I like BW but the story felt super undercooked mainly because of N. Through the whole game you're interacting with this guy who keeps saying Pokemon should be free and shouldn't be forced to battle. This would be great if the game had balls and showed a single instance where a pokemon who didn't like battling was being forced into it, or was being abused by their trainer. It's hard to take his point of view seriously at all, especially when the pokemon universe is a utopia where the only bad people are evil teams like galactic and rocket.

Then at the end of the game you have this truth vs ideals battle but since the game never really made me care or validated N's point of view, it just made me feel like I was battling a retard who interrupted my league challenge.

Am I missing the point? I've played the game like 3 times and still feel this way.