Bye Bye Masuda

Junichi Masuda is no longer the managing director of the Pokemon series.
Hopefully this means his cancerous influence will no longer infect the series, but it may very well be that little changes due to his protege Ohmori likely taking over that role.
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This isn't a demotion, and even if he left entirely the games would still be going in the same direction

It will never change the fact the games are shit lmao

You're right that it's not a demotion, but his role is now essentially the same as what Miyamoto is to Nintendo. And yeah, Ohmori is likely the new lead director and he has basically adopted all of Masuda's dogshit philosophies as we can see with ORAS, Sun/Moon and SwSh.

People who think this is good:
Things only get worse, they never get better.

Does that mean that Pokemon games will get better?

Pokemon games largely got better over the first half of their existence

Sun and moon were better than SwSh and actually had all the damned pokemon up to that point.

ironically this

Yeah, but that was the 00s, when things could get worse or better. We're in the 20s now, where things only get worse.

what do you think

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Can someone who understands buisnesses explain what the hell this means?

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This is probably what people were saying in the 1930s if you adjust the years

expecting the games to continue including all previous generation's pokemon PLUS 100+ new pokemon PLUS have multiple unique and detailed animations for every pokemon and move combination PLUS have current gen visuals and performance is honestly delusional. I don't know how people expect this workload to be feasible especially for a team as historically small and incompetent as Game Freak. The bloat is a massive issue and SwSh was the first game where they finally admitted it was never going to be sustainable.

Masuda started out as a composer. He then took over and the director of gen 3 up to gen 6 . This means he had direct control over the development of those games. He then became the managing director of the series, which is a bit more hands off but still guides the direction they take.
Masuda now literally has the same title as Miyamoto, except for Game Freak's parent company.

So is it like he has pretty much final say in what pokemon does, like how miyamoto has an iron grip on mario?

Japanese people don't retire, they become Chief Creative Fellows.

No, he's moved away from that sort of role since gen 7 and has mostly left it in the hands of Shigeru Ohmori who is basically his protege and makes the same mistakes he has.

It's either
>he's voluntarily given up his day-to-day role for a presumably less demanding/more hands-off bespoke creative role
>he's been forcibly moved into a less prestigious/influential position in an attempt to push him into resigning with honor

I only ever played Gen-1 games, what does this mean for me? Will the games be worth trying out again?

Madura directed multiple good games, and his worst game is still better than Ohmori’s.

So what does this new role even mean? What will he be doing? Or is this just one of those titles that doesn't really mean anything?

Virtually all of Ohmori's failings can be directly attributed to Masuda's teachings. He is literally Masuda v2.
Probably just paid retirement lol

Chief Creative Fellow is Miyamoto's position at Nintendo. It's a fuck of a lot more prestigious than being a director and with way less responsibility.

>Chief Creative Fellow.
Sounds gay and dandy.

Compare even X/Y to Sun/Moon, they are completely different.

Yet they follow the same linear trend as the series has since Masuda took over as director. Of course it isn't going to go backwards towards gen 3.