>>46011648The PC doesn't need to be interesting, they should just be your vehicle into the world of Pokemon and nothing more, and they had this half right by making the character not talk before wanking the PC off so hard in recent titles.
If there's going to be optional story, it should be focused on the NPCs of the world because there's room to make them actual characters with proper arcs and emotions and dialog, unlike the PC. Wasting time making the PC more "interesting" is useless because the PC will never be a full character, they're supposed to be (you). If you want an interesting MC, play an actual JRPG with an actual non self insert main character.
>you think your battle with Norman would have been any more interesting if he wasn't your father?But the battle with Norman isn't any more or less interesting than any other gym badge, there's no climactic music and he's not even the final gym leader or E4 member or anything that would make him more significant than Flannery or Watson. Norman could be Wally's dad and nothing about the game changes. Norman could be no one's dad and the game plays exactly the same. It adds nothing except more pointless dialog.
