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Alola everyone! Amidst all the Alola and Ultra Sun/Moon news, I wanted to take a step back and see how you all felt about Junichi Masuda's reasoning on why the Battle Frontier was excluded from ORAS. According to him, "Put simply, the Battle Frontier wasn't included because only a tiny number of players would have appreciated and used this game feature. Players get fed up more easily than they did in the past and aren't attracted by these 'demanding' challenges."
This was said several years ago in 2014, but I wasn't aware that he had made an actual comment on the exclusion (forgive me if there is a post already dedicated to this).
Do you all agree or disagree? Would the Battle Frontier have been largely under utilized as Masuda assumes? Or do you think he's underestimating the buyer's interest?
Personally, I would have loved the Battle Frontier. I've never owned Emerald and when a friend temporarily lent it to me, there wasn't enough time to access the BF. I think all the challenges are pretty fun, unique and serve as a great post game to keep people interested (after the Delta Episode, that's about it).
I get where Masuda is coming from, but even I actually played the Battle Tower and Arcade in Platinum when I was younger (getting to Palmer and Dahlia respectively)-my patience wasn't that thin.
Source: INTERVISTA ESCLUSIVA: Junichi Masuda e Shigeru Ohmori ci svelano alcune curiosità su Pokémon Rubino Omega e Zaffiro Alpha! - Pokémon Millennium
This was said several years ago in 2014, but I wasn't aware that he had made an actual comment on the exclusion (forgive me if there is a post already dedicated to this).
Do you all agree or disagree? Would the Battle Frontier have been largely under utilized as Masuda assumes? Or do you think he's underestimating the buyer's interest?
Personally, I would have loved the Battle Frontier. I've never owned Emerald and when a friend temporarily lent it to me, there wasn't enough time to access the BF. I think all the challenges are pretty fun, unique and serve as a great post game to keep people interested (after the Delta Episode, that's about it).
I get where Masuda is coming from, but even I actually played the Battle Tower and Arcade in Platinum when I was younger (getting to Palmer and Dahlia respectively)-my patience wasn't that thin.
Source: INTERVISTA ESCLUSIVA: Junichi Masuda e Shigeru Ohmori ci svelano alcune curiosità su Pokémon Rubino Omega e Zaffiro Alpha! - Pokémon Millennium