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The Perfect Pokemon Game: Aipom’s Paw Edition
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/19/2025
The ‘Pokemon’ franchise has been going strong since the original games, “Pokemon Red/Green” debuted in Japan as Super Gamboy Enhanced titles way back in 1996. Unfortunately for the developer, Game Freak, they’ve also been in the same repetitive rut since 1996. The drill with ‘Pokemon’ games has always been that there are two complementary versions released simultaneously, which are largely identical, but feature a handful of different obtainable pokemon, thus encouraging trading between players with opposite versions. Likewise, the structure and plot-lines have been completely rote and formulaic, in which a kid or young tween decides to travel across their country, battling their slowly-acquired team of pokemon against 8 Gym Leaders who hold regional status and power, all …
