>>46474448All the people ITT who are worried about how ATB will affect gameplay are complete idiots. They don’t seem to understand that because this game will be purely single player with no multiplayer functionality at all, GameFreak is actually able to experiment with the game a bit.
This is the very first time in TWENTY FIVE YEARS that they have been totally free to try out major changes in the battle system without also having to worry about trying to keep the multiplayer aspect balanced.
This is the first chance they’ve had to make a battle system that is actually unique within the Pokémon series rather than various tweaks, fixes and balancing. As much as I like things like double battles and the physical/special split, they only changed the mechanics of the battle system that was already in place, not the fundamental way that battles are performed.
Of course, this is provided that the ATB thing is actually real, since we don’t really seem to have any concrete proof of it yet.
