>>33340852In all honesty, I don't feel like Gen 1 Pokémon had half as much dedication and quality control put into their designs as people think
I'm not knocking the designs there, I more mean that at the time, they were just 151 "enemies" in a video game. In any other game, they would be forgotten just a few minutes after you get them, like in any other RPG. The attention to detail and lore only came after when it became clear that people were more interested in the Pokémon World than with other games.
