While still disappointing, I don’t find it very surprising that a developer from a country in which 98% of the population share the same ethnicity and culture struggles to grasp the depht and importance of representation issues.

This!!!! This would basically block smurfing(or at least minimize it some). 

Meanwhile the rest of the current player base is actually thankful for these changes which will:

That…doesn’t seem like much to me? Maybe your point is that there should be a payment option to skip that, but, 100 matches seems like something someone who wants to unlock things will do anyway and fairly quickly. It doesn’t sound like you have to wait for the 100th match and everything unlocks either. This sounds,…

Aren’t most gym leaders canonically children? This is a little weird, Sisi. That being said I’m supportive and possess flexible gender and sexuality, but all this sexualizing of the gym leaders is just gross.

Not at all, although for me it was Arceus.

This is a classic case of execs looking at popular thing and saying “We need to make money off of that” without knowing why said thing is popular.

How the fuck are you people able to be cynical even about a game like this? For fuck’s sake.

This is like if Untitled Goose Game shifted to a JRPG at the halfway point where you now have to save the world from some ultra-powerful behind the scenes entity that had been manipulating the residents of Goosetown into its cult all along and you had to defeat him with QTE goose antics.

Thank fuck I have never spent a dime on Nintendo consoles or games and pirated them instead. Piracy is good.

What about people who are falsely accused and spend decades in jail? People of color who are still locked up, even though it has been clear they didn’t commit any crimes?

Everything you’ve listed here is completely optional to the player.  Get stuck on a boss? Summon help.  Melee too tough? Used ranged bows or spells.  Care about the Lore? Read item descriptions or look it up online.  I don’t see how any of this is bad.

I really wish there was some type of tool tip or something to explain all the icons that show up under your stamina bar. 

The more gameplay I see of this game the more it turns me off of it. Gamefreak finally does what fans had wanted for awhile, but typical to their current method they put the least amount of effort into things. 

Wtf? Who lays out two dimensional and often color coded data as a freaking bullet list? Are they paying you by the word count? Sheesh.

Kotick pictured as he continues to be a dick and not resign

I don’t get it either. Why couldn’t they at the very least create a show that takes place in the same universe, but has new characters to follow? There’s a lot of possibilities for new dynamics and and stories that aren’t retreads of the original series, yet still could retain the general theme and motif.

What’s the point of a live action adaptation? Everything looks like bad cosplay to me.

it’s a form of difficulty and prioritising, just like DarkSouls can offer