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the people who ask for pokemon to stop being a turn based rpg do not play any other turn based rpgs and it shows.
turn based rpgs are fun, but pokemon is braindead garbage despite actually having pretty decent core mechanics
if pokemon was a normal videogame franchise, the core gameplay would improve over time. animations and time between actions would get faster and snappier, and mechanics would get easier to use and bad ones removed. A normal game franchise would have removed jank ass IVs, made EVs something you apply to your pokemon in a menu after leveling up instead of being a bullshit secret mechanic. It would ACTUALLY TELL THE PLAYER THAT STAB EXISTS. If the games actually made literally any effort at all to teach the player how its own damn systems work, the games could then actually respect the player enough to make the difficulty a bit harder. Even dumbass little timmy could still overlevel muh starter and win, but actually learning how the game works could be the ideal strategy.
but instead we get slower and shittier garbage every year, and people want game freak to throw everything out and instead make an action game, the company that can barely get a turn based game to be at a playable framerate and you want them to shit out a fucking real ass time game.
