>>56713232>I wish I knew what people saw in SMCharacters and story.
That's all they actually finished, and that's what's good.
Gladion is one of the better rivals.
Lillie is a good sidekick even if she's a bit forced sometimes.
Guzma and Lusamine are both good villains in their own regards. Plumeria is easily one of the best Admins we've had in the franchise. Wicke is midly memorable as a character beyond the Waifufags.
The captains all seem to have actual personality beyond "I'm the local Gym Leader", although SM are hardly the only games to do this, and it doesn't always hit the mark, but you can tell they were aiming. Trials are very good for something they cooked up in debug phase, and I wish they'd come back.
That's not to say SM is just constant hits on the writing frontier. A lot of the characters are still fairly flat despite having attention given to them
you didn't even remember that there was a school on the first island, did you. The guy billed as your actual rival, Hau, is a massive goober and arguably started the trend of Complete Jobber Rivals. The narrative pacing hits the brakes a bit too often in the middle. Obviously the game's production issues caught up to it, as well, and there's blatant plot threads that just go nowhere because the devs had no time to implement them.
Gen VII isn't my favorite Gen by a long shot
that'd be Gen IV, but I would consider Gen VII production notes to be the ultimate holy grail of Pokeleaks, which leaves me disappointed the leaker couldn't get them and didn't prioritize them.
