>>52909253Pokemon has shit worldbuilding, everything exists around and because of pokemon but each pokemon barely has any lore behind it because they're designed first and put into the game later with no middleman saying "weren't we supposed to make sense of how this thing would interact with where we put them?". Like so many towns will just be boring and pokemon will exist around them that have nothing to do with how they operate but if they do it's usually a direct parallel to a real world thing that happens because of existing animals, like a miltank farm.
Good worldbuilding in pokemon would mean each game would take way longer to make though because you'd need to go through each individual part of the game and invest into and design each town/city/item/character as though they're as important as the pokemon.
Gamefreak is so fucking bad at worldbuilding that they actually had a gym leader with a one-off non bug-type that's a baker, her team was two bugs and teddiursa. You have an ACTUAL FUCKING BREAD DOG IN YOUR GAME THAT TURNS INTO A BUN, IT HELPS WITH BAKING GAMEFREAK HOW ARE YOU SO DUMB.
