>>58278903Well if you want my opinion on why it feels unfinished..
Team flare feels like a typical criminal organization, which is fine until Lysandre is introduced and he’s treated as some misunderstood person, there’s this one part where he calls you and straight up tells you to use your mega evolution to aid team flare iirc and it makes me wonder, why?
Is the player supposed to be weary of them and treat them like a threat like team galactic and team plasma? Or is the player supposed to be conflicted about their cause like with N and team star? It feels like they were trying to make a Lysandre a reedeemable villain but didn’t know how they’d tie it in with the themes.
And then there’s his main reason, he wants to destroy Kalos so all the ugly in it can disappear, which sounds crazy! In fact it with this you’d expect Lysandre to have a really good reason to think this, but he doesn’t.
Kalos as a region is treated as a beautiful region, there’s barely any places that show how Kalos is flawed, there’s the Pokémon forest which is a place where Pokemon that had bad trainers go into hiding and that’s it, and honestly it would’ve been crazy if they tied that to..someone like diantha, imagine if you finally realized that the champion of the region is an extremely horrible person with the gym leaders trying to hide it, not only would it give credence to lysandre’s plan but it also shows how Kalos is flawed
I dunno, I just think x and y’s story could’ve been extremely great if they at least expanded on it, show the worst parts of Kalos, show why Lysandre arrived to this conclusion, leave bits and pieces of extreme in Kalos that’s semi hidden that Lysandre would later bring up, x and y could’ve been amazing storywise but it just…didn’t.
Also they didn’t make the mega Kalos starters exist and instead made the mega Kanto starters exist so it’s an immediate 2/10
