>>24806145It just looks limited and pokemon games are at their most fun and unique when you're a trainer of some sort, all this "you are a pokemon" bullshit is aimed mainly at little kids.
Aiming it as little kids, rather than at everyone already cuts out a large segment of pokemon fans, not enought to make a game unviable but a lot of the older fans won't be raving about it. Slice off another section of your fans after that because of those fans left the majority will be too young for a shop to allow them to buy a fighting game that the local ratings board have rated 12 or above because it contains fisticuffs/cartoon violence, only kids with deadbeat parents, with access to a card to buy online or who have a shop that doesn't give a shit who they sell games to will be able to get a copy. So you're left with a quite small pool of people who would actually buy the game even if it is actually better than Smash Bros, which I doubt.
Going back to the "you are a pokemon" games are shit compared to games when you're a trainer to prove this point compare Mystery Dungeon with the main series games and games or even pokemon ranger. The main series games and spinoffs like ranger are just better by a long chalk, this is a fact even the biggest fan of pokemon dungeon can't argue with. You can even compare the pokemon trainer character from the older smash bros games with the individual pokemon we get instead now, the trainer was way better and added another layer of tactics and fun.
So it is hardly surprising that a kiddie game that most kids can't play and won't be as fun as a real pokemon game isn't getting as much buzz as a new main series game would.
