>>58043231>Satoshi was an incompetent developer who didn't want to continue building a property he felt was effectively complete and satisfied his visionFunctionally untrue given development of Pokemon 2 started shortly after the release of RG, when the games sales were kind of dogshit before people glitched Mew
>forced to develop Pokemon 2 by TPC, an impassion project for which he was not even the best man for the job to begin withTPC didn't exist in the remotest sense, Ishihara existing is about the extent of it as even Creatures wasn't restructured yet
>probably wanted to start making something else new>Pokemon 2 beta is resultingly dogshitIt was arguably going in a somewhat better direction then Gen 1's many fumblings, but that does come with being based on a completed video game (arguably in Gen 1's case)
>suits panic and decide to have him replaced as lead and salvage what's already been made thus farGiven how development just fucking stopped for a while and they were working on shit like Blue and Yellow, I seriously doubt that's what happened. Priorities probably just shifted, although I think the Porygon incident made them take that break before the fad hit the rest of the world.
>Junichi chosen due to prior displays of competence and trustworthinessI dunno, but he is basically the only one with an actual degree in anything related to computers so that's remotely believable
>actually likes Pokemon so he's happy to takeoverIt seems more like he likes being able to make a popular video game, which isn't a slight against him, I'm sure we'd all love to do that. The game that captures the spirit of Pokemon arguably the most is Gen 2, and it seems unintentional half the time.
>between the dogshit starting material and corporate meddling, forced to press forward with what would become the worst game(s) in the classic seriesWe're not talking about DP
>gets it shipped in time even though sales tank predictablyThat image you posted says the exact opposite.
