>>17598504This guy gets it.
Pokemon's simple plot is not always bad. Sometimes it can be simple and charming, with X/Y it felt very watered down. Team Rocket are just as meaningless an evil group as Flare, but I felt Rocket was more believable.
I found it hard to suspend my belief and get into the story of X/Y, it felt very tacked together. I get the feeling everything written about AZ was supposed to be the core of the story and then they realized they didn't have the time to pull it off and did the typical 'Evil team harnesses box legendary for nefarious goal' storyline instead.
And then after the E4
when you fight AZ and Flabebe returns it felt like it was supposed to be a big finish to something that never happened, which created the impression of just a battle followed by a completely random happily ever after.
B/Ws plot was strong, but too focused on the characters instead of the Pokemon. B/W earns points in that Plasma didn't just brute force people into compliance, they worked on propaganda and morals which can be scarily effective even in real life. Team Flare had the capitalist money-grabbing greed thing going on, but I never felt it was believable. It would have been more interesting to see Flare bribe the government and then build a gigantic hotel over the stones, I think being the player and seeing a nice piece of scenery get destroyed for an arbitrary building would have re-enforced the greed element in my mind a lot more.
In fact, if this kept happening all over Kalos it would have been a great place for 'Z' to pick up from. Zygarde watching Flare's activity and royally fucking things up for them when it decides man has ruined the planet enough.
