>>57692409>You can tell someone who loved their job worked on this.To be fair I'm pretty sure most Japanese devs would love to be the person who gets to work on the cute little girl in a cute outfit acting cute.
It's true that GameFreak as a whole is completely fucking burnt out on Pokémon though. Masuda has outright stated that the only purpose of their side projects is to rotate people and have them work on random shit purely so they're not making Pokémon every day for 30 years. Remember Little Town Hero? Can't blame you if you don't. Hardly anyone even knows about it despite the fact that it had big names attached to it. GameFreak is pretty much the only developer who works on a huge IP and yet almost nobody knows what the fuck they do outside of that IP. Relatively few people even know what Mech Warrior is but when Fires of Rubicon was announced there were a fuckton of eyes on the development of the game because it was Fromsoft making it. Now they're doing a bunch of spinoffs and they still have a fuckton of eyes on those side projects. When Rockstar does anything people know. When Bethesda does anything people know. GameFreak? Nobody knows what the fuck they do outside of Pokémon because nobody gives a shit about anything they do outside of Pokémon.
Unfortunately they're just not good devs. Somehow they've learned basically nothing after 30+ years of game development which is why they somehow manage to make one of the least graphically intensive games on the Switch run at 15-20 FPS while Monolith can put out a game that looks infinitely better in every regard while pulling a more realistic look and maintaining 30 FPS. It's just baffling. Easily the luckiest and least deserving company in the gaming industry.
