>>38207347It felt like they were stuck between advancing important ideas in the series- battling, breeding, capturing- and finding new things to distinguish the newest games and feed what would become the broader franchise, which in tandem with the series packed development schedule would inevitably hinder things. The 3DS games just brought all of that to a head by adding 3D development on top of all of that, and after the battle system that was already largely fleshed out and powercreeping.
