In regards of "based on inanimate objects", I've grown to like Magnemite over the years. I dunno, something about it is just charming.
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It's kinda similar to the Unown in being a floating eyeball, though I took to the Unown better due to lore and the third movie and I would allow Unown into the house long before any Magnemite. But damn it all, I just can't hate the little guy.
I always imagined that this isn't a sentient being but rather some sort of drone whose programming got corrupted. Maybe something to do with Kanto or Kalos power plants, fuck if I know Gamefreak never gives us any proper lore. It's been 25 years and we still don't know what the deal is with Unown and all their temples.
This became especially apparent when sword and shield released, which also unintentionally caused the player-base to be more critical of the 3ds era, as all the major videos that criticize XY for example were made after SwSh released. Before SwSh most critizisms towards gen 6 and gen 7 weren't as prevalent and i'd aruge gens 6 and 7 had their peak in reception at their respective launches. Back when XY and ORAS came out, I remember people saying that gen 6 was better then gen 5 or any of the previous gens aside from maybe gen 4. Which might sound insane in retrospects, but the reception was super positive, probably because people assumed there would be a pokemon Z.
XY and ORAS were always heavily criticized. Maybe not by casuals or youtubers, but honestly who gives a shit about their opinion?
I will let you know, saying that Gen 6 is better than Gen 5 is mere bait, very good bait at that and the likes of Yawnfag on /vp/ has made their entire identity revolve around getting people to argue with one another by saying the dumbest shit possible(by his own admission, he hates Pokemon, doesn't play the games and only aims to disrupt discussions).
You probably wonder how you train and level up your Pokemons then given that trainer encounters and gyms are the same as in the original games? Well, when you successfully catch a wild Pokemon, the Pokemons sitting in your team will automatically gain XPs, which makes no sense. You still need to do it though because they retained the traditional fight encounters with other trainers (which also give you XPs). I can see why they went in this direction given how successful Pokemon Go was on mobile but trying to emulate that on a console was a bad idea. The game was slightly less fun than the original red and blue versions that it's based on and nostalgia aside, red and blue are now pretty limited and repetitive in term of game design and mechanics. The whole thing made me lose faith in Game Freaks because of the missed opportunity it represents.
The whole reason why Go is popular is because it's free and available on a mobile device, something everyone right down the to the blackest nigger and brownest pajeet in the most foul corner of the world have. Pokemon Let's Go was made in mind for those people who have never played any Pokemon game other than GO(aside from maybe the original titles on Gameboy), but in order to play the game, you need:
*Nintendo Switch console
*The game
*Another game, if you want all Pokemon
*HOME membership in order to transfer Pokemon to and from the game
*50$ Pokeball accessory that works with no other game, that includes other Pokemon games on the Switch, if you want Mew
Now, what do you think your average GO player will do? Will they continue playing their shitty mobile game they're already invested in that is still getting free content to this day, or blow all this money just to play one game that kind of plays like GO? If they wanted to go down this route, they can just play the original gameboy titles on emulation, also on their phones, free of charge. Hell, it would almost be a better deal to take all that money you would spend on getting a Switch and everything else I listed and whaling it on GO for some nice boosters or something, make your experience in GO more enjoyable.
As you can see, this was an absolute waste of everyone's time and I still remember how relentlessly this game was mocked on /vp/ to this day. It got so bad that this is actually the debut of Yawnfag. He got his start by being an obnoxious faggot and defending both Let's Go and Gamefreak to the bitter end and then doing the same with every new release afterwords(starting gen wars and spamming threads in between releases).
BTW you can swear on this website, dude
