Sure, I'm not saying you specifically, but you sure sound plugged into the franchise enough to remember that frustration existing. If not in the more hardcore fanbase, such as it is, definitely in the larger gaming space.
This made me go back to check press reviews of the time and, man, they are funny. There are open requests for everything from "a nice long epic that makes the GameBoy series wish it could compete" to this one guy outright claiming they want it turned into an MMO (so of the time), a bunch of requests for voice acting and lots and lots of "fans will enjoy it, everyone else stay away". I miss the 2000s.
In any case, I'm sure a bunch of those reviewers are firmly in "no, not like that" territory today.
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Something selling in the tens of thousands of millions at every release has zero reason to do better.Yeah, that's a very reasonable stance right now. I don't even particularly disagree, although I'm not a huge Pokemon fan in the first place. But at the time? When they just kept pumping marginally better looking top down handheld games in a market that didn't give a crap about handhelds and Nintendo home consoles kept not getting mainline AAA Pokemon games? People were *pissed*. Careful what you wish for, I suppose. -
Something selling in the tens of thousands of millions at every release has zero reason to do better.Myeeeeeh, I don't know about that. Pokemon is deceptively late, given how rudimentary it looks due to being a GB exclusive. Blue and Red are 1996 games originally. Shin Megami Tensei had been doing monster capture and collection dungeon crawlers for a decade and six games by that point. Final Fantasy VII was less than a year away. Dragon Quest V and VI had done monster capturing and VI had "trainer battles" in an arena. Pokemon was first to break big in the West and the idea of monster capturing as deck building is executed in a very particular way, but it was definitely pulling very directly from existing sources. -
Something selling in the tens of thousands of millions at every release has zero reason to do better.Pokémon has always been weirdly behind the curve in terms of presentation. People were frustrated by how late they went full 3D and how long they were reusing sprites and sounds, and rightfully so. I think some of why the GBA games are more fondly remembered is because the one time their visual ambitions and their underlying hardware lined up at all, short of the original games. I've never heard a reasonable explanation for this, honestly. I'm hesitant to say it's just greed or laziness. I bet the answers are way more interesting.