>>56903138He didn't do it on purpose. The 1000 years excuse was supposed to be an explanation to Leon of why he was feeding the wishing stars or whatever to Eternatus for energy, but he didn't mean to unleash him and all the problems of the main story come from him starting to lose control. The reason people are confused is because
>he comes on tv like a villain>his organization starts acting like villains for no reason>he shows up with dramatic music to stop the player from intervening for some reason in a problem he actually wants to be solved All these things are done for formula. They decided, probably late in development, that they needed a big villain base rush to be in line with expectations for pokemon game formula. If you replay swsh (tall order I know) however, there is no statement or implication that releasing eternatus was anything but a pure mistake. This is also why his only punishment is community service.
