>>27158103The main games are pretty simple, but they actually have a lot of things to keep in your mind if you want to maximize your battling, not to mention there's hard thought and care put into designing worlds, new battle modes, gyms, etc. Breeding can get super complicated if you're going for some specific shit. It's all a huge grind, but there's thought involved to some degree.
I refuse to call Go a game. It's practically a social media app where you can't actually interact with other people inside of the app. "Catching" pokemon has about as much gameplay depth as that little minigame for transferring pokemon from gen 4 to gen 5. Your "battling" is restricted to AI clones of other players, and the actual battle mechanics are a fucking joke, if you could even call them that.
And that's it. That's all you can do. There is nothing to this app, and that's why normies love it. They feel like they're good at it cause they have that number that keeps going up. Yet, if you actually asked them to build a good team that could hold its own, they'd have an anneurism because how could anyone POSSIBLY remember more than 151 different things?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!