoy era