>>37599825Pretty much the only criticism that can be taken seriously she says that isn't fixed in platinum is Mt. Coronet existing, HMs, and samey towns, yet whenever she brings up platinum it's just in some handwavey dismissive fashion. And then she goes on to say HGSS is possibly the best pokemon game of all time which is a complete joke.
>all that complaining about pacing, characters, and plotLMAO. None of the pokemon games have particularly great stories. And HGSS especially is BAD in this area. Platinums story is perfectly on par with the better entries in the series.
To compare to HGSS, the criticisms of team galactics actions not making sense can also be made against team rocket, who are basically shoehorned into the game. HGSS also has cardboard cutout characters, with only Silver being an exception, but even then his story really feels flat unless you view his event with the event celebi, which most players probably didn't do. Lyra/Ethan (the one you dont' pick) is especially pointless and annoying, only serving to tutorial-dump you and give you items. She complained profusely about the climax being bad and super forced, yet the climax of Lugia/Ho-Oh in HGSS is super forced and momentum-breaking bullshit, forcing you to go fight it for absolutely no reason and barring off forward progress in the game until you do despite the legendary having nothing to do with anything that has happened so far, or anything that will happen later. In fact, if you try to go to the pokemon league before, Lyra/Ethan politely stops you by asking "Where do you think you're going?"
>muh samey townsHGSS towns are also like this.
>muh slownessWhile undeniably shit, all slowness that existed in Pt also existed in HGSS, and was a generational flaw as a whole.
>muh roadblock NPCsEthan/Lyra stopping you from going to the pokemon league, and ragecandybar guy forcing you to do a whole bunch of dumb shit.
