>>56047178I think we all hoped there would be more to it. XY probably has the worst narrative to date of any mainline game.
My guess is that it was the first time GF were forced out of their effort/budget comfort zone with the move to 3d, and their ability didn't match up to the scope. I remember masuda bragging that they had 500+ people developing it, when GF only had around ~80 employees at the time. Actual contributing members would have been even lower, since they had b-team working on ORAS, and gear team working on Harmoknight.
The exact same shit happened with SwSh, with them going into HD game development 15 years late and completely overstepping their limits. Masuda, again, had most of the staff making LGPE under him, while b-team was left to flounder trying to get gen 8 functional. To make things even worse, there were at least 60 people busy with fucking little town hero that would have been a whole lot more helpful getting SwSh in a better spot.
What I'm trying to say is I'm glad masuda is gone.
