>>39231344The increasing mediocrity of Pokemon games is a deliberate action to gauge how little effort GameFreak can put into a product and still succeed. The employees know about Japanese work culture and thus want the rumor to go around that being a worker at their company entails an easy, lazy life that pays well as a means of getting more workers who are young enough to not object to hard lifting others. The employees are also aware that no matter how many superior JRPGS there are, most of them would be labeled as literal who by just about everyone, even in Japan which tells them that quality does not correlate to success in the slightest. You, as a college age person who is disgruntled with Pokemon, are probably intelligent enough to pirate games meaning that GameFreak has no reason to care about your wallet so they tailor their games to children and they, along with the rest of modern society, have a decreasing intellect that does in fact need a lowered difficulty along with blatant cheats to beat a game. The entirety of the "It's like Dark Souls" meme should have told you that the majority of people are just that inept at games and that the direction started from Kalos is a natural adaptation to an environment.
