>>24997082It's not just the edginess, it's the presentation.
This isn't Insurgence, but look at the fucking sprite of the guy sinking in lava. How is that supposed to invoke a feeling of fear, or pity, or what you'd expect to feel if a guy you knew actually did fall into lava? With the graphic style of Pokemon games, you can't have excessively violent things happen onscreen, or it'll look really fucking stupid.
The beginning of the game involves you, the player, escaping from an evil cult base and watch as the evil cult leader throws a bitchfit worthy of a spoilt teenage girl executes tow grunts for standing in her way. The game demonstrates it by having the screen black out and a wilheim scream play. A fucking wilheim scream, with this graphic style. How would it come across as anything but a teenager's tryhard attempt at a cool dark story?
I'm not saying you can't have a dark end edgy story, but you must pay very, very careful attention to presentation. Mother 3 did it.
On another note, if people are interested in this game but don't want to play it themselves, I can do another playthrough here.
