It's more of a cult now than a franchise. It's great that 10 year olds are playing it but I mean 20-30 year old man children playing it just freaks me out. 
 
What the hell are you doing leveling up pikachus yeesh. DO THEY EVEN HAVE PIKACHUS IN THE NEW GAMES EVEN?! 
 
Thats what I thought and thats why they're a bunch of bull honky games. 
 
It's been YEARS since I last played a pokemon game and I look at it today and its STILL THE DANG SAME.Wheres the innovation WHERES THE STREAMLINING? Oh no god forbid someone change anything from my precious POKEMONS. 
  
I remember watching Jeff and Ryan go through ruby red on the DS and it was just GOD AWFUL. All they did was make everything 3D except the DANG POKEMON THEMSELVES ARE YOU ON CRACK NINTENDO!? 
 
They're not even fun oh boy turn based battles hope my pokeyman DOESNT DIE THE NEXT TURN NINTENDO. 
 
I mean how can you blame them "if it aint broke don't fix it right"? Well what if it's in a grey world between the fixed and the broken EXPLAIN THAT NINTENDO! 
 
Maybe it's just me I grew up and look for more meaningful experiences but I see the man children and I want to cry not tears of pity but tears of RAGE. 
 
They made a big deal of 151 pokemons but now theres like a THOUSAND POKEMONS. How the hell am I suppose to catch that many monsters?  
 
HOW NINTENDO HOW DO I CATCH THAT MANY POKEYMANS. Maybe thats why there are so many man children cause they keep on trying to catch them all but THEY KEEP MAKING MORE. 
 
These man children are trapped in a net made by nintendo a net made of POKEMONS DAMN YOU NINTENDO LET THE MAN CHILDREN GO! 
  
In short pokemon in essence is a shallow game created for casual poke encounters for children and quite possibly man children. 
 
STAY COOL!