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Surprises like this, though, rarely existed.
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I like that the first gym did by making the leader use a Water-Bug pokemon to punish you for simply just thinking you can wipe out their team with a Fire pokemon. You can win 90% of your battles by repeatedly tapping the A button. On a more basic level, the combat (while really strategic in multiplayer) is overly simplistic in single player. On a higher level, the game lacks the mystery and wonder that. For a game founded in discovery and exploration 15 years ago, this is a problem that the game doesn't find new ways to surprise you. You know exactly what is going to happen from beginning to end. The story still consists of the same opening and the same character tropes. It would be nice to see some non-linearity like in G/S/C's Kanto campaign. The gym-quest-gym structure is showing it's age. G/S/C had a shocking surprise with an entire second campaign. R/B/Y was in a total class of its own compared to other games out. I would not mind spending all of that time if the campaign offered new and exciting things but Pokemon finds itself in a predictable trap. Most games let you hop onto multiplayer immediately without having to sink lots of time into the single-player.
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In order to experience the great multiplayer, you have to slog through 30-40 hours of a tedious repetitive single-player game that hasn't evolved much structurally since 1998. With each game, it feels more derivative and unoriginal. It's a well-balanced metagame that is very rewarding. I'm very happy with the inclusion of online multiplayer.
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15+ years later, I'm kind of saddened (with Pokemon X/Y) to see that the series totally lacked evolution. I easily pumped 1000 hours into them as a kid. Pokemon Red/Blue and Gold/Silver were practically my childhood.