>>56899978>dex is mostly just leftovers that were too shit to make it to Gen 1Literally most of the actual Gen 1 holdovers were cut, including an actual good design
>the only starter trio to flopTyphlosion and especially Feraligator are well liked. Meganium is a dud but even with that they're still more well liked than the Unova trio where Serperior is mostly well liked but the other two are contentious at best (I think they're fine personally)
>moe blobs and plushies that even the makers of Pokemon are embarrassed about Never said they were embarrassed by them, but that they wanted to take the designs in a different direction for the next game. If anything Gen 2 was ahead of the curve as most of the modern games are even more toyetic.
>Evos for Gen 1 mons because Gen 2 is glorified RBY DLC too shit to stand on its ownIt was originally designed as a sequel, and expanding on Pokemon lines by adding new evolutions is a solid way to develop them (I think regional forms are cool from a biology standpoint but from a gameplay standpoint feel like recolors from the middle of the game, regional fakes could be cool but the two we have so far are really bad and honestly Unova does "Pokemon with similar niche in a different area" way better).
>Pokemon so worthless and irrelevant they needed to be saved by Sinnoh gifting them evos and even then people only care about Sinnoh evolutions, not a Johto garbage they spawn from Suicune was a hugely important Pokemon in various metagames for years
>babiemons to pander to whiny baby sisters and soccer moms, opening the floodgates to foid panderingYou're thinking of Atsuko Nishida adding cute designs like Pikachu in the middle of Gen 1's development (this is also where evolution as a concept became really important)
>roster so lame even the gym leaders hate them Balancing problems caused by Masuda accelerating the development process, while it was necessary he probably put it out a little too fast. DQ2 vibes balance wise.
