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>mfw people criticize SM's story like it's the worst in the franchise
gamefreak has always been invariably bad at storytelling
>be archie/maxie
>"YESS KYOGRE/GROUDON GO AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD'S CLIMATE"
>'MASTER KYOGRE/GROUDON ARE TAING OVER THE WORLD'S CLIMATE'
>"WTF WHAT WENT WRONG"
>"HEY YOU TYKE, YOU WERE ALWAYS TRYING TO STOP US, NOW PLEASE GO SAVE OUR ASSES"
>go to unova
>battle a random kid
>"oh, protagonist-kun, the way you actually selected consecutive damaging moves against my Patrat instead of spamming Leer shows me that you're an incredible trainer! This power...could you be "that" trainer, prophecized to defeat Uchiha Madara?"
>legendary trio as well as one of the halfs of the legendary dragon shamelessly throw their bodies at you because You Are The Chosen One, and soon the story compels around you like you're playing Skyrim
then someone goes
>"it's a game for children!"
until they remember there are countless of books, fairy tales and whatnot for children that prove this concept wrong to its core, it's not the genre's fault that they're dumb
