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I feel that as a whole, XY's plot was trying to be deeper and seriouser than what would have fit for the game.
Like, it all just didn't gel together.
Cause the majority of the game puts all this emphasis on friendship and beauty and playing with your pokemon and all sorts of light fluffy shit and then Lysandre comes along with an honestly pretty interesting but poorly executed motive, and most of the other main characters don't really acknowledge it aside from "welp, weird things are happening".
And then there's AZ's shenanigans which feel like they were shived in at the last second. I feel like his character and plotline would have been more fitting for the overall feel the game had instead of Lysandre coming out of nowhere with mechanical bees and wanting to destroy the world because he hates materialistic bimbos. And Sycamore is probably the most airheaded professor we've had since Elm.
It was still enjoyable to a degree but it tried to be more ambitions than BW and ended up falling flat in that regard.
I hope that in the next installment they either
a] make things more lighthearted and silly
or b] tone down the emphasis on the fluffy tertiary stuff if they go for a more "mature" story.
and c] elaborate on their goddamn characters at the least
Fuck I don't even know what I'm saying. I'm just rambling at this point.