I always thought it would be nice if the Pokémon Company made some content geared toward its sizeable mature audience who've grown up but still appreciate it. I brought this up on Reddit and they fumed at me for some reason
>>57200519How mature? Because I feel if it gets too mature the franchise would lose itself.
>>57200519The mature audience plays other games. You would've realized this but... lol.
>>57200525Just a few one-off games on the side with more graphic fights and characters who are not children. Like how Disney launched Pirates of the Carribean breaking their cutsie family friendly status quo and it was a hit. Pokemon Conquest is the closest thing to that
>>57200519arbok survived btw
>>57200519I wished they had a game where you could join the evil team and play as the game's usual antagonists
>>57200519Ow the edge
>>57200519>RPG for toddlers should pander to me for no reasonWhy? Gamefreak is shit but lack of edge is the least of franchise's problems
>>57200557Not in the mainline games?
>>57200519Anon they made Gen 5
>>57200519History has shown pokemon doesn’t need to “grow with its audience” to be a hit. Adults will buy it anyway
They did, it was called Pokemon Generations and Pokemon Origins and both were mid as fuck.People who want Pokemon but edgy need to play actually good games like SMT and Xenoblade, Pokemon is never going to appeal to this demographic because they make more money selling Eevees to kids and womanchildren. This is unironically a good thing because GF does not have the writing chops to pull of any sort of edge past low bar shock factor before turning it into a REMEBER KANTO commercial, which is exactly what Origins and Generations were.
>>57200869They also made the peak Evolutions