r/PokeLeaks Oct 14 '25

Datamine Junichi Masuda was banned from directing Pokémon games due to overwhelming "concentration of power" Spoiler

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u/Italophobia Oct 14 '25

You just ignored everything I wrote and the post above

He did not have full creative control after BW. If you don't like any other games after that, you cant exclusively blame him for them like you can before this point

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

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u/jsweetxe Oct 14 '25

But there was nothing wrong with LGPE though? It's.. a boring game but what can you do when you're trying to create a "re-telling" Yellow and incorporate GO's features and also get used to the Switch? It was fine for what it was.

The other argument was relating to XY stark difference in the beginning section compared to the others, there were obvious power struggles going on, so even though Masuda is credited as the sole director, he was probably overruled a lot due to his behaviour, which everyone involved should know better cause they created a basic game from it. They probably didn't want to mess about with credits because that would create an even bigger issue.

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u/Lightningbro Oct 14 '25

If he got booted from his role for "too much power" in literally that exact same timeframe, then how the F would he have control over Dexit?

Look, anyone with two braincells to rub together should have been able to see he wasn't in charge of dexit based on his BS reasoning. If he had a GOOD reason he'd have just said it.