>>49582497Part of what made XD feel weaker was the plot followed the same formula - discover shadow pokemon are being used to take over Orre, find their strongholds and kick their asses, kick Team Snagem around while you're at it, find their secret main base, fight all their admins you already fought then the ones you've only seen around for the most part, then the big boss, then post-game colosseum with the admins as the final rounds. Same plot twists, a lot of reused areas had stuff shaved off to make room for the new maps which were hit or miss (didn't have much at the SS Libra despite it getting carried off being what kicked off the story, pokespots didn't add anything but a way to get trade fodder, and the pokemon HQ lab was too big for only really having 3 rooms of any interest) or were left largely unchanged, and the bulk of the new characters were either just for jokes or copies of their Colosseum counterparts with some tweaks while returning characters weren't expanded on at all.
