>>36423192Been saying it for years
Look at all the crazy stuff that could happen in gen 1
You felt like the MCs were in real danger and not because it was the end of the world, but because they needed to face it to survive.
The St. Anne, Sabrina and trainers with actual powers turning you into dolls and teleporting with no relation to aura, having your soul possessed or even torn out of you by some ghosts, having your town destroyed by an enraged Tentacruel, a single Hypno accidentally causing the disappearance of an entire town’s children...
We traded it for better battles though, and when the anime gets real now we have things like Malamar or
Stoutland, but it’s missing just that slight extra dose of “oh dang, THIS can happen?” especially when it comes to trainers themselves.
