>>47715858>JRPGs must have a storyCorrect. A good JRPG must have story. Even if it's just an average story with interesting elements. Even mediocre JRPGs like Conception II are better RPGs than Pokémon.
>and it's not a coincidence that the best pokemon games were the ones with the best story and characterisation.If you mean main series games, then no. Best generations are IV and VI. IV had the perfect mix of story and character without holding your hand through it or making you watch cutscenes. We didn't have to learn every detail about random supporting characters, but we got to learn a lot of the Sinnoh lore and got to know Cyrus a lot more than previous villains. VI is a lot more hand holdy but you Team Flare is the best evil team to date. Lysandre literally wants to commit genocide against anyone who isn't in Team Flare because he doesn't like people. That's way better than tragic backstory anime villains like Lusamine. Lysandre is up there with Giovanni and Cyrus for best villains. Cyrus just wants to fuck off to his own perfect world, which is way more enjoyable and evil than "oh I was wronged so now I'm a bad man who wants revenge" villains. The problem with them is that they're fixated on relatively minor things that happened to them ages ago, and if we consider that the standard we should learn the motives of why the characters who wronged them were bad, and why the people that wronged those guys were bad, and so on. Eventually you get to a point where some guy became evil because somebody told him his shirt was ugly.
The best Pokémon games are the Mystery Dungeon games because they're full of palatable stories with interesting characters.
>>47715838Go watch Game Grumps you sped. If you think a story telling medium is bad for having story you should probably just watch Netflix and Apple TV "cinematic" dramas like every other soiboi.
>>47715981And yet plot heavy ones like the Tales games and Xenoblade games are some of the best JRPGs of all time.
