>>54708691>the games in the second row aren't actually good when contrasted to other well-designed video gamesCorrect. The Johto games & Platinum have innate problems that prevent them from being good, but also have too many positives which make them clearly better than what the rest of this franchise has to offer. They’re good Pokemon games.
>RB are the closest to what the creators initially wanted from the series?1. Tajiri heralded the pokespe manga as being closest to his vision, the manga which had nothing in common with the games.
2. None of this actually matters when the topic is about the games and not “muh vision purity”. Genwun was a poorly put together mess and lacks massively in departments future games excel in, namely being good.