Gaming

I want games like the past, with almost no tutorials at all. Give me pokemon red, yellow where the prof is like, heres a pokemon, a pokedex, and some old guy will teach you to catch a pokemon next door. BOOM, pokemon expert.

I just finished playing through Pokemon Infinite Fusion and had a great time. I played on hard difficulty and it was a good challenge. Lots of content with a fun central mechanic. I also played it on my Steam Deck so I got the handheld experience. It was a little buggy at times(though I guess that is expected with pokemon now 🙃)

Knowing GameFreak/ the Pokemon Company, if they were to make that mode they'd have it unlock after completing the post-game and if you had both versions (kind of like Black and White 2 easy and hard mode)

This is what Temtem and Nexomon are for.

I just started playing Violet for the first time last night. I noticed the opening "tutorials" of Sword/Shield took like 90 minutes to get through, and that hasn't changed much here. And I'm not looking forward to taking biology exams or whatever, I really hope that's optional content. I just want to battle my way to the Pokemon League!

It seems like such an obvious quality of life improvement to introduce a difficulty-like mechanic that asks the user if they are familiar with the series. That way, there could be two tracks to the start of the game: the standard hold-your-hand tutorial for newbies and children, and the streamlined version that skips a lot of the dialogue that explains what pokeballs are or whatnot. While I thought Scarlet/Violet wasn’t the worst offender of some of the recent series, this series HAS been going for decades now and I’d like to see them reflect this in their intended audiences. There is a large child fanbase but there is also a large amount of adults who play after having grown up with the games.