>>43862179SM had a *passable* story, something that ought to be the minimum bar for a plot-focused game
And I really don't know whether that's due to its merit, or because surrounding games were either blatantly unfinished (XY), unfinished with the addition of the most divisive villain in the series (ORAS), a rehash but objectively worse (USUM) or just meh (SWSH)