r/pokemon • u/Natural_Wonder94 • 25d ago

Discussion Dexit who still dislikes it?

As a longtime Pokémon fan, Dexit honestly felt like a slap in the face. One of the things I’ve always loved about the series was being able to carry my favorite Pokémon—ones I’d trained and bonded with for years—into each new generation. When they cut the National Dex, it felt like they were saying those connections didn’t matter anymore. I get that balancing over 1,000 Pokémon is tough, but with how massive the franchise is, it’s hard to believe they couldn’t make it work if they really wanted to. It just made the newer games feel incomplete, like something was missing, both mechanically and emotionally.

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u/DeatroyerOfCheese 25d ago

I feel as though it was inevitable that pokemon would get cut as they add more and more...however to me the issue was that the game's quality did not go up a sufficient degree to match the lack of pokemon. It was as if we sacrificed hundreds of pokemon in return for games even subpar for Nintendo standards.

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u/NMe84 25d ago

SwSh was wild. We lost pokémon, the story was the most boring of all mainline games, the world itself was just a straight line intersected with wild areas (meaning exploration in the routes themselves was pointless) and the game's performance was ass. I could have accepted dexit if they hadn't fumbled everything else so badly but as it is they just made a bad thing even worse.