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Pokemon. Behind the pleasant facade of the game series, there is a reality: people kidnap animals in the forest, lock them in pokeballs, and force them to fight in arenas, at least until they are damaged. I didn't understand this game series when I was younger and I still don't. Do people really like playing this game?
I enjoyed Pokemon Red and Pokemon Snap. I'm vegan and don't associate playing Pokemon with animal cruelty as the video game is fictitious.
I got the first Pokemon game (Pokemon Red) when I was 14 years old. I never watched the anime. Back then the game was revolutionary, I'd never played anything like it. The goal of collecting all Pokemon, gaining experience to level up, evolving to make new Pokemon, selecting and organising my squad, it really played into my young brain chemistry. I finished it multiple times. I got a game boy link cable to trade Pokemon with my friends and battle them at school. Thats exactly who the game is made for.
I also played and finished Pokemon Silver, and Crystal. But after that I stopped playing them. Too similar, too repetitive, too many different Pokemon to know and remember, mechanics got too complicated.
Well, I have nothing against the players. It's just that it's really hard for me to play this series.
By the way, surprisingly, cartoons are also fictional, but for some reason, child abuse in cartoons is 18+ marked or prohibited. Β―_(γ)_/Β―
Ratings among different media are indeed strangely incoherent.
I can understand that people find it repetitive but spare us the virtue signaling. Itβs just a game itβs not that deep.
Its not virtue signaling, people just expect better products? Why can't pokemon pull a zelda-esque quality game instead of the same recycled stuff?
The bad guys in Black and White were Pokemon rights activists and your heroic allies were watching them speak being like βeveryone knows Pokemon love being captured and made to fight each other, these guys are a bunch of nutjobs!β
Then later it turns out the Pokemon rights thing was just a cover for something nefarious because nobody could actually believe what these people are claiming to.
Ah, as one person on YouTube dubbed it, the debate and switch
I've heard the original manga in Japan was super hardcore. Like full-on dismemberment, pokemon would actually die instead of faint, and pokemon would regularly attack humans.
To be honest, I would probably play a game with such a plot with more pleasure than a game where all Pokemon look like puppies.
I tried one of the old parts, it's incredibly repetitive and boring.
The gameplay loop was really really fresh stuff back when it released for the first time, i stopped playing after the emerald generation because it never built up on what it had. To this day its the same damn game with barely better art style. Even their recent attempts to go 3D feel like N64 quality which is just a no-no for me. If a product is shitty, i won't buy it even if it's X brand.
Collecting monsters and fighting them is fun, but Pokemon, to me, is just not the best game for that.