>>37414834And yet people still want Pokemon to remain exactly the way it was, in a paradoxical war between ACTUAL innovation and safe staleness that even the slightest bit of "mixing it up" is seen as a massive change, like with LGPE.
Dragon Quest has the same thing of being known for sticking to its roots and ever-slightly adding onto the game, but they've utilized it to its fullest advantage and are more than happy to use spinoffs to experiment with other genres or ways to explore the franchise.
Pokemon used to have non-mobile spinoffs itself, but then they got the ax in Gen 7 for not selling well enough compared to the mainline titles and mobile games because TPC are a bunch of money-grubbing fucks who don't like when something doesn't bring back immense profits or goes to anyone except Pokemon's Owners and Themselves, GO being an exception because it still prints millions 24/7.
