>>26526591Pokemon taught me how to read essentially, and the fondest memories I have of Pokemon are Deoxys being my favorite Pokemon enough for me to start sperging about it to my friends after I action Replayed it. It gave me two of them, but I misplaced the carts somewhere.
I still play it because even though the games and anime are limited, the prospect of Pokemon having higher technology than we could ever dream of due to powerful creatures is absolutely fascinating to me. There's a lot of aspects, to the trainers, to the Pokemon, to diverse landmasses and their lore. It makes me want to keep playing, to know more about it, to see what comes next. Pokemon has been there since I was young as hell, so even if I wanted to, I probably couldn't abandon it.
The yiffening also helps too I guess? I dunno.