dunkey’s video on Pokemon Legends Z-A perfectly summarizes how I feel about JRPGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJQhezFZ-M

@kasdeya Pokémon games get worse and worse and people still buy it 🤷‍♀️
I've seen gameplay footage here in Japan and it looks so bad. Why does a Pokémon game on the Switch2 still look like Pokémon Colosseum?

@ninafelwitch to be honest I never understood what it was about Pokemon games that was supposed to be fun. a lot of the Pokemon designs are cute or cool-looking but the gameplay hasn’t changed in 2 decades (except for this most recent entry! but in some ways it seems like it’s actually worse than gen 1) and it really seems to boil down to a very tedious version of rock-paper-scissors

but yeah this game also does look pretty bland, and it’s not exactly graphically impressive either. I feel like a small AA team could probably make a much better Pokemon game than any official mainline Pokemon game