>>49551164I want the battling aspects of the franchise to evolve beyond the GBA and fit modern turn based RPG conventions.
Mechanically the game has not evolved beyond the GBA entries and aesthetically not beyond the 3DS ones. We have been playing seven Pokémon games that are practically the same, for all intents and purposes - XY, ORAS, SM, USUM, LGPE, SWSH, and BDSP. Do we really want to add an eighth?
You can have turn based RPGs that aren’t just click a button and win. Pokémon refuses to evolve beyond the bare necessities. JRPGs from 20 years ago have more complex and nuanced battle mechanics and presentation than the most recent Pokémon games. LA is only just starting to experiment with multi-enemy combat and real time battle order, which were used in Final Fantasy. I don’t want to play XY for the eighth time. I want to play beyond that.
