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Paratroopa1 posted...

Playing through Pokemon games feels like a chore just to get to the competitive endgame now and it kinda makes me sad, I dunno. They're consistently feeling less like RPG adventures and more like extremely extended tutorials, and the increased focus on having human characters talk at you and having weird plots about legendary Pokemon hasn't really been to my taste.

This is a really good articulation of my feelings on the series. A lot of people who like Sw/Sh talk about how "it's the Pokemon formula - even when it's not great it's still pretty fun," but newer games really don't feel like the Pokemon formula I remember. X/Y simply does not feel the same way HG/SS did and does. For a while I thought that was just nostalgia and that I'd just sort of outgrown my ability to immerse myself in a Pokemon world again, but in the last few years I've even played some excellent ROM hacks, the kind that are made with genuine effort and love for the series, that do recapture that feeling of wanting to see what was around the next corner and not being able to step away from the game for hours. So I've confirmed that it really is the specific GameFreak products of recent times that don't have what I'm looking for and not Pokemon as a whole.

I'm assuming you've played the GameCube Pokemon games? Flawed as they may be, I've always appreciated how they do things so different from other Pokemon adventures, and the good things about them are really good.

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