>>45356605Masuda/Ohmori want Pokemon to be more like a modern RPG with its intense story focus. And it works, look how much merch is sold of the human characters.
>>45356656Very few people actually believe that, they're just bored shitposters baiting you. It should be pretty obvious on how silly it'd be to praise a game where you spend $90 and 10 hours to get to "the good stuff."