>>32070971>As a fan of pokémon, what makes you trully and utterly depressed?Gamefreak focusing on story, when they cannot tell a story if their company depended on it.
This goes further than me just not liking the story in the games. The writing in the games are bad because GF clearly doesn't know the steps necessary to tell a coherent story let alone a good story. I can't be the only one left flabbergasted at X/Y's wannabe disney tier ending theme? The fuck GF acting like we just experienced a masterpiece film and not a crappy contrived plot featuring terrible villain with even worst motives that ultimately was just a side quest in the grand scheme of things? Why should I feel sad/happy that some literal who that showed up one time and had about 2 lines of backstory got reunited with his flower?
These games don't exactly facilitate good writing since the writing always has to bend around you a 11 year old being more competent than every adult in the game.
The level design has gone down the shitter as well. I'm not saying strength and sliding puzzles were ever difficult, but they need to stop turning every cave and villain hideout into a goddamn corridor and do some actual level design.
Also the pokemon selection. Bats live in cave irl, but we have over 800 pokemon but all we get in caves are zubats. Cerulean cave in gen 1 had golbats on a single floor and they weren't even the top 3 common encounters. Yes I know it doesn't make sense for ostriches to be in caves, but whats the point in trying for "realism" in fantasy if you aren't even going to do real world building to support it?
Also the multiverse theory bullshit thats been getting shilled ingame since ORAS. Like time travel, Multiverse plots are inherently bad and what you do when you've exhausted decent plots and need to retread. Gamefreak still doesn't even have a fully coherently built world to start multiverse shit or the writing competence to pull off such a terrible premise in a entertaining way.
