>>56090456I agree entirely, Pokémon games are very customisable by nature and anyone can "beat" them with the tools provided, but the way someone does so may not be fulfilling for someone else. Every 6 year old must be able to beat them, so every game is easily cheeseable, but saying the games are "easy" by exploting that as hard as possible is disingenuous and doesn't really mean anything. If you avoid trainers, expand your team quickly, and avoid using items, the games can be perfectly challenging and very interesting. The ability to ignore this and mash A with one Pokémon for the whole game doesn't take that way.
That said, some games like XY are still way too easy and you can't make them hard in any natural way. there are still inherent differences in the difficulty of the games, between the level curve, Pokémon availability, enemy trainer sets, etc.
