>>51749681>I loved the games, I'm just trying to appeal to the median.The point of the matter is that many people felt duped as the game, though good, was not all that it was cracked up to be.
>>51749688Not really? That was everywhere even as far back as Gen 3.
What killed hype season was synchronized releases with identical international advertising campaigns. There's no shit going on in Japan that we don't know about, because it's the same shit that's going on over here. There isn't even a blurry magazine article scan making their way over or anything these days.