>>31758493>limited amount of Pokémon to catchAgreed.
>if you knock them out tough luck you can never get them againAlmost every Shadow Pokemon appears a second time, be it in the Under Colosseum or just a trainer you can battle again.
>when you do catch them they only know 1 awful move and have to be purified by grinding for hoursSort of agree. Shadow Rush is pretty bad, it and Shadow Moves in general were way better in XD. Opening hearts does take way longer in Colosseum than in XD too, but it doesn't take hours if you're battling, calling out of Hyper Mode, and using Scents.
>purification is not even available until a good chunck into the gameAgate isn't a "good chunk" into the game, you get there pretty quick.
>deviantart tier characters, world and plotIt's mostly because of the writing. The bits about Shadow Pokemon being soulless, "shutting the door to their hearts", the black aura, and attacking their trainers while in Hyper Mode make it edgier than need be. Shadow Pokemon are just Pokemon that have been turned into fighting machines through the power of some unknown science. They were experimented on. Not any edgier than the story of Mewtwo and Team Cipher isn't anywhere near as bad as some of the recent villains. Snagem is just Orre's Team Rocket. Wes, who is implied to have left Snagem because he wasn't OK with them providing Cipher with Pokemon to experiment on, not only stole the device Snagem used to steal Pokemon, but also blew up their fucking base before riding off into the desert on his motorcycle. He's a badass.
