>>55368963Masuda, along with the rest of GameFreak's old guard, were UNBELIEVABLY pissed off that someone else (Genius Sonority) proved that they could create a Pokemon game using the core mechanics and actually develop a playable campaign, and not only that, one that actually relied on double battles and used them to a fairly competent degree for the time.
This is why most of GS that worked on Colosseum and GoD got absorbed into grunt roles in GameFreak, leaving the remainder of GS as a hollowed husk who only exists to make mobile puzzle games for Pokemon as eternal punishment for out-Pokemon-ing GameFreak.
This is also why BDSP were so ruthlessly faithful and had to adhere directly to DP's script, Masuda made goddamn well sure ILCA didn't get too ambitious and create a better game than GameFreak could.
And yet, if mandatory affection buffs didn't exist, BDSP would unironically be the definitive version of DP Sinnoh, so Masuda failed in THAT regard too.
