Hello there, bell-treers!
As the fellow Pokémon lover that I was in the past, I want to share a few opinions with you and hear your own. Not that I don't love Pokémon anymore, it's just that my love only reaches from Gen 1 to Gen 5. However, good for you if you're still having fun with the latter games! Just remember to please be polite when expressing your opinion or replying to someone else's. You don't have to agree, but there's no need to be rude!
Okay, this will be long... but without further ado, here I go!
Just so you know, Animal Crossing did the same face-washing with the gorilla Jane, look it up.
Besides, why the different protagonists and not keeping the same original group? We saw Cheren mature, we saw Bianca mature, and N, and Iris... but we don’t have a clue about Black and White because we’re not them anymore, and when you meet them they look exactly the same.
As the fellow Pokémon lover that I was in the past, I want to share a few opinions with you and hear your own. Not that I don't love Pokémon anymore, it's just that my love only reaches from Gen 1 to Gen 5. However, good for you if you're still having fun with the latter games! Just remember to please be polite when expressing your opinion or replying to someone else's. You don't have to agree, but there's no need to be rude!
Okay, this will be long... but without further ado, here I go!
- There was nothing wrong with Jynx being black.
Just so you know, Animal Crossing did the same face-washing with the gorilla Jane, look it up.
- After 26 years, after eight generations, and after 900 different pkmn (the last of them being Basculegion)... there are still several unused type combinations. Check it out here if you want (https://pokemondb.net/type/unused).
- Why Parasect doesn’t have pupils?! Paras certainly has!
- Six generations after breeding was introduced, Nidorina and Nidoqueen are still broken. They can’t breed, not even with the male of their own species. Poor Nidoking will remain a creepy pervert forever.
- Lugia, the “guardian of the seas”. Lugia, who “can calm and give rise to storms”. Lugia, who “isolates itself deep underwater”. Lugia, who is not a water type.
- In the ORAS remake they defiled Wally, my favourite character, for which I will never forgive them. (Extract from something that my best friend did time ago, leontinees).
- Sexism in western naming (Nintendo Japan is not to blame for this, I guess?). There are many examples: GeoDUDE, MR.Mime, SlowBRO, WaiLORD, and several -king.
- Progressively anorexic children designs. Walking skeletons. Unhealthy-looking, starving kids. You get the idea.
- Why are the Platinum and HGSS Battle Frontier identical? Even with the same aces? That has no sense, GameFreak! If you didn't want to make the effort of creating a new whole place, I can understand that. But couldn't you at the very least have other people as the bosses? Or even giving the admins of Team Rocket a second-chance job for all I care!
- Jynx again. Why did she never get a third evolution? Her pals Electabuzz and Magmar did.
- Similar to the previous one. Dusclops became Dusknoir, and Banette became... nothing. They are counterparts and you won’t convince me otherwise.
- Fairy type.
- Why, just why, there are so many Move Tutors since 3rd gen onwards? Do you really expect me to remember where each one of them are the moment I catch a pkmn whom I’d like to teach whatever move they’re offering? Why not give me the TM like before, so I can use it whenever I want?
- Mega-evolution. Yeah, throw me into the pyre if you want, but I hate the whole concept of it.
- First, you take already strong pkmn... and make them even stronger? What was even the point?
- Second, you also take pkmn that could certainly benefit from a second or third stage evolution... and instead take it away by making it temporary (like Houndoom, Banette or Audino).
- Third, half the designs look ridiculous to me. A few are utterly awful (mega-Manectric, really...).
- Fourth, it was never heard about before in any of the games nor even hinted at, either main or spin-offs, but apparently it’s been done since thousands of years ago? Yeah, please...
- Fifth, not all the pkmn can mega-evo. What do you mean, my beloved and long-time trusted friend Dewgong and I don’t have a strong enough bond?
- Baby Kangaskhan never being a thing (but it can mega-evo, can you believe it?).
- Enemy teams that I cannot fear nor respect anymore (Flare, Skull and Yell).
- Black2&White2. This is where it started to go downhill for me, where I abandoned the franchise.
Besides, why the different protagonists and not keeping the same original group? We saw Cheren mature, we saw Bianca mature, and N, and Iris... but we don’t have a clue about Black and White because we’re not them anymore, and when you meet them they look exactly the same.
- Regional forms. So instead of creating a new wholesome pkmn, you just take a Vulpix and make it ice; or strangle a poor unsuspecting Exeggutor until it has the height of a building; or put a wig on Dugtrio. And you call that original? I call it being bored and lazy. That Persian is totally suffering hydropsy on its face.
- Galar pkmn are raised on steroids. Please, keep your rare candies away from me.
- Male Combee don’t evolve. Excuse me? Don’t you know there are also drone bees in a honeycomb, GameFreak? I don’t know how to help male Salandit, sorry.
- Other minor silly things:
- Slowking not being an evolution of Slowbro.
- Porygon-Z instead of Porygon3.
- What’s the supposed difference between Friendship and Affection? You’re trying to be “original” again, aren’t you...
- Why can a whale breed with a kitten?!
- The first-pkmn-following-you feature, which was the best and cutest ever, has only been used thrice in the main series.
- Pokémon Style Boutique. C'mon, you know what I mean. Who cares about catching 'mons anymore, as long as your hat matches with your shoes...
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