>>37880721If he was so great, why didn't "N" just release himself from the dullest franchise in the history of Nintendo gaming franchises? Seriously each generation following the boy or girl trainer and their pals from the starting "town" as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the cartoony imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Satoshi Tajiri proposed the idea of further games after Gold and Silver; he made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for merchandise. The Pokemon series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Final Fantasy series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Unfortunately, they still have to.
>a-at least gen V was good though"No!" The writing is dreadful; the games were terrible. As I played, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the game paused for another slogging, shoehorned cutscene with the character's "friends" or "Team Plasma".
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Pokemon is so governed by child-level difficulty that it has no other means of stretching the playtime. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Pokemon by the same Nintendo Power. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are playing Pokemon at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to play Fire Emblem." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you play "Pokemon" you are, in fact, trained to play Fire Emblem.
