>>34450228Pokemon should not be a story centric game. A game that centers around the fun of Zoology gains absolutely nothing from me hearing about how some girl is bummed that her mom doesn't like her, and if someone had that idea during the basic concept mapping of Pokemon they'd be called complete idiots.
I do agree on the combat though, there's basically nothing to it until you get to competitive, where there are extremely obvious "right" and "wrong" teams due to the game being aggressively unbalanced and frankly random.