Modern Pokémon's definitely taken a hit in quality and the state SV launched in (and is still in after patches...) isn't acceptable, but I roll my eyes when she's talking about modern Pokémon because she's blaming the wrong people for it. It's not the GameFreak developers not caring that's the problem, it's The Pokémon Company International pushing for a new game every year to coincide with the other media facets and merch lines despite HD open-world games being more complex projects to develop than the older sprite-based games that's fucking everything up.I'm trying not to get mad at Pippa not liking the recent Pokemon games, but my autism is overwhelming and can only be satiated with Pokemon
At the same time, is there any game that Pippa actually likes that wasn't ingrained into her childhood
The current development cycles aren't sustainable at all and they won't be unless the franchise as a whole has a hard pause for a couple of years, which obviously isn't going to happen. It's depressing to see, but it isn't the developers' fault, they're getting fucked over either way.