>>53007190I have been telling people for years, the notion of "Pokemon always does the same joke of story" comes from gen 4. Gen 1 was the base, gen 2 was a expansion of that one with minor involvement of the legendary, gen 3 put this up to eleven by making the villains harness the power of the legendary to change the world, gen 5 did this, but gave several twists like making your rival and not!Champion the leader, making you catch THE OTHER legendary in a battle that repeats myths, splitting the story in two parts with different protagonists, etc, gen 6 told a story way different from other games before, one about people disappointed on their fellow humans, war and decadence and used its remake to make a pseudo-prequel of the whole mega-story, gen 7 introduced the idea of a hidden villain group, added aliens, made us face injustice from the point of view of children, which is rarely done in Pokemon despite the protagonists, gen 8 at least covers historical revisionism and makes it so the third legendary is the one being stopped by the legendary duo, which allies with you and your rival, and gen 9 has the craziest story in a Pokemon game.
But gen 4? Gen 4 was a reskin of gen 3, the reason people think of an almost comically evil bad guy stealing a god's power because autism when you think about Pokemon villain, the origin of people asking "what's gonna be the name of the third version with the third legendary? They always do that", the start of the trend of Fire-Fighting starters. Gen 4 was just a very derivative mess that barely tried anything different.
