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Pokemon is a beloved franchise and the games follow a formula that has only been minimally altered since its first inception. It doesn't have to reinvent itself, it just has to do what it's always done but under a a new moniker and under a fresh coat of paint. It's almost impossible to fuck it up unless you actively try to make the game bad.
>So how did we reach this shitshow?
You guessed it, they deliberately fucked it up. Being pressed against Ishihara's three-year-interval-tight-as-joe's-ass schedule, they knew they couldn't make a good game, so they figured they might as well test the limits of how crappy of a job they can do while still selling millions.
They hate working for pokemon the way it is now. They're cynical with the recent games, the economic limits on their creativity and the fans who buy such mediocrity. They really do want to make great games but the pokemon company has a tight grip on them. Masuda is just a pawn. This whole gen is a tongue-in cheek ironic shitpost against the kind of mindless consumers that keep buying the games. I bet alpha develpment looked like this:
>Lmao the fags will buy anything we throw at them, we could get away with anything
>What if, what if we cut pokemon, like, there simply being no way to have them in the games?
>Dude...That'd be epic if we got away with it lol
>Hey hey, should I use high quality assets on the overworld?
>Nah man, try to make it look as shitty and amateurish as possible, let's see those fuckers defend this.
>Lol what a bunch of basedboys. Hey Turner, got any idea for making fun of these idiots under their nose?
>How about we make a gengar form that does the basedboy pose? I bet they won't even notice it lmao
>Yeah yeah good and make the pokemon all look really shitty, like really really shitty, 'as if they belonged to other franchises' level of shitty, you know what I'm saying?
>How's this penguin?
>Perfect, they'll eat it up
>Ooh oh oh Don't forget Chawizawd lol!!
