>>57200913It's fundamentally not a good story
The idea of "is making pokémon fight each other abuse?" can make for an interesting story except you need to take into account that IF that is the case then the gameplay or the setting of pokémon would take a massive overhaul which was never gonna fucking happen
putting that aside, almost all NPC's in the game tells you and keeps reaffirming you that pokémons and humans belong with each other and even your fucking pokémons do to N because it's such a non issue
Making Ghetsis cartoonishly 4kids evil is such a blow to what's left of the story integrity like why the fuck would you have your second scene with team plasma be about them abusing pokémon, completely invalidating the main message of the game? I'm aware that N and some members of team plasma genuinely believes in pokémon liberation but then by the end of the game you find out that N only developed his world views because he was being sheltered and manipulated his whole life instead of being a problem that could have genuinely plagued the pokémon world which fucks it all up even harder
Not only that, but team plasma believes they can manipulate people into giving their pokémon when they spend the ENTIRE game troubling townspeople left and right, like the first NPC you speak to in driftveil city tells you that team plasma stole their pokémon and it's not the only time they do stupid shit like that in broad daylight so the fact that the game treats this as "people will definitely let go of their pokémons!" is actual bullshit, bar maybe for east Unova
when the game ended with N flying away and epic music started blasting it might have been the most dissociative experience ive had in a while
the game blatantly just isn't interested at adressing the issue
i feel like people got tricked by the fancy effects and music and don't have much of an idea how barebone the actual story is. i do give GF props, they tried not rehashing R/S/E but they should've cooked more
