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>Start game
>Player has a whole cast of friends this time
>Excited at the prospect of the story following multiple trainers as we all work towards the league and some big battle with the evil team
>Hype continues on the first couple routes as you all hang out and progress together
>Suddenly meet the professor and get the Gen 1 nostalgia bait
>Tierno doesn't give a shit about anything other than dancing and basically becomes a non-character
>Trevor only cares about the Dex, which no one else actually cares about anymore since there's so many fucking pokemon, and only compares what you've seen so you always beat him
>Shauna doesn't do anything
>Serena is the only one who actually tries to be a trainer like you but is pathetically inferior which is pretty much the only character trait they ever get
Fuck, imagine if it would have been a group of characters similar to Blue (Though slightly less assholish) and Barry
