>>39495303It's only been stale since Gen 5 when they started removing shit and pandering to retards who think graphics are what make the game engine run despite knowing 2D is one of the hallmarks that made the series what it was by their own admission.
You keep a game interesting by continuing to add new stuff while fixing up the existing stuff as needed to make them play better.
Instead they've just been removing everything because Masuda wants yearly games even if that means losing quality because that's okay to him as per interviews.
All while telling us it's for us as if people actually give a fuck about animations and the like. Unless he thinks they've been including the option to turn it off because people didn't use it.
Which would be baffling but I guess not unexpected from him - only making sure to provide options people don't want seems right up his alley.
Nothing needed to change on a large scale after Gen 4 except the general world scale and freedom and exploration to return to how it was in Gen 1 and 2. Adding new shit in a new setting while spiffing up the things we already loved was all that was all the majority needed to keep buying anyway.
People who actually like a thing don't want it to change for the sake of change.
