>>34460053The story just isn't that interesting, the interactions with the npc's can range from endearing, cute, silly and empathetic to annoyingly vapid and unengaging. See: Trial Captains versus Lillie and Lusamine
And all the other bullshit like the tutorials and the brain dead tips that game freak stuffs into these game interruptions or cutscenes or what the fuck have you's. They're worthless. Chaff, tossed on top a perfectly acceptable game.
Also it doesn't take advanced graphics tech to swap an expression on a model's face. They must have either forgotten do draw expressions for the MC or somehow they decided a lobotomised animu smile could slot itself into any situation.
