What is Pokemon?

>>26513604
I like collecting things. Pokemon has so much diversity that you will almost always get a different answer to the question, "What's your favourite pokemon?" or "What pokemon type is your favourite?". It allows everyone to be unique yet come together by mutually liking the same general things whether that be the main games, anime, spinoffs or the trading card games.

Catching, training/raising, exploring, battling, breeding, collecting, that's what Pokémon is to me.

Shin Megami Tensei for casuals.

>>26513687
I'm not sure what "for casuals" means in this context. Explain.

We just don't know

>>26513604
I don't know anymore, I've been playing pokemon since I can remember. These days I mostly play for competitive battling, even knowing that are better competitive games.

For me, I always had the notion that Pokemon is more than any of it's parts would suggest. None of them have anything in common other than the pokemon themselves. It may have started as a means of emulating bug catching, but it has since become something far more. That being said, what that something is has no clear definition. It is whatever you make it out to be.

The closest thing to how I would see pokemon is the Mystery Dungeon series, although there are some aspects of it that I still disagree with. It is simply the most believable out the various versions of the pokeworld, though Pokepark has something of a similar persuasion, just not as serious.