>>58579858Blame Game Freak for designing Gen 2 to flop out of spite. I fucking wish I was joking. Even though they did the bare minimum for Gen 1, thanks to the anime, TCG and merch Pokemonia exploded out of control and Nintendo had huge expectations for Gen 2, but game freak kept goldbricking and slacking off and not meeting deadlines. working with those retards was too stressful that Tajiri abandoned those jackasses. Masuda stepped up as head tard-wrangler but two hands isn’t enough to deliver the constant slaps those dopes need, so Iwata had to step in and do their job for them but even he could fully fix their mess. Game Freak staff resented Masuda for decades for cracking the whip and the resentment was so bad Masuda had to leave game freak.
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Game freak got salty about having to work for once and they take their frustrations out on gen2. Hence slop like baby mons. Any minuscule positive of pichu’s existence is purely accidental
