>let's go>focused on catching monsters>best game in gen 7>legends arceus>focused on catching monsters>best game in gen 8>legends z-a>focused on catching monsters>best game in gen 9Why is every game focused on catching Pokémon so good?
Let's Go isn't even better than Gen I at catching Pokemon, mechanically
>>58434552Bait used to be believable
>Take the core element of Pokemon of bonding with your Pokemon and making them stronger through battle and change it into catching Pokemon in masse so you can trade them away like currency for rare candies >IsekaiShit game carried only by ride Pokemon
>>58434598Pokémon was always about collecting. It was conceptualized as a bug collecting game. The power of friendship trope was haphazardly thrown in at the end of red and green so your rival would be humbled and was only ever elaborated upon in extended media made after the games blew up and became the biggest thing since sliced bread.
>>58434644It was about collecting one of everything Not 50 of everything
>>58434659Then why did Masuda change the games to be about eugenics?
>>58434659The only person forcing you to catch more than 2 magikarp is yourself
>>58434661Why are pokemon tournaments about battling and not who has a bigger collection?
>>58434670Because making a turn based jrpg on the gameboy in the 90s was easier than making a tomagachi/digimon life sim
>>58434682It's 2025, competitive pokemon is still about battle and not collecting. Explain.
>>58434690The same reason plza has flat box buildings meanwhile the sekiro clone gamefreak is making for Microsoft looks like this
>>58434598Breeding for IVs already ruined the idea of bonding with your Pokemon
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