>>40112444Well that brings up a different issue with pokemon though, they're very afraid to actually change up the story formula untill it hits some sorta stagnation.
As nice and simple gen 1 and 2 were, they chose to change things up in 3, not for sprucing it up but i imagine they just wanted to try different personally? But then cuz they were able to keep going with the same shit, they just kinda did until gen 7, where instead of an outright evil team, it's a more "plot twisty" ordeal, but with how swoshit is coming out, it's already confirmed to be gen 7 2.0, which means all the others until question mark will be cuz gf seriously has issues straying too far.
Obviously they can't tango with intricate plot lines like xenoblade but they can try to be more cohesive and less derivative. Even though xenoblade 2 is connected to 1, it actively has its own personal story beats and only intersected with 1 for cohesive story building, i feel they Sorta tried that with black and white? But not really cuz we never got any answer to lore stuff and went back to the status quo of "gotta catch em all" and "beat the evil guys using legendaries for evil", ya know?
Same goes for gen 6 too cuz heaven forbid they actually write more than 3 sentences worth of plot.
They need to at least stop driving in circles and drive in a straight line for stories cuz if it wasn't for each team gen 3 and onwards having unique outfits, i genuinely wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
