Has there ever been a Pokemon game that the developers expressed distaste towards?

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Like in an interview or something like that.

I'm asking because I know Shigeru Miyamoto has stated before that he does not like the second Zelda game he made, (Zelda II, Adventure of Link,) and am wondering if Masuda or any other Game Freak developer has said anything similar.

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Not yet, but who knows what will come.

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How do you know there hasn't been one yet? Did you look at every interview?

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If the answer to this question really is "no", how can we ever know that? I think this question might not be answerable.

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If the answer is no, we can just answer no (?)

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I don't think that no as an answer would be good enough, because at this point there's no source which says no or the contrary. Though as sumwun said, is this answerable? It would be pretty tedious to scroll through interviews and the sort, but even that might not help.

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Personally, I’d think “there’s been no major discussion at this time recorded pointing towards any distain towards a particular game” would work

DrlavaYT has all the interviews, so if anyone would know, it’s him.

I think it’s up to what OP would accept as an answer

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As long as you guys have looked into it I don't mind if you answer like ty suggested in his last comment

Answer 1

legendary art director Ken Sugimori, who has been with the series from the beginning, is already thinking about the next generation. Specifically, he feels that the series has become needlessly complex as of late [when they were developing XY], and wants it to return to its simpler roots.

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Can saying something is too complex be counted as "distaste" or "not liking". I mean, both calculus and Elden Ring are "needlessly complex", but you don't need to not like them to say that

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Damn thanks

That's actually a super interesting link thanks