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Why do you still play Pokemon?
I mean what's the point when the latest games are the shittiest installments so far, and Gen 6 and 7 have set a precedent in short gens that rush games out the door and casualise them to hell and back because muh smartphones. The metagame hasn't been good since late Gen 4 either, and there's no sign that either cartridge play or competitive will do anything but backslide even further. Don't tell me that the Switch games or USM will fix anything because you know that GF doesn't follow that model anymore.
It's so bad that at this point, NOBODY defends SM anymore, let alone XY and ORAS. Pretty much the consensus is that the franchise is in a state of decline and they've abandoned any pretense of the careful craft that made games like Emerald, HG/SS and BW great. Yokai Watch is even threatening to surpass Pokemon in Japan as a result.
Why?
