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Modern Video Games / Re: Pokemon Presents 02/27/24
« on: February 21, 2024, 10:44:54 am »It's always puzzling to see discussions (always from adults) about how Pokémon has either noticeably dropped in quality or that the games aren't difficult anymore since it is, and always has been, a children's franchise. No one in these discussions is the target audience. While the franchise's young target audience doesn't excuse its quality, it does help explain it, as many children's games are low quality. As long as the franchise's popularity remains within that age bracket, the games won't improve, because kids often don't have standards needing to be met. Regarding the difficulty of the games, they've always been straightforward to understand, but I imagine a huge number of players being introduced to the series at a young age, whenever that may have been, faced challenges in understanding the mechanics and strategy required. Obviously, since the games have purposely stagnated to catch the attention of children every few years, veteran players won't find newer entries challenging.lol there is soemthing as difficulty based for an child and being so easy dying is harder then not dying you have to activly try to loose now.
The Let's Go entries are objectively remakes with new features to entice veteran players to play co-op with new, younger players as their introduction to the series. Any handicapped and removed features are intentional design choices for this audience.
It should go without saying, but anyone outside of Pokémon's target audience who's looking for a more fulfilling experience with this type of game should seek out other games with the same structure, or even Pokémon fan games.
with the diamond and pearl remakes they forced the exp share but didnt balance the game around it
im not asking much for in an pokemon game I like it to have nice new pokemon give an choice if I wnat exp shaere or not and msot importantly enough content
sword and shield the base games just lacks content or exploaration. we as a kid could figure out red blue yellow etc. those wherent that difficult either but compared to the hand feeding stuff we get now its just insane
they could also add dificulties for example.
pokemon fans dont require an lot to be happy but at the least some basic things and even thats too much now eaperently