This is where Pokemon peaked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XjouKSkSeM

As primitive and underdeveloped as Silver and Gold were, their scope was masterful.
The music is the height of the franchise.
The harder the dig you more you find.
It's bottomless.
So much to explore.
Still had that sense of mystery to the world.

Some of the later gens come close, but Pokemon has failed to mature as a franchise.
And I don't mean mature as in built for older audiences.

It has no coherent design or narrative philosophy.
Every new generation now is just sloppily tacking on some gimmick that makes no sense within the world and nobody expects to be there in the next installment.
Every new generation softens the edges, rounds the corners, into a formless blob.
Not just visual pokemon design.
Narratively softer.
Utterly incoherent worldbuilding.
Nonexistent difficulty, why even bother having a battle system.
None of this shit makes sense.
They dont even name all the new pokemon anymore.

I bought Violet.
It's just lazy trash guys.
It really is just lazy trash.
There are video game school projects that are more competent and impressive and coherently designed than this (can you even comprehend the type of incompetent losers that go to video game school?)
There is no real excuse for any of this shit other than laziness.

You can't even catch them all.

Like yall see it right?
If it were masochistic I could get it.
If you felt locked in.
But yall have a whole board.
Yall enjoy eating trash.
You are smug about eating trash.