>>37018384>Mega evolutions not existing=GF not shoehorning them into story>Soaring an impossible concept at this point>coming off of BW2s mindset and style rather than XYs more casualized outlookThinking about some points like this, I actually believe they would have taken their time and readjusted the plot to integrate parts of Emerald (Ruby-remake having Groudon awakened in the Magma base inside the volcano, rather than having them go to the bottom of the ocean with a Camerupt submarine).
Instead of the Delta episode completely skewing the lore behind the mascots as a trio to become an animu fanservice mega evolution fueled battle in outer space, it could have just been that Groudon/Kyogre are a boss battle akin to Black/White Kyurem for the main story.. and only in the post-game you'd awaken the other mascot and have Emeralds plot unfold in both games to bring things full circle and do all three original games and remakes as a whole justice.
Sure, the Battle Resort would merely have had the PWT copy-pasted from BW2, but even that would have been better than the Maison obviously.
Side-consequence: no pressure for hoenn-remakes after XY, letting GF flesh out Kalos in follow-up games.
Of course the reason it didn't go down like this is the fact that the DS was dead and GF was forced to end gen5 ASAP and move to 3DS
