>>55590472The idea that Gen5 is “nugen” is from Genwunners seething that BW didn’t let them use KANTOOOOO mons, despite HGSS being 99% KANTOOOOOmoks because fuck Johto.
I know there’s a meme that people always hated HGSS and that BW was made to “fix” it, but it’s one of the shitposts where there‘s actually a small sliver if truth in it. Johto’s over-reliance on Kanto is the one of the few modern critism against Johto that isn’t a meme, or a lie and that Johto fans consistently agree with (why doesn’t Morty use Misdreavus. Why doesn’t Flakner use HootHoot. Where’s Jasmines Skarmory, Why are Johto Pokémon in KANTOOOOOOO, Team Rocket’s is kinda lame here a new villain team would make more sense. Why doesn’t Jotho have its own league? 100 new Pokémon is kind of small)
And considering how Game Freak treats Johto like KANTOOO’s Afterbirth and seems to hate the starters, it’s clear Game Freak regrets Johto on some level (why they hate Johto when GS was the second most profitable game for decades is unclear but bad logic isn’t exactly a foreign concept to game freak)
It makes sense they would want to make the next game after HGSS something that could rival Kanto instead of being “kanto’s backyard”. Hence the 156 new Pokémon, no Kanto pokemon anywhere, and a more “serious” villain team instead of Rocket’s leftovers. And despite BW having many legitimate problems Genwunners zeroed in stupid shit like ice cream and no Charizard. No wonder game freak stopped trying afterwards
