>>55394591I appreciate Pokemon's "if it ain't broke don't fix it" attitude. Even with all the gimmicks and bullshit it's still the same game under the hood. And on the rare occasion that they DO experiment with a different core gameplay style, it's very clearly a spinoff.
I loved Digimon, Medabots, Monster Rancher, etc but they could never pick one genre for the mainline games to be, and you had obnoxious shit like DW1 being a monster raising sim, DW2 being a dungeon crawler, DW3 being a blatant pokemon ripoff, and DW4 being the worst Diablo clone ever made.