>>32151443I think part of the reason why PMD's plots are so average as a whole is because the games revolve around dungeon crawling. The selling point of the series is that it's essentially Shiren or Chocobo with a Pokemon skin and some gameplay/cosmetic changes to make it more Pokemon-related. It's not a visual novel like 999 or Danganronpa are, so the story's just something that's pushed to the side, leaving a lot of characters undeveloped, (Wigglytuff's Guild, Expedition Society, and almost everyone from PMD1 suffered from this. Hell, even Grovyle in TD suffered from it since a lot of his dialogue was him being stoic or providing exposition about what's going on, with only one scene revealing his emotions and trust of the protagonist.) and the plot revolving more around the fact that you have to go to places than anything else. It doesn't help that every game has the same plot structure like
>>32151669 said, it always starts with an amnesiac human who befriends a rather generic yet kind Pokemon, create a team with a few relevant characters and literal whos, and eventually find themselves in something much more serious, with someone leaving at the end to evoke emotions. It's been predictable even in Sky, and the later games don't seem to be changing the formula.
>>32151622Trigger Happy Havoc would like to have a word with you.
