>>55154849His story arc shows a progression in pokemon storytelling where the games are no longer afraid to deconstruct themselves and the narrative begins to follow a more conventional JRPG approach, something that the dumbass majority of fans didn't like because they felt it was too handholding and demanding of them taking away control from the player, disregard the fact that the whole series is like that. N's argument was a point that once in a while was pondered or parodied by people, the fact that pokemon and humans weren't living in such a symbiotic relationship after all and pokemon were suffering under human control.
It's cool that this debate was actually visited by a mainline game in such a passionate way, and we actually see it play out as a way for players to think about their relation to the franchise, even if previous information already debunked whatever N had to say years before he came to be, like the Sinnoh myths
But this showed that BW wasn't just a soft reboot for a younger audience that wasn't present during pokemania days. It was willing to touch mature topics like freedom and truth and pander to older fans too, it was like Masuda was trying to relay a message that the franchise could transform and become something else that didn't needed so formulaic and periodic, and that both young and old fans could enjoy Unova the way they wanted.
Gen V flopping was the point of no return for the series, not saying there weren't people that liked it, because it eventually turned into a fan favorite region, but the critic reception and sales were enough indication that western fans wouldn't let the brand grow up or let Game Freak branch out, at least not back then.
