Huh? You talked about the difficulty of the game. Now whilst I will admit that “magic” is pretty bloody vague it’s not usually a synonym for “challenging”. I played Pokémon as an adult and it wasn’t until I found I could edit a save file that things changed. Difficulty had no bearing on my experience.

We may well be talking about the same thing from different angles but I don’t really understand your point in relation to my point.

I was trying to suggest that the Pokémon one comes across and plays with have an emotional attachment angle. They’ve travelled along with the player, had adventures, etc…

Being able to cheat to get an instance of a specific Pokémon would be one thing but being able to use a convenient utility to create exactly the Pokémon one wants to the finest detail was very much another. The former is a Snorlax but the latter is one functionally indistinguishable from my Snorlax.

Shades of “being able to see through the Matrix”, if you catch my meaning.