Lol pokemon isn't what I'd consider fun in its state of playability. Either you read gamefaqs guides or whatever that tell you exactly how many steps to take in what direction, or you run around blindly mashing A until things happen. Then you get someone to tell you where your most powerful attack option is and spam that till you hear the low health warning and get someone to figure out where your most powerful healing item is. zzzzzzzzzz.
But regarding Manamon, I still wish there was a way to translate the games.

I meen, I play pokemon sword on yuzu eeven though I have it on my switch, this way, I can read the story with ocr

I haven't played Sun and Moon nor Sword and Shield, but from what I understood from this forum they are still playable despite the changes in movement. So I should give it a try eventually. Playing it in Yuzu for the OCR sounds nice but I don't know if I have anything powerful enough for that, if anything my 2017 gaming PC should still be OK I guess.

I'm tempted to play Manamon 2 again but i just can't get up the motivation. I was pretty far in when my computer decided to delete the .exe and my saved data file which i should have backed up. bleh.

I couldn't navigate Pokemon even at age 16. I was just bad. Around 18 I had something of an epiphany which finally allowed me to complete 4th gen independently, barring a few gym puzzles, distortion world, etc.
I found 5th gen easier from a navigation perspective, and it had the best story IMHO.
By the time gen 6 came out I was into my college years and just didn't have the time/ motivation to learn the new movement system, so I didn't play or even buy the game.

@60: Thanks, hadn't thought about some of that.

Self-trading isn't a thing because it discourages community interaction. There are good and bad arguments on both sides of that one, but it isn't flat busted. Manamon 2's method of peer-to-peer setup is actually pretty friendly. No weird friend codes, no screwing around with your router or ports or anything, you just make a room with a name and go from there.
Blocking cheat engine? We're starting to see real-world consequences for why Aaron did this. Again, it comes down to the community. Some people have actually managed to hack the game a bit, giving some of their manamon juiced stats they shouldn't have, and then beating other players with those manamon. I trust you will agree with me when I say this is toxic in the extreme for whatever's left of the online meta, and I'd wager a guess that this is why Aaron did it. I'm in favour of accessibility options to make the game easier (so an easy mode vs. a hard mode, for instance), but stuff that literally lets you wreck the intended game flow and balance? Not...so much.
Now, as for knowing what's coming/figuring out transformations? That's...kind of the point. You can only really play a game like Manamon fresh once. After you do so, you're never again going to be surprised by a plot twist or a nasty team or a weird puzzle; you will know that it's coming. In essence, you don't generally unlearn things, so the point in not knowing which manamon transforms at which level is meant to increase the game's playability and shelf life. I don't think it should be up to a developer to provide all of that info with their product; if players want to do so - the item guide has done this, as have several YouTube playthroughs - that's fine, and if you want to avail yourself of those resources, that's fine too. You play the game how you want to. But expecting Aaron to cater to you on this is ridiculous, because folks like you - who want no challenge, no surprises and virtually no ability to lose - do not make up Aaron's preferred clientele. Frankly, if refusing to add these things you want loses you as one customer, he can stand the loss, because making the game stupidly easy, cheatable and telegraphed from start to finish would alienate way more customers than just one. Speaking personally here, if Aaron did to the game what you want him to do, I'd never have bought, played or supported it; in fact, I would have torched him for completely torpedoing the essence of the RPG. An RPG is meant, in some form or other, to be a journey of discovery. If you as a player want to ruin the mystery and the journey, that's your business...but don't ask a developer to ruin it for everyone else just to suit you.

