Siliconera:
"The Pokémon Company recently conducted an internal interview with Game Freak director Junichi Masuda and Pokémon battle director Shigeki Morimoto, during which the two developers shared their thoughts on various aspects of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, the last pair of games released in the series."
Brandon Johnson for SUPERJUMP writes: "Despite recent attempts, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet feature a shell of the world Game Freak once created"
They're better off making another gba game, selling it with a gba or something. It's like they are not even aware their recent games are like 3 generations behind others in terms of every aspect.
I’ve honestly stopped following this series after Sinnoh League.
Still love Pokémon just can’t follow the new games and anime after that.
Johto League will forever be my favorite.
The game is very empty and lifeless. I'm not really having much fun with it and I'm almost done the game. Mechanically, its great. So many quality of life improvements. Technically, it's an embarrassment. The further you progress into the game, the worse the frame rate gets. The giant Lake and the Snowy Mountains are awful. There no part of the story I find interesting. Just the usual 'collect 8 badges and go to the Pokemon league.' I hope the criticism is a wake up call for their next entry. But I'm certain it won't be. It sold well, and that's all that matters to them.
It didn't just sell well. It's one of the top selling games of all time for the switch. So yeah, I wouldn't expect much to change next iteration.
On one hand, the Pokemon franchise is doing exactly what every Nintendo franchise does: roughly the same thing every game. It's why Nintendo IPs have such strong public awareness. You know Mario is the jumpy one, Metroid is the spooky maze one, and Pokemon is the dog fighting one.
Pokemon unfortunately is the one that has the weakest mechanics and most outdated presentation. It's like a challenge GF takes on every development cycle to see if they can make their next game only marginally different than the last with no big innovations. Pokemon fans still line up in droves to buy the latest. Chalk it up to kids being inexperienced and wanting a colorful game with friendly looking creatures. Adults on the other hand, at this point, if you're complaining about Pokemon games feeling empty and lifeless, it's because they are. Play a real JRPG.
@sadraiden
I'm quite partial to the team building and management mechanics as well as evolution of the creatures captured.
Can you recommend some JRPG titles that have a similar vibe? Other than Shin Megami Tensai?
Lol a world building problem? At this point the Pokemon franchise is all but transparently creatively bankrupt. It's only ever been about separating children from their parents cash. Gotta catch em all being one of the greatest marketing slogans of all time.
Pokémon’s shift to 3D was a big mistake, as the series’ roots in 2D design make it difficult to transfer important game mechanics into a 3D overworld.
why do other games pull off 3D monster collecting JRPG games just fine? Look at Jade Cocoon and Shin Megami Tensei for examples.
Answer should be obvious.
No other videogame franchise is as merchandise driven as Pokémon
The development time Game Freak currently has to make Pokemon games is unsustainable, and one major change needs to be made to fix the issue.
I'd rather they give it to a new developer who can actually give us what we want and more without relying on as many silly little gimmicks as they can for marketing purposes.
Let's be honest, nothing is going to change because they know they can get away with it.
They clearly already have - they've sold 10m+ at full price (faster than Arceus) and in spite of all the issues, it still has decent reviews (76%). They'll probably gross $1b+ off this game, on top of all the money they made from Arceus.
People have been complaining about the handling of this franchise for years but it's a cash cow (they made billions off Pokemon Go as well). To them, this is very much sustainable, unfortunately.
Trash series. The combat in these games is extremely boring too, Custom Robo Arena is far better, and for turn based the Worms games on PC.
Every new gen comes out every 3 years and with more ambitious ideas it just isn’t sustainable
Pokémon demonstrates how being so merchandise driven is proving detrimental to the main product, and despite that it still sells well
