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It's actually funny how this all happened THIS October. Reinventing the wheel over and over doesn't work, people!

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Just emulating the old games and running them at 4x speed is an incredible QoL improvement.

Instead of implementing more options to speed things up, GameFreak instead decided to remove the option to disable animations.

I have been saying for years they need to split the franchise. From an anime perspective, before they retired Ash I was calling for them to let him age into a teenager, and for them to create a new character for a show for younger kids. For the games, i want them to split into 3D action RPG's that play like the Legends games and Scarlet/Violet while the main games stay 2D and turn-based. Right now it seems like they've been adding new shit to the main games out of a fear of getting stale rather than to actually serve the games.

They seem to be doing some of that, with Pokemon Champions removing the burden of competitive play from the main games in the future.