:x Pokemon game's audience on the surface are kids.. Yes, thats true.
Put pokemon has one of the deepest battlesystems man has EVAR known xD
seriously, i think more 16-30+ year olds play the game then some 7 year olds who go "WOW ZOMG A PIDGEY LVL 18?! Whoaaaa" all the time.
7 year olds don't understand how to appreciate games, which is why nintendo had to put in stupid things like a pokewalker.
And they already repeated that same formula OVER and over again, in every pokemon game, the professor gives you your pokes, sometimes u simply take them from a professors bag while hes being attacked by a lvl 3 poochyena (yeah, really frightning, it might GROWL at you!! Omg, scareh)
That formula has been overused since ruby..
Now its just been changed a LITTLE bit, theres still a professor (and its a female this time, ZOMG ZE SEXISM IS GONE) and u get ur pokemon as a present from your friends, 3 friends going on an adventure with their new pokemon, it sounds more believable then a pedophile telling you "its dangerous in that grass, come to my house, ill give u a new pet"
its just changed a little, and made a little bit less.. 4-chan-ish and you think this isn't pokémon at heart?
:x pokemon is about becoming the best of the best, with your pokemon as your friends, going through happy and sad times together, grinding your pokemon to the limit and beating 4 overpowered trainers in a row to become the champion...
and while doing that, also saving the world from some suspicious team.. While you are a kid!
xD they now changed it and made it more believeable by having the main protagonists older, every change has made the game more believeable, really
also, new caterpie's ftw