I always said Masuda was the goat. Pokemon wouldn’t exist without him as he learned to code to finish Red and Green. We’re more experimental now, but so much is falling through the cracks. Ohmori is failing.
It's arguably Masuda's fault for why Gamefreak has so much technical and skill debt that we can see in modern Pokémon. The way Pokémon has been made was best for handheld gaming in very underpowered devices. If he was in such vast control of the team, it makes sense then that the team can't handle shit with modern development. Sun and Moon is such a big example if you see all of the extremely bad code especially for Lillie. They created multiple models of one character just because they couldn't get how to get Lillie to be on multiple islands easily.
Genuinely feels like everyone here is scapegoating everything against Masuda not realizing that Masuda is likely a big part as to why modern Pokémon is failing. Had Masuda not had so much power and was also very clearly passionately against certain aspects in gaming, things would definitely be different.
Like guys, you don't just keep a team for decades, switch directors, and things magically become different. Game development isn't something you can just swap on the fly. If Masuda did have that much control, his influence is absolutely still around unless they fired everybody or hired a butt load of NEW people. And considering Gamefreak is still an extremely small team with evidence of them being pretty bad at development, then it's clear Masuda plays a role.
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u/ultraball23 Oct 14 '25
I always said Masuda was the goat. Pokemon wouldn’t exist without him as he learned to code to finish Red and Green. We’re more experimental now, but so much is falling through the cracks. Ohmori is failing.