>>26878422Meanwhile, many changes have occurred, all of which have been directed at and with the ideal hopes of consolidating and extending the current fame and “significance” of these “serious but dorky” or “savage but civilized” character types within the games, manga, and anime, in both the humans and Pokémon depicted as such. But there is so little evidence of the minority of people who abstract these vicious and revolutionary suggestions- and the majority of parrots who wish to repeat that sentiment only as a means of retaining some matter of semblance to other franchises- having effected any improvement in the happiness either of those who play the games casually or competitively, or of the fanbase as a whole that, as a solution of our contemporary problems and difficulties, or even as a minor contribution to their solution and execution, it would seem that this idea of thinking must soon be as wholly discredited as was the Notch-eared Pichu of Generation Two, the constant forcing- with occasional diffusion- of that grossly and gravely overrated aura dog, Lucario, of Generation IV, or the cosplay Pikachus of today that will be disregarded within no less than a year’s time.
When things go wrong with the structure of a fanbase and its root company, through the general decline in the depth and stamina of its aesthetic and meaning, two distinct yet very much interrelated tendencies seem always to become noticeable. The first one is to interpret changes which are merely the break-down and decay of old and still beneficial concepts, as merely biased nostalgia (on this board this is called Genwunning or Nostalgiagoggles), and the other (owing to the arguably just loss of confidence in the current executives and lead designers of Game Freak) is for everyone, qualified or unqualified, to regard themselves as capable of making an attempt to put matters right.
