Nintendo just needs to step in with that old Nintendo Seal of Quality. Meaning Nintendo needs to be looking over Game Freak's shoulder and point out when stuff isn't good enough. And it's possible that Game Freak just needs to hire better people. They spent must of the life of Pokemon making 2D games and low fidelity portable 3D games, then they had to step up to a much more powerful system with the Switch and they failed to do it justice.
That and longer development cycle as that jump in power means dev time should be longer. If A-Z comes out this year and next pokemon gen doesn't come out until holiday 2026 that'll be a huge step in the right direction. They definitely need to move to a four year mainline release cycle instead of 3 years. They should be doing one mainline game every four years with one side game (like Legends) or remake every four years, so one pokemon game every other year.
Honestly I just want a harder and more interesting game. Sw/Sh was decent but just wasn't terribly interesting or challenging. I can't get much out of a game if it isn't challenging so while I enjoyed Sw I was kinda just going through the motions because even the gym battles just had very little difficulty. It was my first pokemon since the original Red I played back in like 1999, and Red on GB was much more fun and challenging than Sw/Sh on Switch.
The fact that the graphics are middle of the road doesn't bother me the way they do some people, though a prettier game would always be nicer. I'll happily take a continued graphically mediocre Pokemon if they just make the gameplay and challenge top notch. I've only played a little bit into Arceus (still meaning to go back to it and play through it) but it seemed a good bit better than Sw/Sh and a big step in the right direction, but then I guess V/S was a buggy mess, though if they had just spent an extra 6-12 months getting V/S shippable maybe it would have blown people away as it seems like the game was good but just clearly released in an unfinished state.
I guess the annual Pokemon Direct or whatever will be in the next couple weeks right? I'm looking for them to show off Legends A-Z and have nothing at all to say about the next mainline game because that's holiday 2026. So that'll be the big first test to see if they are serious about making the series better - giving themselves longer development cycles.
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