>>55468438If I had to guess: they've actually run out of ideas.
And I don't mean in the sense of what people say when referring to Pokemon designs, I mean like Pokemon games are very formulaic and a lot of the times it'll have very similar music to follow that - every starting town theme kinda sounds the same, every route 1 theme kind sounds the same, every wild battle theme kinda sounds the same, etc
It's gotten to a point where it almost feels like they're on cruise control and can just fart out the songs in seconds, do you actually remember what Nuvema Town's theme sounds like? Or Vaniville Town?
I think Sword and Shield tried to breathe some new life into it by using these really garish synth sounds for its OST that just don't sound good at all, but it's something different even if structurally the songs are still very much just regular formulaic Pokemon songs.
