>>40741125>Gen 1Subtle, clever social commentary (e.g. how many Poison Pokémon there are in Kanto)
Designs intended to be MONSTERS and don't have to fit naturally in an environment
Experimenting with the world, characters don't exist purely to be an avatar of one type or concept
>Gen 2Attempt at building history and expanding on the first
Interesting alternate paths for some Pokémon; retroactively gives origins (baby Pokémon) for others
Canonizes myths as Pocket Monster phenomena
>Gen 3Every animal that ever existed needs a Pokémon equivalent now for some reason
Converting a real-life area 1:1 into a 2D RPG doesn't always work due to all the fucking WATER
Takes the myths a little too far with fucking Behemoth, Leviathan and fucking rape god stratosphere Chinese dragon and a fucking alien
>Gen 4Comfy
Very nice and sensible cross-gen evolutions
Let's make GOD a fucking Pokémon and cram the latter half of the Pokédex with a shitty fucking trio all of the same type and shittons of fucking part dragon dinosaurs from space, time, nega space and nega time, magma turds and dream rapists and moon ducks and fuck me
>Gen 5Fuck this, fuck that, fuck everything
Everything is sick, great designs with a bit of an edge - slight commentary on the franchise's OWN tendencies
Story that actually has relevance and interesting, mature themes and OH MY GOD A GOOD POSTGAME
>Gen 6Fuck yeah finally some level of customization
Good balance of old and new Pokémon and only 3 new fucking legendaries this is great
The meta is raped by the Fairy type which is inexplicably the best one now
>Gen 7Waifubaiting
Lazy story, lazy graphics and animations, lazy everything
Some cool new Pokémon ideas
>Gen 8What were we doing again