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When I was playing Platinum when I was younger, I resented the idea of content that was shown, but unable to be obtained like the Regis. Having these kinds of things present in the game, but locked away due to being promotional material for movies made it more of a commitment to engage with the everything the marketing machine had to offer, rather than a game where your skill and/or time and effort was the determining factor. I still played HGSS and enjoyed it and its side content, but didn't go through with Gen 5. The idea of the completely new Pokedex felt wrong when most of the other earlier Pokemon felt incredibly underutilized, and how things like the Pokeathlon actually made things beyond the highest BSTs viable in their own way. Seeing Gen 5 go through basically a gimmick with entirely new Pokemon and neutered side content like Musicals completely turned me off from the series, and opened me up to the marketing machine that is Pokemon.
