>>31824855>When the story actually gets interesting with the Radio Tower takeover, it simply ends. Team Rocket is defeated, and there is simply nothing afterwards.That's actually why I like it. "It's such a unfulfilling ending it's actually good" will sound like bullshit if you're not already on board, but I beat Pokemon Gold for the first time when I was 10 years old.
Up until then, every story I'd ever read, every show I'd ever watched, was always neatly told, with a straightforward, satisfying solution*. Video games in particular, especially when you look back on ones for the NES/SNES and GB/GBC.. this lack of resolution is uncommon and definitely without precedent at my point in my life.
I agree with you. Everything seems disconnected. And my god what a fucking anticlimax once it finally gets going. But that story was what graduated me from, you know, simpler children's stories, to honestly, a pretty complex narrative for a kid to appreciate.
* This is a lie. There is a Beatrix Potter (i.e. Peter Rabbit books) story called The Tale of Mr. Tod that has a lot of bizarre similarities to Pokemon GSC that I realized when I was drunk af a few weeks ago.
- It's a "sequel" to the Peter Rabbit stories. You see Peter Rabbit again, but he's older, narrated in a way that he's a more 'distant' character than the immediate relatable protagonist of the story, and you get the sense that if he's grown up, so have you. (Compare to Red.)
- The titular character of the story gets into a fight with another animal, which is the climax of the story, and the entire narrative ends by saying "the two animals are still fighting and we never find out who wins". (Bizarre anticlimax without precedent in the stories, and compares to Pokemon GS refusing to identify what happens to Giovanni, who while not the main character of the story, obviously, is a persistent "when will he show up" for a lot of the Team Rocket narrative.)
