this can be because you liked all the starters a lot, or wasnt into any of them for a gen, or whatever other reason.
if you get multiple games in a gen/replay games and choose different starters for each game/playthrough, then you can take into consideration if you had any difficulty deciding who youd have as a starter on your first playthrough.
short version: gamefreak employees should unionize
long version: I purposefully don't tangle myself with new pokemon mainline games until at least five years have passed, regardless of generation. the fact that development is rushed and little to no experiments happen with the main formula betrays a deep insecurity antithetical to art, and no matter how I will feel about the actual game once I get to it I cannot stand for that. common marks of quality don't matter to me bc I am a freak of nature who likes ugly games with abysmal interaction as long as it has vibes, so the whole "AAA games should look pristine and smooth as butter and be the perfect product" is fundamentally not a good talking point imo. any problems that show up in scarvi's development and release are emblematic of the whole industry, you can't overlook them when the final product is pretty and clean and relegate them to games that look the quality of its management. go on itch.io and play funny little games with me. pokemon games should be ugly as sin and the models should be half-finished and every other attack should glitch out and kill the player IRL and the devs should shove their whole keyboard up the ass of whoever comes over to check on their progress. they shouldn't be sold they should be shoved into ur hands while ur getting groceries by a random guy in a windbreaker. they should take ten years to make and a full suit of body armor to play. we should learn to find meaning in dead leaves on the ground again. nintendo should turn into mush from which butt-naked mario mario of famous game mario emerges and runs into the woods never to be seen again. gamefreak employees should unionize. lechonk is pretty cute
oh my god i just found out that meloetta is obtainable without an event in the indigo disk, which is great bc i adore meloetta and the way they're making previously event only mythicals available in other ways is nice. the best part tho is that it sings relic song, its got an animation synced to the song i ADORE this
I know it's annoying but I'm not done thinking about Pokémon, especially Pokémon Legends Arceus. Like the game is already a breath of fresh air in the franchise but what's really frustrating is that I know it could have been the best pokemon game of all time if capitalism wasn't a thing and the Pokémon company let their developers actual time to make good games, rather than prioritizing the numbers of game coming out in short time.
Like they really really didn't need to have the 9th generation coming out this year, Legends Arceus could have had DLCs and I know people would have been all over it.
More than anything though, if Gamefreak developpers had as much time and means for Legends Arceus as the Legend of Zelda team had for Breath of the Wild, there would have been no need for a 9th generation to come out the following months it would have probably made enormous sales
I would rather wait for a well developed game that take me hours to finish then one that was barely scrapped together so the next one could be produced and so on.
Something that I find rather annoying about the writing of Legends Arceus is the sheer amounts of wasted potential present with most characters, of all the Wardens I believe the best written in the game is Palina, Ingo is good, but his most interesting characterization is the result of work made by the fans. Almost every character has one trait that makes them interesting to me; it’s frustrating that Game Freak could just stumble by accident into making such good characters.
‘enjoyer’ to me has two meanings. it either means you’re a “fake fan” who hasn’t actually properly read/watched/played the media for yourself and you don’t know that much about it but you like it on a surface level and that’s enough for you, or it means you have done the above but you refuse to participate in fandom culture online for it lest discourse and negativity end up ruining you and so you just enjoy it peacefully by yourself. i think this is an excellent term btw