>>34091904I also really got the impression BW1 were a project and story Masuda was really proud of, happy with, and was excited to share with the players, considering he composed a lot of the music and wrote blog posts about his thought processes when composing N and Ghetsis' battle themes, released more character information about the key cast, and it was the first gen we got to see what early concept artwork of the characters looked like.
All the fan backlash about gen 5 probably broke him