13 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Pokémon
6. Grinding In The Tall Grass Was Never Fun
Grinding in games is never fun. It’s just an arbitrary chore included to falsify a sense of actual accomplishment, a thing to prolong an otherwise shallow experience. If Pokémon was a more tactical game, it wouldn’t even be necessary; the challenge could come from devising different strategies depending on your situation, playing off your opponent’s weaknesses.
Instead, Pokémon games are about numbers, specifically, they’re about having a bigger number than your opponent, which means having to endure plenty of mandatory grinding. It’s practically the only way to get ahead. Towards the end of the game, you’ll swear that the entire thing just consists of standing around in the tall grass, defeating the same plethora of infinitely respawning Pokémon, again and again, and again, until your eyes fall out and you crumble to dust in the middle of your living room.