>>44862795You can judge a story in objective ways. Simply liking something doesn't make it good, you can like something and know it's bad.
>it raised moral questions about Pokemon battling and capturingThat's not good enough. Anyone can ask questions, answering them properly is what makes a difference. Cheren is the biggest offender, he spends most of the game making grandiose questions but the "answers" he finds by the end are the same vapid stuff said by NPCs in previous games, making all that "truth seeking" he did even more obnoxious.
>it kept the stakes lower and more believable by only having Unova at stake instead of the entire worldWrong. First, Unova was just the start. Second, it was never believable because Ghetsis' plan is all sorts of nonsense that shouldn't have gone as far as it did. Hoenn and Sinnoh dealt with powers that were hard to believe but Unova dealt with stupidity that was hard to believe.
>N having a somewhat relatable character arc about parent indoctrination as opposed to previous antagonistsI'm sure that anyone who has dealt with that for real thought N was retarded for not realizing his "father" was full of shit by the time he hit puberty. And just because other antagonists weren't relatable to you it doesn't mean they weren't to other people.
>makes the champion battle feel like a proper climaxYou might feel that way but replacing what should have been the best battle of the game with N was only a bit less disappointing than Wallace in Emerald. And the setup for that battle so contrived it's hard to take the climax seriously.
>instead of a lame epilogueThat was literally the case in BW, though.
>execution has a lot of flaws>but to me its a pretty clear step up from RS/DPIt's just as bad as RSE at handling whatever good ideas it had for the story but way more pretentious about it. And no, DPPt deals with everything in a simple but effective way. The stakes may be ridiculously high but the plot is very no-nonsense about it.
