>>56405468>>issues in modern pokemon have existed foreverYou're seeing it the wrong way. The problem is that the same issues from 1995 GameBoy games still persist even 30 years later. Other much smaller franchises evolve with the times and try new things, some even change genres entirely if that's what's better moving onwards. Meanwhile we're still playing the same GameBoy games but on modern hardware and except they don't even perform decently now.
>>it's the corporate Nintendo's fault and their shitty rules that the game is bad and not Gamefreak/Masuda/OhmoriI agree. Whatever's going on is that these games are being churned out too fast.
>>franchise always had bad designed mons, even in Gen 1That's very subjective.
>>GF never adopted a new design philosophyOf course they have. You can see it clearly from the average of shapes, color choices, facial features, etc. They basically change philosophies every Gen, and specially when the art director changes (very clearly seen when they changed from Ken Sugimori to James Turner to whoever was in charge for SV).
Philosophy-wise, things have changed too. We used to have more "ambigue monster thing" designs and now we have a lot of "round cartoon with giant eyes to sell plushies", "literal animal with a different color", "human-made inanimate object" and "animal pretending to do a human job". Not saying that Gen 1 never had any of the latter, but it's very clearly more recurrent now.
