#this is absolute word vomit garbage and i'll probably delete it later unless people are especially interested in it

[zosonils]

since there’s this rumour going around about sinnoh remakes with let’s go catching i just wanna say - i really hope they don’t do that because while the let’s go catching mechanics were fun enough and served the game they were in well they also took away one of the best things about pokemon which is that even if you have really poor reaction time and/or motor skills, whether it’s due to disability, inexperience with video games, or anything else, you can still play it. a lot of video games have gameplay that’s built around quickly responding to prompts or performing complicated actions, and while it isn’t inherently a bad thing for a game to have gameplay like that it does present an accessibility issue. pokemon on the other hand has no reaction time gameplay except for fishing and some of the minigames like poffins and what have you which makes it way way more accessible to people who physically can’t keep up with other video games. the let’s go catching mechanics, however, are a huge difficulty spike compared to baseline pokemon in both dexterity and reaction time, and catching pokemon is a central game mechanic. catching in let’s go wasn’t particularly hard for me because i’m physically abled and have been wrangling motion controls since wii sports, but there’s a lot of people who don’t have that experience or physical ability and would have found it unfairly difficult or impossible. even if you put the switch in handheld mode with the joycons attached [or use the pro controller i think? i don’t have one so i dunno how it controls] the reaction time thing is still a problem and like, obviously playing your switch on a bigger screen shouldn’t be locked behind physical ability

this post is going nowhere and they probably won’t announce sinnoh remakes anyway but i dunno maybe it’s worth thinking about

#this is absolute word vomit garbage and i'll probably delete it later unless people are especially interested in it #please do take this post with a grain of salt because as stated in the post i'm physically abled if underwhelming #so this isn't from experience this is just what i've noticed based on observations/things other people have said