>>54564146I kinda do and kinda don't. The exact moment the franchise goes to shit varies from person to person but I would say that Sun and Moon were when the world of pokemon completely jumped the shark to me, they wanted to court a different audience and basically completely changed the setting and vibe of the series permanently. It feels like the pokemon games feel closer in tone to pokemon as an entity now, whereas before the games sorta had their own feeling a bit disconnected from the Pikachu t-shirts in wal-mart.
Of course what deeply depresses me is not the state of the games (which is depressingly bad dont get me wrong), but that it's impossible to even enjoy and discuss the old games or how the series used to be anymore because literally over half the threads on this board are now a few autists throwing shitfits at each other over which old regions are actually shit (while slowly but surely trying to justify the newer games as actually being better). I'm not happy about "thing I like completely changes from everything I liked about it and becomes something I dont like anymore", but that is nowhere close to how bad I feel about "thing I like becomes something I dont like and also sales skyrocket and then everyone says the parts of the series you did like were actually shit and that the series is at its best when its bad", because it's the nail in the coffin, things will never get better, there will never be any alternatives, things will always be bad and continue to get worse. I keep buying the new games so I am complicit to an extent, but idk, despite how bad they are each one has just the slighest spark of potential that keeps making my retarded brain think "Maybe they'll nail it next time" despite knowing that the series is utterly disposable now and will never return to the way it was when they tried to make the regions feel alive and added tons of side content to do after clearing the story.
