/vr/ - Retro Games

Pokemon is better than most modern RPGs in the sense that it never forces you to play "the right way" if you don't want to. You can go through any Pokemon game from start to finish using nothing but not very effective moves if you want to, and there are no rules for party composition besides "do what you want to do."
Pokemon is simple and has gotten pretty shitty in recent years, but that shitty simplicity is still better at its core than games that try to force you to play "the right way" all the time (e.g. Break/Stagger systems that are becoming more and more common).