>>49029672This is your brain on western gaming tropes.
Nintendo don't care what gets put in-game, as long as games sell, Ishihara is so out of touch, he thought the Switch was going to tank, despite all chatter indicating it was going to be popular and TPCi are beholden to TPC, who are ran by Ishihara, who as already mentioned is showing signs of senility. And Masuda's retired from full-time directing of Game Freak games (last one he fully concentrated on was LGPE).
I understand growing up is scary, but your boogymen in reaction to this aren't actually applicable to the series at hand in any shape, because not even Nintendo could cow Game Freak to jump to *their* tune (Pokémon 2 ordered for 1997, GS not released until 1999). That's what being an equal partner in something affords you. The ability to have a voice equal to those around you (Nintendo supporting Game Freak's decision to dexcut, instead of forcing them to continually put in all the pokémon, as they can sell more merch that way).
In this case, the devs of the kiddy series have intentionally kept their kiddy series kiddy-focused, despite the insane success they've had worldwide and with all ages, because that ENSURES the machine keeps rolling along. You're the evidence that works right here, as you started as a retard kid, bombarded with the colourful critters back in the day
