>>14888240Fuck this area in general. It's not the fact that Lucario got put on a pedestal again, it's the poor design of this part. They keep piling on requirement after requirement just to get the damn ring instead of throwing it all at you at once and as such, it comes off as a fucking tease.
Not only that, they have this "epic" cutscene before you fight with each others' Lucarios in a glorified tutorial where you can easily lose because of Lucario's fucking weakness.
After all that buildup, the total Pokemon you can mega-evolve until post-game is 6. They should have made it so Kalos region has a lot of mega stones popping up that you can collect instead of saving it all for post-game.
I can't believe how badly they fucked up here. Really annoying part of the game that's just there to pad it out. Speaking of which, I have never seen a game developer so insecure about its game length that it has to add padding throughout it. Yeah it's happened before but never this much.
I'm guessing the worldwide release would have had an effect of the game's quality that parts like this did not get refined.
