>>42166016It WAS the appeal of going on an adventure with your choice in a large cast of characters, but over the years that adventure's been watered down to the point where it's a series of literal hallway to the next copy/paste boss fight until you beat the game, and that's it. All the side/hidden explorable areas are gone, minigames are gone, the neat bits of interaction with pokemon (for the sadly short time we had it) are gone (waving a cat toy in their face to watch them perform the same animations they do in battle, and watching the AI pathfinding break while they lifelessly fetch a ball doesn't have the same appeal as petting, feeding, grooming, etc.) and most importantly of all, half the cast/a large chunk of my favorites are gone.
>"LOLOLOLOLOL, look at this SEEEEETHING D E X T R A N N Y, he's actually mad that the main appeals of pokemon, including the pokemon themselves, and consistently being stripped from the gameYes strawanon, that's exactly what im saying. I've been ignorantly excusing the culling of features for years under the guise of "well, at least ____ is still there", and now that basically everything I liked is gone, what's the point?
