>>54858359I like that they had the balls to pull shit like this back in the day. Discovery was the name of the game, there'd often be no way of learning about stuff except through trial and error, and while that may seem like unnecessarily obtuse game design, you need to remember that it was made with the idea that entire communities of people could share what they learned amongst one another. Maybe you catch a male combee and train it to level 25, but your friend catches a female and evolves it at 21. You guys could then put 2 and 2 together and realize that only female combee evolve, and that process was like, a crucial part of the pokemon experience.
