Pokémon games are notoriously conservative in their design. Although I’m a fan of the series, I regularly skip entire generations because playing the titles in quick succession highlights how similar they are. But in the Nintendo Switch era, as the series transitioned from handheld devices to a handheld-console hybrid, something funny happened to the beloved monster-catching RPG: Pokémon finally evolved.
Unfortunately, this evolution is still incomplete. Modern Pokémon games…








