>>54766373While people like to point at the Munna scene as bad (Which it is, from the lens of adults), the game at least makes an attempt at nuance in the villain team.
By the end, if you're reading the dialogue of the Plasma Grunts in N's Castle, there are some that genuinely thought they were doing a good thing.
Ghetsis is presented as a charismatic person that can talk people around like that.
It's absolutely baby's first RPG story and all, but within the mainline games before it, there's not much contest for a good story.
Gen 7 does something similar with it being mostly just the boss that's "evil" rather than the entire team, while obfuscating that with Team Skull existing.
Gen 8 and 9 more or less move away from having an evil team, of much evil at all.