>>13427526>I liked Wally or whatever he was called (the sick guy)I think you misunderstand why people don't like the rivals in RSE; you fight Wally twice and you don't even get to see May's final evolution of her starter, neither did the job that a rival is supposed to fill in keeping you motivated throughout the entire story.
>let's be honest, they were all VERY retardedNo, Aqua/Magma is above and beyond the least logical of them all. Gen II Team Rocket realized that they were directionless without Giovonni; that was the entire point of the plot, to lure him back into the organization by showing him that the group could still project power. And Plasma was better handled than both Gen II Rocket and Aqua/Magma; they showed that people could get wrapped up in one person's lust for power . N was probably the best handled character since Silver in terms of having development that completely changed who he was by the end of the story.
>Steven is amazingCompared to Wallace and Iris? Sure; he's Alder-tier in both his relevance to the plot (being shown as unable to stop Aqua/Magma in RS, as Alder couldn't stop N in BW), but at least Alder wasn't the final battle you had during the story portion of Black and White.
>but I just can't understand whyMore than a third of the map is covered in what was essentially unavoidable grass, where you run into almost the same three Pokemon regardless of where you are. There's not anywhere else in any of the other games where such monotony exists, the Pokemon distribution in that area of Hoenn was absolutely atrocious, and you had no method of avoiding wild battles besides shelling out for repels. Caves in pretty much any region (including Hoenn) had more diversity than the water portion of Hoenn.
>Meh, I guess you're right. What did you expect though?I don't know, I just wish he would've been more involved in the plot in some way. It's something that hadn't been done before, he should have been more relevant.
