>>41174277I think Sonic did fine moving into 3D with Adventure and Adventure 2 even if those games are heavily flawed but Sonic just kind of keeps reinventing the wheel instead of building on what was working. In fact everytime Sonic fans a new niche that works they reinvent. Probably because Sonic Team itself is a mess but at the same time at least they keep trying new things.
Pokemon however is incredibly stagnate. They're slaves to tradition, and even though I don't want the battle system itself to change at it's core Gamefreak has done nothing to evolve any aspect of the game past a few small QOL features. There's no motivation or drive. When you hear development stories from other franchises and you see the love they put into their game and compare them to the way Gamefreak talks about theirs it's clear that Gamefreak has no real love for development at this point. They talk about this series like it's a chore, and you can really tell they're afraid of making the games better because it'd create a standard to live up to that they'd need to hit or beat with each installment.
I've always viewed Masuda as a passionless defeatist and I think every day that passes he gets worse. The first answer to every problem is to just give up and get rid of it.
