>>54856956masuda after his soul was crushed by the back to back negative reception of gens 4 and 5
(which was always unjustified), he clearly paid way too much attention to negative feedback and went full baby mode fan pandering in gen 6. he obviously lost his faith in the intelligence of the fans
(arguably justified), basically every interview with him about XY and ORAS was excuse after excuse about cell phones and attention spans to excuse the abysmal difficulty, removal of features, the excessive handholding - and i even think all the gen 1 pandering and the shoehorned mega gimmick were probably because he lost faith in the series. i realize ohmori directed ORAS but i still blame masuda for that entire generation being a disaster, and all its ripple effects on later generations. he should have gone back to making music if he was that butthurt kids thought the games were hard and i'm glad other people took over the director seat sooner rather than later. he used to be my hero.
