Pokemon Are Just Boring Bionicles
I’ll be honest; I don’t really like Pokemon. I have nothing against the series, I just never had a Nintendo handheld growing up. I like the animated show, but at some point the show was moved over to the Irish language TV channel and Team Rocket’s antics are a lot less fun when you barely speak the language they’ve been dubbed into.
I’ve only played one of the games, Sword, back when it released in 2019. This isn’t a unique observation, but without any of the nostalgia or attachment to the series those games are just extremely easy JRPGs. Safe to say I dropped the game pretty quickly. It was ugly, slow, and way too easy.
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Still, the franchise itself is inescapable; anime, mobile games, merchandising, it’s everywhere, not mind that every time a new type of dog is confirmed for a new game most of my friend group spends 30 minutes dissecting if its breath can be used for war crimes or something. On top of not really enjoying Pokemon, I’ve started to tune it out. But at some point, when I wasn’t looking, I think Pokemon became Bionicles?
If you aren’t familiar with Bionicles, were you living under a rock in the early ‘00s? Bionicles are a Lego sub-brand that ran for a decade during the ‘00s and then returned for a year in 2015. They’re an original universe created by the corporation as its own style of action figures, where you got to assemble the characters and had more ability to pose and move them. The series started out as, let’s call it, problematically inspired by Polyesian and Māori culture, but within a year or two carved out an awesome universe with a overarching narrative of heroes, monsters, history, and unique biomes all held
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