>>55998072>Game Freak hated Johto aka wanted it to fail.What actually happened:
>Tajiri starts developing Johto>his first drafts are terrible>he loses faith in himself and hands the reins to Masuda>he's stuck trying to make chickenshit into chickensalad>Nintendo and The Pokemon Company want a shameless cashgrab that'll multiply their merch sales>force the Johto designs to be as toddler-friendly as possible>put to work on his own DMC2 that was doomed to fail before he even got involvedJohto wasn't intentionally set up to fail. It was sabotaged by incompetence from people who had no business making any decisions.
The proof is how Masuda managed to turn it all around and stem the bleeding fanbase with Hoenn, Masuda's own Dante's Awakening, and how its critical acclaim has only magnified throughout the years.
