>>723424683
Every Pokemon game is rushed. There is a big reason why Pokemon game quality has been spiraling down, and it is simply because the Pokemon company wants their new merchandise out within certain time frame but with low af budget as well. For example, consider the fact that Pokemon gold/silver came out in 1999, and Ruby/Sapphire came out in 2002. Diamond/pearl came out in 2006 and Pokemon black/white came out in 2010. Gamefreak is kinda forced to keep same kind of pace despite game worlds and workload keeps growing.
This isn't defending the games themselves, SV was "decent fun" when played with friends(plus one of my new fav mons pic rel), and ZA looks like same kind of thing.
BUT
I hope anons here can understand that if you gotta keep pumping out games every 3-4 years and it is expected to always look better and be bigger, it is a recipe for disaster. I feel bad for GameFreak because they prob have staff too small for their work and it's Nintendo's and especially Pokemon Company's fault.
Like even now that ZA is released, a new Pokemon game is in development if it already wasn't. It's a horrid workmill but at least they don't do the western publisher thing and fire the staff instantly.
AGAIN. I'm not excusing the end product. It looks like shit. But solely blaming GameFreak is not beneficial. Pokemon Company should throw some of their fucking money on GameFreak at this point, same with Nintendo. And more staff. Switch 2 is a huge success so they are on more than green at this point to make a good Pokemon game.
Tho Pokemon Company and Nintendo prob thinks, like all other corpos, that "it's good enough" so there is no reason to improve. No matter how much people say that Palworld is a "pokemon killer", they will never have Pikachu and Eeveelutions. Or KANTOOOOOO Charizard