And BTW, if manamon had an easy mode, here's how I'd design it, personally:
1. All tamer manamon have their levels lowered by between 1 and 7, depending on where in the game you find them.
2. Experience earned is increased by a flat 30% (making grinding faster).
3. Items in shops cost 1/2 their normal value (your money goes a lot further).
4. Pathfinder is enabled (that is, you can use it to point out tamers and items anywhere on your map, and can get directions to them). Optionally, a quick-navigation mode where, once you highlight a target, you can click "go to target", and your character will automatically run to it.
5. Puzzle skip is enabled. This is an option where all traps are simply not included on maps.
Options 4 and 5 could arguably be included on any difficulty, mind you, though both of them, if utilized, will definitely make the difficulty drop considerably.
Alternatively, a hard mode could raise tamer levels, make shop stocks finite (still large, but finite), disable revival items in battle (using them outside battle is still fine), and maybe make traps like spikes, lasers, electric panels, moving bolts and fireballs one-shot kills (i.e., one hit kills a manamon instead of just doing half damage or whatever). If those pathfinder and trap suppression options were present in the game, they couldn't be accessed in hard mode, for obvious reasons.

You're not anywhere close to being in "mod status". Your opinion might be unpopular, but it doesn't break rules. You've never even been within a country mile of that, from what I've seen.

What's going to lose Aaron customers is 1. the lack of diversified movesets/teachable moves, 2. his script-writing, which needs work (I'm gonna help him with this if I can, at least for manamon 2) and 3. his overall game balance, which is getting better but which still needs work.
Also, it would be far, far easier just to make it very difficult to cheat the game as a whole, vs. making it impossible to play with cheated mons in trade or battle. Aaron went for the biggest impact with the least amount of work, which from a developer's standpoint is absolutely the right call to have made.

To expand upon my previous point though?
If manamon had a hard mode, as described in my previous post, and if it were me in charge of implementing this, I'd have some sort of reward for completing it. For example, I might unlock a few move tutors for that user ID (so it's unlocked forever in subsequent playthroughs) to give better move diversity. I might instead open up a bonus shop where you can buy better/different gear. Or perhaps I'd permanently unlock new catchable manamon in subsequent playthroughs, each of them with specific moves that they wouldn't normally get (think, for instance, of unlocking Fenabel with Magic Wave in Brytanburg Wilderness. Or Eksponge with Superspark in Kiarre Ocean. Or how about Simulon with Earthquake, Power Kick and Hone Blades in Ascendence Path? This would be much like the move tutors, but more limited and a little harder to access, but also might be more rewarding, especially if players were told that new manamon with new moves were running around, but weren't told which or where.

I'm honestly curious here. What does "terious" mean? Do you mean "tedious"? If so, I feel like you have a point. You may have seen me grumble about the zigzag in End of the World, which has spikes, lasers, more spikes, bats, more spikes, and more spikes. It's...a bit excessive. And if I had been making the Barren Underground, each room beyond a locked door would have been different. Room 1 would have been conveyor belts and electric panels. Room 2 would have been speed boosters, pits and a time limit (run into a pit, and you restart the room). Room 3 would have been spikes, moving fireballs and a couple of boats to ride across fire (seriously, that bit in the Cave of Fates is murderous if you're not careful). So I would have made it harder, less repetitive.
Having to backtrack, however, is just another RPG thing. I mean, yeah, too much backtracking can pose a pretty big problem. But no backtracking at all is simply not realistic. Also, I'm not precisely sure which cave you're referring to. Leave Cave of Fates till you have a strong team and all the blackmatter weaponry you want (three pieces is ideal for the boss fight); don't climb that pillar the first chance you get, unless you just want to grind a bit. Ditto the catacombs; you are not meant to finish that area until later, and you're even nudged to go back if you try and go there right away after you can first enter that area. Nah...I'd say on the whole that the backtracking in this game is pretty nonexistent. The worst might be in the rainforest and the Brytanburg Wilderness, but even that's not downright horrible.

Heh, I doubt Manamon 3 will be less popular than the second or first game, its one of the most beloved desired audiogames we have. This topic is testiment to that fact

If you pay attention to the script though, there's never any doubt on where to go. The only reason I ever had to ask is because I literally stayed up all night and part of the next day playing the game, and was exhausted, and I kinda was skimming by that point because that script was seriously making me want to rage-quit. Everything else pretty much leads you by the hand in manamon 2. The only way I could see it being a problem is if, I dunno, you drop the game for awhile and then forget where you were. Or your memory is really bad. But this is true of most RPGs. It's going to fall to the player to keep track of that, I think. It shouldn't be up to Aaron to hand-hold.