>>53476105You're proving my point in trying to claim it's wrong.
>complaining about the game being hardPeople complain about the game being tedious and boring by limiting exp. "Oh it's too hard for the zoomer" is just a strawman they johto fans have repeated to avoid hearing that criticism.
>complaining about pokemon being locked to the postgame... Is silly because other games do it tooOther games block legendaries and equivalent pokemon to post-game. The main other case of normal pokemon being randomly missing, DP, also gets criticized for exactly that.
>there wasn't much criticism before a year or two agoEven your big bad youtuber boogeyman was 4 years ago at this point, and the criticism has existed for many years before that. You can see it in /v/, in /vp/ if you find a working archive old enough, and on many other websites with the right search filters.
Ex: pic, also
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/989552-pokemon-black-version/60877067 