>this thread is still alive>>31429675So, if you beat the game without losing once, your story is trash? Good to know.
>>31429997"Trainers communicate through battle and I wanna get in on this" is certainly an idea that Pokemon welcomes, but there are some catches. For one, it doesn't work if the parties aren't on equal ground, or else the beginner will just get stomped on without being able to communicate much of anything besides "Ouch". At least as importantly, though, the time to implement this idea is not when lives are at stake, even if you think that Lusamine was the only one endangered by her own actions.
You're essentially exchanging passively bad writing, where Lillie doesn't try to help until the story's over, with actively bad writing where Lillie "heroically" puts untrained Pokemon in danger, against her established character, just to feel like she's helping you. Again, I know that she should've tried becoming a Trainer or fucking done something before the story ended, but that isn't the way to do it.
>>31434067>Stories need characters>Gen 1 had a story but no characters???
