wolfnanaki:

I made a dumb little post in a /vp/ thread where I described a Pokemon game that was stripped down to just battling; no world exploration, no shiny hunting, no catching, no story, just the battling. You just generate the Pokemon you want and fight. I even made a mock-up screenshot.

The immediate responses were saying they’d absolutely play it.

That annoys me. I’d really like a pokemon game that focuses less on fighting. Since Pokemon is really a monster fighting game, the ones that are not optimized or high tier get left in the wind. I want a game that’s more about the experience of living with pokemon and seeing other types