>>30964153half of what makes pokemon good is the overall carefree atmosphere and themes
the animation/art style is really not consistent with a typical "mature" game and changing it would ruin it, because many mons would be arvalis-tier abominations rendered realistically
the world itself will never be rectifiable with realistic concepts anyway, do you really think an advanced society could exist in a world with wildlife so powerful and uncontrollable? we would have annihilated ourselves over and over again, maybe they already have and finally got sick of it
either way a AAA-style pokemon game would be garbage for edgelords, fuck that
>>30965655this guy gets it, there are a lot of good stories and conflicts you can defang enough for an E-rated audience that still don't come off as contrived bullshit to older players, and decreasing hardware limitations are only going to make things better, a lot of the dumbest moments in the games come from missing context, like overly cooperative bad guys being stared down by a team of six supernatural animals with an insatiable bloodlust, for example
