>>27714581It didn't work, it couldn't work. Giratina prevented it all. If the player haven't been there, he still would not have been able to accomplish what he wanted simply due to Cynthia, who was there. There were other forces that we're going to prevent him.
I mean if you really want to argue about "technically" achieving something, sure. But it wasn't his initial plan, any could've never accomplished his initial plan... With or without the player. Again there were other forces that would've prevented it.
Ghetsis would have accomplished everything without the player, and there were so many instances where the player could have been stopped at multiple points towards the climax. Again, the elite four, catching the legendary, fighting N, and then fighting Ghetsis. He would've accomplished everything he wanted, something Cyrus could never have.
Adler was defeated, the champion was completely out of the game. Cynthia could have absolutely wrecked Cyrus. If you remember, she was in the distortion world as well.