>>42008629>I don't care about the story."i ignore this thing, therefore its not a problem"
>How is it artificial?>There are plenty of good pokemon if you bother exploring, even before the first gym.Despite what you may believe, a few usable pokemon you can find via sidequests doesn't mean that the game isn't stacked against you. Setting aside how they withold mons like fucking Magikarp, the game refuses to give the player any fucking break against the 6-Pokemon teams and early-evolved pokemon used in the earlygame gyms. That isn't fair difficulty, its just throwing shit at the player until they get tired of it.