>>56892191Mostly slight exaggerations that don't betray the original design concepts but make characters that don't look like they were just generic background anime NPCs. DP were already in the middle of when Pokemon started to put emphasis on its characters compared to the first 3 Gens where most were an afterthought and I'd argue HGSS was the first game where the Gym Leaders really felt like fleshed out characters
FRLG had an attempt but it was a lazy gameplay mechanic that forced you to talk to generic NPCs just to get a generic quip from generic characters that were mostly all improved in HGSS anyway
