I have a theory that some of the executives at Game Freak are quietly, but intentionally, trying to destroy the franchise without pissing off their investors.

Think about it. It is no secret that each new entry in the series since XY has taken a drastic nosedive in quality. People here can genwar all they want, but the general agreement amongst most people is that Gens 1-5 were the great, and since then things have gone way downhill.

The transition to 3D was notoriously bad and mocked even by gamers outside of the Pokemon community. And 10 years on, the mocking continues.

Even with each new game, the ‘improvements’ are bare minimum, overshadowed by the general consensus that Pokemon is not ‘up to par’ compared to its contemporaries in terms of graphics, gameplay, additional features etc.

This leads us to the current day where the games are still made fun of for having N64 trees, shitty backdrops with visual noise etc.

Now most people write this off as GF just being ‘lazy’, right? This is exactly what they want you to think, because now they can get away with the unpardonable sins:

1. Dexcutting
2. Purposefully creating dogshit designs

(1/3)