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>>4046817

>a bold deviation from the base formula

The basic concept of the main series games hasn't changed. There's no reason to fundementally change it and they have several spin-off series for when they want to make a new kind of game anyway. The gameplay in gen 1 vs the gameplay now is like the difference between rock n roll from the 1950s and rock n roll from every successive decade. It's based on the same foundation but re-worked and made more complex. The way a pokemon battle works in the most recent games, especially in the meta, is miles away from how it played in gen 1.