>>50604495In what ways has Pokémon succumbed to western influence? Western video games tend to focus on graphics, be run as live services, have constant balance patches, employ community managers to have i direct window to screeching fans, ship incomplete BUT slowly get fixed after asking for money anyways, nickel and dime at every opportunity, oversharing during the marketing phase. Pokémon has its own problems and not of them are way more in line with the way Japanese companies operate (I.e. boxing ears to fan screeching, hanging onto the old guard forever, releasing the same game over and over with small iterations, etc)
