>>55313022This is the kind of viewpoint that makes pokemon such a shitty fandom. Always arguing about what is the truest pokemon. All the genwars, all the pointless shitflinging at every spin off, all the cherrypicking and youtube essays.
It doesn't have to be the "evolution" of the pokemon formula it's just a game that let's you tame monsters it's fun and much more interesting and polished than the latter pokemon games because it doesn't need to be anything but a fun game.
The original Pokemon was a RPG that let you catch monster with a pretty shitty combat system and some good ideas. It's natural evolution should have been a dignified death after one or two sequels max. Failing that a reboot that gave the developers the freedom to make a fun game based on the ideas of the original. The notion of an evolution of the pokemon formula is pretty silly.
The Pokemon formula isn't evolving. It doesn't have many places to go and the developers don't seem very motivated to explore new aspects of it and if they were to try the fans would just hate it and demand the same thing again.
