>>26993437>>the legendary pokemon have irrelevant themes that don't tie in to the story at all and are incredibly vague, only serving as a object of desire for the bad guysAre you fucking serious? N and the protagonist are the new "Truth and Ideals" heroes. Hence the final battle with him. Reshiram vs Zekrom.
>>meanwhile unlike Rocket, Galactic, Aqua and Magma they are never seen accomplishing their supposed goals of Pokemon freedom, just behaving like generic goonsThat's because it was an entire hoax by Ghetsis. Ghetsis is flat-out evil but his servants aren't. In BW2 they split and some people stayed loyal to him because he was their leader and maybe he rubbed off on them.
I'm not going to continue. You haven't played these games, have you.
The bottom of the line is, BW was the most 'JRPG' a Pokemon game (that is a JRPG) has ever been. And it works.