>>56110084I addressed some of the things you said in my response to the other anon.
It's like you say that I definitely wasn't playing gen 2 at the time, played a lot since then but mostly romhacks which are different, on hardware that's different, with a different perspective from a different time, I get that.
I don't think Pokemon need to be "exclusive to the region they were introduced", I never said that, I just like when badass new additions like Houndour's line are at a reasonable point in the journey, you shouldn't need a ganeshark for that imo.
I get the points you're trying to make about how that was the design philosophy but that doesn't make it good. Pokemon has a ton of design philosophies right now that are dogshit, and I'm sure most won't be gone for a long time either. Hell, Unova has a similar issue with so many of the cool mons evolving at insane levels by every metric, in a vanilla game pre-buffed exp share, it's just lame.
I mostly agree with what you said though. Like I said, how I feel about a mon being locked behind a certain threshold in the story based off how I play the game is going to be different from yours, it's just a matter of opinion at the end of the day.
Huge text wall, my B
