>>49905557I'm saying BW had its priorities straight when handling Team Plasma. In the first game, the focus is on the two bosses (N and Ghetsis). N is fought on multiple occasions, whereas Ghetsis serves as the final boss. Other chucklefucks like the Sages and the Shadow Triad exist, but they're not fought directly. They're a problem for Interpol and the Gym Leaders. In B2W2, the role of those unfought characters is expanded because N is mostly absent. Rood and Zinzolin represent the opposing factions.
XY took a different approach. A weird approach. Because Lysandre was set up as a twist villain, even though he's fucking color-coded orange, Team Flare's internal structure is hazy. There's the scientists, who follow the pattern of Team Galactic but only use one Pokémon each and rotate so often they never develop a personality. There's also the nameless admins that function as elite grunts and present a greater challenge than the actual scientists. Then Lysandre is fought three times in a row in the endgame. I guess Malva exists, but she's only revealed to be Flare in the postgame IIRC.
The difference is that BW acquaints the player with the main villains very quickly and follows N throughout the whole game, whereas XY stubbornly insists on introducing a new fully-modeled enemy combatant EVERY single time Team Flare enters the plot. We learn about N over the course of the story. We learn nothing about Aliana/Bryony/Mable/Celosia, and it's disappointing because (unlike the Seven Sages before them who were just overworld NPCs in BW) it's clear a lot of effort went into modeling them for the XY.
