re: Pokemon Sword/Shield and the Pokedex debacle

I am a big Pokemon fan, but the games(the main quest portion) have been shite since Black/White. Black/White was the last good installment.

Since then you had X/Y which was disappointing and the Sun/Moon which seemed to double down on everything that made Pokemon X/Y shitty.

Here's the deal, I don't give a flying frick about story in a Pokemon game. Red/Blue and Gold/Silver had a minimal story, if a story at all, and they were still great games. Because it was all about the gameplay - catching, battling, leveling up, getting badges, beating the Elite 4. All of the development resources were put into the gameplay

X/Y and Sun/Moon seemed to put all the games resources into the story and other worthless shite like Poke Amie. Sun/Moon was especially bad as all the cutscenes made the game molasses slow and a chore to play. I didn't even end up finishing Sun/Moon - I couldn't do it anymore and was bored to tears. I could never imagine replaying it

If GameFreak can get back to what makes the games good(gameplay) and focus all the resources on that, they might be able to make the next game reverse all this bad publicity. The franchise has so much potential that has not been tapped and GameFreak continues to waste it.

Removing Pokemon isnt even that big of a deal for me, it was bound to happen eventually, but you can tell it was done because they are lazy. Had they just channeled the resources saved by taking Pokemon out into other gameplay improvements, that would have been fine, but they didn't even do that.