>>49365215Compare gen 3 PMD Gardevoir to gen 4 PMD Gardevoir
>Guardian Angel who sacrifices it's existence to protect a horrible individual and guides the players on their quest to save the world; it acknowledges it has been selfish at times but means the best and even though it knows deep down it's trainer was a horrible person, it still loved them so, a revelation that drives Gengar to tears and ultimately sets him on a quest to save his former partner>A member of Team Charm, a team all about girly things that wants to woo peopleThe signs were always there; this is just the ultimate culmination of that
>"d-did you think it was masculine?"It was androgynous and neutral in personality quirks; which at the time was the point. It's design had both masculine and feminine elements and while it was a protector of it's trainer it didn't have a fawning, girlish personality like it does now.
Take it's roll in the New Pokemon Snap game for instance; the guardian of the forest isn't Gardevoir (instead it's Shiftry), Gardevoir instead spends it's days doing kiddie tricks to entertain babies. It ditched the knight/mage/advisor theme and just glued itself to "cute girl". The mega has it in a Wedding Dress and it's ability to Pixilate (Fairy Skin in Japan). All it's appearances in the anime for recent seasons have either made it into a jobber or covered it with flowers and sparkles. I honestly always saw Gardevoir as more of a Merlin monster (wizard robes included), with it's Arthur being the trainer it dedicated itself to advising and protecting. Now? It's just "le cute girly thing".
Again, the degradation was slow and gradual; it's the culmination of many slight changes in it's portray and representation in the series until the end result is quite different than it's original debut. There's plenty of evidence for this anon; is it the end of the world, no, but I do find it disappointing.
If you're gonna deny anything's different from Gen 3 though you're objectively wrong.
