>>54029961As a brainwashed child who played since genwun, I picked up SwSh for the same reason I picked up the last few games: to play with a friend. But it was pretty boring by the end and they swore off it. That would have been it for my interest in the franchise if the next promised to be more of the same, and I passed on PLA because the marketing seemed to indicate they were trying to cash in on the "soulslike omg so hard fights" fad.
But I got SV just for myself out of curiosity for "the first open world pokemon game". I liked it more than I expected, so I went ahead and picked up PLA and enjoyed that even more.
I enjoy the direction of these new games, but they seem to be getting pretty damn pozzed lately. If the next game has an obligatory important nigger on the cover or in the first 15 minutes, I'll be selling all my pokemon games and moving on. Not even joking.
