>>52966521Plus Colosseum and XD came out in that odd early to mid 2000's "everything has to be all cool, dark and edgy" shadow the hedgehog style phase that a lot of media and games went through at the time hence the games having you play as an edgy teenager who is a former member of a terrorist group which is not exactly somethng I can image the mainline games doing
Will give them credit for trying something different though