>>48868556>>YOU WERE JUST BAD AS A KID. THE GAMES WERE ALWAYS THIS EASYThis is still true.
However, the standards for an "easy" game have shifted drastically due to the onset of casual gaming with platforms such as the Wii and Mobile Gaming (and moreover, Mobile Gaming's precursor, Facebook Gaming) that the standards of 1996 are now "too much" according to statistics and sources that no one will show you and everyone will accept and agree with because, yes, they forget they were stupid children back in those days and conflate that with actual difficulty.
As we continue to veer into a deeper and deeper pit of mobile hell, something GameFreak is ABSOLUTELY obsessed with ever since mobile went huge (and even MORE so after GO singlehandedly revived the franchise's global mainstream appeal, still continuing to rake in over a billion a year to this day), and they WILL continue to dumb the games down until they outright add an option that makes the game play itself from start to finish.
