>>58935622I used to explicitly prefer playing the games in a very incremental way, spreading out the journey over months and playing roughly 1-2 hours a day every few days, completing as much of the content as possible (filling out the dex, playing the side content, doing daily/timebased stuff etc etc).
But playing that way would always result in me giving up somewhere down the line after losing interest. Now I do the opposite and just binge play them, completing them in a week or 2, and lo and behold I can actually finish them consistently now. It’s unfortunate but I just don’t have the patience to take my time in a game where I’ve already discovered everything. I think what made it possible for me to sink hundreds of hours into a Pokémon game as a kid was the fact that it was still mysterious to me, so it always felt like there was a possibility of finding something new around any corner. Every now and then I’d find an item I couldn’t get to before when backtracking through old areas, or a side area I missed, even hundreds of hours in. Nowadays it’s difficult to not just clean sweep everything since I already have it all memorized. It’s sad but that’s the result of having played these games so much.
