>>53861005RS+ rehashing the formula is bereft of creativity yes, but this doesn’t make Johto’s changes good.
>Gen 2 Mons were made a bit rarer, using the Gen 1 Mons as the "wildlife"Not terrible ye, but pathetic of a monster collecting game to use almost entirely the same monsters everyone got 3 years ago for most of the main campaign.
>story is a direct continuation of the first gamesThe “story” of team rocket being a weak wet fart of a team adding nothing but fighting the same garbage underleveled monsters in 2 back to back dungeons, with no goal beyond “remember how good we were in the other game?” Because I can see you frantically typing “b-but that’s the point! they’re supposed to be a tedious timewaste”, just know that yours is the same mentality of defending gf’s retarded gameplay decisions that influence most of the quality cutting today.
>region is connected geographically to the previous oneWow, this boring region is great because I can’t wait to finish it and go to the one I recall from the better game… except Kanto’s gutted and another wet fart of gameplay.
>b-but Johto isn’t shit! muh ecruteak and-If aesthetics of a city or two could carry the quality of a region, XY + SM would be 10/10. One mediocre town doesn’t change how dull of a region Johto is compared to Kanto, or hell, even that full Japan region they scrapped in development. The fact that it took them 3 years of dev time + remaking everything from scratch for a region that amounted to bland fields and wet caves is damning evidence for why noone at Gamefreak or TPC wants to acknowledge it. Combine with disappointed playtesters, Shudo’s autism OC shoved to the title of other version, Sugi’s disappointment with making less cool designs, and the idea of “pokemon 2” to begin with being responsible for the soulless marketing that was pokemania and their being chained to TPC for eternity… it’s no surprise Johto is such a black sheep among the devs.
