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>Most devs don't bother making mons games because Pokémon scares off almost all competition just by existing
>The few devs that do enter the market go full retard and try to go head-to-head with Pokémon and inevitably get eviscerated, either by giving their games a similar tone and marketing specifically towards children or just straight up ripping Pokémon off.
If devs were smart enough to realise that there's a relatively untapped market for mons games aimed towards older audiences then this genre might not be so Pokémon centric and stale. Capcom had a good chance to do this with Monster Hunter Stories, but they completely fucked it up by doing the exact full retard thing I mentioned above.
The only games that come to mind that fit this criteria right now are SMT (which outdates Pokémon but is still very niche) and Persona (which is just an SMT spin off that focuses more on the life sim elements anyway).
