>>38566005>The recruitment system was fine, just different"Hey, remember when you could have other pokemon on your team? Well now that you're 50% of the way through the entire game, despite still being into tutorial village, you can have any pokemon ever made on your team! Even the vast amount of genuinely useless ones! Except you don't actually recruit and form any type of emotional attachment to them, they're just pokemon you complete quests for doing you a favor and coming along for a bit, or just friends of friends that you'll never pay attention to because HEY here's also a free level 50 Salamence two dungeons into the game. We understand that's going to make you never need to take anyone else ever, so every so often they'll just be too busy to be on your team and lock the option to take them. But hey, this level 5 Burmy is feeling energetic today, why don't you take it with you to this end game fire-based level?"