>>44843376Feeding the trolls is a bad idea, any reply to them at all will only encourage them.
As for Michael being a step back, he kinda was because it made the early game a bunch of fetch quests with even slower battles because you start out with a level 10 eevee that's gotta slog it's way through chipping away damage without any type coverage for a while. XD had better human models but his design itself isn't as cool as Wes's, plus you spend the whole game getting talked down to for being some kid while at least Wes was taken seriously for the most part. Michael did have the advantage of better mechanics though, he could push things, Gateon Port had those bridges he could rotate, he could ride those crane hook things like you find in Kaminko's lab, and while for the most part they did an excellent job keeping Rui out of the way there were still some tight spaces you could get a bit stuck in so having him mostly travel alone makes navigation slightly easier.
