This series relied so much on secrets, playground rumors, and being a kid with an active imagination. The internet killed the former two, and growing up killed the third.

With all of that stripped away, all that's left is a pretty barebones JRPG that's outclassed by every other JRPG series on the market.

at the time there was literally zero handheld electronic entertainment

Name a better turn-based JRPG franchise with pvp. I'll wait.

>>715400432 (OP)
>This series relied so much on being a kid
There, fixed it for you
Intended audience is children; just like teletubbies
That's okay

I still sometimes replay some of the older games since the new ones are horrible. It's just fun to collect your own team of friends and go on an adventure. Yeah it's not deep, still fun. Everything made past 2013 or so ranges from bad to embarrassingly terrible, sadly.

>>715400432 (OP)
>This series relied so much on secrets, playground rumors
99% of it was pure bullshit lies. Missingno was the only true one.

>>715400432 (OP)
No one has ever claimed it to be more.

>>715400662
>rpg
>pvp
like oil and water. that's as stupid as mixing adventure and fighting
or rhythm and rts